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Free training from Ed.

The Mission-Based Resilience podcast and the books Ed recommends, free. Members get new training every Monday, plus the vault: workouts, tips, videos and articles.

Weekly training

Something new to train every Monday.

Every Monday, members get a short read and a 10-minute exercise in the portal: one idea, and one thing to do with it that week. It's how the skill stays sharp.

From Ed's past tips

CompartmentalizationKeep your promisesThink before you speakMindfulnessSleepVisualizationLean into it
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Reading list

The books Ed recommends.

51 books on leadership, how the mind works under pressure, survival, health and meaning. Start with whichever section you need most.

Leadership and teams

  • Leadership and Self-Deception Arbinger Institute
  • The Anatomy of Peace Arbinger Institute
  • Start with Why Simon Sinek
  • Good to Great Jim Collins
  • The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge
  • The Leadership Moment Michael Useem
  • Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean
  • The Reflective Practitioner Donald Schön
  • Made to Stick Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Stress, habits and decisions

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
  • How We Decide Jonah Lehrer
  • Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely
  • Blink Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg
  • The Power of Full Engagement Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
  • The Myth of Stress Andrew Bernstein
  • The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge
  • Getting Things Done David Allen

Survival and endurance

  • Deep Survival Laurence Gonzales
  • South: The Endurance Expedition Ernest Shackleton
  • Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
  • Adrift Steven Callahan
  • Touching the Void Joe Simpson
  • Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
  • Left for Dead Beck Weathers
  • Dark Summit Nick Heil
  • The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz
  • Born to Run Christopher McDougall
  • Soul Surfer Bethany Hamilton

Naval Special Warfare

  • Brave Men, Dark Waters Orr Kelly
  • Frogmen: First Battles William Schofield and P.J. Carisella

Health and training

  • Nutrient Timing John Ivy
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan
  • Blue Mind Wallace J. Nichols

Talent and performance

  • The Talent Code Daniel Coyle
  • The Rise of Superman Steven Kotler
  • Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
  • Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer

Meaning and purpose

  • Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
  • The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
  • The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle

Ideas and the wider world

  • The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
  • David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell
  • What the Dog Saw Malcolm Gladwell
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
  • The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman
  • Abundance Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
  • Basic Economics Thomas Sowell
  • Insanely Simple Ken Segall
  • The 4-Hour Workweek Timothy Ferriss
  • Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love Allan and Barbara Pease

And Ed's own: The Suit & The SEAL, with Pat Brooks.

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