This is Jocko podcast number 475 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

Everything is meaningless.

What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?

Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises and the sun sets and hurries back to where it rises.

The wind blows to the south and turns to the north, round and round it goes ever returning

on its course.

All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full.

To the place the streams come from, there they return again.

All things are wearisome, more than one can say.

The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear ear its fill of hearing what has been will be again and what has been done will be done again there is nothing new under the sun is there any thing of which one can say look this is something new something new. It was here already long ago.

It was here before our time.

No one remembers the former generations,

and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

What a heavy burdened God has laid on mankind.

I have seen all things that are done under the sun.

All of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, the more knowledge, the more knowledge the more grief and that right there is some

scripture from the book of ecclesiastes one of the wisdom books from the old

testament and it contains reflections and guidance on the meaning of life and of labor and the pursuit of happiness and it can be found of course in the Bible

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