He was a sickly child who could barely breathe. He lost his mother and his wife on the same day. He was shot in the chest and finished his speech anyway. This 15-minute motivational video tells how Theodore Roosevelt built a life of courage and action, and turns each chapter into a lesson you can use today.

It covers how he rebuilt his body as a boy, how he survived grief in the Dakota Badlands, his call to "dare mighty things", leading from the front with the Rough Riders and in the White House, his habit of constant learning, his famous "Man in the Arena" passage, and the day in 1912 when a bullet could not stop him.

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:55 Build yourself 2:37 When the light goes out 4:29 The strenuous life 6:07 Lead from the front 8:05 Never stop learning 9:47 The man in the arena 11:53 It takes more than that 13:42 Choose the arena

Style: calm, slow-paced narration over cinematic wilderness scenery, with word-by-word captions burned in and a still portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. The narrator speaks about him in the third person and quotes his own words. No music.

Sources and third-party materials (non-exclusive): Roosevelt's quoted words come from his public-domain speeches and diary (1884 to 1912). The portrait is the 1904 Pach Brothers photograph (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). The scenery footage is from Mixkit under the Mixkit Stock Video Free License. Everything else (script, narration, captions, design and edit) is original and licensed exclusively to the buyer.