362: William McRaven: The Little Things that Can Change Your Life (Any Maybe the World)

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🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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William Harry McRaven (born November 6, 1955) is a former United States Navy admiral who last served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations Command from August 8, 2011, to August 28, 2014. Since January 2015, he has served as the chancellor of The University of Texas System.

McRaven previously served from June 13, 2008, to August 2011 as Commander, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and from June 2006 to March 2008 as Commander, Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR). In addition to his duties as COMSOCEUR, he was designated as the first director of the NATO Special Operations Forces Coordination Centre (NSCC), where he was charged with enhancing the capabilities and inter-operability of all NATO Special Operations Forces. Admiral McRaven retired from the Navy on August 28, 2014, after more than 37 years of service.

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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 the show. I'm here with William McRaven. He's a
0:49.8	former U.S. Navy Admiral and served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations
0:54.2	Command from August 2011, August 2014. He helped devise the strategy for how to bring down
0:59.8	the Osama bin Laden and commanded the courageous U.S. military unit that carried it out in May
1:04.5	2011, ending one of the greatest manhunts in history. He's also the author of a book you guys
1:10.8	absolutely need to check out called
1:12.3	Make Your Bed, Little Things That Can Change Your Life and Maybe The World. Bill, welcome to the show.
1:19.7	Thanks, Andrew. Great to be here. Right. And Bill, we start off every show with a favorite success
1:23.8	quote or some sort of saying that the guest has lived by that's helped them on their
1:27.7	journey. So what do you got for us? And how has it helped you? Yeah, that's an easy one.
1:32.2	I think friends, folks might be surprised to know that I actually like poetry. I've tried to
1:36.9	hide that from my seal friends, but I do like poetry. And my favorite one is if by Rudyard Kipling.
1:43.2	You know, if you can keep your head when
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