165: Remembering Who You Are with Mark Divine (Retired Navy SEAL Commander)

About this episode

Mark Divine discusses the importance of remembering one's true identity and how his meditation practice transformed his life and career.

Everyone lives in a world of their own creation through their conditioning, their thought patterns, and their behaviors. The problem is, this route leads to pain because it severs the connection with your true identity. When you're disconnected from your true identity, and you forget to remember who you are, you'll wake up one day and realize you're living a complete lie. Instead of creating a life that makes you happy and fulfilled, you trade your future for someone else's opinion of you. Today's guest, retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine, was lucky enough to discover this early in his life thanks to his meditation practice. His conditioning told him that he was going to business school to join the family business. But a few months after getting his MBA and CPA, Mark decided to give it all up to become a Navy SEAL because his meditation practice created enough stillness that he remembered he was a warrior. Despite being a "civilian" (who have terribly low success rates of becoming a SEAL - only about 10 to 15% make it), Mark's meditation practice allowed him to reconstruct his identity and become the #1 student in SEAL training. As Navy SEAL Commander, Mark introduced other…

People in this episode

Host: Dean Pohlman

Guest: Mark Divine

Topics covered

• identity
• meditation
• self-discovery
• Navy SEAL training
• personal growth

Keywords

• identity
• meditation
• Navy SEAL
• self-improvement
• SEALFIT
• personal growth
• warrior

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SEALFIT, Navy SEAL

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