535: Keeping Things Humorous Can Keep You Humble. With Kingsley A. Pinderhughes III aka KingPix Media.

This is the Jocko podcast number 535 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. I I heard this story and I can't I'm not 100% sh where sure where I heard it for the first time, but it but I it I the link was to the British SAS and it was some version that it was mandatory for anyone in the SAS to have a good sense of humor. The reason being because if people take themselves too seriously, then they begin to believe their own hype.

And when you start to believe your own hype, you lose your humility. And when you lose your humility, you get complacent. And when you get complacent, people get killed. So that's a long connection to your sense of humor. If you

want to maintain your humility, you have to maintain your sense of humor. And you may have heard me say many times over the years that humility is the most important characteristic of a leader. And I agree with that story that humor is a good way to stay humble. And in the SEAL teams it is a very real thing. Those digs from your platoon mate, they keep you humble and they're meant to keep you humble.

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