Make Your Bed Part Two

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

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🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 11 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. Bill was the man who identified the body when it was flown back to Afghanistan and told President Obama that the U.S. finally had their guy. 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 (Hook ‘em Horns!). 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 10 million views online. In January, 2015 Bill became the Chancellor of the entire University of Texas system and was encouraged to expand his commencement speech into a book, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World. We hope you enjoy this brief diversion from the money talk. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronovirus Market Update. It is Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.
0:10.3	And if you listen to us yesterday, you know this already, but let me do it again.
0:15.0	For yesterday, today, and tomorrow, Mark and I decided we wanted to play for you a great interview we conducted with Admiral William McCraven.
0:26.1	This is the guy who is the mastermind of the bin Laden raid, but he's so much more than that,
0:30.8	a career service officer. He also is able to just communicate and
0:37.8	inspire so seamlessly. To start today's show, we're going to begin with the commencement speech that McCraven delivered at the University of Texas
0:48.9	And then we're going to get into teamwork and the fact as we all know that life is not fair. So here
0:56.0	is part two of our interview with Bill McCraven.
0:59.5	Finally a seal training there's a bell, a brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound
1:05.8	for all the students to see.
1:08.2	All you have to do to quit, is ring the bell. Ring the bell, and you no longer want to do to quit is ring the bell. Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at
1:15.8	five o'clock. Ring the bell and you no longer have to be in the freezing cold
1:19.9	swims. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT, and
1:26.1	you no longer have to endure the hardships of training.
1:31.2	All you have to do is ring the bell to get out. If you want to change the world, don't ever, ever ring the bell.
1:40.0	Is there something about seal training that is different than any other part of the military?
1:46.1	What's that, what, what it differentiates the seal from, you know, the guy who's in the army?
1:51.5	Like, tell me a little about that.
1:53.0	Well, I will tell you, I think a lot of,
1:55.0	almost all the special forces training are similar.
1:59.1	In terms of, you know, there's a selection process
2:01.9	where you're looking for in my case they were all
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