Jocko Willink ON: Leading Like a Navy Seal & Taking Extreme Ownership of Every Problem in Your Life

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Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) joins Jay Shetty to talk about extreme ownership and discipline, switching from a competition-based to a collaborative culture, building trust even in stressful situations, and mastering your self-discipline. He is a retired naval officer who served in the Navy SEALs and an author of several books including Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win. He also co-hosts Jocko Podcast that discusses discipline and leadership in business, war, relationships, and everyday life. What We Discuss with Jocko: 00:00 Intro 02:08 The most difficult thing to go through 02:57 How do you process a difficult situation and be ready to go through the experience 06:07 What you go through is your present, nothing else will matter 08:18 Are you born a leader or did experience make you one? 13:44 Working through procrastination and overthinking 18:01 Lessons learned from joining the Navy Seals 20:14 Turning a competitive and comparison based culture to a collaborative culture 26:37 Principles and methods to build trust in high stress situations 29:53 The biggest leadership mistakes and the key takeaways 33:20 Rather than beating yourself up, practice extreme ownership 36:34 Taking criticisms from someone you don’t respect 38:54 Your ego against the decentralized command strategy 43:07 When people are struggling with self discipline, where do you start? 47:06 Start self discipline by waking up earlier in the morning 49:24 Life lessons learned after leaving the military 53:20 Jocko on Final Five Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Episode Resources: Jocko Willink | Twitter Jocko Willink | Instagram Jocko Willink | Podcast Jocko Willink | Books Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices