Quotes by Jocko Willink - Page 2

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen.
Jocko Willink /
Seal
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Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.
Jocko Willink /
Brain
Crush
Good Workout
Oxygen
Release
Workout
Early
Puts
Sends
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There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.
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Fairy
Skills
Talent
Tales
Fairy Tales
Notions
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Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.
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Leadership
Fundamentals
Absolutely
Anybody
General
Conference
Patton
Telling
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The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.
Jocko Willink /
Humbling
Tap
Dealing
Hard Time
Smaller
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Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.
Jocko Willink /
Work
Morning
Big Mistake
Clock
Mistake
People
Thinking
Wake Up
Work Out
Think
Just
Go
Work Morning Start
Big
Alarm
Get
Make
Out
Execute
Goes
Off
Up
Plan
Some
Start
Wake
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The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That's what the goal is.
Jocko Willink /
Self Defense
Defend
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I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.
Jocko Willink /
Boot Camp
High School
Navy
Team
Training
Adult
Adult Life
Boot
Camp
Joined
Seal
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We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.
Jocko Willink /
Sports
Decent
Genes
Genetics
Gymnast
Fairly
Limitations
Olympic
Perhaps
Sprinter
Trained
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I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.
Jocko Willink /
Team
Work Out
Life Work Food
Career
Fraction
Seal
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Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they're worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.
Jocko Willink /
Clean
Cookies
Fantastic
Mint
Worth It
Chip
Earned
Stayed
Super
Worked
Yes
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SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren't robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You're dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
Jocko Willink /
Great People
Haircuts
Robots
Seals
Dealing
Desires
Different People
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Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.
Jocko Willink /
Clock
Discipline
Electric
Taught
Three
Training
Alarm
Battery
Every Day
Feared
Goes
Off
Instructor
Powered
Respected
Seal
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Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that's real peace of mind. I don't have to worry about that when I'm walking around in the world.
Jocko Willink /
Peace Of Mind
Worry
Physically
Dominated
Human Being
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Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.
Jocko Willink /
Angry
Demand
Frustrated
Scenarios
Solutions
Stressful
Challenged
Decisive
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Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else's. I'm not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I'm all about.
Jocko Willink /
Useful
Better Shape
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One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he'd say, 'Boss, we've got this, and that, and the other thing.' And I'd look at him and I'd say, 'Good.'
Jocko Willink /
Boss
Direct
Good Me Look
Aside
Good Boss Me
Guys
Major
Issue
Major Problem
Pull
Worked
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Just do some kind of workout. Doesn't matter if it's going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming - you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.
Jocko Willink /
Block
Blood
Lifting
Matter
Pool
Swimming
Workout
Game
Name
Flowing
Gets
Walk
Jog
Weights
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One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.
Jocko Willink /
Executing
Night
Life Best Better
Life Best Together
Becomes
Simply
Disciplines
Implement
List
Mental
Putting
Schedule
Task
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If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.
Jocko Willink /
Morning
Afternoon
Boss
Might
Work Out
Time Family Work
Job
Asleep
Away
Chip
Whatever
Family Work Time
How Many People
Obligations
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It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?
Jocko Willink /
Morning
Aggressive
Baseball
Bed
Fun
Song
Morning Your Day
Alarm
Attack
Bat
Covers
Crawl
Respond
Early
Goes
Off
Head
Hide
Hits
Sing
Underneath
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The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.
Jocko Willink /
Leader
Becomes
Close
Mission
Member
Motivations
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When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.
Jocko Willink /
Decided
Emulate
Team
Years Ago
Younger
Anybody
Work Today I Am
Anybody Else
Checked
Noticed
Old Guy
Seal
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We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had.
Jocko Willink /
Attitude
Book
Ownership
Successful
Extreme
Named
Definitely
Leaders
Looked
Teams
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The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.
Jocko Willink /
Bed
Comfort
Discipline
Fall
Sleep
Tone
Alarm
Get
Back
Out
Complex
First
Win
Day
Rest
Lie
Goes
Off
Moment
Pass
Sets
Test
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That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward.
Jocko Willink /
Morning
Blanket
Comfort
Head Start
Huge
Moving
Nice
Productive
Wake Up
Warm
Things
Life Time Start
Get
Life Time Morning
Everyone
Doing
Early
Else
Leave
Everyone Else
Still
Forward
Head
Piece
Sleeping
Soft
Start
Wake
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If it's stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You've planned, you've trained, you've done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that's facing you. And then after that, there's nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.
Jocko Willink /
Done
Stress
Control
After
Cannot
Possible
Facing
Mitigate
Planned
Trained
We Cannot
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With Benghazi, I don't see anyone saying, 'Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It's my fault.' I haven't heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that's just unbelievable to me.
Jocko Willink /
Benghazi
Decision
Heard
Hey
Made
Responsibility
Unbelievable
Am
Anyone
Everyone
Bin
Side
Take
Coin
Fault
Look
Meanwhile
Other
Overall
Raid
Saying
See
Therefore
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There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.
Jocko Willink /
Attitude
Blast
Fun
Good Attitude
Matter
Process
Team
Television
Training
Carrying
Getting
Fact
Guys
Hardest Part
Log
Seal
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What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That's what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jocko Willink /
Afghanistan
Battle
Communicate
Deployment
Instruction
Iraq
Ready
Taught
Understanding
Warfare
Field
Shoot
Maneuver
Move
Seal
Unit
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Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.
Jocko Willink /
Confidence
Respect
Trust
Calm
Exercise
Good Judgment
Judgment
Prove
Team
Decisions
Since
Charge
Develop
Facto
Matters
Member
Remain
Right Decisions
Understands
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If I've got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I'm going to do? I'm going to call them up, and I'm going to say, 'Hey, here's what's going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn't expect it. Now it's going to take me some more time to get you what you need.' But I'm going to do that upfront.
Jocko Willink /
Clients
Hey
Needs
Problem
Sideways
Situation
Time Me More
Call
Time Me Situation
Expect
Guess
Solved
Upfront
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