Royal Marine Commando: Advice Will Change Your Life (MUST WATCH) Motivational Speech | Aldo Kane

courage determination unselfishness and cheerfulness in the face of adversity now those four things if you can employ them and put them into everything that you do then then anything is possible my name is aldo kane i'm a former royal marine commando and i now run a company operating in extreme remote and hostile locations around the world so i grew up uh on a housing estate which is you know in a cul-de-sac um down at the end of a road which is um probably how the majority of people are actually brought up in in the uk you know uh working class um and you know i had a very outdoor lifestyle i was born um near glasgow but live on the west coast of scotland so down you know near the sea just across from northern ireland so my upbringing was was as far as i know fairly standard and normal when i was very young um i joined the uh the beavers which is like beavers cub scouts um like boy scouts in america boy scouts of america but it's all one organization um and it was joining them at very young age which gave me a glimpse into the outdoors and how you can not just survive but thrive outdoors um and so my twin and i spent years before i joined the marines we spent years going away camping hiking learning how to navigate how to live off the land um and so for me the boy scouts were like a fundamental part of of my childhood and growing up and fast forward from there 10-15 years and then you know an elite royal marine commando sniper operating in the middle east and you know using the skills that i learned in the scouts i was not academic at all at school the scouts helped me get outdoors and stay outdoors i didn't play computer games you know i wasn't i wasn't an indoor kid and the more that you did that the more that i did that the more i realized i didn't want to have a normal job and so i got to the point where i was looking at what jobs i could do and would want to do in the military it seemed to offer this lifestyle of of being outside adventurous boyzone sort of adventure and that's what i was in the scouts for that's what i was in the cadets for um and so i went to the careers office up in glasgow and um you've got like the navy the air force the army um and i went into the naval one and there was a marine in there raw marine in the commando and uh he basically said look there's no point going to the rest of them we're the best and then for the next two years i was like focused i was joining the marines regardless of what my parents thought and regardless of what anyone thought the green berry is is like the coveted um headdress of the royal marine commandos it's it's renowned and revered throughout the world and the first time i actually saw one was was at a cadet camp an air cadet camp up in scotland north scotland and this helicopter pilot sort of swaggered to the front of the queue that i was in and he put it down on the desk he was buying something and i remember just seeing it and just being like that looks beautiful like the black anodized globe and laurel badge on it and the green berry and like i just thought that is that's what i'm going to have basically i wanted to join the marines from like 13 or 14 i by the time it came to joining up like i knew inside out what training was what was happening in what week and the only bit that i didn't know was whether my body would be physically strong enough to complete it you know my head was my head game was good you know i knew that's what i wanted to do and it's the longest infantry training in the world it's 30 odd weeks it's very intense you know there's very hardly any days off through the whole process and every week is is like a killing phase you know getting rid of dead wood in in the truth so out of maybe 50 people that join 50 men that join um then at the end of it there might be seven or eight that finish it joining at 16 your my bones weren't fully developed and my body wasn't fully developed i was essentially still a boy i knew that it was going to be tough and i knew that that wouldn't last forever you know there wouldn't be people staying in the marines for 10 15 20 years if it was as hard as it was every single day in training you just couldn't last that long it was the first part of my life where i started to realize that you can literally become what you think about you can you can you can have what you want as long as you know what it is that you want and i think a lot of my friends at school they just didn't know what they wanted to do you know they you know they're going to prolong it a bit more to do a levels or hires and then they go to university still don't really know what they want to do choose a course that they're not that interested in come out 23 24 still not know what they're going to do dodge around a few jobs you know by the time i was 26 i'd done 10 years as an elite soldier um you know i and and that you know i just shortcutted that whole 10 years of messing around by knowing exactly what it was that i wanted to do and then breaking that down and that's really you know my life up till now has been based on those fundamental points of you know you can have anything and be anything and do anything that you want you just have to know what that thing is you know the royal marines training is hard physically you get smashed every day you know relentlessly for the entire time that you're there but as as a young man you're fairly robust you're fairly um resilient to that sort of training um if your mindset is good you know of 50 people that start let's say 10 finish not all of those 40 that don't make it have physical injuries you know the majority of those probably just don't have the minerals to finish the course if the y isn't big enough then you'll never have the drive the determination to get out of bed early and finish that thing and so let's say i just say i'm going to join the marines there's nothing else going on like my apprenticeship's finished and you get down there and you're in week 10 and you're getting smashed and you're you know cold wet hungry tired then it's very easy to just stick your hand up and say i'm sacking it off whereas if that's all you've wanted to do and that is your end state is to get there then like for me in those hard times i was in my absolute element i was living my dream i like it's hard to explain it but i i had this like the fire inside my stomach that i was doing the thing that i wanted to do and it was such an amazing feeling and and i feel lucky that that i found that early on because it shaped the rest of my life you know for me what i took away from that was not all the hardcore skills i've been able to shoot from a long distance and being able to run miles and miles and not feel tired what i took away from it was the soft skills and they call it the commando spirit and that's courage determination unselfishness and cheerfulness in the face of adversity now those four things if you can employ them and put them into everything that you do then then anything is possible when i was in the marines i joined wrecking and i'd done my sniper course the royal marine sniper course is one of the hardest sniper courses in the world to pass um has lots of diff it's not just about pulling the trigger and or sneaking about you know there's so many different um sections of being a sniper that that make you more of an elite soldier effectively um and so by the time i did that selection passed that course i was 20 or 21 so i would have been one of the youngest trained snipers in the you know in the royal marines at that time and that was again come down to me knowing what i wanted and and instead of waiting five or six years you know until i was ready i thought why don't i just go and do it and if i fail it at least i'll know what i failed on and then i can improve on that and then i can you know and then i'll go back and do it again but i actually passed first time um so yeah and and that required you know a lot of focus a lot of training and a lot of i suppose mental fortitude i think to become a sniper you need to you know there's two parts of it there's all the practical parts which are um you know field craft basically and you have to be very good at operating on your own and then the second part is more your personality and your personality traits are you happy and confident operating on your own you don't need another 30 guys behind you do you have the courage in your own convictions about making decisions what i love about it is the fact that you live by and die by your own sword it's very easy in a group of people in any walk of life to hide and to blame other people when things go wrong and the hits the fan as a sniper as you're working in you or your sniper peer you are effectively responsible for your own life and lots of others and and you know there's nowhere to hide and i quite like that stripped beer you know this is the nuts and bolts of life and and this is you know and it's how i it's how i work and operate now you know i i love the fact that i'm responsible for being successful or unsuccessful if the y isn't big enough or strong enough then you'll never get out of bed in the morning you'll never you know get up when things are hard but with courage determination and selfishness cheerfulness and faith but basically which is like the command of spirit you can almost achieve anything one of the big things that i think that people are anxious about is fear of the unknown and thinking is this it is this all i've got is this what i'm doing with my life if you're lucky enough to be that um introspective and thinking about yourself and your life because most people are too busy with the minutia of everyday life that they don't give tomorrow and the next week in the next month or second thought if you're in that position to think about the future then you're one of the minority and then if you're able to think about the future and shape it then then you're in the top one two three percent of people on earth and that is quite a powerful place to be [Music] by this time i've already been to iraq i've already been fighting and war i've already realized that time is more valuable than money i've realized that you know you can earn as much money as you want you know it comes and goes daily monthly weekly whatever you know when you're up you're eventually going to be back down um but time doesn't that's just gone um and you know if you are privileged enough to get to old age um then then that's one of the best things that that can you know physically happen to you um and so so for me when i went offshore it was very much about using you know i was sacrificing two weeks of my life to then have two or three weeks off which i could then use effectively into reshaping retraining and and regrouping on what i valued and what i felt was important and which direction i wanted to go in life and when you're offshore it gives you opportunity to reflect because there's a lot of time when you're not working and it gives you a lot of time to reflect and to to plan if if you're of that mindset there's also you could easily blink and you've done 20 years in off your industry which means you've spent 10 years on an oil rig which to me was you know it's not what i wanted to do with the rest of my life i wanted to use it as a leg up to then use the time to eventually get the qualifications and the experience that i needed to do the job that i do know and when you look back when i look back like the the dots join perfectly like it's it's 20 20 perfect [Music] i was selling gas and electricity it was a really horrible time you know i'd left the marines and i didn't leave the marines because it ran its course or anything i left the marines because i was like at the top of my game and it's the hardest the easiest thing to do for me would have been to stay in and see out my 22 years that was easy the hard thing to do is leave something when you're very good at it because you you know it's completely unknown it's very easy to stay in that one in that rut and i didn't want to be in that rut you know i'd done as much as i thought i could do in the military i'd gained as much experience i just knew there was something niggling me that there was something that i wanted to do that was it was um i don't know that there was just something that was niggling at me that made me want to sort of put my notes in and leave i then had this transition period of coming from being one of the most elite fighting soldiers on the planet to no one to just not having any backup you know i was i was just this guy who was out in the port with everyone else looking for work and so i took on this job of being a gas and electricity sales and so i did that for two or three months and i you know it was utterly so destroying but at that point i still hadn't connected the dots with you know i just decided i wanted to join the marines i decided i want to be a sniper i decided that i wanted to be in recce i did all these things but i hadn't really fully grasped that everything was in my controller i wouldn't have a plan you become part of someone else's that's exactly what was happening in the book i talk about acres of diamonds and it's an old fable about a farmer who um who's you know looking to find diamonds he's got a stretch of land and he's essentially thinks he's exhausted it sells it moves on and the next guy who comes in you know digs and just spends hard work hard graft and he finds this rich seam of diamonds in his own backyard [Music] we often look you know as a human race we're looking at what's next and you know adventurous spirit and let's go outside let's go here let's go there and we're looking and chasing this thing which is never there and and essentially what it means is like for me was look at what you've got look at what you're good at and how can you turn that into service to then help other people [Music] um you know everyone's looking outwards in everything they can go and get and have and and actually what i needed to do was look at what i was good at what skills i had and what i could then offer as a service you know to to you know by becoming valuable to people in industry um you know that's that's the way you become successful [Music] if something's easy to do it's easy not to do it's easy to eat an apple a day it's also easy not to i think we live in an age now where people want instant gratification you know they want something now you know the internet's fast five g's fast everything's like no no now you order something online it's here the next day all the same day you know delayed gratification you know you your is the art or the discipline of postponing something kicking it down the street a bit so that you have something bigger better longer stronger whatever that thing is um and that comes down to process and graft like we talked about finding your passion and there's no promise at the end of it but if you can block out the noise like if i'm sat looking at everyone else that does my type of work and looking at them and worrying and social media i'm not putting in 100 into what i'm doing because i'm paying attention to what they're doing you'll find that successful people i don't care what's happening around about them they don't care they're not in competition with anyone potentially other than themselves or they just want to make an exceptional product or offer that service to the masses and when you start to do that and block out the noise it's amazing what you can actually achieve and controlling the controllables controlling what you actually have dominion over it's quite a small thing but control that you control your mind you can control what's in your immediate vicinity but you can't control the weather you can't control what other people are doing and you can't control what other people think so stop trying to [Music] we become what we think about it's just as simple as that and if you're not thinking about anything or if you're thinking thoughts then that will be your life you know everyone is exactly where they are in life because of the decisions they have or haven't made uh sounds quite careless because lots of external things can happen to someone but we always have options like people generally especially where we live we know we're very privileged where we we live in the western world where you know we have all of the modcons um you know we we have the privilege of of making decisions um and following them through so you know i think the biggest the biggest thing that i can see looking back is that i knew where i wanted what i wanted to be and what i wanted to do and i just worked hard to get there the things that you focus on and spend your time on and process and graft then you get there that's that's the bottom line like there's no magic formula there's nothing else like what you think about and what dominates your thought process from when you get up in the morning to when you go to bed will become your reality [Music] the military part of my life is you know i i owe almost everything to it because it's given me the confidence and the ethos and the courage of my own convictions to to do what i want to do now um you know it certainly doesn't the military part doesn't mean i'm any better you know anything than anyone else but i think in my own head and confidence you know i i know that i passed one of the hardest infantry training in the world at the age of 16 that means you know in my head i have this confidence that you know i can i can do most things you know i i just haven't been taught most of them or you know if someone teaches me something then i'm i'm very focused and dialed on learning that thing um but the thing that made me join the scouts was adventure the thing that made me join the marines was adventure and then after i left and i started messing around and went off shore i then started to formulate this idea that i would then work in the outdoors not as an outdoors instructor because there's too many people doing that and they're very qualified and it's not well paid and and also it didn't give me that you know i didn't want to be taking groups out on the hill and you know i led a lot of expeditions in south america and all over the place with young adults and it just like i didn't quite know television existed yet but all these parts were starting to like slot together i had all my training that was ready i was like ready for whatever job came my way um i'd spent all that time offshore getting ready for that and had the confidence of my background in the military so that was all done and dusted and then someone asked me if i could get film crew inside an active volcano for a tv program and i was just like yes i can do that and then it just like the penny dropped i was ready i didn't know what was preparing for but when that job opportunity came along it then suddenly clicked everything clicked into place from scouts right the way through like over that 15 years to taking that job [Music] when you're when you're too busy with the minutia of everyday life three kids you know your job 12-hour shifts like you don't have time to stick your head above the parapet and think about tomorrow never mind next week never mind next year um but that's what the offshore part of it gave me was that time to then work out this plan and and so when i eventually got to doing that job in the volcano it was like all of this just went into position and then it was just like fine so i went to congo got a bbc film crew inside one of the most active volcanoes in africa biggest lava lake on earth epic epic sort of environment to be in and it used every ounce of my skill set to get the crew in and out safely and then i sort of came back and had a couple of weeks off and and just like i was like this is amazing because i i never watched television and to be honest it never crossed my mind that television was a you know an industry that that you could work in um and so it just and it was right at the time when adventure tv was picking up and and getting busy and and so with all the preparation and things i was doing it just i was perfectly placed at that time to to get stuck into it and and i'm not saying that i'm you know there are a million people out there better qualified than me in cave diving then skydiving in climbing and all these things but you know my main focus is more of a like step back i have a jack of all trades basic understanding of these adventurous activities but i also have a more holistic approach to looking after people and crews and making sure that they're safe in these extreme environments you know my job really is is you know with you guys it's with the crew it's everyone working together to get this end product and whether that's in jungles or up in the high mountains of the himalayas or way down in a cave system you know wherever it is on earth or dealing with narcos in in the jungles of south america um it's the same it's about can do attitudes and and looking after people and it goes back to what i was thinking about acres of diamonds it's like what service can i provide someone else you know by adding value to someone else or something else and it's like enlightened self-interest you know i get to do all these cool jobs i get to gobb off about it on social media and to have cool pictures with cool people in cool places but really you know you're helping other people achieve their goals and achieve their ambitions and that you know that's quite important worked a lot with investigative journalists so during the ebola outbreak in west africa which i'll talk about in the book or chasing down um tiger traffickers in southeast asia or or doing the narco stuff in south america um and these guys using the medium of film and journalism you know have have so you know they're giving a voice to for example tigers that that don't have a voice you know and they're being slaughtered at a rapid rate of knots um for for luxury goods so you know if you if you can find a way of telling that story and telling it effectively by you know film then you know you have much more reach than you do any other way i think oh and it got to the point where i'd done a lot of stuff in the military and um and wanted to give something back in a way that you know to to for example animals that don't have that voice and to be able to train anti-poaching units and um i was down in south africa doing that for a while and um and the more i was doing that and i'd been working in television a while i thought there's this opportunity here to tell stories of you know of for example trafficking um and that's how i got involved with the doing the tiger film that was a bbc investigation into tiger trafficking but but it was much more about using my skills again what what can i do with my skills that that provides a service to someone else so we were helping the eia environmental investigation agency with some of their operations investigations so it's about it's about again not what can i get out of this but what can i give and i always find that's a more useful way of approaching situations is what can i do what can i give how can i help [Music] [Music] you're in the military you have purpose and passion and i would say 90 percent of people in the military certainly speaking from in the marines have um you know this passion and fire in their belly then they leave and then that's gone [Music] and it's a very slippery slope like you're standing on top of a sandpit there um and about to end up going you know falling down into it not being able to get your way back out but because of passion and purpose you know if the y isn't big enough then you don't have the drive you won't get out of bed in the morning and that's why when i go to schools and i speak to kids and they're like i want to be a youtuber you know i want to be famous i want to be an influencer and you dig down you're like why do you want that and they don't know uh what are you going to talk about you can't just be on youtube like sat in your bedroom with someone pointing the camera at you like what are you going to what are you going to talk about so for me it's about finding that passion there's a there's a bit for everyone but you have to know what that passion is you have to or you have to know what that thing is that you want to be interested in um and i think you know for me i've always had a passion for adventure and an adventurous life and it's always led me to make decisions based on that probably would do better by finding what actually floats their boat not just they want to be famous for whatever reason one of the biggest anxieties that people have is fear of the unknown or you know just just general anxiety about thinking that everything's falling apart life's bad you know and and it's you know it's very common it makes such a difference to write problems down physically pen paper and write it down and when you see that on a piece of paper it then becomes quite easy or working down this i feel scared because of this and then the exercises to then right underneath that and then this will happen and then this one and you work it down to the nth degree you know when you wake up at three o'clock in the morning and your entire life is falling apart and you that little voice inside your head is just telling you that you know that everything's a mess and and worrying about everything then in the morning it doesn't seem as bad right so the biggest thing that you can do with that is control the controllables it's a simple thing is you can't control all of these other things and often what's worse is you're making your judgments and opinions on other people's opinions um you know which is other people's judgments which is just mental never compare your inside to someone else's outside because everyone's everyone's different control what you you have in your dominion which is your thoughts um and get outside and exercise it's amazing what that does for you um even if you know you've never done it in your life before get outside you know go for a walk do 5 meters today 10 20 100 5 miles 10 miles the main biggest thing that people can do is take action because in the years time you're going to wish you started today everything that i do is balanced um risk and hazard and likelihood like you know when i when i go inside an active volcano i know that i could die in there i know that but what i do is i mitigate as many of those hazards as possible you know wearing hard hats going in at the right time with the right crew doing the right thing not pushing it like we mitigate as many of them as possible but if the volcano decides to erupt in there then you die right that's that's like big boy steaks and the same with the row the steaks were high um you know a capsize and coming out the boat is death and probably a slow one because you'll be separated and float and eventually drown so it's the stakes are high but it's also testing you you mentally and physically testing me mentally and physically and that's what i enjoy i enjoy those high stakes but it's not about taking risks it's about controlling hazards you know it's about controlling them and controlling the risk of things happening and being as prepared as you can be for me personally it's it's it's an internal thing of testing myself against the environment and testing my my thought process you know i talk a lot on social media about you know having a strong mindset but i am often asking myself when was the last time i was really tested when was the last time i really put myself through the wringer instead of just talking about being resilient and talking about being you know having mental fortitude or having courage or determination in the marines you would say don't tell show and that that's one thing that lots of leaders and managers don't do is like lead from the front and show people how to do things don't tell them how to do things um so for me that's always been a you know i like to test and keep myself current and also by pitting yourself against the environment you realize how small and insignificant you are and i find that truly motivating you can go down a you can go down a wormhole of social media and think everyone's got a better life than you and you know it's very easy to just see the glossy side that people portray there but you know the the other side the flip side of a job and my lifestyle is that you know home life is can often be chaotic um and bouncing from one job to another and you know missing my son's birth and risk you know people might think that i'm a risk taker um but i'm not you know i'm i control risk i control hazards i control all of these things so i'm more of a control freak than i am a risk taker i'm very cautious so i don't think my outlook in my the way that i operate will change decision making is one of the biggest things that people can do even if it's the wrong decision make a decision follow it through and it often opens another door that that wasn't available you know before but by sitting doing your normal stuff every day you know to change your life and to change what you're doing you must change something if you do the same thing every day you know nothing's going to change the outcome isn't going to change as soon as you go down the route of thinking you know everything ego etc then you you're you know or building the walls to protect yourself is keeping ideas and things and people out the biggest obstacles that we stumble across are probably ourself and what the the one the language that we use and the words that we use to talk ourselves out of things and you'll find that successful people are very good at talking themselves up and so i think one of the biggest obstacles for achieving anything is probably ourselves and that nagging voice that's that tells you you're not good enough you know certainly when you come from you know i didn't come from a back bad background but i came from a background where nothing much is expected of anyone and it's quite easy to drop back into that um into that thought process so um yeah i'm strict with myself and i'm i'm forgiving with other people ego in my line of work will get you killed right that's the bottom line um and so again the old adage of don't tell people how good you are don't tell people what you can and can't do show people and do it quietly get on with the thing that you want to be doing get on with it quietly and become very good at it and become exceptional at it and one day people think well it's all right for him or her because they're lucky because they got there but you know everything process graft knowing what it is that you want to achieve and just putting in the hard yards to get there the process and graft are the two things that people don't see they look at successful people and think it's all right for them but actually what they forget is they've had 12 15 however many years of just doing the basics and doing the basics well [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Fri Nov 19 2021