"Why People Quit" Former Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf On Why Most Fail BUD/S

[@canvas11xD]

Damn that is why I always quit. I’m to focused on how long and far the task is to being finished.

[@selahollison]

Same

[@jonathansonnier3078]

Yep breaking down your task into manageable pieces is extremely powerful. I have hear several people say the same thing that have spent time in solitary confinement. That’s why you see these guys detail their cell like we would detail a car I learned it very young which is cool. Well at least started to learn the mindset. “DO NOT ALLOW THE TASK TO OVERWHELM YOU. OVERWHELM THE TASK WITH METICULOUS DETAIL UNTIL COMPLETE”-JS

[@Zynleycup]

This is true. but during bud/s you have to factor in that A: you are going to be sick and required to perform -- example: during hell week my buddy and basically the whole class contracted VGE from the tijuana runoff (theyd have literal turds stuck to their goggles), buddy was constantly spray shitting himself and vomiting along with his boat crew, on wednesday night of hell week during around the world evolution, their boats were filled with diarrhea, guys doubled over in fetal positions in between paddling. He was living off boosts/ensure drinks for calories during more than half of hell week because he couldnt hold normal food down. This is the part of hell week that you have to "push the retard button" for. meaning not think just do. nearing the final hours of hell week, an instructor told them "we've decided to extend hell week another 3 days"(it wasnt true) but no one quit, but thats the level that hell week takes guys to. You'd jump off a bridge if the instructors said to during the end of it.

[@marcusfenix9534]

Thank you Andy on introducing the concept of keeping your world small.

[@ColKurtzknew]

Macro goal. Micro focus.

[@mtntoughfitness]

Spot on. Thanks for watching.

[@AviNerd]

I like this, taking it!

[@GeorgeJansen]

I heard one seal say he made it through buds/hell week, by focusing on the next meals... He knew the instructors could not withhold their chow sessions 🤣🤣🤣❤❤

[@mtntoughfitness]

🧐

[@barcan8371]

That might be Chadd Wright

[@rooknado]

@@mtntoughfitnesswhat’s that face for

[@STRENGTHTHRUJOY]

When I was in the Navy I met a few SEALS. I asked one about BUD/S & Hell week and what he did to get through, he said he only thought as far ahead as the next meal. He said "They have to feed us. So I figured if I could just make it to the next meal, I'm good." I also asked an officer the same question and he said "If I'd quit BUD/S, I was looking at 5 years on a ship. Fuck that. Every time I got overwhelmed, I thought about 5 years on some ship. To me that was way worse than anything BUD/S could through at me." BTW These conversations were over 20 years ago so the quotes aren't word for word lol

[@JB-td9fz]

Amd you've watched a few podcasts and blatejrly made that up

[@STRENGTHTHRUJOY]

@@JB-td9fz Nope. Actually happened. Now go learn to spell.

[@JB-td9fz]

@@STRENGTHTHRUJOY no it didn't. You've just recycled the same narrative your hear on all these Squeal podcasts

[@STRENGTHTHRUJOY]

@@JB-td9fz ok civilian.😂😂

[@JB-td9fz]

@@STRENGTHTHRUJOY 2000 - 16. What's your experience? 👀

[@0Shane13]

The most important muscle is in your chest. Your heart. You have to accept the pressure. Maybe the pain will last forever, but you’re at peace with. Beliefs drive actions, so it be advantageous to hypnotize yourself into never giving up.

[@JeffFromVenice]

Freakin' gold. You changed my life. Thanks.

[@mtntoughfitness]

Ayy, that’s awesome!

[@justapedn1]

Solutions come during a run.

[@privateProtection]

Facts 😂

[@Zynleycup]

Statistically speaking, alot of team guys have ADD. My best buddy made it to a team 4 years ago; major ADD. This is why youre talking about having to be actively focused on something else to come up with a solution for something different. psychologically for something like bud/s, ADD helps. Another major mental strategy my buddy used during buds and hell week that his class even coined the term for was "fuck it", meaning anytime thoughts started to come up during things that sucked you immediately block it out with "fuck it" - dont even allow the brain to compute whats happening. he said during hell week it was shortened to "fuck then fu.." lol. pushing the "retard button" is invaulable .

[@Zynleycup]

he felt the "ball of life"(lol) leaving his chest during many long boat runs especially down to imperial beach - immediately thought fuck it. He basically had to accept that he was going to die in the pool during pool comp in 2nd phase - he failed it 3 times, secured on the 4th. Even in kodiak during SQT during what he called "dip test" and many others he was still using this mental tactic. He said during the weekends, and sleeping during the nights and having to wake up were some of the worst parts of buds, because it allows your brain to start thinking. He set an alarm every morning 10 minutes before he had to be at morning muster, so it wouldnt even allow his brain to start thinking about what was coming - get dressed shave eat a power bar in that time (even get dressed actively on the way to muster). Long story short, moments of reprieve are some of the worst times during buds.

[@mtntoughfitness]

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing. 👊

[@Zynleycup]

@@mtntoughfitness no problem just wanted to shed a little extra light. Like I said, ironically it was during times where you'd have time to think is what gets alot of guys to quit. Before or after evolutions were where guys would quit - rarer to have guys quit DURING evolutions (unless they were turds and were either kicked out by their crews/instructors). Same thing with the weekends/mornings. That reminder of repreive/comfort was the killer. would have alot of monday morning DORs after a relaxing weekend - same with mornings and after completing a beat down of an evolution.

[@GeorgeJansen]

3 foot world. Focus on your 3 foot world

[@FMD023]

I never knew buds candidates go thru a pre course before buds. U would think that should help a lot. I guess it’s how some people download the information and if they really want to he seals. To add on those micro goals, learning how to use false motivation works wonders.

[@johnlasseigne7676]

They quit because it's cold as fuck and hurts.... Really really bad

[@bradleygonzalez1160]

Breakfast lunch dinner Mind over matter you don’t mind it don’t matter. All glory to Jesus Christ 💪

[@markknivila8383]

@bradleygonzalez1160 That'right, brother! All glory to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! With him, all thing's are possible!

[@bradleygonzalez1160]

@@markknivila8383 amen bro. All glory to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

[@5metoo]

Are explanations that do not deal with being wet and cold adequate? I'm doubtful.

[@chetmanley4296]

Wow 2 fellas that are not marked up with tattoos good impulse control

[@0Shane13]

You’re quiting you’re not adequately prepared

[@BigMoonShot]

Everybody got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

[@ErnestLilith-l8i]

Streich Walk

[@GregoryDumas-q4j]

It was fun to watch people on wildland fire fallout. I was the smallest in the crew. Got fucked with the whole time. And i lasted therough the entire season. ALL THE HATERS QUIT

[@WisersPlace]

The posture of these two men could not be more different.

[@barcan8371]

for sure dude running the interview clinging to the chair like its about to take off 😂😂😂

[@donshaffer4169]

My solutions come while driving a car

[@Rubeless]

Easy answer. You are not mentally or physically capable. But if you want to be famous, you can make it through buds.

[@Deadweight88]

Seriously, I think every man should attempt BUDs.

[@Deadweight88]

@@CJ0101 It would’ve helped Biden.

[@barcan8371]

Then maybe dropouts can get better rates when they DOR since all the chip n paint jobs are filled! Genius!

[@goldstandardaviation1667]

The brain is an organ not a muscle.

[@Fredjames049]

Buds wasn’t that hard 😮‍💨 Class 215

[@toddpacker9818]

Brain is an organ not a muscle…

[@basrinak6372]

You lost me at the Black Rifle hat. They almost certainly voted for Kamala.

[@iiDefied]

Shut up pssy

[@victorvalenzuela9650]

They quit because making tiktoks videos make more money, u can write a book about how I almost made it through buds, they're wondering if they want to be a woman instead of a man. Welcome to the new military

[@Zynleycup]

spoken like someone whos never been with a chest full of jealousy

[@OrdellRob]

Victor Valenzuela has the scoop on BUD/s, gents. 😂

[@johnulmer6715]

I'm an army vet, but get asked a lot if I was a SEAL or green beret. I always tell them no, even though I was salted for rangers and couldn't go due to being in the hospital with double pneumonia for my testing and inception date, would have had to re-cycle to do it, so I passed. Anyway, trying to be honest I tell everyone that I never would have made it through BUDS. I think I'd have survived hell week, but would have never made it through the water stuff. I'm just not that good in the water, I'm built like and swim like a tank. Sometimes you have to be self aware and know your limitations. I was a beast on the ground, and kept it that way.

[@Zynleycup]

I've got news for you, first 3 weeks leading up to hell week are filled with water evolutions.. Beehive, drownproofing, underwater knot tying, 50m underwater swim. During hell week youre still doing some water evolutions like steel pier (treading while being hypothermic 24 hrs into hell week generally btw), treading deeper into the bay (instructors encircled my buddies class with their jetskies and just ran laps/circles around the perimeter of the bundle they were grouped into while treading, exhaust fumes were making dudes vomit and on the cusp of blacking out). Everyone said they wouldnt quit during hell week when they started with 56 - they ended up with 19 who secured HW. 120 started day 1 of 1st phase, 56 made it to hell week, 19 secured hell week, 12 secured pool comp in 2nd phase - graduated 12 originals by the end of bud/s and SQT. Don't beat yourself up over not going. You've got to be destined to be a team guy is the only way you make it through - and the guys who are destined; go.

[@Zynleycup]

you dont just go with the intention of getting to and through hell week - those guys are usually gone by the 1st week of 1st phase. To get to hell week you have to be fully committed to the cause; not worried by water as a limiting factor. because either A: you're not going to make it through early water evolutions or B: in the unlikely event of making it to hell week the thought of 2nd phase and actually being a SEAL wouldve crossed your mind by that time causing the DOR during hell week when youre at your absolute most miserable point. Now is that to say you cant be afraid of the water? No. My buddy was terrified of drowning before showing up to bud/s. It happened a few times, then he became alright with it because he wanted to be a seal bad enough. You have that death pact before getting to bud/s, and the guys who stick to it become team guys.

[@johnulmer6715]

I'm not afraid of the water, but respect it. Like I said, liked the ground under my feet. I never had any desire to do the whole bob around on the ocean for months at a time. As for hell week, we'll never know, I'm 60 and over any military aspirations. This being said, nobody ever knows, for sure, what they can handle until they're in the shit. 🤙

[@Zynleycup]

@@johnulmer6715 100%. But there are bud/s duds who hold on for quitting too long as well, shit will affect them 10-20+ years down the line. Same concept for buds duds and those who've never gone: Being a seal is a destiny few guys have and the one's who do have it have gone to bud/s regardless of X going on in their lives at any point . doesn't make you less of a man if you didn't have that destiny to be a seal. 2700 active seals right now - not everyone is called to do it.

[@OrdellRob]

@@Zynleycup hopefully you’ve been through BUD/S since you’re talking like you have.

[@jessee7334]

Interviewer has no conviction and seems shifty!

[@anatta467]

man, you guys should stop listening to seals. yjey are the absolute worst guys to work with period. ever. anyone thats been in real ops knows this.

[@Zynleycup]

Furthest thing from the truth. Selection in other branches doesnt even hold a candle to the product you get from buds/SQT. Best buddies an active seal and witnessed this firsthand - during his early platoon where he had to go to 18D (all medics in the seal teams are required); Said he saw the same timid/afraid of whats coming next look on guys faces fresh out of RASP or Q still, that beginning bud/s students tend to have before the beach/ocean does it's work and youre just left with a bunch of dudes who dont give a fuck by the end of buds. The product you get from the seal pipeline is just better. He'd rather work with the bottom 25% of seals than the top 25% or rangers/SF (he's been there done it). This also comes from the top down control the green side has with its SOF units. When the elements get small and the action gets dynamic - the top down control doesnt work. Less dynamic, harder to get teams on the same page etc. Seal teams control themselves (NSW) and only have to look to JSOC while battalion/SF have to look for big army then JSOC (for SF). Current commander for JSOC is a seal right now as well. Prime example: SEAL teams were doing C grip on rifles long before the green side passed off on it for battalion (and took forever to trickle down). something as simple as that, let alone actually tactically. seal teams are better funded, less manning (better and more training for each individual), seal selection is more funded (over $1 million to get 1 student through to SQT). I will say though, SQT has a CAG weapons instructor running that portion of it (atleast 4 years ago when my buddy went through it).

[@MattGinNY]

Stop your nonsense...and trying to divide US military branches...

[@CarveYourLegacy]

Your background?

[@rubicon-oh9km]

You need to focus on the English language and your grammar. It's quite pathetic.