530: The 8 Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water. With Andy Stumpf

This is Jocko Podcast number 530 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. If you're ever given the choice between being ambushed or ambushing someone else, go with the latter. It is infinitely more enjoyable.

When you are ambushed, you're often caught unprepared and in an environment that favors your enemy. Fear in these situations is normal. If we can agree that fear will be present, it is no longer a question of whether or not you will be afraid. The question becomes whether you are going to allow it to control you or are you going to control it.

When you are ambushed, the single most dangerous thing that you can do is remain in place and do nothing. If you do, your enemy is bound to maneuver on you and destroy you. The likeliest way to sustain your life and to turn the tables on your enemy is is to maneuver. When you maneuver, you change the angles on your enemy, you change the geometry of the problem, and you start forcing them to react.

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