543: Don't Wait to Get Punched in the Face. The Best Way to Adapt And Learn.

This is Jocko Podcast number 543 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. The U.S. Army's competitive advantage directly relates to its capacity to learn faster and adapt more quickly than its adversaries.

The current pace of technological change increases the Army's challenge to maintain the edge over potential adversaries in the highly competitive global learning environment where technology provides all players Nearly ubiquitous access to information, the army cannot risk failure through complacency, lack of imagination, or resistance to change. Outpacing adversaries is essential to maintain the army's global status and to fulfill its responsibilities to the nation. And that right there is a Little quote from US Army Trade Doc 525 TAC 8 TAC 2 US Army Learning Concept 2015.

And it's an interesting thing to think about because we we all need to be learning all the time. And if you don't keep that front of mind, it's real easy to not learn anything and not progress, whether it's leadership, whether it's your professional career, whatever your professional career is, whether it's working with a new piece of gear, whether it's jujitsu, whether it's fighting, whether it's tactics, whether it's music or art or software, I that's for you. Sure. Yeah.

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