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Life Lessons from Unbroken Unbroken is the story of Louie Zamperini and his amazing journey of: • A boy who was bullied and always in trouble to… • Running in the 1936 Olympics to… • Enlisting in the military during WWII to… • Surviving a plane crash in the Pacific to… • Surviving an amazing 47 days adrift in a raft to… • Being captured by the Japanese navy, being sent to a POW camp, and becoming the favorite target of a cruel prison commander to… • A life of severe post-traumatic stress disorder to… • A life filled with forgiveness, service and peace. Here are 10 lessons I took away from my experience reading Unbroken: Forgiveness brings more peace than revenge. “The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have …show more content…
He attended a sermon with Rev. Billy Graham and found that through dedicating his life to Christ he was able to make his mission forgiveness and not revenge. FORGIVENESS is one of the highest of mental strengths. The power of visualization When on the raft for 47 days and during his time in the brutal POW camp, the soldiers would talk about what they were going to eat when they got home and break down the process of cooking into the greatest details, even hearing the eggs cracking on the bowls and the whisk stirring the eggs and flour. This allowed them to keep their minds sharp and helped with the starvation they were experiencing. Our bodies will break down, but we must use our minds to stay sharp and keep giving us hope. The incredible strength of the human will. “Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming …show more content…
Zamperini found small victories that helped him to get through the day and through the journey. Surviving for the next hour was a great example about learning to focus on the the now – not the future. He wasn’t focused on not getting out of camp and home before the holidays, but on staying in the moment and surviving that moment. Small victories lead up to the big ones in ALL situations. The importance of self-respect. “But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.” Giving up shows a lack of self-respect and self-worth. Each time we push through adversity, we become stronger and more capable of dealing with the next adverse situation. Adversity in life is an inevitability and as such, pushing through those hardships build our soul’s armor and our ability to overcome. Never give up! Nothing is impossible. “Life’s many bumpy roads are preferable to its one flat