Long tortuous hours of hard physical pain, ruck sac marches, open ocean swims, miles of running and hours of calisthenics. If you don't see an existing transcript of the event you're looking for, please upload or link to the audio you want to see in our library. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. But the most challenging obstacle was the slide for life. I had some cute little anecdotes and some lessons from my career. But the most challenging obstacle was the slide for life. It is six months of being constantly harrassed by professionally trained warriors who seek to find the weak of mind and body and eliminate them from ever becoming a Navy SEAL.But, the training also seeks to find those students who can lead in an environment of constant stress, chaos, failure and hardships. Instead of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching his way down, he bravely mounted the TOP of the rope and thrust himself forward.Over a few weeks of difficult training my SEAL class, which started with 150 men, was down to just 35. Basic SEAL training is six months of long torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable. It’s considered one of the best and more inspirational commencement speeches.
He was also talking about moral courage. William Harry McRaven gave a commencement speech to the students who were about to graduate and start their future after college. You will have to defy the naysayers and the weak-kneed who have not the constitution to stand tall. Retired Admiral McRaven talks about how his experiences in Sea, Air, and Land (SEALs) training has impacted his life and how he wants to
Congratulations on your achievement.During the land warfare phase of training, the students are flown out to San Clemente Island which lies off the coast of San Diego. The steel structure of the ship blocks the moonlight, it blocks the surrounding street lamps, it blocks all ambient light.To be successful in your mission, you have to swim under the ship and find the keel — the centerline and the deepest part of the ship. You must bring your convictions out from the darkness and the subtly of your heart—into the light of day.
Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT — and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training. It was exceptionally thorough. Find someone to help you through life. It's just the way life is sometimes.So, if you want to change the world, start singing when you're up to your neck in mud.Well, I am confident that it will look much, much better.
It had a three-level 30-foot tower at one end and a one-level tower at the other. Go one more generation and you can change the entire population of the world — eight billion people.Tonight there are almost 8,000 students graduating from UT. The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with great enthusiasm. A hero who saved the world every day from some catastrophe. Your hat had to be perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed and your belt buckle shiny and void of any smudges. His mother had died of Lymphoma when he was eleven and he was obsessed with finding a cure. To me basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months. We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.The University's slogan is, “What starts here changes the world.” I have to admit — I kinda like it. It will be up to you. But, if every one of you changed the lives of just 10 people — and each one of those folks changed the lives of another 10 people — just 10 — then in five generations — 125 years — the class of 2014 will have changed the lives of 800 million people.But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.Over a few weeks of difficult training my SEAL class, which started with 150 men, was down to just 35. Men and women of integrity.And when you fail to uphold your integrity, it should make you sick to your stomach.