BITESIZE #69 | Lord Richard Dannatt: Reconciling your career and personal ambitions
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
On the weekend of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, today’s bitesize features General the Lord Richard Dannatt, who concluded his forty year military career as the head of the British Army. His leadership and decision making affected hundreds of thousands.
This clip features Lord Dannatt talking about how his faith was challenged as a soldier, and how ambition in the job can unsettle the work-life balance if unchecked.
This episode had an incredible reaction and it’s easy to know why. The challenges, successes and failures that Lord Dannatt navigated during this career inspired so many. Please check it out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome along to this bite-size episode of the High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | The podcast that turns the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers |
| 0:07.9 | into your life lessons. And we're just going to share with you now a clip from one of the amazing |
| 0:12.0 | guests who's joined us over the years on high performance. Just to give you that little bit of |
| 0:16.4 | inspiration, maybe you're just searching for something, maybe you're struggling, maybe you feel great. |
| 0:21.3 | Either way, this is it for you. It's absolutely free. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:25.6 | It's today's bite-size episode of High Performance. |
| 0:30.7 | My faith was challenged as a young man. I mean, I've told you about the moment when the |
| 0:36.7 | soldiers either side of me was shot. That evening, back in barracks, I thought to myself, |
| 0:42.0 | gosh, well, I just like you all was someone trying to say something to me. It's often said that |
| 0:46.4 | there are no atheists in a foxhole. Now, in the issues of life and death confront, you then think |
| 0:50.8 | quite deep things. Well, as a young man, I shrugged it off. A couple of years later, operating in |
| 0:57.4 | the border area near crossman Glen, we were conducting an operation to diffuse an improvised explosive |
| 1:05.1 | device. And I was with my company commander and a four-man team to deal with a large milk |
| 1:13.2 | term, which we thought was an explosive device. We moved forward, Peter Willis, myself, and the team |
| 1:19.2 | of four, to show them where we thought was a safe vantage point for them to start their clearance |
| 1:26.4 | work. As we started to go forward, Peter Willis stopped me and gave me an air photograph and said, |
| 1:32.4 | didn't double the county further forward, I want you to lead another operation here this weekend, |
| 1:36.3 | just familiarize yourself with a ground from this photograph. Well, he and the others went forward, |
| 1:41.6 | about 30 yards forward, 30 seconds later, there's a tremendous explosion, and all four of them |
| 1:47.7 | were killed. Now, I realized if he hadn't stopped me, it would have been five killed because |
| 1:52.8 | I'd have been three places behind him. Again, that evening, back in crossman Glen Police Station, |
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