I just recently watched the U.S Navy Seal documentary, “BUDS 234”, and I believe even regular everyday citizens can learn valuable lessons from watching this. BUDS, or Basic Underwater Demolition School, is the 6-month training program potential U.S Navy Seals go through, and it is considered to be the hardest military training in the world. There is over an 80 percent failure rate of highly qualified candidates who try out for this elite military unit showing how difficult it really is. The reason this training is so challenging is because the unit only wants to recruit individuals that are the best of the best sending them on dangerous missions. For example, the soldiers who were responsible for the killing of Osama Bin Laden were none other than SEAL team 6. Furthermore, this training includes limited sleep, constant harassment from instructors, hours spent in the freezing cold San Diego ocean water, running and swimming hundreds of miles a week, carrying heavy logs above head for hours, and always being sandy, wet, cold, and tired. For one to quit, all they must do is walk up to the infamous gold bell and ring it three times and place their helmet on the floor. By watching this documentary, one will learn about the mentality of never quitting and the “rule of 7” Navy Seals live by, which is that when one feels they have gone 100 percent of their maximum ability, they have really only gone about 30 percent of what they can actually accomplish. In this documentary of the training, you can see many strong individuals who are suffering and are weak but are never quitting and continue to move forward. Even if you are not a Navy Seal, any person can employ this mentality into their daily life that no matter what challenges are thrown your way you continue to keep fighting and never give up, and eventually you will succeed. Another important lesson discussed many times was “it pays to be a winner”. Everything in the training is a competition whether it be boat races or running to lunch, you are always competing. The boat crews that won the particular race at the time would be rewarded with a break to sit down and recover while the rest of the class was still suffering. This lesson shows that if you put in the work you will succeed and be rewarded for that. The phrase “it pays to be a winner” means hard work pays off, if you put in the work you get the result. There are many other great messages conveyed through this program that everyday non-military citizens can use in their daily lives to help themselves become better and achieve excellence. I recommend watching it. Do you want to become great?
documentary- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccQdGi-b1U
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