Former Navy SEAL and CEO Marty Strong explains how SEAL training uses pain and fatigue to strip away your socially-conditioned personality and force you to confront your internal voice. The stressors are designed to reshape identity and build what he calls asymmetric creative leadership.
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To uncertainty. And that uncertainty is, is bigger than just, you know, the issue of pain, like stubbing your toe or not sleeping for two days. That uncertainty is really what's going to happen to me. It's that deeper kind of sense of am I, am I personally at risk? And that, you know, I often talk about the voice in your head. When I was an instructor, I understood it a lot more because I was watching the experiment in front of me holding a coffee cup in a nice warm jacket. And you're watching the cause and effect, the cause and effect. You can see what the point of the training is, the way it's been sculpted and designed, what you're trying to elicit. And in SEAL training, what you're trying to elicit is you're trying to basically strip away through pain, punishment and exposure to fatigue, you're trying to strip away the person's personality that they use socially and.