Most Replayed Moment: Your Excuses Will Destroy You, To Be Disciplined Is To Be Free!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And at 19 years old, you applied to be a Navy SEAL. |
| 0:09.2 | Okay, so I have to ask a very dumb question here, which is what is a Navy SEAL? |
| 0:14.3 | So there's special operations, which I guess, you know, from England, this is the SAS and the SBS. |
| 0:24.3 | So those are the two sort of units that we get compared to the most. |
| 0:29.8 | And so a Navy SEAL is a part of the Navy, but you're the special operations component |
| 0:35.6 | of the Navy. |
| 0:36.8 | And the term SEAL is actually an acronym, |
| 0:40.2 | which stands for sea, air, and land. |
| 0:42.9 | Because even though we're in the Navy, |
| 0:45.2 | we are trained to operate in the sea, in the air. |
| 0:49.4 | So in the sea, meaning we dive, |
| 0:51.2 | in the air, meaning we parachute and repel, |
| 0:53.2 | and then on the land, meaning we conduct land warfare operations. And you take all those things, combine them together, |
| 0:58.8 | and that's what our job consists of. I was under the assumption that to become a Navy SEAL |
| 1:03.5 | or to be in the SAS, you had to have 10, 20 years of military service. You had to have like an |
| 1:08.7 | established military service, and then you get some like pop up on your computer and it says like come to this building over here. And so to hear that you applied at 19 years old, I was like, oh, I don't know teenagers could apply. Yeah, no, I was 18 years old when I joined the Navy and I joined on a contract that got me sent to seal training and it took a year to get through so i was 19 when i finished |
| 1:28.6 | that up but there is there's always debates about well don't you want someone that's more experienced |
| 1:34.9 | and i actually loved the fact that i was basically raised in the seal teams it was just awesome it was an |
| 1:42.6 | awesome way to grow up it was an awesome way to grow up. It was an awesome way to |
| 1:44.5 | spend those years of your life learning the trade that you wanted to learn. And so I thought it |
| 1:50.7 | was awesome and I think it worked out pretty well. There is a usually the percentage of people |
| 1:58.6 | that make it through SEAL training is about 20%. People that are under the age of 20, it goes down to about 5%. |
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