You know, personal experience…you’ve got to learn to be tough, you’ve got to learn to survive.

real growth comes through intense, difficult, and challenging situations.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse — a lot worse — but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths...Dig deeply. You possess strengths you might not realize you have. Find the right one. Use it.

I tackle hard things. And if it's really hard, I just dig my feet in a little bit deeper so that I'm completely anchored. I'm not afraid to do hard things at all,

I’d come to SEAL training to see if I was hard enough to belong and found an inner beast within that I never knew existed. A beast that I would tap into from then on whenever life went wrong. By the time I emerged from that ocean, I considered myself unbreakable.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

It was traumatising. I crawled on one side to go to the toilet. It was scary

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.