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246: The Only Real Failure is Giving Up. With JP Dinnell

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 249 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:12:06 - Failure and Success. Keep Striving. W JP Dinnell.

3:32:51 - How to stay on THE PATH.

4:07:04 - Closing Gratitude.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Jocco podcast number 246 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, I go good evening. I was

0:11.1

doing what I was doing. I was

0:15.0

getting after it, working. It had been

0:19.5

five years since I had retired from the Navy.

0:23.0

And in that five years I had been working hard. And listen, I'm not the guy

0:36.9

that sends happy birthday texts or meet you for dinner on a Tuesday night.

0:46.3

That's not that. That's just not, I don't know. This is not really my personality.

0:50.4

I look, if you want dinner and you come to my house at any time, the grill is on, we'll cook

0:56.0

steaks, obviously. No factor. But when I'm in the zone, I start doing my mission. I get focused

1:05.2

on that. That's what I do. And I'm not saying that this is a good way to be. I actually don't

1:11.9

think it's a good way to be. I think I get a little target fixation in life. And I'm not really

1:17.5

great at maintaining contact with people. And the fact that I was in the teams my whole life

1:29.2

didn't really help because all my friends were team guys. And so they didn't need any kind of

1:34.9

consistent communication either. One guy that I went through buds with, went through basic

1:42.1

seal training with in my class, then I went to team one with them. And then we did three deployments

1:47.5

together, three platoon, workups, three deployments together. Then we went in a training cell together.

1:52.2

And this whole time we were roommates the entire time. And then I left for the East Coast.

1:59.3

And I didn't say one word to him for two years. Zero. And then I got back and we both ended up

2:06.5

a team seven and like nothing happened. Like high five and all good and we just picked up

2:10.1

a no factor. And that's just like I said, I know it's not great, but that's just the way my

2:18.8

personality is. And that being said, my friends also know that if they call me,

2:27.1

I'll answer the phone. And if they need something, I will make it happen. And I don't care if I

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