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Gen. Stanley McChrystal

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306 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Yeah, without being trite, it is the journey and not the destination. When I left the service after 34 years, a friend of mine and I co-founded a company, and my motivation was just to create a team that I could be a part of. I didn't care whether we made money. I really didn't care what business we went into, but I wanted a place to go. I wanted a Jersey to wear.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Yeah, without being trite, it is the journey and not the destination. When I left the service after 34 years, a friend of mine and I co-founded a company, and my motivation was just to create a team that I could be a part of. I didn't care whether we made money. I really didn't care what business we went into, but I wanted a place to go. I wanted a Jersey to wear.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

I wanted comrades because I realized that that was most important to me. That still is. And I'm, I'm pretty self-aware about that right now. And so I think when people don't understand that and they think the goal is to be X and Really, the goal is life between here and there.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

I wanted comrades because I realized that that was most important to me. That still is. And I'm, I'm pretty self-aware about that right now. And so I think when people don't understand that and they think the goal is to be X and Really, the goal is life between here and there.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

I wanted comrades because I realized that that was most important to me. That still is. And I'm, I'm pretty self-aware about that right now. And so I think when people don't understand that and they think the goal is to be X and Really, the goal is life between here and there.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

It also touches upon, we've got an attitude by some people today that says, if you are obsessed, if you work hard, you're a sucker. You are going out there and you are ruining the rest of your life. You're not getting work-life balance and all that sort of thing. And I'm just not of that view. My view is there is a certain

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

It also touches upon, we've got an attitude by some people today that says, if you are obsessed, if you work hard, you're a sucker. You are going out there and you are ruining the rest of your life. You're not getting work-life balance and all that sort of thing. And I'm just not of that view. My view is there is a certain

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

It also touches upon, we've got an attitude by some people today that says, if you are obsessed, if you work hard, you're a sucker. You are going out there and you are ruining the rest of your life. You're not getting work-life balance and all that sort of thing. And I'm just not of that view. My view is there is a certain

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

There's a certain purity and there's a certain satisfaction that comes with obsession. And it doesn't have to mean you're a jerk in the rest of your life, you don't have a good relationship, but it means those things you want, you're willing to try really hard for. You're willing to work really hard for. You're willing to see how good I can be at that.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

There's a certain purity and there's a certain satisfaction that comes with obsession. And it doesn't have to mean you're a jerk in the rest of your life, you don't have a good relationship, but it means those things you want, you're willing to try really hard for. You're willing to work really hard for. You're willing to see how good I can be at that.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

There's a certain purity and there's a certain satisfaction that comes with obsession. And it doesn't have to mean you're a jerk in the rest of your life, you don't have a good relationship, but it means those things you want, you're willing to try really hard for. You're willing to work really hard for. You're willing to see how good I can be at that.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Because if you go 70%, you always go wonder, well, if I'd only done X. I had a lot of people in the army used to come to me and they'd go, You know, I thought about going in the Rangers. I was going to, but I was doing X and, you know, I had laundry in and I'd want, you know, I'd go, you got to make the choice to do those things sometimes.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Because if you go 70%, you always go wonder, well, if I'd only done X. I had a lot of people in the army used to come to me and they'd go, You know, I thought about going in the Rangers. I was going to, but I was doing X and, you know, I had laundry in and I'd want, you know, I'd go, you got to make the choice to do those things sometimes.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Because if you go 70%, you always go wonder, well, if I'd only done X. I had a lot of people in the army used to come to me and they'd go, You know, I thought about going in the Rangers. I was going to, but I was doing X and, you know, I had laundry in and I'd want, you know, I'd go, you got to make the choice to do those things sometimes.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Because if you don't test yourself, one, you'll never know.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Because if you don't test yourself, one, you'll never know.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Because if you don't test yourself, one, you'll never know.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Well, it's everything. It's the essence of who we are. At the end of the day, character, and I brought it down to a mathematical equation, it's what are our convictions, the things we believe in that we've really pressure tested, and then the discipline we have to live up to it.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Well, it's everything. It's the essence of who we are. At the end of the day, character, and I brought it down to a mathematical equation, it's what are our convictions, the things we believe in that we've really pressure tested, and then the discipline we have to live up to it.

Modern Wisdom
#942 - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - How To Actually Build Discipline

Well, it's everything. It's the essence of who we are. At the end of the day, character, and I brought it down to a mathematical equation, it's what are our convictions, the things we believe in that we've really pressure tested, and then the discipline we have to live up to it.