73: Confronting Abuse of Authority, Overcome Over-reacting, Tips for a New Leader, Alternatives to Firing Someone.

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🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:00:44 - How to never over react to situations.

0:08:41 - How to handle being a NEW leader standing in front of your NEW team.

0:13:57 - How long to get the (BJJ) Blue Belt?

0:28:56 - Managing people who out-perform you--Best Approach.

0:34:32 - Effectively lead a team who's members' goal is only to be "THE BOSS."

0:45:59 - Lessons learned from 70+ episodes of JOCKO PODCAST.

1:07:11 - How can Jiu Jitsu reduce fear in life?

1:19:26 - Navigating Jiu Jitsu with nagging injuries or being injury prone.

1:29:10 - Capitalizing on a team member NOT being a team player.

1:35:37 - Confronting abuse of authority.

1:48:10 - Dealing with situations where you can't fire someone due to unions.

1:51:52 - Taking "Ego is the enemy" too far?

2:00:48 - What to do when you're over worked and coming up short.\

2:04:10 - Support, Cool Onnit, Amazon, JockoStore stuff, with Jocko White Tea and Psychological Warfare (on iTunes). Extreme Ownership (book), (Jocko's Kids' Book) Way of the Warrior Kid, and The Muster002.

2:30:30 - Final Gratitude

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0:00.0	This is Jocco Podcast number 73 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening,
0:09.4	Echo. Good evening. It has been quite a few episodes since we did some Q&A. You
0:19.4	answered some questions from the interwebs. We had a series of guests,
0:25.5	hated a couple books and just kind of slid a little bit on Q&A. So Q&A. Yeah. Let's rock.
0:40.8	Let's question number one. Christian number one. Yeah. Well Christian number one, Jocco,
0:49.1	do you have to make a conscious effort not to overreact the situations or is it natural
0:54.0	slash ingrained now? I would say at this point it's fairly ingrained and I don't overreact
1:01.9	to a lot of stuff anymore. In fact sometimes I just don't react to stuff. You know what I was
1:05.9	really thinking? Things are going on. I'll just be sort of okay. Yep. Not the head. You know,
1:11.9	listen to what's happening. Listen to the people freaking out and I don't yeah, I don't overreact
1:17.8	to a lot of stuff. That's I think it's pretty ingrained right now. And I would say that in order
1:25.1	to get there, you know, in order to try and move in that direction because that is the best way to
1:30.3	be. Again, I'm not saying to be a robot. I'm not saying you should have no emotions and you should
1:34.2	never show any. I'm not saying that. But you shouldn't you should have some control over those
1:39.9	motions. Especially from a leadership perspective, right? That's what I'm talking about.
1:43.1	From a leadership perspective. So one of the things that you can do is when you when you when
1:48.7	chaos starts to hit, you know, picture that what does this look like from the outside? What do I
1:55.6	look like from the outside? When somebody says something to you that's traumatic or is going to
2:01.9	cause a disturbance or it's going to cause problems, immediately think yourself, okay, what am I
2:05.8	going to look like from the outside right now? What am I going to look like to them if they're
2:09.3	recording this in your head like they're recording this and we're going to go sit down and watch
2:13.6	it later when they first came out with in the seal teams, we started started recording people as
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