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Jocko Podcast

335: You Got One Shot at This Gig, So Go Out and Live. W/ Lance Mann.

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

:005:51 - Lance Mann.

How to stay on THE PATH.

Closing Gratitude.



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0:00.0

This is Jockel Podcast number 335 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

0:05.1

Good evening, echo.

0:06.1

Good evening.

0:08.9

When the Navy's academics had arrived in 1955 to observe UDT training,

0:15.8

their purpose had been to validate the course's individual selection tests.

0:21.6

The soft sand runs, the ocean swims, the harassment of hell week,

0:26.4

and short of invalidating any of those to develop what they called realistic selection standards

0:33.5

that would reduce the Navy, what the Navy admitted was the course's excessive attrition.

0:40.7

Subjecting students to a battery of personality tests and classifying their individual traits,

0:46.3

age, education, intelligence, and so on,

0:48.6

the academics hoped not only to predict a candidate's likelihood of success in training,

0:53.3

but also his success in an actual underwater demolition team.

0:58.4

In the course of these assessments, they learned that students below the age of 21 were 8% more likely to fail.

1:06.0

Roughly the same rate as high school dropouts,

1:08.5

while students from broken homes were just as likely to graduate as anyone else.

1:13.9

Based on the number of times a student had voluntarily visited the dispensary,

1:19.1

assessors determined that a candidate in moderate health who, quote,

1:23.3

minimize the psychological importance of pain, fatigue, and intense discomfort,

1:28.0

stood a much higher chance of success than, quote, the most physically fit

1:33.2

who were overly concerned about their injuries.

1:38.4

The least common traits among successful frogmen seem to be

1:43.3

restraint, thoughtfulness, sociability, and cautiousness.

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