6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual

The Portal

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Jocko Willink is a man who radiates decency. He is also part of a community of warriors drawn to test themselves in the crucible of deadly combat against an evil and implacable foe. Eric sits down with Jocko Willink to learn how this cerebral Navy SEAL and hero of the battle of Ramadi against ISIS managed to bring military discipline home to the fight for personal freedom in peacetime writing kids books that teach ‘extreme ownership’ and radical accountability to children.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of The Portal with Eric Weinstein, and I am pleased
0:13.6	to be joined in studio with none other than Jaco Willink, Jaco, sir, and I just did
0:20.0	that Jaco didn't call for an immediate response and so none was given.
0:25.4	Jaco, it's great to be here with you.
0:28.4	Thanks for having me on.
0:29.4	Thanks for coming.
0:31.0	One of the things I'm really excited to talk to you about is just how our military interacts
0:39.4	with our civilian society, but before we get there, what I'd love to do is to just have
0:45.5	you talk a little bit about your trajectory through special forces in the SEAL program
0:54.4	into this situation where you're now, a podcaster, I guess, you were brought to the world
1:00.3	of podcasting by our mutual friend Tim Ferris and what are the highlights of that trajectory
1:09.4	so that we have some place to begin.
1:11.8	I was born and raised in a small New England town on a dirt road out in the middle of
1:16.6	nowhere.
1:17.6	I joined the military when I got done with high school.
1:21.2	I went through SEAL training.
1:24.0	I went in the SEAL teams.
1:25.1	It was now 1991 when I showed up at a SEAL team, SEAL team won.
1:29.9	I was an enlisted guy so then I spent several years there and then I got picked up for
1:35.7	a commissioning program which meant I was going to become an officer moving to a leadership
1:39.7	position and I did that and then I went to the East Coast, went to SEAL team two.
1:48.0	From there I had to go to college.
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