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In this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and rising star in Republican politics, Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership. Dan Crenshaw's right eye was blown out by a roadside bomb in 2012, during his third tour of duty in Afghanistan. He didn't want anyone's sympathy when he regained his sight. People shouldn't feel sorry for him, and they shouldn't feel sorry for themselves, he decided. Most people's daily challenges aren't as extreme as surviving combat or working to regain their sight, but that's exactly Crenshaw's point: if we can face life's most difficult challenges without resenting our good fortune or complaining, minor daily obstacles aren't worth our rage. "Microaggressions" and "triggers" are meaningless to someone who has had bullets fly by their head. That's Crenshaw's simple lesson in FORTITUDE: lighten up, toughen up, and get to work on what matters (hint: it's not giving in to a culture of outrage, playing the victim, and demanding an apology). FORTITUDE is a straight-talking advice book for a society in desperate need of tough love. The book is an antidote to a prevalent "safety culture" of trigger warnings and safe spaces, with meditations on perseverance, failure, and finding much-needed heroes. Crenshaw's own story is interspersed with lessons and advice about how an average American kid from the Houston suburbs has faced all sorts of unexpected situations — from war zones to the halls of Congress — and managed to navigate them all with a few simple tricks: a sense of humor and an even greater sense that, no matter what anyone else says or does, we are in control of our own destiny. Author: Dan Crenshaw Genre: Biography, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Self Help Format: Hardcover