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Standard Directive 009: You Should Be Just A Little Paranoid

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Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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I was always paranoid maybe that's why I like the song so much and listen I'm

0:09.2

not talking about being clinically pathologically paranoid which is what

0:16.0

happens when people have an irrational extreme distrust of people or they

0:22.5

have an internal passionate belief that the world is conspiring against them

0:27.8

they think everyone around them is plotting on them and it drives them crazy

0:31.7

right they go insane so I'm not talking about that type of paranoia but in my

0:39.7

life I've always had a certain level of paranoia like a low level of

0:45.6

paranoia in my head and I think I actually know I know it's

0:57.4

always kind of helped me I was paranoid I'd forget a piece of gear so I double

1:07.6

check my kit make sure triple check my kit make sure I have all my stuff I was

1:11.3

paranoid about being late so I set multiple alarm clocks one electric one

1:20.7

battery powered one wind up I was paranoid I'd run out of time with things

1:27.0

so I wouldn't slack off I was always paranoid I was gonna fail in whatever

1:32.9

thing I was trying to do I was always paranoid is gonna fail so I practiced and

1:37.0

I prepared more I was always kind of paranoid that my competition or my

1:43.7

enemy was training or working harder than me so I worked even harder and

1:52.1

trained even more than I imagined they could be I was felt paranoid that I didn't

2:01.4

deserve to be promoted I didn't deserve to be in a leadership position and that

2:06.6

kept me humble I was actually paranoid always that I'd run out of money so I

2:13.2

never spent more than I earned I was just a little paranoid about everything but

2:23.1

that kept me focused that kept me working hard it made me show up early made me

2:31.5

stay late I didn't forget things because I had checked I never slept in and I

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