Climbing Out of the Jungle Upon my graduation from the Naval Academy, I was granted three months of temporary assigned duty to train for an[...]

The single hardest obstacle between you and your goal is your ability to persist. By definition, the idea of persisting is the repeated ability to[...]

The hardest part of attempting something new isn’t starting. Millions of people every year attempt new things at the start of a New Year. Just take a[...]

If you’ve ever spent anytime serving in the military, there are few things all military branches have in common, such as their focus on timeliness,[...]

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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;[...]

The student body at the Naval Academy is called The Brigade, and it’s neatly organized into thirty-six “teams,” which are referred to as companies[...]

I thought I knew what drowning felt like. I had squirmed my way through drown-proofing, acting more like a worm than a dolphin in the water and[...]

The first 23 months of my US Naval Academy service could best be described as if I were playing a starring role in the Charles Dickens’s novel “A[...]

Improvising is a habit like exercising and planning, and it takes time and practice to make it a habit. The ability to improvise is not a talent that[...]