This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 116 sitting with echo Charles and I'm going to discuss with you

Impulsive behavior

Because think about what impulsive behavior does to people. I was thinking about, you know, we're in the middle of deaf reset right now, and I was thinking about how often we make mistakes because we do something that's impulsive.

It can create some real problems from people.

Impulsive behavior, so I went to WebMD.

Got some WebMD.com.

Some of the things that impulsivity can cause is things like aggressive behavior, restlessness, interrupting others, being easily distracted, breaking the law,

destroying things, a hard time saving money, inappropriate remarks, angry outbursts, and lack of forethought.

So these are the kind of things.

By the way, it didn't mention a donut,

which I think is real high on the impulsive. Also what about reaching for your phone?

Oh yeah because you want to check the gram right that's an impulsive behavior right?

Am I right? You are right.

Now look, there's there's actual psychological conditions

that can cause these things like bipolar disorder ADHD. So there's there's a certain level of

impulsive behavior where it like wrecks someone's life and I get that but I kind of want to talk about just more of the things that we're

thinking of that you and I are thinking of hey ate a donut should they pulled

through the drive-thru You know what I mean?

Yes sir. Spent bought that thing that I didn't need kind of more normal

impulsive things. Maybe they don't wreck our lives but they definitely pull us off the

path and look here's the thing if you have some of those more

strong impulsive behaviors that are causing major issues in your life.

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