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Overcoming Obstacles: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Beating Adversity and Finding Success
Wisdom and inspiration to help you achieve your goals. A former Navy SEAL and current motivational speaker, Don Mann specializes in helping others achieve success in every aspect of life— personal and professional—by using techniques employed by Navy SEALs. In Overcoming Obstacles, Mann zeroes in on finding ways to conquer the obstacles that readers face in their lives, no matter what they may be. This volume includes three subsections dedicated to helping the reader surmount life’s Identifying the Obstacles in Your LifeGetting Out of Your Own WayFinding Success Featuring practical advice, inspirational quotes, engaging stories, and interesting anecdotes, Overcoming Obstacles will give readers the tools they need to triumph in the face of adversity.
98 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2019
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Don Mann
57 books102 followersDon Mann is a decorated combat veteran, motivational keynote speaker, athlete, and author.
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July 26, 2019
3.5 stars
I had high hopes from this book considering the author's history but this is a pretty general book. There aren't any anecdotes from author's life. Instead we get the same Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Julia Child stories.
The book wasn't bad. It just didn't meet my high expectations. No matter how many times I remind myself that expectations aren't conducive to a healthy lifestyle....
The author talks about many things in his book but two stood out to me - one, we should be aware of the potential obstacles before we start a task rather than be surprised by them while doing the task and second, overcoming obstacles is 90% mental and 10% other. I wanted to find more techniques on overcoming obstacles but was again disappointed on that corner.
Overall a good read and a short one.
I received a free copy of the book from Netgalley.
I had high hopes from this book considering the author's history but this is a pretty general book. There aren't any anecdotes from author's life. Instead we get the same Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Julia Child stories.
The book wasn't bad. It just didn't meet my high expectations. No matter how many times I remind myself that expectations aren't conducive to a healthy lifestyle....
The author talks about many things in his book but two stood out to me - one, we should be aware of the potential obstacles before we start a task rather than be surprised by them while doing the task and second, overcoming obstacles is 90% mental and 10% other. I wanted to find more techniques on overcoming obstacles but was again disappointed on that corner.
Overall a good read and a short one.
I received a free copy of the book from Netgalley.
October 1, 2019
ARC REVIEW
I did enjoy reading it. It was short which was a little disappointing but it kept my attention and it did help me realize where I needed to start looking to overcome my obstacle. When you think about it it's very obvious, it makes sense and it should have been easy to see in the first place but if you had you wouldn't need the book, common sense in hindsight. Don Mann uses a lot of examples he points out the similarities in what other famous people have done to what SEALs do when they have a mission. From the guys who started Nike to the guys who were the first to make it to the summit of Everest, Elon Musk and his car factory, and the SEAL Team that took out Bin Laden. Mann uses these to help point out and remind us what we need to do, a lot of it is self actualizing.
I did enjoy reading it. It was short which was a little disappointing but it kept my attention and it did help me realize where I needed to start looking to overcome my obstacle. When you think about it it's very obvious, it makes sense and it should have been easy to see in the first place but if you had you wouldn't need the book, common sense in hindsight. Don Mann uses a lot of examples he points out the similarities in what other famous people have done to what SEALs do when they have a mission. From the guys who started Nike to the guys who were the first to make it to the summit of Everest, Elon Musk and his car factory, and the SEAL Team that took out Bin Laden. Mann uses these to help point out and remind us what we need to do, a lot of it is self actualizing.
January 7, 2020
Enjoyable read that explores the successful mindset of SEALS, but also, gives several stories of successful business personalities and athletes. They all may be successful now, but they all faced their own obstacles along the way.
June 6, 2020
I think this book is very insightful about a breadth of many topics. Pretty surface-level stuff, but a keen understanding of the topics covered throughout this book can springboard your learning on more advanced topics later. Highly recommended.
December 17, 2025
Good ole Navy Seals their adversity to success
I quite enjoyed the history of the resilience of the Navy Seals community what they have to endure through their training it is a brave hard job they do not for the weak.
I quite enjoyed the history of the resilience of the Navy Seals community what they have to endure through their training it is a brave hard job they do not for the weak.
July 31, 2019
Overcoming Obstacles was a good self help book,but fell a bit flat for me. I was expecting more about the author and his life considering he was a Navy Seal. Well written and still interesting.
March 4, 2020
Self help
Very motivating and inspirational super quick read but is well worth it! I highly suggest all of the authors other reads as well!
Very motivating and inspirational super quick read but is well worth it! I highly suggest all of the authors other reads as well!
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