Special Forces Commander's Weird Trick For Overcoming Anxiety, "This Is The Reason People Quit", "Imposter Syndrome Is A Good Thing!"
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This is what I learned from twenty years of being in the Navy SEALs. Discipline, drive, how to make decisions under pressure. Leadership strategy and tactics that you can apply to business and you can apply to your life as well. So let's go. Jacko Willink is a former Navy SEALs officer who uses his decades of military training to help people become masters of discipline and master their lives. Your excuses will destroy you. Your default mode should be to take ownership. Because if these problems are because of me, then I'm capable of fixing these problems. So what's step one? First of all, small steps can be painful, even something as simple as going to the gym. If you're completely out of shape, sometimes that can be enough to make you say, not doing it anymore. You need to envision a path of where this can lead you to. Number two, most human instinct is to hesitate. But you see that problem over there, you gotta go solve that problem. It's not gonna go away. So if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go, start walking. And worst case scenario, you figure out that you walked the wrong direction. Okay, now you can go walk in the other direction. But standing there, not doing anything, is just waiting to starve to death. And the next challenge? Detach from your emotions. Good leaders have control of our emotions. If I have to yell at you to get my point across, I've made like forty seven other mistakes. My goal is I don't have to say a word, and you already know what to do.
Is there anything else that you'd add to that list? Absolutely. In fact, people don't really talk about this. And this could apply to just about anything. So if you're the type of person that doesn't You're gonna struggle. Joker. Was there a hardest day while you were in the Navy Sales? Yeah.
That was the lowest point of my life. Surprisingly. I couldn't find an awful lot in your childhood that
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