This is Jocco Underground Podcast, number 99, sitting here with EC, Echo Trolls.

Yeah, we kind of touched on this little last podcast, at least I mentioned this idea, but the idea, and this is, it lined up with one of the recommendations, questions, suggestions of topics that you wanted to talk about.

What's with the idea that everyone around you has something to teach?

It's kind of close to, or in the same realm as, you're the product of the five people that you hang around, that type of thing.

They brushed up against each other a little bit, but this idea that everyone around you has something to teach, is that even true?

For me, this is pretty straightforward. For me, this is a yes.

I think that you can learn from just about every person that you meet.

I know that I personally learned a lot not only from good leaders that I worked for, and good operators that I worked with, but also I learned a lot from bad leaders that I worked with, and bad operators that I worked with.

So, you know, I had a platoon commander that was bad, egotistical, ended up getting fired. I learned a lot from him.

I learned a ton from him about what not to do, how not to act, learned about humility from him, because he was not humble, and I saw him what that felt like.

I felt what that felt like. I saw how it impacted everybody, so I learned a lot from it.

I think it's a little bit of a stretch sometimes. You can learn a lot from white belt. Have you ever heard somebody say that?

I think that it's actually a little bit of a stretch. I might be wrong. Have you ever truly learned something from a white belt?

It actually used explaining that whole thing kind of opened my brain thinking to maybe another level of what you might mean by learn.

Not like if a higher belt, when you're a white belt, when you're a lower belt, and they teach you something, they're teaching you something directly in line with what you're trying to learn consciously.

And then you're talking about learning how not to do something. It's kind of like an incidental learning.

Which is a massive part of learning. In fact, most of the time, the majority of learning what not to do.

The thing is, the majority of you learn from a white belt, you already kind of knew because you were a white belt too.

You don't watch a white belt and go, whoa, he spazed out. I shouldn't, but you already knew it.

You don't look at a white belt and think, oh, he lifted up both of his hips and got the other person got both their feet trapped underneath it.

You already knew that. There's very little. So even when I've even said it, like, oh, I learned from white belts. It's actually, you know what you might learn from a white belt?

When they ask you a question, and they say, hold on a second. How do you get to, how do you keep their arm over there?

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