547. The Movie Hollywood Didn’t See Coming... | Jocko Willink
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What lessons can parents teach their children about self-criticism?
One time my daughter came home saying that she was stupid, and I said, well, why do you think you're stupid? She says, I don't know my times tables. Bad father. I hadn't taught her how to study. She literally was thinking that she was stupid. Single points of inadequacy do not indicate general incompetence. You're not born knowing your times tables, and you're not born knowing chemistry, and you're not born knowing European history. You have to read about it and you have to study it.
You want to take that self-criticism and narrow it to the point where it turns into a strategy for progress.
Okay, so you wrote this book, The Way of the Warrior Kid. So there's a guy, he has kids, and one day he walked into his kids' rooms and his kids were doing push-ups. And he said, what are you doing? So they showed him this book that they read called Way of the Warrior Kid. He picks up the book and says, I got to make this into a movie. Oh, really? Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't know how much you care about Hollywood behind-the-scenes stuff.
Well, let's hear the story. Hello, everybody. I had the privilege of sitting down today with someone who's really become a friend, Jocko Willink, former Navy SEAL, a serial entrepreneur. And we had a chance to dive into the practices of his successful and adventurous life. And we talked about two broad categories of topic, both of which are a great practical utility. One of them was an analysis of where you find ideas and opportunities. How do you determine where to look for what might change your life? How do you pursue your interests? How do you pay attention to what bothers you? How do you turn the problems that bother you into opportunities? How do you pursue the things that compel you so that they are the gift that keeps giving?
How do you generate a life of abundance around you conceptually and practically? And Jocko's done that in a multitude of ways. We used his latest foray into a new entrepreneurial domain as a case study, so to speak. He's got a new movie coming out, The Way of the Warrior Kid, and we discussed why he wrote that book, what problem he thought he was solving, how that morphed into a sequence of publishing opportunities, how that then transformed into the opportunity to make a movie, how he made that work properly. We also talked about leadership a lot and what leadership is and how it is that you configure yourself and the way that you interact with the world so that you can become a effective leaders so that you can invite people to share their excitement of your vision how you can develop an exciting vision how you can strategize with people so that they come aboard so that the things that you decide to do together are overwhelmingly more likely to be productive and worthwhile so why is it useful to talk to jocko and why would it be useful to watch this podcast because he knows how to conduct himself effectively in the world in a multitude of different manners
physical, psychological, philosophical, practical. And we discussed all the things that he knows, many of the things that he knows, in a way that makes his wisdom accessible to people who are trying to straighten their lives out and to aim upward. Way we go.
We meet again.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great. Great, eh? Yeah. Define great. It seems like the things in my life are moving forward in a positive direction. So it seems pretty great.
And that's been, it's been like that for quite a while, eh?
Yeah. I'd say it's been like that for quite a while. Yeah. What are you doing right? I guess I'm just trying to work hard and keep moving forward myself. I think that accumulates over time, I would say.
Yeah, right, right. Are you still getting up at 4.30 in the morning? I am indeed. You know, that's completely insane.
Yeah, a little bit insane. So how do you structure your day? Wake up early in the morning, work out. How long do you work out? It depends. Today I worked out for about probably 15 minutes because I had to get on a flight to come out here. So I just woke up. I got on the rower and I did a little bit of barbell exercise and then was done. 15 minutes.
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