#27 Rich Diviney - A Navy Seal's Approach to Leading a Life of Discovery & Being the Best You Can Be

Ex Navy Seal Commander Rich Diviney is my guest on the show. It was an incredible conversation and I really hope that you find some golden nuggets of insight to help you take your endeavours to the next level.

In a career spanning more than twenty years, Rich completed more than thirteen overseas deployments - eleven of which were to Iraq and Afghanistan. Being the officer in charge of training it led Rich to be able to identify a successful recruit’s core attributes – these are the innate traits for how a person performs as an individual or within a team.

It’s this knowledge and experience that led Rich to write his first book - The Attributes - 25 hidden drivers for optimal performance – if you go to The Attributes website you can take a test and see what attributes guide you and I would highly recommend you buy his book as well – I’ll put details in the show notes.

Rich is a true gentlemen, it was a real honour to have in on my podcast and I really hope that what we talk about in some way helps you identify what your attributes are and enable you to take your life to the next level.

So, this is me and navy Seal Commander Rich Diviney talking about life as a Navy Seal, it’s about:

• having the right mindset 
• Optimal not peak performance
• The power of humour and laughter 
• Never ever doubt yourself

But Ultimately this is all about one man’s desire to be the best he can be in all areas of his life, his need to keep challenging himself and to lead a life of discovery.

Website - The Attributes
What Are Your Attributes? Take the Assessment
You can connect with Rich on Linked In, Instagram & Facebook

Okay, I took the Attributes assessment and here are my results. I'd love to see what yours were. You can email me at thetravellingoptimist@gmail.com 

My Grit scores
Courage                (5.49) MEDIUM  
Perseverance       (4.52) MEDIUM       
Adaptability           (5.44) MEDIUM         
Resilience             (5.83) MEDIUM 

My Mental Acuity scores
Situational Awareness           (4.91) MEDIUM          
Compartmentalization           (6.28) HIGH       
Task Switching                      (7.71) HIGH         
Learnability                            (8.15) HIGH 

My Drive scores
Self Efficacy                (4.97) MEDIUM          
Discipline                    (5.6) MEDIUM       
Open Mindedness       (4.17) MEDIUM         
Cunning                      (4.95) MEDIUM 
Narcissism                  (4.8)  MEDIUM 

Take care everyone, choose optimism every day and be the best you can be.
Steve
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