This is Jockel Podcast number 407 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink, good evening,

Echo. We all face challenges. We all have setbacks. We all suffer. When these difficulties hit,

some people break. They surrender. They let circumstances, fate, and events that unfold, control

their attitude, dictate their emotional state, and determine their destiny. They adopt a

defeatist attitude of negativity. They accept failure. They curl up in a ball and wait for

the clock to run out. They quit. But there are other people who are diametrically opposed to

that attitude. People who, in spite of incredible challenges, adapt and overcome.

Of every person I have ever met in my life, Travis Mills has faced the most traumatic

intense and brutal challenges a human being could face. And he faces these severe challenges

continuously every day over and over again. And yet he has the best attitude of anyone I know

or have ever known. His emotional state is always positive. His humor is always on point.

His mentality, his pure strength of will. Despite suffering the most horrific wounds imaginable,

he chooses his own destiny and is unstoppable in his drive and commitment to live life.

Travis Mills is one of my friends, one of my heroes, and the most inspiring human being I have ever met.

Travis received injuries beyond all comprehension, while serving in the US Army in Afghanistan

and improvised explosive device, big enough to destroy a vehicle ripped off his arms and legs,

leaving him a quadruple amputee. In that moment of shock and despair,

when most people would be focused on themselves, Travis's first response was directing the

medics tending to him to care for his fellow soldiers instead. He thought he was going to die

against the odds. And thanks to the skill and determination of those medics, he lived.

But his battle was far from over. In fact, it was just beginning. Upon returning to America,

he started an almost unbearable journey of recovery and recalibration. Countless surgeries,

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