Jocko Willink

The vast majority of people that don't make it through SEAL training, and by this I mean 80, 90% of the people that don't make it through SEAL training, they didn't make it through because they quit.

Then there's a small percentage that had a medical problem, and then there's a small percentage that got performance dropped.

meaning they couldn't perform the runs, the swims, the technical aspects of the job, and they failed, and they get dropped.

But the vast majority of people, they quit.

But they don't usually say that.

And even in their mind, they probably don't believe it.

They probably believe, well, you know, it was my leg, and once my leg was hurting, I knew I was going to have a hard time on the runs.

I wasn't going to be able to make the runs.

That's why I quit.

But it wasn't really quitting.

It was because of my leg.

So it's, like I said, it's a very strange and really kind of a mystical thing.

Your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you ever wanted from you if you let them.

Doesn't sound like a friend.

No, it's definitely not a friend.

It's definitely not a friend.

It can seem like a friend, just like your friend that keeps feeding you drinks at the bar can seem like a friend.

But are they really helping you in any way, shape, or form?

No, they're not.

They're not.