How To Level Up Your Leadership with Chief of Navy Reserve - Vice Admiral John Mustin | Part 2
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to PART TWO of our conversation with Vice Admiral John Mustin. If you missed part one of the conversation, I strongly recommend you go back and check that one out first. It’s the episode immediately preceding this one in your feed.
Episode Description:
What is it like to lead 59,000 people? What if those people are spread out all over the world? What does readiness as a leader look like? Chief of Navy Reserve (CNR), Vice Admiral John Mustin, knows exactly what it’s like and he leads with a singular, laser-guided priority in mind: warfighting readiness.
When it comes to performing at the highest level, Vice Admiral Mustin is steadfast in his belief that individual performance is informed by both competence and character. We’ll find out how he helps instill these traits in his force and the challenges that come with it.
Vice Admiral Mustin has an extraordinary grasp on leadership philosophy, communicating effectively across large organizations, and using his civilian experiences to inform strategy within his military career – and he’s generous enough to share some of his insights with us around both organizational and personal high performance.
We covered so much ground in our conversation that we felt this episode was best shared in two parts. If you’d like access to the full conversation in one cohesive episode, you can view the episode in its entirety on YouTube right now.
No matter when or where you tune in, we hope you enjoy this gem of a conversation with Vice Admiral John Mustin.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm your host, Dr. Michael Jervé, by trade and training a high-performance psychologist. |
| 0:08.2 | And welcome to part two of our conversation with Vice Admiral John Muston. |
| 0:13.2 | If you missed part one of the conversation, I strongly recommend you go back and check |
| 0:16.6 | that one out. |
| 0:17.6 | First, it's the episode immediately preceding this one in your feed. |
| 0:21.7 | And with that, let's jump right back into part two of our conversation with Vice Admiral |
| 0:26.2 | John Muston, CNR Chief of Navy Reserve. |
| 0:29.9 | Music |
| 0:39.9 | Limitations. |
| 0:40.9 | So what are some of the limits or limitations that you see that people bump into? |
| 0:47.2 | And these are barriers, and I'm more interested in the internal barriers that people run up |
| 0:51.1 | against, that get in the way of them living their best life, you know, being able to |
| 0:59.0 | really fill in or pour in to the mission that they're working on. |
| 1:05.6 | So what are some of those limitations? |
| 1:07.8 | The older I've gotten the more I've seen, the importance for the balance between mental |
| 1:11.7 | physical and spiritual wellness, no question. |
| 1:14.6 | And what I used to be able to get away with as a younger man was to eat terribly, exercise |
| 1:20.4 | vigorously, and pull all nighters and, you know, celebrate with a cup of coffee in the |
| 1:26.5 | morning for breakfast, kind of thing. |
| 1:28.2 | And you know, my famous line was, I can sleep when I'm dead. |
| 1:31.2 | And what I'm finding now, though, is I am not as cognitively sound if I don't get the |
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