Navy SEALs—in pursuit of excellence

[Kerry]

Professionals such as Navy SEAL/s, pilots, and surgeons—those in pursuit of excellence—eventually give up blaming and assigning reasons for malfunctions and failures; they can no longer afford to ignore the correlation between personal integrity and outcomes-missions-goals. It's not that the word accident disappears from their vocabulary, it's that an "accident" most always reveals that one's integrity was out. Something was occupying the space; something (an incomplete) sapped one's awareness). The more powerful one is willing to be the more one is willing to look at an accident from cause (most always an unconscious one).

For example: A pilot who survives a crash in which everyone else dies, wonders for life, if the crash had anything to do with his marital infidelity. It's not that there is proof that unacknowledged perpetrations such as deceits cause accidents, it's that we intuit it. What is true is—if one is daily maintaining his/her integrity (if all perpetrations have been responsibly communicated) one can eliminate one's out-integrity as a cause for an unexpected outcome. If it's not my integrity then it must be my leadership-communication skills—or an unconscious intention.

Opinion: As the world's foremost elite military unit today's Navy SEALs are committed to communication mastery; they are continually confronting the correlation between personal integrity and outcomes-missions-goals. Such a curriculum leads one to master dieting to include acknowledging the effects of alcohol on brain cells and performance. SEALs will eventually have the reputation of performing and living with impeccable integrity—of being enlightened—each team member having the both the skills and the integrity of a Shaolin monk.


Last edited 3/6/24