128: How to Gain Confidence. Forgiveness VS Settling The Score. Does Discipline Inhibit Creativity?
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🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 128 minutes
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0:00:00 - Opening.
0:00:43 - Overtraining.
0:06:20 - Packing a lunch for work.
0:10:39 - Real estate investing.
0:20:41 - Do you ever watch mindless tv or Youtube during down time?
0:22:02 - Using mass punishment on the team.
0:22:52 - Discipline as a creative.
0:26:55 - Dealing with being "lonely at the top."
0:33:31 - The Office reboot. Starring Jocko.
0:36:51 - Seeing kids in bad situations: Effecting parenting.
0:38:13 - How to reduce your boss's anxiety.
0:39:01 - Best way to keep in shape traveling.
0:51:00 - Forgive? Or wait to settle the score?
0:55:11 -To Do List methods.
0:58:23 - Jiu Jitsu safety for a 55 year old female.
1:06:32 - Entering the military when over 30 years old.
1:12:45 - What to do when the boss doesn't make the connection between your work and the teams success?
1:14:08 - What to do for fun while not getting after it.
1:19:36 - Does discipline inhibit creativity?
1:24:47 - Moving on VS Fighting on.
1:32:04 - How to increase confidence.
1:35:28 - Support.
2:06:14 - Closing Gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jocco podcast number 128 with echo Charles and me jocco willink |
| 0:06.3 | Good evening echo good evening |
| 0:08.3 | It's been a little bit since we've done Q&A. So we're gonna roll into some Q&A and |
| 0:13.3 | Gonna try and answer |
| 0:15.8 | More questions than normal with some shorter answers got a lot of Twitter questions |
| 0:21.0 | Which necessitates shorter questions and thereby in some cases shorter answers? |
| 0:27.6 | I've got a I've got some more detailed answers or detailed questions stacked up for another Q&A |
| 0:33.6 | But for today we're just gonna try and get through some of these |
| 0:39.8 | No guarantee on that but what's rock and roll cool? |
| 0:44.1 | Jocco, do you believe in overtraining? |
| 0:46.5 | Do you believe in overtraining or is that an excuse people use? |
| 0:50.8 | You have the CT Fletcher's triathletes yourself. It's that you're who get after a daily |
| 0:55.5 | You also find other elite athletes who believe in rest days |
| 1:00.0 | Who are by no means slackers? |
| 1:02.0 | What's your take |
| 1:04.0 | You know what can you overtrain? Yes, you can yeah, you can definitely overtrain |
| 1:08.1 | I will say this most people don't overtrain |
| 1:12.2 | Because you got to work pretty hard to overtrain. Yeah, and if you overtrain you'll know it if you're paying attention to your performance |
| 1:18.0 | Because your performance will start to go down that that's what's happening |
| 1:20.5 | And I've said this before I've seen it with fighters that were preparing for a fight and they'd be overtraining and you'd watch their performance |
| 1:28.6 | Someone that's normally crushing let's say the fighter is normally crushing training partner a |
| 1:33.8 | And all of a sudden training a partner a starts getting the better of the fighter and you know you know |
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