This is Jocco Podcast number 174 with Echo Charles and me Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

So

I was the

Commander of the training detachment

Which runs the tactical kind of advanced training for the West Coast seal teams and when I was in that position

One of the things that you have to do when you're in a leadership position is you have to give

evaluations for

Everyone that works for you

If to basically write down and evaluate how good they are and how well

They do their job. This is normal for everyone in the Navy and everyone in the military really and in the Navy

It's a 5.0 system that you're getting graded on so 5.0 is the best and

1.0 is the worst. I don't know if you can go lower than that you probably can but

They're and there are rules

About how many people you can put at the top you have to for it's called forced ranking if you've ever heard of that

forced ranking means you have to actually rank everyone so if you have 10 people working for you

You have to rank this is my number one guy this is my number two guy all the way down through number 10 and

So what you cannot do is you can't just say hey everyone's great everyone's a 5.0 that's that's

You're not allowed to do that

And believe it or not that's what people would do

Most people would just they have to evaluate someone guess what they say hey, you're great. You do everything great

and you wouldn't think

That the military right the military would have a hard time

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