This is Jocko podcast number 543 with Echo Charles and me.

Jocco Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

The U.S. Army's competitive advantage directly relates to its capacity to learn

faster and adapt more quickly than its adversaries.

The current pace of technological change increases the Army's challenge to maintain the edge

over potential adversaries in the highly competitive global learning

environment where technology provides all players nearly ubiquitous access to information

the army cannot risk failure through complacency lack of imagination or resistance to change

outpacing adversaries is essential to maintain the Army's global status and to fulfill

its responsibilities to the nation.

And that right there is a little quote from U.S. Army Trade Doc 525-TAC-8, TAC2, U.S. Army Learning

Concept, 2015.

And it's an interesting thing to think about

because we all need to be learning all the time.

And if you don't keep that front of mind,

it's really easy to not learn anything and not progress.

Whether it's leadership, whether it's your

professional career, whatever your professional career is, whether it's working with a new

piece of gear, whether it's jiu-jitsu, whether it's fighting, whether it's tactics, whether

it's music or art or software.

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