 If you ever have a buddy, recommend a book to you and then you say, hey man, I read that book that you gave me and they say, oh, that book? Yeah, I didn't like it. Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is Special Operations Mindset by Life is a Special Operation. This is a YouTube channel which I've never seen, didn't really hear about it. Ran this book on Amazon a couple of times and one of my buddies actually got it and then barred it to me and so that's why I ended up reading it. This essentially is what I would just call a self help book. That's really the category that I would put this book into. The author might not like that, however, that's really how I would define it. This book has about 13 chapters covering different values or shall we say, positive character traits, things like truth, competence, discipline, motivation, intensity, mental toughness and so on. Each chapter talks about what that attribute is, where the author has observed it in real life and then gives you some ideas for how to cultivate it and what it means to cultivate it in your life and it goes through each one of those values. If you're a Ben Franklin fan and you kind of understand his general idea of ethics, this book kind of is like that. If you're not familiar with Ben Franklin and his ethics, don't worry about it. This is an extremely short read. It's only a couple, 200 some pages, but they're small pages. This is not a huge book. I read it on one airplane flight. I think it took me about three-ish, three and a half hours. So it was a pretty quick read in and out. If you're looking for a book that gives you a little bit of a kick in the pants, a little bit of different takes of areas in your life or your character that you might want to develop more or work on more, I would recommend this book to you. In general, I'm not really a self-help book kind of person. They just don't usually excite me that much. Besides, there's really only one self-help book and that's the Bible. So you should be reading that. Again, this book's a super easy read. It's just something that I don't think was personally my bag, but that might not mean it's not your bag. So if you are at all interested, you can read the Special Operations Mindset by Life is a Special Operation. Do brave deeds and endure.