Jocko Willink
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Podcast Appearances
It was nowhere.
So that wasn't until my first platoon where I got introduced to Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
What about wrestling?
Didn't wrestle.
Oh, shit.
My high school didn't even have a wrestling team.
How big was your town?
Graduated with 85 people in my class.
I do not remember anything.
actually wanting to do anything else.
The only thing I ever wanted to do as far as a job goes was be some kind of commando.
And I collected little soldiers when I was a little kid.
I had the British commandos from World War II.
I had a little air fix set, one 32nd size of British commandos.
And they had Zodiac boats and they had kayaks and they had the black watch caps on.
And I thought that that was the coolest thing.
And eventually I figured out that you could have that as an actual job.
I think part of it's like psychologically, right?
I think all kids will have this.
you have to rebel against your parents at some point because you have to get out of there.