THE BEST SPEECHES BY JOCKO WILLINK - AMAZING MOTIVATION

the immediate impression that everyone would consider me and I hear this all the time yeah is that jakka would allow no slack whatsoever no mercy on anything right you're out of you're out of regulations I'm gonna drop the hammer on you well the fact the matter is that doesn't work as a leader in the military you know people wear patches on their uniforms well the SEAL Teams has a reputation for being very unprofessional don't really know how to wear our uniforms well we don't wear our uniforms a lot we have mix and match gear we buy civilian gear we wear that we just have a bad reputation and one of the things that once the war started and we started getting these high-speed camouflage uniforms with Velcro everywhere well guys started making their own patches and the patches were you know some of them were just cool you know whatever some skull or a knife or whatever you own bet you guys make their own patches here's here's a typical one there's one that guys would make that's a fun meter and it would be a meter that's pegged like okay we're maxed out on the fun here that's a typical kind of the type of thing that people would make well I knew from working with the conventional forces that the way you appear in a uniform is very important you know you're in the army especially at an Airborne Division I mean you wear the same PT uniform you wear the same uniform you a squared away all the time that's the way it is yeah and I knew that also soldiers and officers in the army and Marines and Marine Corps when they look at someone that's how the uniform they look at that person system Agee this guy can't even put on a uniform right how am I can trust him out on the battlefield that's just the mindset that they have it's a good mindset right if you don't have attention to detail on that stuff that's a problem well in SEAL Teams were real slack about that I said to my guys look we're not wearing patches no patches and my two platoon commanders they said okay you don't find no patches we won't wear patches but they really wanted to wear patches so behind my back they went and they got patches made tasking a bruise or patches what they would do is if they were going on an operation that I wasn't going on when they'd roll out the wire they'd make a call on the radio and say patches on and they'd pull up their patches and put their patches on they basically disobeyed a direct order from me would have been fine except for there was a certain operation that they went on there was an embedded photographer and the pictures came back and I had all the pictures and I see all my guys with patches that I told not to wear you know what I did I didn't do anything you didn't bring it up I didn't bring it up I realized number one we were fighting in a very hard environment where troops were getting wounded he killed every single bit or will you at this time we were Ramadi ok for me to focus my leadership capital on something that small was a complete waste of my leadership capital number two I realized that these guys that was a boost in their morale that made them feel like a tighter unit they gave these patches out the army guys that was a big deal for them and it meant a lot too and so for me to go in and rip that morale away from him would have been a down step in their vision of me and their respect for me and it would have antagonized our relationship I didn't come out and say hey guys I saw the patches you're fine to wear him and Lafe was talking about this you know he thought I was just gonna drop the hammer on him and I didn't say anything and the guys continue to do it and it was not a big deal now they didn't wear any inappropriate patches the patches that they wore were all the same so it was uniform but the answer to your question which is probably the opposite of what a lot of people think I'm gonna say is like what are you gonna waste your leadership capital on now the other side of the spectrum if you get someone that's doing something that's illegal bets immoral that's that's strategic that's gonna impact you strategically yeah I will not bail Jon on something that is that important to me I want to tell you something else and I want to make this clear don't just listen don't just listen do um I'm not just talking so you know I'm not just talking I'm doing and I don't want you to just listen to put this information to work make today count every day go forward get aggressive and attack whether it's on the battlefield or on the beat or in the factory or on the farm or on the construction site or on the website in the garage or in the firehouse don't hesitate step step forward it get after it so if you're working for me I say hey you know I want you to do this mission Patrick come up with a plan I'm showing you that I trust what your plans gonna be now I'm gonna I'm gonna make sure that your plan is good I'm gonna review it but I'm gonna give you a lot of autonomy I'm gonna give you trust and when I give you trust what's your reaction you think yourself this guy trust me yep and then the way I build trust and reverses when you make a mistake instead of me jumping down your throat and hanging you out to dry instead I say okay you know what my fault I should have given I should give you a better direction here's what we do the next time so now you look at me you go hey I screwed this thing up and jock would still trust me I trust him and that's how I build trust I give it you give it I give trust to build trust if I'm really putting in effort but my plan may be not the best plan you're still gonna give me second chances to work on and get better at it I will micromanage you more I can't trust you as much if we do a business deal or we're in business I don't send you out with the biggest client I've got when you when I just met you and say hey I trust you know I'll give you a little client and I say hey go go don't make this happen and you come back and you say hey look I did it I say great and you trust me a little bit more or maybe you screw that one up and I say okay let me review what you do what mistakes got made and you say oh well I did this and okay we correct that but I don't I don't come down hard on you because I'm trying to build a relationship with you if I come down hard on you do you even want to work for me do you even wanna be if I come down this is pathetic you screwed this up this is your fault you're looking for another job tomorrow whereas if I say okay let's look at what we can do better then I'm building the trust but can you know you might be very trustworthy for many years and then all of a sudden you go out and you do something on at hand with a client you try and rip them off or rip me off yeah I mean we're not gonna have trust for me anymore I need a mission we all need a mission that's what life should be is a mission that's what gives your life purpose and focus and drive and ultimately satisfaction now that mission can be the job you work at it can be providing for your family or it can be getting better at jujitsu or stronger at Olympic lifting or starting a business that you want to grow and build and take over the world and sometimes people ask me what to do if they don't know what their mission is or what their mission should be and I tell them if they're in that situation to go help someone go help someone else make that your mission because that will make you better and it'll make the world better and eventually from that you'll see what your mission is no matter how bad it is going to be when there is a challenge and by a challenge I mean anything in life any any challenge anything that you're facing the only way to overcome the challenges that you face is to start walking take that step every day no matter what you are facing get up and start walking you've lived a life dominated by doubt and fear how do you step into bravery step that's how you step into bravery step take the step step aggressively towards your fear and that that step towards your fear is the step into bravery because we're / scared of what we don't know and there's only one way to learn and to know and that is to confront that fear you have to step you have to go and this simple action this simple attitude it answers so many questions so many questions how do you get to the gym every day you step you go how do you how do you change your diet you step you go how do you overcome fear of failure fear of success or or fear of fear itself you step and how do you face the fear of the unknown your step don't wait anymore don't think anymore don't plan anymore don't contemplate anymore don't make any more excuses or justifications don't rationalize anything else no no and no instead be aggressive take action now and what is the first action that you need to take what's the first step you need to take the first step you need to take is just that step when I was a little tiny kid you know five six the only thing I can remember was wanting to be some kind of commando you knew that from that point from from birth basic we're not was it because pops or an uncle or grandfather was in a military or and father was in the army and he was retired from the army but that wasn't really it I just instinctively was putting camouflage on my face and carrying on sticks and carving them to look like machine guns when I was a little kid for no reason so that's just kind of now are you from a big family do you have siblings two sisters two sisters an older one younger they also go into military or not at all so just you just me so from five years old you know so when you won in high school everybody's asking you what are you gonna do after high school you knew you're going in the military yep yeah I see this a lot guys will hit me up girls will hit me up something went wrong with a client I stepped in I took ownership they thanked me problem solved got it squared away I kid people are surprised people are surprised that it works people are surprised that it works and again just to make sure everybody knows that alone doesn't work you still have to problem solve the problem without you cause with the client right right you you you gave them what they needed late or it's gonna be late and now you say it's my fault that doesn't mean that you don't need to get it to em ASAP and make up some corrective measures and lower the price to do something so that it makes up for the problem but the worst thing you can say is well you specify exactly what you wanted in the order and therefore we couldn't get you what you wanted on time okay we're never coming back for business skin and we're angry this whole time and I'm gonna short you money when we pay you in anyways if I pay you at all the next time you get into a situation and you write down are you techniques the excuses and the reasons that you come up with look at them and then figure out how they were how those things were actually your fault and/or how you could have prevented them because a lot of times it's like here's here's a here's one hey boss we didn't get the mission accomplished because the weather rolled in and we couldn't launch on the mission that's that's the problem now we all know that we don't control the weather when you write the problem down we failed the mission because we didn't control the weather we can't control the weather that's why we failed the mission that's my excuse that's a that's a logical reason there's two deaths that's a that's a legitimate excuse but don't use it what you do is you say what could I have done to have controlled the weather okay okay wait I can't control the weather what could I have done I could have come up with a contingency plan I could have come up we could have staged in a better place so then you go to the boss and you say look boss here's what happened the weather went south really bad that was a problem but it's a problem that I should have done a better job taking care of what I should have done was I should have had a contingency plan I should have staged closer to the target area that I could have taken vehicles instead of helicopters that's my fault from now on I will absolutely have a secondary plan this won't happen again we can't control the weather but we can control how we plan and how we execute and this won't happen again there you go so you take the most outrageous thing that you know you can't control you figure out a way to control it and you take ownership of that thing and it is gonna free it's gonna make your life so much better and by the way the next time you have a mission and you plan that contingency and you actually execute and implement what you said you're gonna do guess what you will accomplish the mission that there's a whole part of ownership that preempts the problem if you've got someone that knows if I know that I can make an excuse if I know that I can make an excuse then guess what I'm not gonna set things up properly if I don't set things up properly mmm more often or more often than the other way I will fail to do execute what I'm supposed to execute if you have an excuse right same same thing with you as an individual human being if you as an individual human being if you got some excuses that you can throw out there that you can say I had no control over that then you know what you say okay what are my contingency plans what could I have planned differently let's eliminate those excuses take ownership of your freaking life [Music] it's not easy to identify the enemy in combat in war so what you have to do is you have to control what you can control right you got to be prepared you've got to train you've got to study you've got to rehearse you've got to remain vigilant you've got to maintain discipline and everything you do so that when the enemy does reveal itself you have the ability to think it to out maneuver to out fight the enemy and it's actually the same thing in business right the enemy can be hard to identify your competitors aren't broadcasting their next move you don't know what the markets gonna do you can't be certain about the next trend or the next downturn for the next bubble that's gonna burst you can't know those things so you have to do the same thing you have to control what you can control which is you gotta gather intelligence you got to analyze the metrics that you can track you got to train yourself and your team to be prepared for both the known and also be prepared for the unknown figure out what the likely contingencies are then have some plans to execute if those contingencies occur maintain discipline as an organization so that you have the flexibility and the responsiveness to maneuver effectively and efficiently when the unpredictable actually happens so instead of suffering and falling apart in the chaos you can take advantage of it and win and that's business and life is the same the enemy is not always clear in life it can be hard to tell who's gonna try and bring you now or what is going to bring you down there's distractions there are things out there that will do you harm that are so camouflaged you can't see them at all there are deceitful people there are accidents that can occur and diseases that take root and there's bad luck and there's Murphy's lawn there's times when it seems that the whole world is against you the whole world is the enemy and the same rules apply control what you can't control you train hard learn maintain the unmitigated daily discipline in all things it's getting interviewed the other day some interview and the guy said something about like um you know it's impressive how quickly you've built your brand right and I looked at him and I said I'm not a brand I'm a person I'm a person what I'm doing is not what I'm doing so that I can leverage people what I do is just me and I'm just a person so if you asked me if I would wear a rainbow t-shirt I wouldn't know I've asked you to wear lots of stuff would you have if and if you asked me but but that's not because of I'm trying to be something it's because that's who I am right and I have been I had one of my bros who I hadn't seen in a while and he we met at a little place we'd go to in San Diego and I hadn't seen him in a year and a half and he comes walking in and he sees me and I'm wearing the same thing that I always wear our jeans a victory black t-shirt and he walks in and he see and a fight was wintertime and I was wearing a flannel like a whatever like a we do England yeah like a New England but like cheap whatever flannel with the quilt inside of it you know and um he sees me and like when he sees me and this is kind of you know after the books and the podcast he's another seal so he suspect and he sees me and I see his face and his face like gets a happy when he sees me and he and he comes over and like does like a bro hug and he says probably you're exactly the same and I was like yeah man and he goes I knew it and like that to me was the best compliment I'll ever get is like okay no matter what happens I'm not a brand I'm not doing anything for you know any other reason other than it's just me and that's just just what I'm doing and if people are cool with it man that's awesome I'm still ever okay to violate core values to achieve a goal okay so first of all really obvious your values and your goals should be aligned they should not be adversarial they shouldn't be countered to each other and if you think about what your goals are your goals should be set up in a way that they support your values and vice-versa that's just the way it is so I'm not sure where this is gonna be an issue if you're setting up goals that are contrary to your values you've got some issues now I guess if you had the goal of winning the blue belt jiu-jitsu championships and in order to win you you cheated like you claimed someone was reaping your leg and use it all you tap and you get the guy to qualified and you win that's could be an example right yeah now do I support that no you know that's wrong you you go in against the values of actually the values of martial arts to do that so you didn't win anything and you didn't achieve your goal because you weren't actually the best so I say no on that one uh another one let's say you wanted to make a certain level of profit at your company so you cheated a little bit on the quality of the manufacturing and you sold items that weren't quite reliable do I support that no right for animal and why let me tell you why because your goal your goal is not even aligned with your goal itself because when you start making substandard manufactured items what's gonna happen in the long run keep I'm gonna say we don't like these yeah we're not gonna buy them anymore so you didn't win you might have wanted the short term but you didn't win and and again you're going against your value you should have values that you don't want to you know take profit over making good product and again in the long run that value is gonna cost you right people aren't gonna want to buy your product anymore can't this is an expression that is vilified in our minds beginning at a young age every time a young child announces this decision they are corrected the first adult that hears it asked them whether or not they have even tried generally this confrontation will result in the child giving their task another attempt until their attention span moves on to something else the adult will see this and chuckle to themselves with knowledge that this is just a child who is yet to learn the art of art and virtue of perseverance by the time this child comes of age however they will have been told by adults more times than they could count that there is no such thing as can't it is interesting then to think about how many adults seem to proclaim this expression in their lives it is because is it because like many things that adults tell children they are simply telling the child a general rule that the child must follow but can be broken once one has grown or is it because these adults are simply repeating what they were told as children without thoroughly examining what the phrase I can't truly suggests if you confronted an adult that claims they can't do something with the same question about whether or not they have tried the answer will almost always be yes adults have learned enough to know that it is unreasonable to say they can't until they have at least tried once therefore the real question that we should be asking in responses have you tried everything have you exhausted every possible option scenario combination tool and approach I do not simply refer to the ones that you knew of at the time he decided to undertake your task I mean have you read also researched possibilities that you had known about have you determined whether or not there is another person out there that has performed the exact same task you are attempting or at least something similar have you exhausted this research have you read every book blog journal magazine bath room stall and website if the answer to any of these questions is no then go back and try again because if you don't because you don't truly know if you can do something until you've tried absolutely everything the fact of the matter is that rarely if ever is the answer to all these questions yes therefore what is it that people actually mean when they say I can't a more accurate but more verbose way of saying it would be I don't care about or want enough this task or the resultant benefits of it in order to do all that is necessary to achieve it I was told countless numbers of times by people during my month of marathons that they couldn't run one marathon let alone 31 straight every now and then when I had time I would discuss what they'd said we would jointly conclude that if something they cared about and depended on them doing so it would be possible the most common example I used was if someone had a gun to your child's head do you think you could do it then therefore the phrase I can't denotes a lack of investment as opposed to a lack of potential or ability I do not mean to say that every person I had this conversation with should have had the motivation to run marathons it was something that I decided to do not them I merely wanted to express to them what I am expressing here given the right purpose and enough time you can [Music] I'm a veteran of the infantry and when I took over a fire team for the first time I made the mistake of drawing hard lines in the sand this immediately alienated members of that team if you draw a lot hard lines in the sand and eventually you realize that they're either unrealistic or people can't maintain them you've set yourself up for failure what is that exactly like joy so it's no matter what we will not that bla bla bla yeah there's the leg no matter what we will we will win every single Road marks that we do as a fire team in this while we're while we're here on this training thing okay well guess what that's a that's hard real there's other there's some other fire teams that are also want to win and and so you've drawn a hard line of sand that's not really a good example of a good example it's like no matter what we're gonna muster every morning at 4:30 in the morning mmm no matter what and you know then the guys are out on patrol until 2:30 8 in the morning and now the next morning a good no matter what well it's it's not good for them it's unrealistic so you do a hard line in the sand and now you got to back it down so and all you have to do is soften the statement a little bit hey guys to the best of our ability if we can we're gonna get here every morning at 4:30 from muster there's a little there's a little room to play there right and that's that's fine so again I I there's there's not a lot of there's not a question here but one of the reasons I think that that I wanted to talk about it was because I think people look at me yeah and even hear me on a peripheral level and they think all I bet Chuck will just lay down the hard night it's my way or the highway right yeah and and the opposite is actually true and the reason that I came to that conclusion was because I worked for leaders like that and I hated working for leaders like that so I tried to never be a leader like that everyone that's out there grinding working driving trucks pouring concrete hammering on a project building bridges or building software sewing some garments or sewing of field farmers factory workers engineers electricians plumbers and pilots and ground crew and cooks and waitresses to everyone out there working hard and listening to this and just trying to get yourself a little bit better today than you were yesterday thanks for listening and as you meet struggles and as you struggle to stay on the path first of all remember you don't have to fight alone reach out to your comrades in arms [Music] call for fire support when you need it we win the wars because we stick together and when we stick together we can overcome any enemy and the struggles that you face when they when they do try to flank you do what Jodie did do what a soldier does turned into the ambush turn toward the enemy fire and attack it is to people all the time most important here is it isn't me get to you and sure you may have grabbed some little foothold from the podcast or from one of the books but it isn't me that changes you it's you you set the small goals you achieve those goals then set some more and achieve those and set some more goals maybe a little bit bigger but not that much bigger just start to start small start with changing tomorrow morning just tomorrow morning get that squared away and then move on to the next day and the next and move your life to a better place one little step one little victory at a time how do self awareness self assessment and self improvement begin and how do they continue over time try to imagine the way other people see you and what other people are thinking of you and one place where this happens and it definitely happened to me is when I started getting put in charge of things I started thinking about other people's perspectives what what are they seeing if you're in charge then what are your subordinates see you do what are your subordinates hear you say what kind of representation are they receiving in if you work for someone else it's the same questions what does the boss see me do what does the boss hear me say what kind of representation am i making of myself to my boss and then you start thinking about what are your friends and family think what do they see what do they hear and so the question becomes how well do you represent yourself what shortfalls do you have now when you first start looking it's like you're looking at an overgrown lawn there are some big obvious problems so you do a broad just kind of general cut of the grass you fix some of the big easy problems that are obvious once you've done that once you've gotten rid of some of those big obvious problems you notice some more detailed problems say then you handle them and once you've got those handled you see even smaller and more detail the issues so you start trying to fix them and that's what you do with yourself you continually detach and then you look and then you refine and then you detach and then you look and then you refine and then you detach and you look and then you refine that's what you do that's how you get better and that process doesn't stop it can't stop because if you stop refining then and then the weeds grow back and the next thing you know you can't see yourself anymore and when you can't see yourself anymore when you stop looking at you yourself then you accept [Music] you accept anything and that's wrong don't accept the faults don't give yourself the benefit of the doubt you've got to be your own harshest critic and hold the line

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Published: Sat Oct 20 2018

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I watch a lot of his podcasts, I feel a lot of them vibe hard with active duty NCO’s so if you are one, this guy would be the one to listen to