Jocko Underground: Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
Jocko Podcast
Jocko DEFCOR Network
4.8 • 31.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys.
When your boss's tactics are wrong way to to it, and you can prove it.
Wife want me to take ownership of things that are her responsibility.
Should you wash your belt. BJJ.
Understanding loyalty.
Co-workers not taking too much advantage of small work injuries.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Jocco Underground Podcast Number 121 sitting here with Echo Charles. |
| 0:04.7 | Have you ever heard this expression before? |
| 0:06.7 | Not my circus, not my monkeys. |
| 0:09.9 | Oh, okay. I actually hadn't heard it before either until very recently. |
| 0:15.0 | It's apparently a Polish proverbs because I looked it up and in a way |
| 0:20.0 | what this means is the opposite of extreme ownership |
| 0:25.0 | because where you use the expression is like, |
| 0:27.0 | hey, there's some wild stuff going on over there. |
| 0:30.0 | Not my circus, not my monkeys. |
| 0:32.0 | Like that's where, so if you and I are working together and you're to charge of one department, |
| 0:37.0 | I'm in charge of one department, I'm in charge of the other department, your department has some issues, and I'm like, |
| 0:40.0 | hey, not my circus, not my monkeys. |
| 0:42.0 | That's, to extreme ownership. |
| 0:46.0 | Extreme ownership is like, hey, Echo, it seems like you got some issues going on with your |
| 0:49.5 | apartment, can I give you some help, can I offer you some people can we is anything I could do to |
| 0:53.8 | support you that's what we do so normally I would say this this this |
| 1:00.2 | proverb is not my gig but I was talking to a friend the other day and his world |
| 1:09.9 | not in the best situation right |
| 1:13.1 | uh... some things going on in his world |
| 1:15.1 | been through some a lot of stuff in his lifetime |
| 1:17.5 | going through some issues having some problems you know with money and |
| 1:21.0 | friendships and relationships and and really with basic day-to-day life, right? |
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