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 Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Episode Resources: • Jocko Willink | Twitter • Jocko Willink | Instagram • Jocko Willink | Podcast • Jocko Willink | Books Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius

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