Quick Cut: S2E205 Discipline Equals Freedom with Jocko Willink

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Jocko Willink is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, author and cofounder of Echelon Front. In this episode, Brian interviews Jocko about the leadership principles he learned on the most dangerous battlefields in the world. Jocko outlines how effective leadership is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. If you want to lead - and win - then this podcast is a must!

Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:

“The good performers are the highly disciplined individuals.” – Jocko Willink

“Nothing happens without discipline. Nothing happens without fundamentals. No excellence happens in any capacity.” – Brian Buffini

“I look at discipline as a non-negotiable fact that I will carry out.” – Jocko Willink

“All your excuses are lies that you tell yourself. Don’t negotiate with weakness; just destroy it.” – Jocko Willink

“As a human being, you can rationalize any behavior. Don’t do it.” – Jocko Willink

“If you’re undisciplined, you can’t expect to have any high standards for anyone else.” – Jocko Willink

“Discipline inside your organization will actually give you freedom.” – Jocko Willink

“As a leader, you’ve got to be able to communicate well with your team.” – Jocko Willink

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.0	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:15.0	There's a fellow I started listening to by the name of Jocko Willink and he's a former Navy SEAL.
0:21.0	And sure enough, relationships are everything everything we have a good friend of ours name Andrew Paul
0:26.7	who has a great relationship with jocco so jocco we're very thrilled to have you on the show today
0:31.2	Thanks for popping by thanks Thanks for having me on.
0:33.2	Give us a little background. Where it all started for you, where you grew up, what
0:36.8	childhood was like for Jocko Willing. Grew up in a small New England town on a dirt road. My parents were school teachers. I was a
0:45.9	pretty rebellious kid to put it lightly. As soon as I had the opportunity I
0:51.0	wanted to get away from my hometown and the quickest way for me to do that was to join the military.
0:56.2	So I joined the Navy when I was 18 years old.
0:59.4	Wow. And enlisted I knew I wanted to be a seal. I got a contract that got me a shot at going to the basic seal training and that's what I did.
1:10.0	What was it about the seals that just at 18 years, you know, that's what I want to do?
1:14.4	You know, I spent a lot of time in Maine as a kid. I had a lifeguard that taught me how to surf up in Maine.
1:21.6	So I was comfortable in the water and I liked the water and I wanted to be stationed somewhere where they were surfing because they're surfing in Maine. It's not bad, but it's not great. And when I was a kid I would see pictures and server magazine of California and really
1:34.8	wanted to go there of course when you're a kid when you're growing up and your
1:39.4	parents are school teachers I mean we didn't go anywhere for vacation like that
1:42.0	happen so I think that you could actually go and teachers and we didn't go anywhere for vacation. It didn't happen.
1:43.0	So I think that you could actually go and go to California
1:46.0	and actually somehow live there, it seemed like a great choice.
1:50.0	So I knew that the SEAL teams were stationed either in San Diego, California or Virginia Beach, Virginia.
1:54.8	So I said, yeah, that sounds like the one.
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