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JOCKO and Leif. Get some.

"Let discipline be your guide, not your emotions." Love it.

A true warrior isn't one who wins a thousand battles but he who battles himself and wins . Bless you Jacko ,i honour your words 🙏

I have been knocked down by life maybe times and left with nothing literally. Many times my own fault. Yet i have always gotten up, and have come a long way from where i was in life. Not going into details, but it's a far cry from where i was. Internal motivation, and having good people in your life to push you, and not co sign your b.s. had helped me get to where i am

Can't wait to meet the man who agrees with the mantra "discipline overrides emotion." I ran in collegiate track meets at the age of 37 as an unattached runner in the 1500 b/c my running coach said I could rock it. If I had let emotions take over, I would have puked at every meet. Emphatically true wisdom spoken here. Thanks for this.

Forrest Gump is my favorite movie for this one principle...he did not let intelligence or a belief get in his way. Just do it.

This was so "motivational" no sarcasm intended. "Discipline trumps your feelings." "You have something that needs to get done but you don't feel like doing it - doesn't matter." I love it! Thanks for life long lessons within a 14 minute frame.

As a teacher I love reminding young people that "wanting to" is nor a requirement... do it anyway. Discipline is keeping myself to that same standard. Great stuff, gentlemen.

Wow. Brilliant. True story: Ike while President was told by his doc that his 3 pack a day cig habit was killing him. He quit that day. A reporter asked how he did it. “I gave myself an order to stop.” He never smoked again.

Wow! I’ve never heard this before. It is absolutely true. That motivation is worthless. Discipline is all that matters. motivation always evaporates. Thank you for your service to our country. Bless you for the continued service with teaching men the things we didn’t get for one reason or another. I don’t know where I would be right now without guys like you and Chad Wright, David Goggins. I’ve pieced myself back together with gaffer’s tape I got from watching all you guys.

I didn't want to listen to this podcast, but I did it anyway. Discipline Equals Freedom.

Yep. I get up and around and once I start that first set, the workout is ON! I don’t stop until it’s done.

Motivation has a place. Inspiration- By Action or Words = minutes to hours to be motivated to create a plan to be valued. Motivation- Create a Plan= Time/Cost/ROI. Minutes to 48hrs to for basics of value. The plan can vary depending on new info. Discipline- Without discipline A Plan is just words on paper.

By far, one of the most important videos I've seen you men put out. Thank you both.

This needs a definition for "motivation". I / many understand it as the reasons/conviction for doing something. So what you do at the moment CAN be unpleasant/undesirable/unlikeable/un-feel-like-doit-able --- but you still do it if you have ... strong motivation. Motivation in turn can help you develop discipline.

Self-discipline can work wonders and is achievable with clear life goals. Thank you for promoting liberating values in your channel.

Bullseye over the target. I have abused my freedom. Back into the water, I go.

You got me at the gym at 4am every morning, discipline get's you there not motivation. I love the analogy of the General and Soldier in your mind.

I am just a volunteer firefighter, however when u are called out you burn a ton of energy in all types of conditions. I need to be a lot more fit, this truly hit me with a wow just use my discipline!! Thanks a lot!!!

i have been so tired and discouraged that i felt defeated, i started listening to motivational videos and i would listen to them every night and use them to help me have reason to not give up, and i would say those reasons to myself throughout the day because i did not give up i developed discipline that is the only thing that confuses me about your argument, i am not disagreeing with you exactly, but i was so tired and discouraged that i was giving up and the motivational videos the words they said were guidence and strength and I don't think i would have continued without them 10 years i dragged myself through constant work and loss, i though I would never come out

I followed my feelings my whole life and because of that I was stuck for many years, or even decades. I was a slave of myself and that's truly a really awful situation, you're consumed by guilt and regret and you feel like a fool, a failure, a good for nothing... but the only one responsible for that is YOU and your lack of self-control, discipline, a strong mentality. Those will always be essential in everybody's life. I'm still fighting my own mental war, sometimes I lose some battles and sometimes I win others, but the most important thing is to not give up and keep striving to improve and become a better version of yourself.

This makes a lot of sense. Developing discipline is psychological power, this is good mental input.

Real ”motivation” is staying true and doing things that will give you what really want. Get after it👌 Great job Guys🤩

“People get defeated by the alarm clock, people get defeated by a DONUT.” I FEEL ATTACKED.

Self-discipline is everything in life. With your body, mind, spouse, friends, kids, diet, and spirit.

We were not designed to live this fast paced automated lifestyle. We aren’t supposed to rush around like this and live on apps and emails and passwords, work 40-80hrs a week to afford to live and then not have time to do anything else. You have to stress out just arranging time to make Dr appointments clean and get things done, spend time with family. It costs so much money and time just to eat healthy in this country. That’s why we’re defeated by mundane small things

I've never been in a combat situation, but I remember sleeping in a park at 17 after escaping home where I was trafficked for 5 years. To survive, I walked into local small businesses and asked to write articles for their blog for $20. It was hard to survive, and I did not want to do what it took because I was scared. But I did it anyway and relied on the discipline to keep going. That and spite. Now at 33, I'm still a content writer and strategist, and I remind myself when I don't feel like doing the work that sending cold emails to potential clients and executing my marketing strategy are not on the same level as what I had to do before and I need to grow up and just do it. I'm beyond grateful for owning my own business and get to live on my own terms, and I know if I want to keep it, I need to do the work. It's also why I got addicted to being backed against the wall in life -- because that's my do-or-die situation where I'm forced to take action. Fear becomes irrelevant, and the brain fog clears. It's harnessing this fierceness in the comfortable times.

Motivation is overrated, Discipline is the key

Hey I am reading your book "Extreme Ownership" and I am loving it.

A friend from China was talking to an American neighbor woman, and the neighbor told her that their kid was not doing well in math (high school) because "...she doesn't like it..." . My friend was appalled, "What does not liking it have to do with anything?" The message was loud and clear: just get the job done!

What jacko just described is what I experienced doing Ice baths and saunas. Discipline was actually an unexpected by product of the practice. I’m lucky enough to have a wellness center that has both premium ice baths and a sauna. I love being warm and I HATE(with a burning passion) being cold. When I arrive I’m warm, cozy, and feel comfortable. It is the greatest shock to get into 37 degree water. Shock is an understatement! Even after a year I still hate it. But I do it for 2 minutes. When I get down to the last 30 seconds I count the milliseconds and start negotiating with my self to get out- but I stay in. When I get out and go into the sauna it is the greatest feeling. It’s so luxurious and relaxing. And then I go back into the ice water for 2 minutes. And the pain begins again, the hardest of which getting into the water. I expected increased energy and endorphins. But I did not expect my diet to improve, my relationships, and overall fitness to improve. Every single hard thing became easier! Delayed gratification because the standard. It was all because nothing is worse than being wrapped up in a warm blanket with a pretty candle watching a beautiful relaxing video to in the next 10 minutes getting into ice cold water & sustaining that pain!!!!!

THE FORCE flows through Jocko He explains how to be a force of nature By harnessing nature itself It is THE very power of WILL The spaces that occupy every atom of your body and make up almost all of it You my friends Are the makeup of pure WILL A FORCE THAT TRANSCENDS SPACE AND TIME AND JOCKO Just reaches out and grabs it❤

This sounds like something I heard before, but explained another way. The Three Hats. Or something along those lines. You have the entrepreneur, the manager, and the employee. The Entrepreneur creates the ideas sets the table. The Manager takes the idea and create a process so it can function. The Employee turns the gears in that process. The employee hates the manager thinking they can do a better job. The manager hates the entrepreneur who freely tweaks and changes the process. And the entrepreneur is always making changes to improve the process or the business. And sometimes we have to wear all 3 hates in our minds.

This is why gyms are packed in January and empty in February. However discipline is learned, it's not something most people can just flip on like a switch. And most people don't have it. So the question is, how do you learn discipline?

Discipline,dedication,& desire,3D's of life kudos for a great session.

Seneca "TREAT THE BODY RIGOROUSLY so that it is NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE MIND" -- Stoicism & Jocko go Hand in Hand.

I have always had a problem with the word "motivation" Motivation is the reason to do something. Your motivations to eat are you are hungry and survival. Often a reason to do it aint enough.

Self Discipline is the best Motivation

Discipline is king. 💪🏻😎👍🏻

8:40 Make discipline the only thing that's left 10:10 There's no negotiation in combat. No negotiation in discipline. 10:50 Execute with pure discipline 11:35 ppl get defeated by less significants 12:00 12:45 do it, it doesnt matter 13:30 dont allow feelings to dictate what u do

"Discipline protects you from temptation"

Fantastic video and almost as equally fantastic are the amazing comments, no one is disagreeing with what is being said because we all know it is impossible to argue against this advice.

How wonderfully convicting. 🙌🏼

Motivation is an emotion which comes and go's, Discipline is a character trait. Always be disciplined and you will find the motivation when you need it.

Discipline == freedom 🔥 🔥

Discipline is the motivation. One personally witnesses the evidence and results that discipline creates. Discipline defines ones character by delaying gratification for an improved end result. But discipline can blind one to discernment ie: the fact that what the military is ultimately doing is creating mind controlled robots who never question the principles being disciplined out of them. The idea that following orders and commands that very well may violate conscience, is paramount. Discernment combined with discipline is the key so that one knows that one's actions motivated by discipline is right and not wrong.

This is absolute gold

Discipline Will Set You Free. -Jocko

Thx so much for a great video, I will be from this day forward working on my discipline thx again 😊

Self-discipline is Self-control

Writers have a saying; “Amateurs write when they’re inspired. Professionals write daily.” It doesn’t matter if you write garbage, you write nonetheless. That’s discipline. My personal discipline level is a burning dumpster fire, floating down a river of **** but I’m working on it… sort of. God help me, I’ve had zero discipline my whole life.

Jocko, Can you and the team do a segment on the proper way to implement changes? What is necessary when implementing a change in a process, and why? What is the proper way to handle a situation when a change is implemented in a way that doesn't have your full buy in? I work at a manufacturing plant and we implement changes pretty frequently, but you don't hear about the change until it's time to implement them. There is no chance for feedback. People make changes without authority or knowing the process in other departments, only consider how it it's going to benefit them, despite it having an effect on everyone. Animosity builds and communication degrades.

This hits the nail on the head!

I’m inspired by both Jocko and Leif! Just bought an Extreme Ownership hat from the Echelon front website! Discipline Equals Freedom.

Awsome!!!!

Strong.

Jocko and his video's about discipline helped me to get trough a lot in life. The books were very good as well. Thanks for the video #Staydisciplined #keepuptheGOODwork

As awesome as always.

I have been going to school for CS and found that tenacity and hard work do not come from inspiration they come from the need to succeed and the want for bettering yourself rather than the pleasure of doing it within itself. So when you make yourself do something like complex math and you don’t want to do it you remember that the outcome ie more money having a comfortable life and a good job is enough to force yourself to be motivated. Also focusing on people who are worse than yourself is important and setting your expectations as low as possible and seeing yourself as being bad at it. Both things cause you to work harder.

Taking directives from head quarters is following necessity because you have too. Head quarters is head(frontal lobe)and shoulders above the rest for paradoxically the same have to reasons. Discipline is doing the same(directives) while easily predicting outcomes. Mercenary and missionary work are heavy as duty and real as spontaneous healing.

No motivation but still got that that's above on the ehchelon on the beat man I really wanted to pursue that which is on other players

Jocko is very wise

Thanks 🙌🏾 #no lies detected 🧐

Motivation will abandon you hurt and cold and 11 miles away from getting back to your destination

Jocko actually died four years ago, but the Grim Reaper can’t get up the courage to tell him.

Fascinating and also sad.

The motivation is passing seal training.. that’s why they “do 100% what they don’t want to do” he made it sound like it comes from nothing..

13:25 @Jocko "Discipline = Freedom" 👈

Excellent points. I think I will implement this tomorrow.

I found myself @ PARADE REST while listening - HOOAH

Fear overcome by duty (=discipline)… Unfortunately, we are in a world where people are consumers!

To sum up "a man's got to do what a man's got to do"

-"YOU CAN DO IT." -"Don't lie to me, I know I can't."

Thank you for your service!

Warrior mindset it works

I noticed the 20 min. while riding motorcycle in the cold. Just gotta let the body adjust a bit.

Trump’s voice + Jocko’s voice = Leif Babin’s voice 😂

Damn😮thats just a bunch of facts

❤ Love it Jocko. Chiming in here with some Dwayne Johnson brilliance…. “ IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU FEEL.” … Jabone 😂💪🏻💪🏻👁️

Good

So this how I start my day as soon as I wake up I do wim Hof breathing method first this now my dopamine is 250% above baseline and noradrenaline is 450% above baseline and I’m a union carpenter building Chicago when you amp up dopamine noradrenalin you’re motivated

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Zero people in that class want to get back in the water. Because Goggins isn't in that class.

Motivation is like salt on my steak. Just adds flavor.

GREAT video 🥊

Thank you. These principles were set by God years ago

Notice there was no mention of USAF boot camps..off camera whisper 'Psst, whattabou' PJs?..return whisper, 'PJs ain't Chair Force'..

1:48 Drinking energy drinks is not good for your health. It can even lead to being slightly maniacal with delusions of discipline. Sir, yes, Sir 🫡 As you were. Just chill for a moment. Breathe. 🧘‍♂️

I disagree. Motivation is important. Motivation is what starts the movement. Motivation is the spark or inspiration. Motivation can carry on for some time, not forever. Can't say motivation is nothing. Without motivation, there is no starting point. Motivation is that enthusiastic starting push. Also, motivation is recyclable in times of need. Sometimes discipline isn't enough by itself, it needs a little more spark from motivation to keep going during crappy times.

As Vader and Schwarzenegger said, “You lack discipline!”

How would a civilian with little self discipline, teach themselves to be this disciplined?

Ouch but powerful truth get some

SELF-D I S C I P L I N E #Gratitude

Disiplin hanya untuk tentara, polisi dan para pelajar. Motivasi hanya untuk juara. 😊😊😊. Beda rasa dan perjuangan

Is there a reason you guys did not go Seal Team 6? Did you lose motivation?

WILL

I get what he's saying but the way it comes off smacks of macho-man posturing, and a failure to understand that there is no 'no'. He IS motivated. Motivated to show himself and the world that you don't need motivation. Motivated to get the job done at all costs, to beat the program, to do his job to a superhuman ability. There is a buddhist koan, "Who is it who knows that there is no ego?" Same thing applies here.

How does one obtain this discipline?

good.

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