9/25 Jocko Willink
- Served Seal team in Ramadi. Designed and trained all West coast Seal teams.
- Teaches combat leadership principles in business.
- Book – Extreme Ownership – read intro, chapters 1,6,12.
- Tea – pomegranate white tea. Great for focus.
- Dealing with people is always the hardest element of any mission/business/project
- “conformist rebellion” – tf
- Humility separates a good commander from a bad commander.
- As a leader, you should always be looking for and adapting to new styles.
- A good leader realizes that he will fail, and uses that failure to learn. Take careful notes on feedback.
- You need to be humble and coachable at every level.
- Detachment – detach from situation and observe it. Look at yourself in third person. “are you being too emotional right now?”
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- Much easier to deal with high stress when detached
- Wake up early. A psychological win over the enemy.
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- AM workout. Be done by sunrise.
- Surfing
- Fearlessness isn’t having no fear, but overcoming it.
- To be a man: 1)barebones- do you have the skills for food, shelter and water? 2)Learn how to fight. 3) go into combat 4) get married and have kids
- Simulate fear and stress.
- Book: about face colonel David Hackworth, blood meridian
- As a leader, don’t just give orders, lead!
- “discipline is freedom” – the more disciplined you are with time management, the more free time you have. The more disciplined you are with your diet, the more freedom you have.
- TF – reserve your creativity for the things that require creativity
- Don’t be constantly needy as a leader.
- No matter how bad your boss, take ownership of that relationship and build trust. If you have a problem with your boss, it’s your fault.
- Cover and move in business
- Two is one and one is none. Always have a backup.