The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast #17 - Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Fortitude and Mental Stillness

U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw (Navy Seal, Congressman, Author, Navy Seal, and Podcast Host) and I discuss his book Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage, the explosion that nearly blinded him, the art of skydiving without depth perception, mental toughness, the importance of having shame and we delve into what the Navy SEALS is like.

Find Representative Crenshaw at his website https://crenshaw.house.gov/, and on Instagram @RepDanCranshaw

–Daniel Reed Crenshaw is an American politician and former United States Navy SEAL officer serving in the United States House of Representatives for Texas’s 2nd congressional district since 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Show Notes:

[2:00] Introduction and overview of Rep. Crenshaw’s book Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
[5:00] Rep. Crenshaw’s Background
[7:00] BUDS and hell week
[8:00] Being accident prone in the Navy Seals
[9:30] Rep. Crenshaw got a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard and then “fell” into politics.
[10:30] How to survive being thrown into a boat with your hands and legs tied
[13:00] Being still and mental toughness
[14:30] What percentage of people drop out of BUDS
[16:30] THE eye injury…
[21:00] The most traumatic part of blindness
[23:30] Skydiving with no depth perception
[25:30] Why did you become a congressman?
[29:30] Democrats that Rep. Crenshaw admires
[31:30] The 2020 Marxist takeover
[35:00] How do you stop yourself from blaming things on other people?
[36:00] “We assume all discrepancies and all disparities are a direct result of somebody oppressing another… that’s objectively not true. It’s just not true.”
[42:30] “The problem with the word justice recently… and again the problem that I have with the left is they use the word often; because it’s a good word, it’s something we all agree on. But they’ve redefined it and to them justice means power. It means power over somebody else. That’s their form of justice.”
[43:30] The importance of shame in the quest of improving yourself
[48:00] Imagining your best hero attributes and striving to be that hero

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The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast is a podcast where host Mikhaila Peterson speaks with thought leaders, and industry changers - continually finding the best ways to improve the human experience. From stay at home mom’s to CEO’s, fitness enthusiasts to spiritual guides, nutrition researchers to health professionals - Mikhaila has interview-style conversations aimed at provoking thought, addressing difficult subjects, and speaking about topics that are generally shied away from.

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