Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the Memorial Day holiday, we're giving you a break from the money talk, and instead re-airing an interview we did back in 2017 with retired Admiral William “Bill” McRaven. If Bill’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he presided over the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

A few years later in 2014, the four-star admiral and 37-year Navy SEAL veteran delivered the commencement speech at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin. Little did McRaven know that his address, which spoke to how students could overcome challenges and change themselves, would become a viral hit with more than 16 million views online.

McRaven was eventually encouraged to expand his commencement speech into a book, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World.

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0:52.5	It is Memorial Day. And this is a special day in the hearts and souls of everybody who is in
1:00.1	American because we are honoring the people who have given their lives for us today. And as a result,
1:06.4	we thought we would air or re-air an interview that we conducted some time ago with Admiral William
1:12.8	McCraven, who wrote a book called Make Your Bed, Little Things That Can Change Your Life,
1:17.4	and Maybe The World. Maybe some of you have forgotten, but Admiral McCraven was behind
1:22.3	the team of masterminds that located Osama Bin Laden and finally did kill him. So we start the
1:29.2	interview off talking a little bit about that. Admiral McCraven, who was retired from the US Navy.
1:34.5	He was also the chancellor of the University of Texas College and University System. He's a
1:40.2	wonderful man. I thought it's just a really good data to kind of give you someone from the military.
1:46.4	You know, we lost someone in our family in Iraq, so I don't like airing anything that's not
1:51.8	particularly sensitive to that part of the national history on a day like today. So here is
2:00.4	our interview with William McCraven. Describe just a little bit about having to
2:07.0	present the president with options. Will he then say Bill, what do you think? Or do you immediately
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