Potent Breathwork Tactics From A Navy SEAL Commander, Staring Down Your Wolf, Operating Calmly Under Stress & More With Mark Divine.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to command a team of elite individuals?
It requires a commitment to seven key principles: Courage, Trust, Respect, Growth, Excellence, Resiliency, and Alignment. All of these are present in an elite team which commits to them deeply in order to forge the character worthy of uncommon success.
In his new book, Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams, Retired Navy SEAL Commander, entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author Mark Divine (founder of SEALFIT, NavySeal.com, and Unbeatable Mind) who first joined me on the episode "Secrets Of The Navy Seals: How To Train, Eat & Think Like The World’s Toughest Fighters") reveals what makes the culture of an elite team, and how to get your own team to commit to serve at an elite level. Using principles he learned on the battlefield, training SEALs, and in his own entrepreneurial and growth company ventures, Mark knows what it is to lead elite teams, and how easily the team can fail by breaching these commitments.
Mark believes that elite teams challenge themselves to step up everyday to do the uncommon. Developing the principles yourself and aligning your team around these commitments will allow you to thrive in VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) environments, no matter your background or leadership experience.
Drawing from his twenty years leading SEALs, and twenty five years of success and failure in entrepreneurship and ten years coaching corporate clients, Mark has a very unique perspective that will allow you to unlock the tremendous power of your team.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-What is a Kokoro event?...6:15
-The philosophy behind Kokoro events...19:50
-How box breathing is different from other forms of breath work...28:00
-Why zen and mindfulness is not more widely practiced in the extreme fitness community...46:30
-How social media has skewed the efficacy of the SEAL training programs and mentality...54:40
-Why slow is smooth, and smooth is fast...59:30
-Two phrases from Mark's book that stuck out to Ben...1:11:20
-Mark's fascination with wolves...1:17:20
-And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | When you really are clear about why you're on this planet and why you do things, then |
| 0:08.7 | you get much better with that decision making in particular the most important word. |
| 0:12.8 | And oh, no. |
| 0:13.9 | They just keep on greasing the groove of injury, fatigue, burnout, potential can only be found |
| 0:19.0 | on the inside, it can never be found exterior to the individual. |
| 0:21.8 | Well, I pull right, he pulls left, and he collides with me. |
| 0:24.7 | And my shoot literally disappears into a little bundle and I just start plumbing into the |
| 0:29.1 | ground. |
| 0:30.1 | And now it's like 900 feet, so I got nine seconds. |
| 0:33.1 | Hell, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
| 0:43.2 | My name is Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:52.4 | Well, well, well. |
| 0:53.7 | Today is a wonderful show because I got to reconnect with my good friend, Mark Devine, |
| 1:01.7 | former Navy SEAL commander. |
| 1:04.1 | And he is a new book, is really good. |
| 1:06.0 | You're in a dig two days show, I guarantee. |
| 1:09.8 | And considering that, I have spent plenty of time on the grinder floor at U.S. CrossFit |
| 1:16.7 | in Incinitas in a giant cold tub during the Kakoro SEAL Fit challenges that I have attended |
| 1:24.5 | at Mark's facility down there. |
| 1:26.6 | It is fitting enough that today's podcast is brought to you by the Keon Cold Thermo Challenge. |
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