#206: Extreme Ownership - Leadership Lessons from a Navy SEAL
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 3 June 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We live in a time of uncertainty and complexity. Things are always changing; whether it's business, politics, or life in general, you're having to constantly adapt and make decisions, even when you don't have all the information. This complexity is at its peak during combat, and us civilians are in for a treat today because my guest has gleaned lessons on dealing uncertain situations from his own time in the military.
Jocko Willink is a retired Navy SEAL officer who served and led in the Battle of Ramadi. During his time in Iraq, he developed and taught other men how to lead in times of extreme complexity, which led to his book, Extreme Ownership. Today on the show we talk about decision making, self-discipline, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We're at McCay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. |
| 0:18.1 | We live in a time of uncertainty, complexity. |
| 0:21.2 | Things are constantly changing, whether it's in business, politics, just life in general. |
| 0:25.6 | You're always having to constantly adapt. |
| 0:27.2 | You're having to make decisions when you don't have all the information. |
| 0:30.4 | But the place where this complexity uncertainties at its peak is during combat. |
| 0:34.1 | Things happen fast and you have to make decisions that are life or death when you don't |
| 0:37.8 | have all the information. |
| 0:38.8 | So how do you do that? |
| 0:39.8 | And there's possibly insights we can get from the men who make these sorts of decisions |
| 0:44.3 | and lead other individuals in these sorts of situations and how we can apply it to our |
| 0:47.7 | own lives. |
| 0:48.7 | And my guest today has done that. |
| 0:49.7 | His name is Jocco Wilnick. |
| 0:50.7 | He is a retired Navy SEAL officer, serving in a Ramadi. |
| 0:55.1 | During his time there, he developed a leadership training protocol or program to train other Navy |
| 0:59.6 | SEAL officers and he taught men how to lead others during times of intense complexity on |
| 1:06.1 | uncertain team. |
| 1:07.1 | And he's written a book on how we can apply those principles from the battlefield to our |
| 1:11.7 | daily lives in business or just in our personal lives. |
| 1:15.0 | So today on the show, Jocco and I discuss some of the principles. |
| 1:18.4 | One of them is extreme ownership. |
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