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Standard Directive 017: It's Not About You

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

So I was at an event and a guy comes up to me and he asks what I would say to a person who needed to get motivated to eat healthy and work out.

0:17.5

And I asked him, who is this person?

0:19.9

Might it be you?

0:21.1

And he said, yes, it was him.

0:22.4

And I asked him, what do you do?

0:26.0

And he said he was a doctor and I said what kind of doctor and he said he was a

0:29.1

cardiologist and I looked at him silently for probably 10 seconds and then I said you're a doctor.

0:46.2

You're a cardiologist.

0:47.8

You see people all day that are dead or dying because they didn't take care of their health.

0:55.0

Health.

0:56.3

And you need me to motivate you?

1:00.6

That's what you need?

1:04.0

And he stared at me with a blank face.

1:09.0

And I could see that that wasn't enough, clearly.

1:12.0

It wasn't enough that he sees people that are dead and

1:15.8

dying every single day because they don't take care of their health, but that wasn't

1:20.8

strong enough. So I asked him another question.

1:24.0

I said, are you married?

1:26.0

And he said yes.

1:27.0

And I asked me if he had any kids.

1:29.0

And he said yes, I have a three-year-old daughter.

1:32.0

And I said, I have a three-year-old daughter.

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