357: Jocko Willink: Find Your Discipline and You Will Find Your Freedom

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Andrew Ferebee

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🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Jocko Willink is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, author of the book Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he is a leadership instructor, speaker, and executive coach. Jocko spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams, starting as an enlisted SEAL and rising through the ranks to become a SEAL officer. As commander of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser during the battle of Ramadi, he orchestrated SEAL operations that helped the “Ready First” Brigade of the US Army’s First Armored Division bring stability to the violent, war-torn city.

As commander of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser during the battle of Ramadi, he orchestrated SEAL operations that helped the “Ready First” Brigade of the US Army’s First Armored Division bring stability to the violent, war-torn city.

Task Unit Bruiser became the most highly decorated Special Operations Unit of the Iraq War. Jocko returned from Iraq to serve as Officer-in-Charge of training for all West Coast SEAL Teams. There, he spearheaded the development of leadership training and personally instructed and mentored the next generation of SEAL leaders who have continued to perform with great success on the battlefield.

During his career, Jocko was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and numerous other personal and unit awards. In 2010, Jocko retired from the Navy and launched Echelon Front where he teaches the leadership principles he learned on the battlefield to help others lead and win. Clients include individuals, teams, companies, and organizations across a wide-range of industries and fields.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Knowledge for Men's Show. Your life will never be the same. Your level of success will
0:05.1	seldom exceed your level of personal development. I want to die empty of regret. I want to die
0:10.2	empty of my best work. We don't understand who we are. Instead, we're living out somebody else's narrative.
0:15.8	But one man can do, another man can do. If it's been done, it can be done again.
0:20.1	Being yourself and being your truest, most authentic self in every do. If it's been done, it can be done again. Being yourself and being your
0:21.4	truest, most authentic self in every moment, if it scares you or makes you a little afraid, do it,
0:27.7	follow your heart and your gut. The first stage, I think, is finding you, like finding out who I am
0:32.8	today. Stuff will not work. You will have things that fail. Success is when you're a happy,
0:37.8	fulfilled person. How do you define success? It's your life and you are the creator of the movie script
0:44.0	that is your life story. All right, guys, welcome to this show. I'm here with Jocko Willink. He spent
0:49.3	20 years in the U.S. Navy SEAL teams starting as an enlisted SEAL and rising to become a
0:54.1	commander of SEAL Team 3's task unitlisted SEAL and rising to become a commander of
0:54.6	SEAL Team 3's task unit Bruiser, which was one of the most highly decorated special
0:59.5	operations unit in the Iraq War. Jocko received the silver and bronze star for his actions in Iraq.
1:05.3	He's also a TEDx speaker, a fantastic talk, which I recommend you guys to check out, an author
1:09.9	of the New York Times
1:11.1	bestselling book, Extreme Ownership, and also currently the co-founder of Edgeellon Front,
1:16.9	where he's a leadership instructor and executive coach. Jocko, quite the intro here. Happy to have
1:22.2	you here on the show. Hey, how's it going? All right. And Jock, so we start off every show
1:27.3	with a favorite success quote or some sort of saying that
1:30.3	the guests live by.
1:31.4	So what do you got for us?
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