487: How Being a “New Guy” Can Help You in Life. W Bobby Holland

This is Jocko podcast number 487 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. So I got asked a question the other day. What can I do to be a good new guy in a platoon?

And and this is a pretty common question because when you show up at a SEAL team, you you want to be a good guy. But as I thought about answering that question, Being a good new guy in a seal platoon is actually the same as being a good human being, right? Yeah, and and listen, being a new good good new guy in a seal platoon, there's some things, right? You gotta have weapons proficiency, you know, you wanna be a good shot, you gotta have tactical knowledge, you gotta underst you gotta learn how to utilize terrain, you gotta know your demo, like there's some skills that you need.

But beyond those skills of the job, to be a good seal to be a good frogman you're gonna have more than just the skills and so as I thought about the things that I was told when I was a new guy because you're gonna get guidance what's that what's that thing they say now un unrequested guidance unsolid unsolicited advice you're gonna get some of that but I'll tell you what some of that stuff that I got told and that young new guys get told and that then I told and other older guys told the new guys. It's stuff that is can be very powerful if you take it to heart and you carry it through. And some of those things carry through my entire life.

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