Mike Hayes’s life experiences read like an adventure novel, but rest assured he is the real deal. He has been threatened with execution while held at gunpoint in South America. He’s helped amputate a teammate’s leg and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. Rising through the officer ranks to Command SEAL Team 2, he served in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Navy SEALs and with a combined joint Special Operations Task Force. Later he ran meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies in the civilian workplace.

Mike Hayes writes his book on leadership and life with an easy writing style but with the clarity of life’s lessons. It is a very enjoyable book as he fills it with anecdotes that perfectly make the points he’s striving for in each chapter.

Mike Hayes’s personal bushido is to live with incredible confidence and extreme humility. He writes that every time he walks into a room, he always assumes that there are people in the room smarter than he is. That way, he can never be wrong. He may not have “the idea” but he will certainly have “an idea.”

In Never Enough, Hayes talks at length about his philosophy of leadership that is easily adaptable to any situation. One of the best ways to learn leadership is to teach it by developing great leaders under oneself and to learn “how to think, not what to think,” which is great advice in today’s world.

In the end, Hayes’s book isn’t just about leadership but living your life to the fullest extent possible while serving others.