Greitens learned that a job is only meaningful if you pay attention to the details and take pride in your work. During summer breaks, he volunteered for humanitarian aid missions to Croatia, Rwanda and Bolivia, all of which helped shape his life philosophy that service to others is crucial.Įach story Greitens tells points to the lesson Greitens took from the experience, beginning with the time he ran a childhood lawn care service and was called out for a job poorly done. Throughout his youth, Greitens said he was focused on college, but once he got to Duke University, he felt it was all talk and no action.
Greitens was the oldest of three boys raised by a mother who was a special education teacher and a dad who was an accountant. This Choose Your Own Adventure aspect of “The Warrior’s Heart” is the most significant formatting change for the young-reader edition of Greitens’ impressive life story, which also features larger type, fewer pages and a price that’s $10 less than the adult version. You know the statistics: Maybe one in ten will make it.” Do you endure the frigid Pacific Ocean waters overnight as part of Navy SEAL training, or do you quit for a cup of hot coffee? Greitens uses this storytelling technique throughout the book, pressing the pause button on his own accomplishments to ask the reader what he would do in a circumstance Greitens himself experienced, such as the time he was interrogated by Chinese police and asked to rat out a friend. Every muscle in your body throbs with pain. Greitens opens with a chapter titled “You”: “You stand in freezing water up to your chest. An autobiography that seeks to lead by example, “The Warrior’s Heart” largely fulfills its mission with a story that’s as relatable as it is inspiring.
In a young-adult marketplace crowded with fictional tales for and about teen women, it’s a relief to discover a book that reaches through the miasma of video games and sports biographies into the minds and hearts of young men, especially one that is so well executed. Now the 38-year-old is back with “The Warrior’s Heart,” a young-adult adaptation of his bestselling memoir for adults, “The Heart and the Fist,” that offers living proof of its tag line: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage.
Houghton Mifflin, 288 pp.: $16.99, for ages 12 and upĮric Greitens came from the humblest of beginnings to become a Rhodes scholar, a national boxing champion, a PhD, a Navy SEAL, an Iraq war veteran, a humanitarian and a bestselling author from writing about his experiences.
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