539: Elevate From The Gray Slop In Your Head.
Jocko Podcast
Jocko DEFCOR Network
4.9 • 31.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Breaking down the battle between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex — emotion versus reason. Why people panic, escalate conflict, make terrible decisions, and how to detach from the “gray slop” in your head.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jocko podcast number 539 with Echo Charles and me Jocco Willink. |
| 0:04.4 | Good evening, Echo. |
| 0:05.2 | Good evening. |
| 0:05.8 | So Leonardo da Vinci. |
| 0:07.6 | He said there are three classes of people. |
| 0:10.8 | Those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. |
| 0:17.1 | I want to talk to you about something that we brought up on the underground podcast. |
| 0:20.9 | I coined, I called it on the, on the podcast, gray slop, gray matter. |
| 0:29.9 | Like, you know, your brain is gray. |
| 0:32.1 | Gray slop. |
| 0:34.1 | This has to do with detachment, which is another thing, You know, I've been talking about detachment for years. |
| 0:39.3 | Detach from the chaos, detach from the mayhem, detach from your ego, detach from your emotions. |
| 0:44.3 | That's going to make your life so much better if you can do that. |
| 0:49.3 | But lately I've been looking around and I'm realizing how truly difficult that can be for people and at the same time |
| 0:57.5 | Seeing how important it is and how much it really fowls and jams people up |
| 1:06.2 | And when you look at someone, you know, you like you and I've talked about you you see someone that's |
| 1:12.5 | drinking too much and it's kind of bringing down their life and you can see it so clear but they |
| 1:17.6 | don't they don't get it or they're involved in a relationship that's a disaster and you explain to them |
| 1:23.5 | but they're like no no no no like this time or I can savor or whatever the thing is right |
| 1:28.4 | those are all emotional decisions those are just being all you're all in your own gray |
| 1:35.5 | slop your gray matter your your your core so what is that you know this gray matter actually |
| 1:41.9 | has the gray matter that I'm talking about is called the |
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