Jocko Willink (Former Navy Seal): Use This Weird Trick To Overcome Fear, Anxiety & Self-Doubt!

This is what I learned from 20 years of being in the Navy SEALs. Discipline, drive, how to make decisions under pressure, leadership, strategy and tactics that you can apply to business and you can apply to your life as well. So, let's go. Jocko Willink is a former Navy SEALs officer... ... who uses his decades of military training to help people become masters of discipline and master their lives. Your excuses will destroy you. Your default mode should be to take ownership, because if these problems are because of me, then I'm capable of fixing these problems.

So, what's step one?

First of all, small steps can be painful. Even something as simple as going to the gym, if you're completely out of shape, sometimes that can be enough to make you say, "I'm not doing it anymore." You need to envision a path of where this can lead you to. Number two, most human instinct is to hesitate, but you see that problem over there, you gotta go solve that problem. It's not gonna go away. So if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go, start walking. And worst case scenario, you figure out that you walked the wrong direction. Okay, now you can go walk in the other direction. But standing there, not doing anything, is just waiting to starve to death. And the next challenge: detach from your emotions. Good leaders have control of our emotions. If I have to yell at you to get my point across, I've made like 47 other mistakes. My goal is I don't have to say a word, and you already know what to do.

Is there anything else that you'd add to that list?

Absolutely. In fact, people don't really talk about this, and this could apply to just about anything. So, if you're the type of person that doesn't ******, you're gonna struggle.

Jocko, was there a hardest day while you were in the Navy SEALs?

Yeah. That was the lowest point of my life.

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