37. Rich Diviney - Navy SEAL & Author of The Attributes and Brendan Bourdage, PhD, Asst Coach, William & Mary

In this special episode I welcome Rich Diviney, author of the book The Attributes. Rich was inspired to write the book after his twenty years as a Navy SEAL. Commander Rich Diviney was intimately involved in the world-renowned SEAL selection process, which whittles exceptional candidates down to a small cadre of the most elite optimal performers. But Diviney was often surprised by which recruits washed out and which succeeded. Someone could have all the right skills and still fail, while recruits he might have initially dismissed would prove to be top performers. Eventually, Rich cracked the code. Through years of observation, Diviney learned to identify a successful recruit's core Attributes, the innate traits for how a person performs as an individual and as part of a team. That same methodology can be used by anyone in their personal, professional, and athletic lives. Visit theattributes.com for more on Rich’s book. It was an honor to have Rich on along with Brendan Bourdage, himself an Army Combat veteran and assistant coach at the College of William & Mary who has a Ph.D in Higher Education/Higher Education Administration.