I dedicated an entire chapter of my book, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons, to this very topic, because it is the person who is committed to the results—rather than the methods—that holds the power in any situation. And to be committed to results takes practice and recognition that you don’t necessarily know everything, even in fields for which you have studied or earned a degree.

To this day, I’ve no doubt that that sniper student still thinks that there was something wrong with his gun and that all of that philosophical talk about body position and mental management was a bunch of B.S.