Take Initiative and Make Things Happen - Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

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Excerpt from JOCKOPODCAST 268

[@xvsj-s2x]

Society is raising Managers NOT Leaders, Thank You for sharing Jocko

[@joeyboedeker7205]

Ain't that the truth.

[@InimitaPaul]

You wouldn’t believe how right you are. A few years back I took a job as a security manager and the company was a nightmare, run by degree level managers at almost every level. Roll on a few years and it’s a great place to work, for everyone. It takes years to demonstrate what you’re about in a negative environment but if that behaviour is good and consistent, good people will walk with you, even the managers.

[@xvsj-s2x]

@@InimitaPaul Thank you, here’s more intel, I retired as a career firefighter/Arson Invest. Before moving onto Homeland Security as an liaison. Talk about government nepotism and in house corruption breeding. I leaded my section with in the policies they provide. However, as a FF, Policies and procedures have grey areas. Oh i used those grey areas to put some speed and effectiveness into the mothership of snell movement........

[@1988ZER]

Exactly, corporate America 101

[@bassassassinnn7459]

As my grandfather told me when I was a kid- the only way you succeed in anything is by giving it as much as you can. My grandfather is 98, served in Pattons 3rd Army, survived the battle of the bulge, AND kicked covid 3 weeks ago. There are always excuses, they just can't be made. Thank you for your service and even more your podcast.

[@beerinoculum]

Utmost respect to your grandfather, he is a true Hero! I have a very special place in my heart for WW2 Veterans. he has my infinite admiration and respect🇺🇸

[@bassassassinnn7459]

@@beerinoculum he would appreciate hearing that. Not many of the younger generation will have that kind of respect, sadly. I always visit as many veterans at his retirement home and the local VA that I can. I never served due to not being able to pass a physical, but I always wanted to show respect and compassion for those who have. Cheers.

[@grandcatsmama3421]

Tell your grandfather that I appreciate what he did in WWII, my dad served too. Thank him for his service from Mrs. Anne Welch. When my dad passed away in '77, they weren't thanking service men and women. God bless him and your family.

[@bassassassinnn7459]

@@grandcatsmama3421 thank you, I will be sure to. Even though your father may not be here, he is still a hero. That war was something else from what my grandfather told me. He ended up at Omaha Beach in 44 as a PFC at the time and was assigned as a grave registrar. He was responsible for picking up all the bodies of our soldiers and preparing them for burial. He told me things he saw that I couldn't even imagine. It really took a man to get through that war, my gratitude goes out for all veterans from then and now. Cheers.

[@TheDhammaHub]

Underrated advice. So many people read and inform themselves way too long and never start. Its a disease

[@irish7460]

I'm terribly guilty of this.

[@bennyblanco2091]

Guilty as well

[@migi9311]

I admit to this. It’s not until recently that I’ve taken action I was sick to my stomach regarding to my position in life

[@jayandrijic3803]

Truth

[@drjmapple5510]

I get nervous. Almost afraid to succeed.

[@beerinoculum]

so many people probably have no idea this is exactly what they need to hear.. its certainly what I need to hear, being on the verge of moving to a new place, new job, new aspirations, new goals - you put everything into perspective the exact way I needed to hear it. thanks Jocko, 'preciate you Sir

[@ethanscofield1013]

It’s life changing. Especially the part about being ok when things aren’t perfect

[@kurtbarlow9917]

I am diagnosed with ptsd .. always looking for the invisible enemy no matter what surrounding..... I took initiative... I learned to disconnect...

[@benawdawd6591]

Care to elaborate what disconnecting might look like?

[@kurtbarlow9917]

@@benawdawd6591 picture yourself as a lightswitch is what I did ... I'm not in combat so I learned to turn myself off .. being switched on is hyper vigilant.. disconnecting takes time but its strategical intervention

[@Ghettojaku]

Thank you for your service and is that quiet riot?

[@kurtbarlow9917]

@@Ghettojaku yes sir. Metal health

[@ethanscofield1013]

I struggled so much with this in basic training. I came to the same conclusion that 80 or even 70 percent executed is better than a 💯 plan that never happens ....very liberating

[@360health7]

fr stop waiting for everything to be perfect and start taking action! I just made a video on this

[@BB-ng5bf]

Jocko, I’m not sure if you’ll read this or not but you have helped me so much. I want to say Thankyou.

[@Vacerous]

This and Jordan Petersons advice of " Find the heaviest stone in your life and carry it"

[@hasdrubal121]

I love Dr Peterson's message and was thrilled to attend his dialogue with Sam Harris in 2018. But I have to say since starting listening to Jocko's podcasts and watching David Goggins interviews etc I've stopped making excuses and started back into sorting my diet, fitness and reading. The two styles of JBP spelling out what needs to be done and Jocko and Goggins not accepting excuses has worked for me.

[@irish7460]

Goggins version: You already know what to do. Stop bieng a BITCH! YOU DON'T KNOW ME SON!

[@hasdrubal121]

@@irish7460 yep, when I need to lengthen my stride, it's Goggins that pops into my head.

[@Shredwizard445]

Whenever I see a Jocko thumbnail I just get down and push

[@ewenguillemet4343]

@Vacerous Hi ! In what this Jordan Peterson's advice consists in ? I'm interested in its meaning.

[@nateb826]

I urge everyone to look up the song: “82nd All The Way” by Sabaton. It’s all about York.

[@jock-of-ages73]

Thanks. I'll do just that!👍kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zn22YY1um8ycf6s this song?👍💪🍻 I just wikid the band, and all their songs are about war and courage. If i liked thrash metal i would listen to them.

[@nateb826]

@@jock-of-ages73 Yes!

[@TekHardy]

Hell yeah man!

[@AffirmationsForGrowth]

This is boss talk right here. Joko you are on point🎯

[@joshamick3371]

Insisting on planning perfection is a classic case of 'analysis paralysis'. As always, thanks for the insights.

[@cameronknapp8807]

I just love story time with Jocko

[@woodxj]

Think I need to listen to more Sabaton now. 82nd All the Way!

[@ReynaSingh]

Keep up the good content Jocko 🙏

[@MagnumMotivation]

One of our favourite quotes about make it happen: “The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.” Cheers, Motivation team

[@hasdrubal121]

Great praise for Echo Charles....I kinda suspected he was like that though, squared away in his own way. On an aside I don't gamble online, or at all for that matter....yet I get tons of ads for online gambling when I watch great podcasts like these, ones to improve oneself. I've reported to YT that I don't want those ads.....today is the first ad about financial management I've seen. Just interesting is all.

[@jasonbailes7704]

USMC retired here. “80% solution - do it now - move on” mentality and leadership worked for me for years. Check.

[@curtisstorms9966]

Good listen for us all! Thanks for sharing

[@lizoberhauser5129]

Respectable people.

[@willwetherington]

My job is nothing like what y'all had gone through, but my supervisor is the same way. He knows that I know my job. He just wants it done. He doesn't care how long or what all I have to do get it done. It feels good to know that he trusts me to do it right and in a timely manner.

[@jimthorson2513]

This is what I needed to hear today!

[@johnaemerick8896]

I love the initiative talk I believe a lot of jobs or managers now or people in general try and train us now to not have this that all to think initiative is a bad thing. At my job I’m always trying to stay busy when it’s slow and I’m still new (not the point) but I’ve been just filling the time with tasks that I thought would help us become maybe ahead of schedule or ready before the next rush comes in but if I was never taught or have seen things done right .. and then get told I need to stand and wait around for my next order. I just believe this is teaching the younger generation to be lazy and not have that drive. Don’t you want to push to be your best ? I’m not trying to put us behind schedule I’m not actually doing anything wrong at all and I know there’s nothing else I should be doing so why do I need to stand here to wait for you to tell me to start folding boxes, instead of just starting. Is it a power thing ? As a kid my mom would give us a chore list and while we finished our like 5 chores for that day she said “always keep looking for something else to do until I come give you your next task” and that’s always stuck with me. I think people are teaching/training weak mindsets in the work environment and in some schools that way you don’t pass them up. I am glad I saw this video when I did to remind myself that taking INITIATIVE isn’t a bad thing in fact it’s rare and being a leader is something many won’t come by. Love your videos they always seem to reach me when I need some backup on my thoughts !! Keep doing you Jocko !:)

[@maxdavies5776]

Great show. Helps alot of ppl.

[@therulesaredifferent8280]

Thanks

[@Elevateyourlife100]

Thank You Much 😊

[@trainkinder-getinspiredtol6433]

Dreams don't work until we do. Yes to let's make things happen!

[@breakz9014]

I love what you are doing for people keep it up a lot of people and leaders need to hear this. Have a better squad of people that take ownership and that have integrity is very important. A mission statement should always be base on character the build from there because they have a reason to do what you tell them. It has to be their reason for doing. I call it your magnetic north with out that a compass doesn't work. Your why is what point you in the right direction.

[@grandcatsmama3421]

In the movie of Sargent York, he grew up in the country, I think it was Kentucky, he was a man who never expected to become a hero that people still look up to all these years later.

[@SaintMatthieuSimard]

Initiative is a great topic. Initiative is what people puts together when there's a problem to solve.

[@Cybetstorm94]

Leaders are afraid of letting their people execute on their own because they know they have not communicated the commander’s intent - the WHY - sufficiently for their people to do it. That and Ego.

[@wallstreetbeef2489]

Great video 📹

[@danielwright1168]

here we go again... 82nd All the Way

[@briancasteel1222]

Benghazi is an unfortunate example of why we need to exercise initiative in the absence of orders.

[@threethrushes]

There are a few biases at work here: - confirmation bias - survivor bias. No one hears about the stories where military initiative failed (because it was a fubar, and everyone died). Still, I love people with initiative and drive.

[@briancasteel1222]

@@threethrushes Evil only prevails when Good Men do nothing.

[@madsalad]

Thank you for making an impact on my life.

[@360health7]

keep pushing dont give up!

[@dennisoverholts8396]

I am a beleiver in owning my job and getting what needs to be done done, the most difficult aspect of this in my business is that people do not generally fall on board and work as a team but enjoy that I do the day to day tasks needed?? How do you turn this into a team mindset when I am not the owner of the small business I work at.

[@RodrigoLopez-oc6xc]

Listen to the song "82nd all the way by sabaton" , they talk about Alvin york, good song

[@lovenishberiwal7622]

Jocko 'THE MAN' wilink

[@kadabur]

Good

[@dm20422]

✨

[@breakz9014]

What I learn is don't take yourself that serious. We get and about things not going our way but this a good way of saying your are getting after it. There are things that life is telling you God is always speaking but are you listening tune in to the God frequency

[@tamatihoetawa2333]

Godfather!

[@loveserveascend]

💪🏼

[@evanspeckman8133]

Damn.

[@cruzan_fitness4752]

Made me think of Maverick, Don't think just do. Of course you think a little but don't sweat the details man just worry about executing and doing or else you will be there forever trying to be perfect until you failed the opportunity

[@winstonjones7912]

What book is he reading from? Thank you in advance.

[@brian3185]

Sabaton wrote a song about this! 82nd All The Way.

[@monkeyinanapesuit]

Sir, Meuse is pronounced like Merz ( slowly and frenchly :) Thank you hugely for making plenty of very helpful and useful videos; selfless motivation through a wish for selfless motivation?

[@playgood17]

Tem como colocar tradução ...

[@lukefish7562]

😀

[@Halfcock]

Love your work! From the most forgotten corner in America, Andersonville. Any chance you guys can do a live cast during the Andersonville Fair, assuming it happens this October? It is seriously hurting, most folks I meet more than 15 miles from here have Never heard of Notorious Andersonville, much less the National Prisoner of War Museum. Thank you for all you've done, all you do! Camp Sumter Matters

[@aryyahuwilliams]

Murphy's Law: There is no such thing as a perfect plan.

[@defenderofwisdom]

Jocko should enjoy this. Dangerous situations mandate dangerous meowsures. Hence these SEALS trainees.

[@1988ZER]

Was that shade from Jocko at Echo lol

[@andrewchilvers4304]

Get that...i was late with a deadline for a project for a leadership qualification which had a pass mark of 5 and my Boss was like whats going on and i said it wasnt done to my standard and he looked at and said this is an 8 , turn it in...your done...and he took it off me

[@willweinberg4513]

Dropping loads all over jui jitsu mats

[@Chris-ph8oz]

Eighty Deuce on the loose! Airborne!

[@johnhermanski6909]

Where has all the leaders gone. The U.S. is in as much or more trouble than ever before. I would like to hear your thoughts on where we are and any solutions you can think of how to get America back. A Vietnam era soldier.

[@Accu53Mation]

I try desperately and vigorously to take the initiative, Jocko. But my wife & two pre-teen rugrats(girls), demoralize me in society. Backpacking, is the only way I have the initiative with the gals. But it gets more difficult every outing.

[@dennislogan6781]

As a boy I loved the movie "Sgt. York" and then read two books on him. You could do a whole episode on Sgt. Alvin C. York and still not cover everything. A true American hero.

[@zacharymckay9019]

Genome Modifications with an quantum initiative applied to DnA sequencing could possibly make things happen? Command & Control... Origin Labs... Echelon Front... & The Quantum Angel of Technology... ∆((Mindset°Collective))∆ Brother§ & Sister§ "HooYaH"

[@SonnyBonobo]

CPL York...Man

[@zacharymckay9019]

Don't forget the {{WI•FI}} Demon..

[@_kelley7640]

You never mentioned how long the french was stuck without americas help.

[@crucifiedlife677]

Jocko, did you or anybody you know work with remote viewers?

[@crucifiedlife677]

And buy remote viewers I mean those who have developed their psychic skills and who actually astral project it's also called soul travel. It's where one's soul travels out of the body into other places where it can view remotely such as invisible inside of the room can overhear the plans of the enemy and can also observe. Believe it, it truly is a thing Skeptical? Do your homework and you'll see. 👀

[@crucifiedlife677]

I can neither confirm nor deny whether I have astral projected.

[@quitequiet5281]

^

[@motivationx7248]

Hey, i lost my job recently and i’m trying to build a motivational youtube channel . Am i doing good so far??

[@360health7]

big facts quit laying around WAITING for things to happen and go MAKE IT HAPPEN. I made a video on this topic too check it out!!

[@joker503703]

1st

[@vinr3284]

Progression not perfection

[@Isaiah.]

Just starting this KZbin stuff and would appreciate if you guys could check me out and just let me know what y’all think.

[@HybridSpektar]

The problem is that sounds good in theory, but when done in practice everyone will see that as winging it and if you push back in the work environment you get in trouble. Again, it sounds great in theory but in practice it doesn't really apply in civie situations.

[@kessiachalker8025]

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[@theonewhogiveslikes9390]

If you're a Yes Sir, Yes Ma'am, then you are not in your natural environment. Find another job ,career, or profession.

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks