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b"Show Notes:\\n\\nWelcome back to the Knowing You Know Nothing podcast! This is Episode 53.\\n\\nI was incredibly excited and honored to have a meaningful conversation with my former student and a current midshipman at the Navy Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. This conversation will open your eyes to what it was like for him to set his sights on future goals, attend the Academy, and persevere through challenges. He shares several literary sources that have inspired him along his journey and I have shared his notes/recommendations below.\\n\\nRiley's Show Notes to Share with Guests:\\n\\nBook Recommendations\\nMan\\u2019s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl\\nGates of Fire - Steven Pressfield \\nThe Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield\\nStarship Troopers - Robert Heinlein \\nTribe - Sebastian Junger\\nThe Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle - J. Glenn Gray\\nMessage to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard\\nAristotle\\nThe virtue of character comes from habituation (ethos)\\n\\nConfucius\\n\\u201cOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.\\u201d\\n\\nViktor Frankl\\n\\u201cWhat man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.\\u201d\\n\\u201cLife ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it consistently sets for each individual.\\u201d \\n\\u201cThe more one forgets himself\\u2026 by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love\\u2026 the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.\\u201d \\n\\nJ. Glenn Gray\\n\\u201cunless human beings are pushed to the extreme, we are not so likely to confront simple and primal realities, or to reflect about them.\\u201d \\n\\nLord Moran\\nAnatomy of Courage\\n\\u201cTheir numbers were replaceable, their spiritual worth never could be.\\u201d \\n\\nJoseph Heinlein\\n\\u201cCitizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part\\u2026 and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.\\u201d \\n\\u201cLiberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.\\u201d \\n\\nSteven Pressfield\\n\\u201cWe must excel the foe, not only as warriors but as men and as knights. They must say of us that we deserve their empire, for we surpass them in virtue and in self-command!\\u201d \\n\\u201cLet us conduct ourselves in such a fashion that all nations wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.\\u201d \\n\\u201cAn officer must lead from the front. How can we ask our soldiers to risk death if we ourselves shrink from hazard?\\u201d \\n\\u201cLife is a battle, is it not? And how better to train for it than to be a soldier? For have you not noticed of these sages, my friends, that they are the consummate soldiers? Inured to pain, oblivious to hardship. Each takes up his post at dawn and does not relinquish it for thirst, hunger, heat, cold, fatigue. He is cheerful in all weathers, self-motivated, self-governed, self-commended.\\u201d \\n\\nAudio clips used from this source:\\nGoalcast YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sK3wJAxGfs\\n\\nRecommended Podcasts:\\n\\nReel Talk: A Movie Podcast\\nTwitter: @reel_cast\\n\\nChapter Podcast\\nHost: Ben Malcomson\\n\\nThoughtful-Three Questions Section\\nInspired by the book, \\u201cConsider This\\u2026Questions That Make You Think.\\u201d By Barbara Ann Kipfer. Thingstobehappyabout.com\\n\\nTwitter: @kyknownothing\\n\\nMusic is from www.bensound.com\\n\\nFacebook Group: Knowing You Know Nothing (Join us!)"