if you don t mind, every morning speaking to my 7-year-old about making his bed. can you explain that? such a simple thing but why is that the linchpin you re making in this book? a lot of us grew up, in particular, my father was an air force officer, my mother a school teacher. before you came to breakfast you had to make your bed. i m not sure i understood why that was important. we got to s.e.a.l. training every morning we would have an inspection. uniform inspection and a bed inspection. i couldn t quite understand. look, i came to s.e.a.l. training to learn to be a s.e.a.l. warrior. here they are, having me make my bed. not just make my bed but make it correctly to exact standards. and you learn that, one, it was the first task of the day. and if you did that and did it well you had a little pride in that first task of the day and it really put you in a position to do the next task and the next task. the other thing it was for the s.e.a.l. instructors, hey, you