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Standard Directive 002: You're The General. You Give The Orders.

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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You are the general that is in charge of your life, in charge of the war, the war of your

0:11.4

life.

0:12.4

Some people talk about being the CEO of your life, I'm telling you, you are the general

0:15.0

of your life because it's a war, it's a war going on.

0:20.4

The battle that's going on in your life to be stronger and smarter and faster and better.

0:28.5

So that means as the general, you're the one who decides what you do and how you're

0:35.6

going to do it.

0:37.3

You come up with a strategy, it's on you.

0:42.4

You create the tactics.

0:44.2

You as the general in charge, you make the plan and you give the orders to the troops.

0:53.1

That's what you do.

0:54.4

You direct them because you are the general.

1:01.9

But you got to remember this, you are also the troops.

1:10.4

You are also the troops in your life.

1:13.4

You have to both plan and you have to execute the ideas that you come up with as the general

1:21.2

in charge.

1:22.8

You're also the troops that have to make those plans happen.

1:29.6

Just like on the battlefield, sure, the general comes up with a plan but it's the soldiers

1:34.1

that fight.

1:36.6

For you as a person, you have to do both and we often forget that.

1:43.2

We often forget that.

1:44.7

We don't remember that we actually have to execute the plan.

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