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How to Build a Growth Mindset in Teams Using Navy SEAL Training Henry Ford said it best: "Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." That quote sat differently for me after I went through BUD/S training. Because what SEAL training does, above almost everything else, is force you to find out which one is actually true — is it that you truly can’t or that you won’t? And the answer, almost every single time, is that you can but you’ve just never had to work through y

Most people learn about Navy SEAL training from movies. What they never see is the specific skill being built underneath all of it. It is not toughness. It is not physical endurance. It is the ability to solve problems under pressure, one step at a time, when everything around you is falling apart. Here is what BUD/S taught me, and what it means for your team.