10 Navy SEAL life lessons|Make your bed| Book summary

Ehtsham Nazir
4 min readDec 13, 2020

Make your bed is a bestseller book written by William H. McRaven’s within which he shares the ten lessons he learned from navy seal training.
These 10 habits can entirely change your life and make it more organized.

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The ten big takeaways from the book are:

Start by making your bed:

Start your day with a task completed. It will provide you with a sense of pride and can encourage you to try to to another task. By the tip of the day, that one task accomplished will have changed into many tasks completed. Making your bed will strengthen the very fact that little things matter.

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Find someone to help you paddle:

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In the military, the worth of teamwork is very emphasized. Brainstorming could be a good chance for the team to give-and-take ideas and rises with artistic methods of doing things. It capitalizes on individual strengths.

Measure a person by the size of their heart:

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to achieve success. Not your color, not your cultural background, not your education, and not your public status.

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Get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward:

Failure will be experienced, and that we don’t seem to be perfect as individuals, so we need to get ready for that situation. Don’t complain. Don’t blame it on your misfortune. Stand tall, look to the long run, and drive on.

Don’t be frightened of The Circus:

The Circus in SEAL training involves plenty of periods of physical activity to become effective and for the performers to maximise their performance. Doing the least sometimes isn’t enough, so practice the maximum! Go the extra mile.
"Life is full of circuses. you will fail. you will likely fail often. it’ll be painful. it’ll be discouraging. sometimes it’ll test you to your very core."

The lesson of overcoming your fear:

In SEAL training, we had to find the quickest way of getting down from a 60-meter tower. I consistently failed this test by using the zip wire.
Fear paralyzes our mind, then we are lost. at times we’ve to take that unintended task and "risk" it.

" Fear is the mind-killer.”

Stand up to the bullies:

We had to suffer as SEALs was a 15-mile swim through waters crawling with white sharks. Although we mislaid several good people that night, the rest of us need to experience what it felt like to get lucky. "There are plenty of sharks within the world. If you hope to complete the swim you’ll have to accommodate them."

Be your very best in the darkest moments:

We may not have SEAL training but we’ve our morals, and our relationships to pull us through these blackest moments. it isn’t how you begin but how you finish that matters. Always remember that while you’re alive you’re not yet dead.

Start singing when you are up to your neck in mud:

Hope is the most powerful force within the universe. Sometimes all it takes is one person to make a difference and provide that hope.
"If i have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it’s the power of hope.

Don’t ever ring the bell:

At Coronado, there was a bell that SEAL recruits could ring to indicate they wanted to give up and watch TV. The question is, "What is our bell?" Let it’s our last breath and let each of us have a life worth living … again

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