Jocko Willink
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I'm going to go focus on my family.
I did not focus on my family when I was in the SEAL teams at all.
The teams was, I was married to the teams.
I was married to the teams and my wife and family came second.
And that's not, I think I needed to give something to them.
Maybe if I'd been more balanced, you know,
Maybe I could have sorted it out, but I wasn't very balanced.
I was in the teams, and I love the teams.
And I felt like, yeah, if I can't give the teams everything, then it's probably not going to be the best thing.
The teams gave me everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's nothing better than going to work in the teams.
You know, you and I just got all giddy going out to dump some rounds out there.
You know what I mean?
You and me were kind of like in a different, like we were like a couple of kids out there and you and I used to do that all day every day until we were sick of it.
You know?
So, uh, yeah.
And it was hard cause I, you know, I had to go tell my chain of command and, and it was hard for me to go tell the Admiral, uh,
go tell the commodore then and then tell my teammates you know that that sucked because you're a quitter you know and i was not a quitter but now i'm gonna quit when i left team one you know they used to say if you got out of the teams you're a quitter right and and i said uh