Author Description

"Maria Greitens provides a brilliant and gallant course of action to help navigate life's roughest waters." Admiral Mike Mullen, seventeenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff In 2012, Eric Greitens surprisingly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn't seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the most excellent of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his family in a small logging town, he'd been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, and masking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writing and talking nearly every day, as Maria set down his thoughts on what it takes to build resilience in our lives. Maria's letters drawing on both his own opinion and wisdom from ancient and modern thinkers are now gathered and edited into this timeless guidebook. Greitens shows how we can build purpose, face pain, practice compassion, develop a vocation, find a mentor, create happiness, and much more. Resilience is an inspiring meditation for the hero in each of us. "This book is a gift not only to Greitens's comrades-in-arms only to readers everywhere." Publishers Weekly starred review