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Jocko Underground: People Are Like Terrain to be Used For Advantage | Getting Back on The Horse

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Jocko DEFCOR Network

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4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

People can be like terrain.

My team hates criticism.

Learning Guitar.

Alcoholism as a result of tragedy.

I need you to yell at me for motivation.

Getting back on the horse.



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0:00.0

This is the Jaco Underground podcast. It's number 52

0:05.2

Sitting here with Echo Charles EC in the house

0:09.8

I was out at Gettysburg we're doing the the echelon front battlefield doing the battlefield walk and I went on this

0:18.9

Little kind of like tangent

0:23.0

Not really a tangent a ref maybe you know, what do you when you see me do this kind of thing like going off about something?

0:29.3

You digress a little bit. No, it's not a digression. It's not a digression

0:32.6

Wait, like what is it? Well, what is it? Well, what is it?

0:33.3

Regressions bad right digression leads us nowhere. It's as positive well not necessarily

0:38.0

I think technically digression just means like you're going in one direction with the whatever and then you will

0:43.5

Degression different the kids we're not moving in a good direction though like oh, but I digress then I have to get back to

0:49.4

Subjects let's leave the initial direction, but sure so I

0:52.6

I

0:56.6

Diverted my comments and anyways, we were talking about terrain

1:00.0

You know you're out on the battlefield you can see like high ground and low ground and how important it is and impactful is and then I kind of went on this

1:06.2

Explaining that people are terrain

1:09.5

Because there's some real similarities between people and terrain because you if you if you're a good battlefield leader

1:15.8

You can look at the terrain and you can figure out how best to use it

1:19.3

And how it's use it to your advantage and how it's going to help you win the battle

1:24.2

There we also you can't look at a hill on on the map or on the ground and be like hey

1:29.7

I don't really like the way this hill is I'm gonna move the hill you can't do that

1:34.9

You have to utilize the terrain

1:36.9

So people are like terrain in that they got some advantages to them, you know this guy's really

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