498: Regardless of the Distractions, You Know What To Do. Do It.

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Exploring deeper themes from the Marine Corps Institute’s Leadership Credo. Leadership isn’t about rank—it’s about earning trust through action. True leadership requires understanding human will, stress, fear, and mission focus. The will to fight is central in combat—and in life. Emotional control, both personally and within teams, determines success or failure. Jiu-jitsu parallels are drawn to show how will, not just skill, defines performance. Leaders must inspire through hardship, guiding others even amid chaos, loss, and uncertainty. Leadership is the art of influencing people to push beyond their limits toward shared goals.

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0:00.0	This is Jocko Podcast number 498 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.
0:05.4	Good evening, Echo.
0:06.3	Good evening.
0:07.1	So last podcast, number 497, we covered an article by retired United States Marine Corps
0:16.0	Colonel Joseph H. Alexander.
0:19.0	And it was about combat leadership at Iwo Jima.
0:22.1	But the place I got that document from was from a Marine Corps Institute document,
0:29.5	which is called Leadership Credo.
0:34.1	And just in going through that document, look look there's some pertinent information related
0:42.4	the related to the article that we read about stress and friction and human will and of course
0:50.2	about leadership and the lessons that it teaches I was thinking you know we can use
0:57.2	these lessons of course so let's get into this document right here marine court institute
1:03.5	staff non-commissioned officers career distance education program leadership credo um leadership credo a credo do you know the definition of credo
1:15.6	i know what creed is but yeah it's a very similar thing credo is a statement or beliefs
1:22.2	or aims which guides someone's actions. So you're right,
1:27.9	Creed.
1:28.3	Have you noticed there's been a little bit of news going around?
1:31.1	Well, people will ask a kind of a got you question.
1:34.9	And then a person doesn't know it and they just look bad.
1:38.3	Yeah.
1:38.9	I'm familiar with this trend for sure.
1:41.0	So I feel like I just did that to you a little bit.
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