Jocko Willink

And as I started to, and I got, you know, I had the luckiest career ever.

I got deep selected to O4.

Like I, very, you know, everything had always gone well for me in my Navy career from, you know, being selected for the, the Seaman Admiral program in the first place, which was probably because I was Sailor of the Year at SEAL Team One when I was an E5.

Like I'd,

I was on a very good trajectory.

But I also looked at it and I was like, okay, what's my next billet?

And you started looking at the billets and like, there weren't jobs that I was super excited to go do.

And then I was thinking, well, okay, what's after that job?

And it turned out when I measured it out, I was about seven years

at that time from being like a SEAL Team CO.

And now, fast forward a little bit, because I'd come home from Ramadi the war cycle, but now it had started to like draw down.

And I'm like, man, I could hold on for seven more years.

By that time, it was like five more years.

And then what will I be doing?

Okay, but I love the teams.

But what about these people that live in your house?

You know, who are these people that live in your house?

And why don't they really know you?

So I just ran the numbers mentally on what that was.

And I just decided I'd done 20 years