Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

Mental Toughness for Families: The 10 Rules for Resilience (Heroic +1 #1,361)

12 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Brian Johnson introduces a Heroic+1 episode recommending Joe DeSena's book '10 Rules for Resilience'—a guide to cultivating mental toughness within families. Johnson situates this recommendation in his series of previous notes on DeSena's work, emphasizes DeSena's Spartan background, and stresses the core message that parents must model resilience for their children by doing the work themselves.

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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. Joe decenna is the founder of Spartan and one of my favorite human beings on the planet. We featured wisdom from a bunch of his great books. We started with notes on Spartan Up. Then we featured Spartan Fit. Then we featured the Spartan Away. And when Joe told me he was creating a book that was all about mental toughness for families, I knew it would be awesome. The book is called 10 Rules for Resilience. Check out the notes. If you love Joe's unapologetically intense, no nonsense style and you're looking for ways to cultivate more resilience within your family, I think you'll love the book as much as I did. Today's plus one is really simple. Do you want your family to be more mentally tough? Perfect. Me too. Well, guess what? As Joe says, and I quote, we can't expect our children to be healthy and resilient humans. If we aren't, our kids ultimately aren't going to listen to what we say as much as they will follow what we do. Therefore, it's time to do the work and forge our antifragile confidence so we can have the strength for two and be the hero our families need us to be. Not someday. Today.