Jocko Willink
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, that's not good either.
What do we want to be as a human, as a man?
We want to be balanced.
It's much easier to be extreme.
It's much easier to say, oh, no emotions, cool, and turn them off.
That's easier.
Or total emotion mayhem, that's easier.
It's harder to find balance.
It's harder to find balance in business.
It's hard to find balance in life.
It's hard to find balance.
But you have to be balanced.
Because what I want is for the team to win.
So be balanced.
You talk about performance without a purpose.
What's that?
I've realized that it's scary when you find a thing that you're going to fully commit yourself to the pursuit of, especially if it's excellence that you're going after, because there's no more room for your inadequacies to hide anymore.
You can't decide to change direction and do something else if things get tough.
There's no more ejector seat, right?
I've committed to this.