Jocko Willink
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I think that's one of the few things that you learn in basic SEAL training is to shrug your shoulders and go forward.
Like, one of the things they do is they'll line you up on the ocean.
And this is in California, and sometimes people think that California is nice, warm water, but it's not.
It's 55 degrees, and I don't know what that translates to in centigrade, but it's cold.
And one of the things they do is they'll line you up, and they say interlock arms, and you get arm-in-arm with the guy next to you, and they say forward march, and you march in the water, and they say take seats, and you sit down.
And they leave you in there.
And it's called surf torture.
And you just sit there.
And they'll...
After a while, they'll pull you up out of the water.
They'll line you up and the doctor will come down and see if anyone has hypothermia.
And if no one has hypothermia or signs of hypothermia yet, get back in the water.
And they just keep doing that.
So yeah, what you learn to do is, okay, I'm going to go forward.
There's no, I can't get out of this.
I'm going to go forward.
I'm not going to quit.
So I'm going to go forward, bring it on.
And I think if there's anything that you learn, it's to keep pushing.
through things that suck.