Jocko Willink ON: Leading Like a Navy Seal & Taking Extreme Ownership of Every Problem in Your Life
Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) joins Jay Shetty to talk about extreme ownership and discipline, switching from a competition-based to a collaborative culture, building trust even in stressful situations, and mastering your self-discipline.
He is a retired naval officer who served in the Navy SEALs and an author of several books including Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win. He also co-hosts Jocko Podcast that discusses discipline and leadership in business, war, relationships, and everyday life.
What We Discuss with Jocko:
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:08 The most difficult thing to go through
- 02:57 How do you process a difficult situation and be ready to go through the experience
- 06:07 What you go through is your present, nothing else will matter
- 08:18 Are you born a leader or did experience make you one?
- 13:44 Working through procrastination and overthinking
- 18:01 Lessons learned from joining the Navy Seals
- 20:14 Turning a competitive and comparison based culture to a collaborative culture
- 26:37 Principles and methods to build trust in high stress situations
- 29:53 The biggest leadership mistakes and the key takeaways
- 33:20 Rather than beating yourself up, practice extreme ownership
- 36:34 Taking criticisms from someone you don’t respect
- 38:54 Your ego against the decentralized command strategy
- 43:07 When people are struggling with self discipline, where do you start?
- 47:06 Start self discipline by waking up earlier in the morning
- 49:24 Life lessons learned after leaving the military
- 53:20 Jocko on Final Five
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