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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Good morning, my Darren Daily friends.

This morning, I want to remind you of a story.

It comes out of Jim Collins' book, Good to Great, and it teaches us an important

lesson on how to think about and deal with great difficulty, particularly during a crisis,

one you don't know if it will end, or when it will end, or what life will be like after it ever

ends. The story is about Admiral Jim Stockdale. Stockdale was the highest-ranking U.S. military officer in the

Hanoi Hilton Prisoner of War camp. This was during the height of the Vietnam War. Stockdale was

tortured over 20 times during his eight-year imprisonment. Stockdale lived out the war without any

prisoner rights with no set release date and with no

certainty of survival he didn't know if he would ever see his family again yet he remained a

steadfast leader even while in prison with the other inmates. He did everything he could create conditions

that would increase the number of prisoners

who would survive unbroken.

This while fighting the internal war against his captors.

You see, they were attempting to use the prisoners,

particularly the American prisoners, for propaganda.

At one point, he beat himself with a stool

and cut himself with a razor,

deliberately disfiguring himself

so he could not be used as an example of a well-treated prisoner.

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