Jocko Podcast 17: Richard Winters, 'Beyond Band of Brothers'

Jocko Podcast 17 - With Echo Charles | Band of Brothers | Losing the Fight

• Prioritise and execute
• Get rid of what you do not need to accomplish your task
• Hit the enemy on the flank
• Know your objective
• Understand you and your men to get the most out of yourself and others
• Honesty and discipline
• If others are not taking action, you must take action
• Train how you fight, fight how you train
• Physical activity keeps you mentally alert
• Physical exhaustion = mental exhaustion = deterioration of discipline
• Tell people why
• Be a leader; be emulated
• To deal with a dichotomy, find the balance
• Take the fight to the evil within
• There are no natural born leaders
• Preparation and physical conditioning will set you apart
• Leadership is defined in two words: follow me
• Discipline yourself, so you can free yourself
• Detach from the chaos of emotion
• Train for the worst case scenario
• Are you wrong? Good.
• When you dig in, you cannot manoeuvre
• Be aware of hyperbolic discounting
• If you fight with all you got, more often than not you will not go down, you will win
• Stand and fight; fight against weakness and fear and time and decay - fight back
• Fight with every ounce of energy, every bead of sweat and every drop of blood
• Go out there, and get after it

 

I gave his podcast a listen to but I hated how black and white Jocko is. Sometimes it's less black and white and more grey.

 

He can be like that, I agree. It is often not so cut and dry, but it can also be enormously beneficial to simply things we have a tendency to all too often complicate and blur. Jocko has a lot of wisdom and wise words to offer, and I would not reject the podcast so hastily my friend. Listening to his podcast has taught me a lot, and changed me as a person for the better.