special operations selection

You Will Have Your Waterloo

By Craig Weller / January 21, 2020 / 0 Comments

By: Craig Weller In the early 2000’s, the Naval Special Warfare program for students who have been successfully screened into a special program and are awaiting formal training was called SCRUFT Duty. It stands for Screened Candidate Reported and Undergoing Physical Training.  I spent six months in SCRUFTLand. We got up at three in the […]

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The Downside of “Mental Toughness”

By buildelite / August 26, 2019 / 1 Comment

As we cover in our book, the research on mental toughness is pretty scattered and hard to pin down to a single definition. It can be easily conflated with related concepts like conscientiousness or the capacity for delayed gratification. Usually, ‘mental toughness’ is a catch-all to describe a range of other characteristics. It’s kind of […]

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