Andy Stumpf

And I think that's okay.

The most confident people that I saw, the ones that were like, yeah, no problem, got this, most of the time their helmets were underneath the bell.

I'm sure there was an outlier from time to time, but the machismo...

and the bravado and those people, they were the first to go in my memory.

I think the quieter, more curious, more willing to ask questions specifically of themselves, those people, I think they do better in selection processes like this.

Now, having said that, train your ass off, whether it's physical, book knowledge, skill requirements, any of those things.

Train your ass off and listen to that voice, but don't let it crush you.

Is there more that I could do?

I don't know.

Analyze it.

Is there?

Or are you doing everything that you can?

Also be careful of overtraining, right?

Overtraining.

I look back.

specifically when I was a BUDS instructor, people would show up well-trained and then some would show up over-trained.

Over-training, the program itself is probably going to create injuries.

Most people are nursing one, if not a variety of injuries kind of through one phase of the program, if not all of them.

You go into that over-trained and your body's going to fail you, right?

So...