Jocko Podcast 420: Pushing It Until Things That Are Totally Crazy Become Possible. With Alex Honnold 

Great to hear you have garnished some inspiration to go GET some !!! Keep up the great work mate As I say to my kids daily Effort equals results I tell my kids about schooling I don’t give a single fuck about their grades . What I DO care about is the effort grade which is 1-5 5 being the most effort For the fist time in 7 years of primary school for grades k-6 my eldest boy the year before high school achieved grade 5 for effort in all subjects which was an absolute dream for him AND I. His marks result was a C average but the effort for the year was exceptional On the other hand my youngest in year 4 received mainly 2s for effort and D for all subjects showing clearly effort DOES in fact matter So my eldest bounced into high school with some confidence and belief in himself for the first time in his life and my youngest learning a valuable lesson For you , don’t look at the results , they WILL come . Look at effort and only you will know the truth in how much you have been putting in Sorry for the long ramble but it took a while to make my pint with an example Just try your best I say. Give it everything you can I tell my boys. If there is no effort expect me to be pissed Its preparation for life I wish iou the best of luck , or is it luck ? Nope. Its effort and results that are earned . No luck I wish you the best if effort Fucking GET SOME, FIND some. Keep us posted. Take care J

He is indeed unintentionally funny, which adds to his appeal. 😂

Maybe the Navy was trying to suggest something about the duality of man. The Jungian thing. Giving real life Captain America an English major😂

I appreciate you bro

makes me sweat just thinking about it

@@tomaseriksson5430 Same bro it's insane

Maybe not physical but for sure mental. Yeah, crazy

I scrambled up that first step on the nose and got so ridiculously overwhelmed just looking up. I always thought maybe I'd want to climb it until then. It's outrageous.

@@NemohHoes bro there is a v7 boulder problem at 2000 feet. Physically not even 15% can do a v7 in a gym with 6 months of training. Its like running a marathon, and having to do a sprint in between, where a single mistake and someone shoots you in the head

Jimmy Chin described it as a world class athlete competing for a gold medal, but if you don’t achieve the gold medal you’re dead. Seriously an awesome feat.

cheater lol, its only january 14th

@@night_watch720 😂😂

Agree, he did it well enough for sure.

I think apart of it is because a lot of interviewers I've seen can't get over the hump of understanding why Alex would free solo and risk his life to climb. Whereas Jocko as a Navy Seal completely understands that and has probably been in so many of those same life or death situations where a single wrong decision could mean your family will never see you again. Jumping out planes, running into gun fights, seeing other Seals die in combat, etc. That mutual understanding of knowing your job and what you do and love is dangerous but you still go back and do it helps them relate on a deeper level than any casual interviewer whose biggest risk they took that day was wearing a burgundy suit instead of a blue one or some shit.

Gotta give Jocko credit tho. He does a great job relating to his guests and in asking good questions.

Agreed.

The Sky is Blue and has no clouds. Well said Cap'Tin Head Obvious.

free soloing el cap is absolutely out of this world,

what got your panties in a bunch?@@jt.8144

could you imagine the new Jocko on weed

Every intelligent naval officer knows we must accept marijuana to bolster our forces.

If he wasnt a climber, he'd be a mathmatician, i'm sure of it.

And yet, so little is said about Alain Robert, whom even Alex admires.

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That was a bit overblown if you actually listen to the thing and not just retelling of the story. He gets scared but he also trained his whole life building up to this

I met him and shook his hand, expecting it to feel like sandpaper wrapped around a brick. Nope, regular hand.

Not trying to comment snipe you, your point is pretty funny because Alex is such an autist and chill guy that he may come across as very undisciplined, but the dude trains all day. He finished free soloing El Cap, in roughly 4 hours, something completely inconceivable and world record breaking, before most people are awake, then returned to his van and conducted his daily exercise routine on his hang board like it was a typical Tuesday. Dude is a disciplined monster, though he certainly is low-key about it.

@Johnny_Cash_Flow Not saying Alex isn't disciplined, just that his overall approach is diametrically different. He isn't even remotely organized or strict in his approach to anything. I mean, for real, the dude forgot his chalk when he was filming one of his hardest free-solos ever... do you think Jocko would forget his chalk? Jocko probably has a checklist he goes over after waking up, a different one before he leaves the house, and a different one before he goes to sleep. Like, Alex's whole discussion of "downstream" parenting. He has likely very similar goals for his children as Jocko, but a completely different way of going about it. Alex is more, very persistent, very dedicated, 0 fear, endless optimism and creativity. Jocko is relentlessly disciplined.

@@MichaelGalt LOL fair, yeah, definitely different approaches to the same problem.

​@MichaelGalt then again, for important stuff Alex is insanely organized and prepared. He memorizes every single hand and foot move for an entire 3000 feet climb and executes them perfectly. He trains in a super organized and meticulous manner.

You’ll fall in love with it. I started almost 2 years ago and it’s been amazing

Keep going bro, it's 👍

Try 1 move on a 5.13a(the grade Freerider is) & you’ll see how incredibly insane 3,000 feet is lol

engagement:engagement .

thats the longest intro ive heard this dude dooo ooo . .

you like those big hands huh

everytime and always

nah, i was frst but im shadowbanned