Waking Up Early, Living with Purpose & Respecting Yourself - Jocko Willink (4K)

There's going to be things in your life that you don't have control over. Human beings can control a lot more than they think they can, and oftentimes, it's pretty easy just to say, "Oh, that's not me. That's not on me," and people say, "That's not my fault. There's nothing I can do about that." And more often than people think, there is something you can do about it, and it is your fault. (airplane whooshing)

Jocko Willink, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

You flew to watch the UFC with Cam Hanes and Chris Pratt. I want to know what a night out with Jocko Willink looks like.

Well, actually, I didn't fly up there with Cam. Cam was already up there. I think he flew in from Oregon where he is, where he lives. But we did, we did meet up there, and ... But I did fly up there with Chris Pratt and Jack Carr and some of the other folks from The Terminal List, which is a TV show that Chris Pratt is in, that Jack Carr wrote the book that the show is based on. And we went up there, watched the fights. (laughs) It, it was, it was a very cool night. Yeah, it was fun.

What time did you get up the next day?

I got up ... I don't know, but Cam was giving me a hard time. He says, "What?" You know. "What are you ... Are you gonna get up tomorrow morning?" And I said, "I'm not even going to get home until 3:00 in the morning." And that's when I, that's when I got home. I got home at 3:00 in the morning. I think I got up around maybe 8:00, 8:30, something like that.

The fact that you don't do the 4:30 AM thing after a night out makes me feel at least a little bit more mortal.

If it's going to be less than four hours of sleep, then I'll make some kind of adjustment.

You'll just push it the next day?

Yeah.

What was it like to see the UFC live? Have you seen that before?

I've been to so many UFCs, I don't-

Okay.

I don't know how many UFCs-

Sorry.

... I've been to, but I've been to a lot. I spa- ... I ... When I was younger, I spent a lot of time coaching and training fighters, so I'd corner ... I've cornered a bunch of fighters in the UFC, and so I've been to I, I don't even know how many UFCs I've been to. But it ... I haven't been in a long time. I haven't been in probably three, four years, so it was cool to go and see one again, and, and get back up there. UFC ... Seeing the UFC live is, is awesome, and ... Look, you know, people will say, and even I'll say this too, it's great to sit at home, and (laughs) you know, get all the different angles, and hear the commentary. That, that's cool. Uh, there's, there's a benefit to that. But there is a lot of h- ... a lot of hype and a lot of energy that, that's in the room or in the, in the stadium when it's going on. And so being there live definitely, definitely is, is, is worth doing occasionally to make sure you don't forget what that, what that's all about.