Jocko Underground: Accept That The People Around You May Not Want To Do Their Best

This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 185 sitting here with Echo Charles. You all have sent us some questions from the field, and we will provide you with some guidance, some recommendations, some answers, or at a minimum some possible courses of actions that you can follow. So here we go. Let's get into it. Here we go.

First question. I'm a high school principal. I spent the last decade working towards being the best version of myself, reading, lifting, training, and eliminating most anything that is not productive to my quest to achieve personal excellence. Where I struggle as a leader is watching others around me be okay with mediocrity.

Their lack of desire to improve daily fuels me to be the best the very best I can be, but frustrates me that I see so much more in them than they see in themselves. Do I continue to keep my foot on the gas in an effort to influence them to see they are just floating through life? Or do I s accept that ten percent of my staff going to fall short of my expectation? expectations of them and the true potential they have as educators and leaders in my school.

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