Navy SEAL Chandler Comerford and a 15-year-old talk about pushing past what you think you can do. The kid decided to become a SEAL after his father asked him one question: why not me?
Talking about Being a SEAL provides me the opportunity to share some of the lessons I've learned in a context that's different from most people's experience. I think the topic resonates with the audience because we all face challenge.
I'm a 15 year old guitar player and I can't swim the length of a pool.
My drummer shows me this K bar dive knife that a Navy SEAL gave. Long, sharp, black, got those jagged edges on the top. He says, did you know that Navy SEALs have to stay awake for five nights straight during a training?
As cliche as it may sound, one idea changed the way I thought and allowed me to pursue something that I don't think I otherwise would have.
And so I called my dad and I said, hey dad, I want to be a Navy seal.
And my dad said something to me that changed my life.
If one person walks away with a perspective that they find useful.
Where the brain has stretched just a little.
If.
They ask themselves the question, why not me?
Then it's been a success.
