The more resilient a person becomes the more they realize some of the experiences they tagged as traumatic, are infact, flea bites. They enter a new level of 'traumatic'.
There is a balance in there somewhere, but I think we are erring on the side of too soft, too little responsibility, not quite enough real pain for kids today. Many have never even grazed a knee falling in the park, because they are sitting on a screen inside.
He asserts that anyone can deal with trauma, it's just a matter of mental and psychological conditioning.
For sure. And you needn't be a SEAL to have the training.