Fundamental to putting first things first in our lives is leadership before management: 'Am I doing the right things?' before 'Am I doing things right?'

Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility.

If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

In stories with emotional and psychological depth, the Ordeal may bring a moment of mystic marriage within a person, a balancing of opposing inner forces.

Eurasia’s long head start on human settlement; its more effective food production, resulting from greater availability of domesticable wild plants and especially of animals; and its less formidable geographic and ecological barriers to intracontinental diffusion.

The wisdom is in not escaping at all. Mindfulness is not about becoming composed but about composing ourselves fully in our here and now, truly mirroring our immediate reality.

Your True North is the moral compass that guides your actions, derived from your most deeply held beliefs, your values, and the principles you lead by.

To achieve stillness, we’ll need to focus on three domains, the timeless trinity of mind, body, soul—the head, the heart, the flesh.

7. The book discusses the impact of plant and animal domestication on human societies."

The mountain within is the source of true power.