Jocko Willink ON: Leading Like a Navy Seal & Taking Extreme Ownership of Every Problem in Your Life

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business

4.7 • 30.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) joins Jay Shetty to talk about extreme ownership and discipline, switching from a competition-based to a collaborative culture, building trust even in stressful situations, and mastering your self-discipline. He is a retired naval officer who served in the Navy SEALs and an author of several books including Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win. He also co-hosts Jocko Podcast that discusses discipline and leadership in business, war, relationships, and everyday life. What We Discuss with Jocko: 00:00 Intro 02:08 The most difficult thing to go through 02:57 How do you process a difficult situation and be ready to go through the experience 06:07 What you go through is your present, nothing else will matter 08:18 Are you born a leader or did experience make you one? 13:44 Working through procrastination and overthinking 18:01 Lessons learned from joining the Navy Seals 20:14 Turning a competitive and comparison based culture to a collaborative culture 26:37 Principles and methods to build trust in high stress situations 29:53 The biggest leadership mistakes and the key takeaways 33:20 Rather than beating yourself up, practice extreme ownership 36:34 Taking criticisms from someone you don’t respect 38:54 Your ego against the decentralized command strategy 43:07 When people are struggling with self discipline, where do you start? 47:06 Start self discipline by waking up earlier in the morning 49:24 Life lessons learned after leaving the military 53:20 Jocko on Final Five Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Episode Resources: Jocko Willink | Twitter Jocko Willink | Instagram Jocko Willink | Podcast Jocko Willink | Books Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius

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0:00.0	If you're saying, okay, when my alarm clock goes off in the morning,
0:03.3	I hit the snooze button three or four times. I don't want to start my day. I don't want to go face
0:07.5	that hard workout. And that kind of procrastination, that kind of overthinking and having a debate in
0:12.5	your own head. In those situations, I just turn my brain off and I do what I'm supposed to do.
0:17.2	I rely on discipline. I'm going to make things happen immediately. I know that hesitation is
0:21.3	going to bring me regret in two or three hours when I realize I wasted my morning doing something
0:26.7	that I shouldn't have been doing. Hey everyone, welcome back to on purpose, the number one health
0:37.2	podcast in the world. Thanks to each and every single one of you who come back every week to listen,
0:42.6	learn and grow. Now, you know that I'm always on the lookout to find guests that I can have really
0:48.4	interesting conversations with and people have had quite extreme and different experiences. I really
0:55.6	love finding people who've had stories and journeys that are very different from my own so that I
1:00.4	can learn from them so that I can be inspired in different ways and maybe even affirm some of my
1:05.7	beliefs. And today's guest is Jocco Willink. Now, he's a retired decorated Navy SEAL Officer and
1:12.8	author and a podcaster. He served as a Navy SEAL Officer for 20 years before retiring. Since his
1:19.7	retirement, he co-wrote the book, Extreme Ownership, How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win and co-founded Eshelon
1:27.6	Front where he teaches his clients how to be leaders in their respective fields. Jocco also has his
1:33.4	own podcast called Leadership and Discipline where he talks about his approach to business,
1:38.5	relationships and life. Jocco, welcome to the podcast and thanks so much for your time.
1:43.6	Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. I've been looking forward to this
1:47.4	conversation. I've watched a lot of your interviews with some of my friends, seen a lot on YouTube and
1:53.3	I'm fascinated because I love how you're bringing really deep truths and difficult breakthroughs
2:03.6	into the world of work, into the world of the mainstream life that we live today. And my first
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