Speaker 1 0:00
How do you be brave? How do you be brave? Well, there’s gonna be things in life that you don’t want to do, and you have to do them anyways. And it’s gonna be some things that you’re gonna be they’re just gonna be like you don’t feel like doing them, or maybe they’re gonna be uncomfortable, and so you’re not going to want to do them, but they’re the right thing to do, so you do them anyways. And if you get used to that, then sometime you’re going to be scared. You’re gonna be afraid of something. And because you practice doing things that you don’t want to do, you’re going to be able to do it in my room by myself. Well, that’s pretty good.

Speaker 2 0:38
Yeah, nothing was even there. Only when I turn my light on, I hear two clicks.

Speaker 1 0:46
It might be something with your light system in your house or my roof, Santa could be on your roof, or it could be monsters. Yeah, good. Okay. Do you have any more questions for me? Yeah, how do you be strong? Oh, well, to be strong, I think you already know the answer to this one, don’t you? Okay, what’s the answer? You tell me, you eat healthy food and you eat chicken and you eat steak. There’s something else that has nothing to do with eating what is that? Oh, come on. You know what it is, if you want to get strong muscles, what do you have to do? Eat beef. Eat beef. Yes, but there’s still one more thing that you’re missing. What is it? It’s something that you probably like to do, but it can be hard to Yes. Thank you. Yes. That’s how you get strong. You eat good foods, healthy foods, workout. I know you do well. I’m glad that you’re working out and you’re going to be strong. Excellent. Any more questions?

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:51
I don’t know anymore, okay, I have one more. Okay, so just have to ask this question. Ready? Ask Jocko, how do you be brave? How do you be brave? Okay, Jocko doesn’t have to answer that question. He knows. What about how do you train to be a Navy SEAL?

Speaker 1 2:22
Oh, if you want to be in the SEAL teams, well, what you have to do is you have to really focus everything that you’re doing. You got to do really good in school. You got to eat healthy foods. I do school. Okay, good, but you got to pay attention in school. You got to learn good, excellent. And then we are pay off. I never do anything. Oh, you do. You do the right things in school, good job. And then eat healthy, work out. And then I would recommend playing some sports, like wrestling, football, that’s good, too. Football, soccer, basketball, swimming. You’re gonna I swim every day. That’s excellent. That’s a really good way to prepare, and I can go all the way to the bottom of my of the floor. Oh, that’s awesome

Unknown Speaker 3:15
without without goggles.

Speaker 1 3:18
Oh, nice. Nice. Without goggles, you can’t see so clearly. I only can see blue, blue everywhere.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 3:28
All right, do you want to say thank you? Thank you. Thank you, bud. Okay, great job buddy. This work. Okay, time to go back to school. Good job buddy. Thank you.

Unknown Speaker 3:47
Go get some beef. Go get some chicken. Maybe.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 4:00
Oh, awesome. So officially, that was your first interview by four year old. Yes, it was, yeah, well, I’m very excited about that. We got it done. It’s gonna it’s gonna be really cute. Are the best, especially because the warrior kid is coming out. I hear sharrs ass is in there. Chars ass is in I’m very excited. It’s her debut. We got her strong point in the movie. I’m so excited

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 4:31
about that. Missed a wild party last night. Oh yeah.

Unknown Speaker 4:36
Said no one ever, yeah, yeah.

Unknown Speaker 4:40
Luckily, I’ll get to party tonight, I guess.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 4:51
Okay, I’m gonna take a quick video of us, dude, Oh, I hit it because it wasn’t. And jockos, there you go, dude. For the record, Shane bought that. Okay, okay, what’s up, guys today in studio, I have the one and only who? By the way, this was his first time being interviewed by a four year old Jocko.

Speaker 1 5:18
How did he do? Oh, he did excellent. I think he’s got a real career in broadcasting ahead of me. If he wants

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 5:24
it, don’t tell my husband, not because, you know, my son wants to go into the teams,

Speaker 1 5:30
yeah, well, that’s a best job ever.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 5:33
Okay, well, wait for it. Hi, bye. Hi, phnicia. Okay, I love you. Okay, let’s eat your chicken. Okay, you’re gonna have to be physically removed. Will you Mia? Do you mind telling Angelica? No vacuuming right now, it’s always awesome. Do always awesome. How’s my positioning? I don’t know. We’ll see you’re very large. So I was like, char, I need to ask Jocko questions. He’s never been asked. Did she give you any good ones? No, no, no, but we tried. But we tried. I came up with some good ones right on. Okay. Is this okay? Yes. So I actually have a question for you. Um, I’m not gonna ask it yet. Anyway. Jocko, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. You are known for leadership. Just I wanted to let you know, but when we think about leadership, I think a lot of people don’t also think about parenting. And you know, I’m raising two little kids, one who just interviewed you, he’s four, Leonidas, by the way, the idea of leadership and parenthood. How does that play out?

Speaker 1 7:14
They’re, they’re actually very similar, and I think a lot of people overlook it, and they don’t see the similarities, but they are. They are so similar, and the only real huge difference is that it’s very difficult to emotionally detach properly from your kids. Because look, if you’re my employee and you do something terribly wrong, I can just fire you, or if you’re not performing the way I need you to perform, and I’ve counseled you, and I’ve gone through all the steps like, I can fire you, or there’s, there’s ways it’s not a permanent relationship, but with your kid, you feel like, oh well, you can’t, you can’t get rid of them. You can’t fire them. And the other thing is, people feel that their kids are a reflection of them, and so people feel like, oh well, if my kid isn’t the apex child, then I must be not an apex parent, and therefore bad person where it’s the reality is, kids are gonna be all over the map. And, you know, I’ve known people. I’ve known people growing up where there was incredibly awesome parents, you know, by every By every metric, and they would have three kids and two the kids would turn out to be awesome kids with great jobs and great careers, and one kid would go completely off the rails and be a drug addict. And perhaps you’ve seen that as well. So I think people get so invested in their kids as being a representation of themselves, and I think that’s something you have to watch out for. And you see it. You know, if you go to a kids soccer game or a kid’s jiu jitsu tournament or kids wrestling tournament, the parents are living vicariously through the kids. You go complete the dreams that I wasn’t able to complete. And so I think you got to be a little bit careful of that. But essentially, all the principles that we teach about leadership, they definitely apply to your kids. For instance, let your kids come up with a plan. Instead of me coming up with a plan, let your kid not look when your kids forward. They can only do so much planning. But if you can, instead of saying, hey, you need to clean your room right now, you say, hey, sometime today, can you get your room cleaned? And you let them figure out when they’re going to do it, and that kind of gives them, it empowers them, makes them feel like they have more control, because they do have more control. You’re actually giving to them, and it’s giving them responsibility, and that’s also important as well. So there’s the parallels are all all over the place. The only thing, the biggest difference is we just get more emotional about our family. We We because of those things, because we can’t get rid of them, and we think that the way they are as human beings reflects on us as parents. And look, is there some level of truth to that? Of course, there’s a level of truth to the way that you raise your kids. Your kids are gonna go out in the world, and there will be some reflection of it. So we just have to be careful that. We don’t over index

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 10:00
on that, you know? It makes me think about nature versus nurture. You hear a lot about, oh no, it’s mostly nurture. I don’t know if that’s true.

Speaker 1 10:13
I don’t know if it’s either. I think there is nurture involved. But you can your you know, your kids are going to be kind of who they’re going to be. And this, you know, when I was teaching, I used to teach a lot of kids Jiu Jitsu, and there’s just some kids that kids are just different, and there’ll be some kids that they want to compete, they want to they want to compete every single thing, every game, they want to win. This is a five or six year old kid, and by the way, their parents might be total, like lazy people, and the kid is just this little driven kid, and then you get some other kid comes in there, doesn’t want to do anything, doesn’t really want to pay attention, doesn’t want to, you know, it’s and they just, it’s not that. They just don’t want to do Jiu Jitsu, they don’t really want to do anything, like no matter what game you put out there, they don’t care. So I think it is a lot of nature, but there is some nurture that comes into it. But I don’t think it’s just us as parents. It’s whatever’s whatever’s going to occur them in their lives, makes all kinds of little tiny adjustments in people. And also, I think people, they think that the trajectory of their kid is a lot more impacted by little moments in their lives. And what I mean by that is, you know, someone will say, you know, my kid quit Jiu Jitsu. My kid doesn’t want to change Jiu Jitsu, and they think that their life is ruined, right? The kid does. That means he’s never gonna be able to defend himself. It means he’s a quitter, like they’ll put all these labels on their own kid. And the fact of the matter is, it doesn’t matter the kid will start training next year, or maybe the kid’s gonna do wrestling, etc, or maybe he’s gonna be a boxer, or maybe he’s gonna be a swimmer or whatever. But it’s not it’s it doesn’t really matter that much. And people think that this little change in in course of a kid is like this permanent thing with their kid, and it’s just not that way. My son had a friend who I brought to Jiu Jitsu, and he’s five years old. He hated it. I brought him jiu jitsu at six years old. He hated it. I brought him to jitsu at seven years old. He hated it. Years old. He hated it. I think it was like eight or nine years old. He got totally into judo. Soon he was good to go. But it you just have to recognize that kids are going to, they’re going to be all over the place. They’re They’re little scatter brains, and they’re going to and they’re going to try different things. And you want them to, you want them to go out there and experiment and try different sports, different musical instruments, just, you know, painting, art, writing, whatever your kid just get, let them do all kinds of stuff. And then they’re going to kind of gravitate, at some point, probably because of their nature more than their nurture, to some particular thing, and that’s what they’re going to be into. We hope, yes, yes, you do you? I think that is, and it’s actually a friend of mine that, you know, we all had kids growing up together, and he always said is, I just want my kid to be into something, right? And let’s look, I guess, something positive, right? But whether it’s music, sports, school, if they’re into something, and I agree with this, if they’re really into something, it will just kind of all the all the rest of their life will just kind of fall into line. Whether they’re really into soccer and they’ll kind of their life will fall in line. Or they’re really into basketball, they’re really just skateboarding or whatever they get into, it kind of pulls the rest of your your life in line. Because when you get into something. You learn how to practice that thing. You learn how to work hard at that thing. You learn how to interact with other people that do that thing. So finding something that kids are into, I think, is if they can get one thing that they’re into, I think you’re pretty stoked.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 13:34
You know, we both have kids, and it, you know, I think about my daughter, and I wonder if there are certain mistakes that you think kids have to make to be able to grow strong.

Speaker 1 13:48
Oh yeah, you definitely. You want your kids to brush up against the guardrails of failure. I say that all the time, like they’re driving down a road. You want that road to be pretty wide, and occasionally they’re going to hit the guardrails and they might get a little bit dinged up, and actually they’re going to get stronger and better for that. So, yeah, you don’t want to, you don’t want to just pave the road for your kids. You want to have them have to work to get down that road. And look, life will do it to them. It doesn’t matter what you do as a parent. They’re going to, even if, even if you pave that whole road for them, they will find a way to get off that road and cause issues for themselves that they’re gonna have to work through. So they’ll they’ll figure out a way to to get themselves in trouble.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 14:26
This might be kind of a weird question, but do you think that they are meant to do something? You know, I know when you talk about being a commando was the only thing that you could imagine. I see a bit of that in my son, who’s four and is training. Do you think there’s a, I don’t know the best way to say this, but like a dharma, that this is their path?

Speaker 1 14:46
Probably, yeah, and I think it’s just as if we were, you know, horses, and some horses are big and strong, and they’re meant to to, you know, drag lumber through. Woods, and that’s what they’re going to go do. And other horses are slender and fast, and they’re going to go out on the racetrack. And same thing in a seal platoon, like you get certain guys, and they’re a big, strong guy, he’s probably going to be a machine gunner, right? Oh, a smaller, slender, nimble guy. He’s probably gonna be a point man, the guy with the brain, he’s gonna be a radio man. Like, they have these little stereotypes. What about

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 15:23
the medics? I just asked him for a friend.

Speaker 1 15:24
Yeah, medics usually just twisted people that like to cause other people pain, sadistic people. I know one of those. Yeah, exactly.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 15:34
Are there traits? Are there traits that you and I’m talking about daughters, I love Rana, you know, she ran and came and spoke at the event that we had last year, which was epic. She was on a panel with Danica Patrick, another a really dear sister of mine. Are there traits that you hope, that say one of your daughters inherits and their hope? Are there traits that you hope she never needs?

Speaker 1 15:57
Yeah, I think all the all the common traits that everybody would want their kids to have. I would want my kids to have, but then you also don’t want these traits taken to the extreme. So whatever that trait is

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 16:10
interesting, though, because I have to to pause you, I would say that you have traits that take you to an extreme, which have allowed you to be phenomenal at your job,

Speaker 1 16:21
yeah, maybe, but they’re probably not quite as extreme as you think they are. They’re probably a lot more a lot, a lot softer than you think they are. Maybe not softer, but they’re, they’re probably not quite as extreme as you think they’re. I mean, I wrote a whole book called The dichotomy of leadership, which was about the fact that if you take any trait to an extreme, it will become a negative. So even, you know, I guess we have the discipline equals freedom. Field Manual, sitting back there, if you take discipline to an extreme where. And you know, I think my daughter Rena has talked about this. She talked about it on my podcast. You know, she was cutting weight all through high school, very body conscious. She went to college for nutrition science. And she was taking a class on on cooking, right? You have to take a class on cooking. And throughout the entire semester, they’re cooking these amazing meals. And, you know, just incredible meals, they’re spending time, and they would get done with a meal. And she for the whole semester, didn’t eat one bite of any of the meals that she made. And in her mind, she was like, I am just so disciplined. And then she realized there’s something wrong with this, like she’s not she’s too focused, she’s too disciplined on this stuff. So I think any trait, if you take it to an extreme, it becomes problematic, you know. And even, even when I give this example to people, I say, like being generous, right? Like being generous is such a great quality to have, but can I go too far? Oh, yeah, absolutely. You meet people in life or you that have been so generous that they’ve been a victim and they’ve been taken advantage of. So every trait you I guess, if there’s one thing I would want my kids to be is balanced, that’s I actually didn’t expect that answer at all. I would want my kids to be balanced and not to be extreme with any one of their their traits, because I think they become problematic. This

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 18:17
is an interesting one, and this question is, as I just think about, you know, as a parent, it’s an interesting landscape, this idea of leadership and developing and helping raise adults and a daughter. What do you think a daughter should learn about men from you, both good and bad.

Speaker 1 18:38
I think, I think that your daughter is going to pay attention to the way that let me I think my daughter’s paid attention to the way I treated my wife, you know. And so I think that they should see, oh, this is how I should probably be treated when I’m interacting with a man. I would say that’s probably the main thing. And yeah, that and a good rear naked choke and arm walk.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 19:07
I mean, especially nowadays, right? You know, because facing fear, I mean, we do. We’re in a totally different landscape. And by the way, don’t take this the wrong way. My first choice for the podcast guest was actually Helen, yeah, but I said, I’ll settle for you instead. Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 19:27
I, actually, I said to her, Hey, you should come and watch and maybe you could, you know, provide some conversations that I’m not going, I’m not going anywhere near it. Yeah, yeah. The fear thing, you know, I was, I was interviewing a guy a little while ago, and we were just talking about the fact that I, if you ask a guy, when the last time he was afraid he’s going to be, oh, you know, one time, oh, I was doing a static line jump in my you know, it’s going to be, if they’re gonna have to think about it, and it’s going to be probably years, probably years. And if. You ask a female, when’s the last time she was afraid? They’re not gonna have to think about it very long, and it’s gonna be probably within the last month where car broke down, walking out of the store at night, whatever, whatever that thing is. But you’re right. It’s a totally different it’s a totally different mindset that you have

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 20:14
to have, for sure. Do you think that there’s different frameworks for each

Speaker 1 20:20
Yeah, I can tell you right now with my son, when he was like a rogue child that was just out doing whatever, 24 hours a day, he would leave on his skateboard or on his bicycle or on foot and just go with his buddies at eight, 910, years old, seven years old, eight years old, nine years old, gone, and my daughter’s ever not let do that like, it was like, Okay, where are you gonna be? Who’s going with you? It was totally different. Yeah, do

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 20:49
you think it’s just a protective mechanism,

Speaker 1 20:51
or I think it’s a protective mechanism, and I think probably, you know, we, you would imagine, like a young girl is gonna have a much higher probability of being victimized than a young boy. Maybe that’s not totally accurate, but in my mind, that’s definitely the way it seemed.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 21:09
What about trust? Trust? You know, we have to, or hope to, trust our kids. If they break that trust, we learn to trust them again. But an employee, and I’ve heard so you remember Desmond O’Neill and a Boris former secret service, and I always think about this statement that they said, and this was that good people can do bad things. And, you know, I think oftentimes we think good and bad is very black and white. But if someone close to you, let’s just say one of your buddies on Echelon front did something that made you really question their their your trust for them. Do you think that’s something that can ever be rebuilt?

Speaker 1 21:59
Yeah, it can be rebuilt over time and but, and, I mean, obviously it depends on the violation that was made. There’s some people that are gonna make violations. There’s Hey, like, that’s, you can’t do this anymore. Like, you can’t, you’re not gonna, we’re not gonna interact anymore. But most of the time, you know people, good people. Good people will make what you say. Good people do bad things? Yeah, good people do can do bad things. Good people will make mistakes and do some things that may not be completely good, but good people don’t do things that are off the rails, like bad so I think there’s a big there’s a big delta between those two. There’s, like, a difference between an error in judgment and what was your intent, and I was trying to get this thing done, and overall, it was a bad call, but you can kind of understand why someone did it, yeah, but there’s also people that just do bad things, and we were not hanging around with people that are just out there doing bad things, but over time, you can rebuild trust, and this is something you go through with over and over again in the SEAL teams, because you get a guy that shows up and he’s promoted into a job that he’s never done before, and he doesn’t really know how to do the job because he’s never done it before, which is what everyone in SEAL teams goes through. And so then you give them a little bit of responsibility, and you see how they handle it, and that builds trust. And if they do well, you give them a little bit more, and if they do well, you give them a little bit more. And pretty, pretty soon they’re taking your job. Hopefully they’re taking your job. That’s what you want, and occasionally do something. Oh, well, bad judgment. Made a mistake. How do we correct them? How do we train them so that they don’t make that mistake anymore? And it’ll be the same thing with your kids. And I had really high trust with my kids. I was always surprised people like we didn’t have a curfew. It was come home whenever you get done with whatever you’re doing, and don’t do anything stupid. And that was really, really effective for me and my kids. And you know, I know it may not, I don’t. I know there’s not a uniform way to parent, but I think that the way that my kids interacted with me growing up, and I gave them a lot of trust growing up to to do things and step out into the world and build my trust with them, and they trusted me as well. Like my kids would come and tell me when another kid did something that was wrong, when, when they made a mistake, they would come and tell me. And so I think, and then when they would tell me something, I wouldn’t, you know, say, you can never talk to that kid again. No, I’d say, Oh, well, how do you think that’s going to turn out for him? And we would have conversations, and they would then trust to tell me what’s happening in their world, which I think is a good thing.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 24:23
How did you open those lines of communication? And do you think that that’s something that’s very intentional for not just the kids, but also as people listen to you and look to you for leadership, there’s a bridge of communication, because everybody communicates differently. Do you think a lot about as how to open that line so that your kids come and tell

Speaker 1 24:43
you that, yeah, this is the same thing with adults, whatever parents, whoever you’re interacting with in life, you when people think about opening the lines of communication, they think about what they’re going to say. And the reality is what you need to do is listen and listen to what people say. And not just listen and hear their words, but actually engage with what they’re saying and allow what they’re saying to become part of your become part of who you are. And so, you know, your kids are going to, you know, my you were talking about Rana, make them mean to make this whole podcast about Rana, but we love you, Rana, yeah, but Rana, you know, she’s, somewhat in the public light, right? She’s a competitive jiu jitsu player, but she wanted to do cheerleading, and I didn’t really, I and I’m glad she did it, but at the time, I didn’t really understand cheerleading. Cheerleading is a great sport. There’s it’s, she was a competitive cheerleader. And I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that before, but they it’s gymnastics. It’s like synchronized team gymnastics. That’s what it is. They don’t call it that. They call it cheerleading. It is gymnastics is awesome, and synchronized team gymnastics is awesome, but they call it cheerleading. And me being dumb, thought cheerleading was like pom poms and, you know, cheering for the football team or whatever, and so I didn’t really like the idea of cheerleading. And so what do you do? Right? Do you stop her from doing cheerleading? No, you don’t. And as a matter of fact, you know one of my neighbors whose daughter was also doing cheerleading, and he said, So you’re letting your daughter do the cheerleading? He was kind of, he was kind of talking smack to me. And I said, Yeah, man, it’s like, either that or she pushes back in some crazy way, because you’re your kids are not going to be who you want them to be. They’re going to be who they are, which, again, ties back to the nurture thing that you mentioned earlier. And like, like, you can definitely shape it somewhat, but they’re going to be who they are and not not who you want them to be. And so you got to let your kids kind of explore things. And when Rana wanted to do cheerleading, okay, you know, and she was, she got a lot out of it. I mean, the confidence that you get from cheerleading and physically, super physically active, and, you know, being able to do flips and whatever back flips, and all the stuff she could do, that’s awesome. So, yeah, you have to listen to what your kids say, and then you have to, actually, I guess the word is, accept what they say to you, which is really, really difficult. And it’s the same thing, you know, if you work for me and you come to me with a plan, I actually have to truly listen to what you say, not with the back of my mind thinking, Yeah, but I actually know what we’re going to do or I know a better way to do this, I need to say, Oh, this is how you want to do it. Hey, that sounds good. Let’s, let’s take a shot at it. And if you get used to that, people are going to be much more apt to come and present things to you, and they’re going to trust you more. Because when you put trust into people, they put trust into you.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 27:37
I know many of your team members. I don’t know if you know that, but I do. JP, and obviously, Jamie is a great friend. You’ve done a great job at hiring. How do you do that? So you’ve known these people. They come you know, many of them are within the community. You know pretty much what they stand for, at least. Again, there’s this operating system, but for someone like me who runs businesses, hiring is not easy. Figuring out who to invest time in is not easy.

Speaker 1 28:09
Yeah, one of the things that I recommend often is as often as you can, is take people and try and put them in a position that will be similar to what they’ll be working in. And the example that I use with people is, you know, for all these years, they’ve tried to figure out who’s make it through SEAL training, right? That’s a huge thing. And they’ve, they’ve done psychological screening and physical screening and all these things. And the only thing that actually works to figure out who’s gonna make it through SEAL training is to put people through some kind of like SEAL training, you know. So, so So that’s the only thing that actually works. And if you can, oh, we’ll take you and we’ll put you through four days of being wet, cold, miserable and physical strain. And if you can get through that, then the chances are you’ll be able to do at least a better chance that you’ll make it through the longer training. But if I sit there and say, Oh, do you mind being cold, of course, what does everyone say that? Oh, yeah, I don’t mind being cold. It’s no problem. Oh, do you do you need to sleep? No, I don’t need to sleep. I’m a tough guy. Okay, cool. So they, you can answer all those questions, but it doesn’t matter. It’s the same thing in a business environment, like, oh, how do you under interact? Or how do you act during stress? Oh, I’m very I handle stress really well. I played, you know, college basketball or whatever. Like, everyone’s got a good answer, but you need to put them in the environment that they are going, as close as you can. Put the them in the environment that they’re going to be operating in

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 29:32
capacity, meaning, I’ll just define this as this idea of working, let’s say a growth capacity, working at really the highest level without pushing over into, you know, burnout. A lot of people that that I see, you know, I still see patients, and we talk, we talk about a lot of things. They are successful, but they’re not. They’re not like pushing themselves in the way that. I will continue to have them grow. They’re just not challenging themselves. And I would imagine even for you, it’s probably hard to put yourself in because you’ve already accomplished so much. I mean, truly so in order for you to feel like you’re pushing yourself, maybe not talking about physically, but you have another movie coming out to really begin to stretch yourself, I would ask, how? How do you identify if it enough is enough, or if you need to put more on the table?

Speaker 1 30:32
Yeah, I don’t. I don’t really think I ever have I don’t think this is something I really think about. Like, I don’t even have thoughts like this. I don’t have a thought about, like, Am I doing enough? Or can I do more of those? I’m getting up and I’m gonna go do something. That’s what I’m doing. And so, yeah, I don’t really have a lot of thoughts about, hey, is enough enough? Because I, I think in inside, some sort of intrinsic part of me is like, there’s just no, there’s just not enough. There’s always, always more to do. And I think that’s pretty a pretty natural place for my from my mind,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 31:11
what about the team around you as I you know, just as someone who runs a business, I think you know, are these you know, are these individuals really living up to their potential well.

Speaker 1 31:22
So I think I see where you’re getting with this and and this is, I think, a thing that people need to recognize. It’s really easy to to be to say, and I the reason I stumbled upon this idea was I had a guy asked me, I was at an event, and a guy said, you know, I’m doing this. I’ve, you know, I’m married. I got a nice house. My job is awesome. I’m making good money. My kids are, you know, he’s in a really good spot. And he says, you know, but I just have trouble getting up in the morning to work out. And I and, and I said, Well, there’s a decent chance that you’re just lying to yourself. There’s a decent chance that you’re lying to yourself. In other words, you’re either lying to yourself saying, hey, I want to do more when actually you’re pretty stoked for where you’re at. And that’s perfectly fine. Like, there you you get a house, you get kids, you get a wife or a husband, and you’ve got a good job that’s awesome, like, Good job that’s great. You’re contributing member to society, or whatever it is that you wanted to do is you made it, you got there. And so I don’t think it’s a prerequisite for life to say, Oh no, well, you better get a bigger house and a better job and, you know, get your kids into more sports or whatever. The thing is, it’s perfectly fine to say, Oh yeah, this is my life. Here’s what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna enjoy time with my kids. I’m gonna go to every single game. You know, I missed man, my my daughter, Rana, made it to state in California. She was the first kid from her school to make it state and wrestling in 35 years. And she made it to state, and I, I missed one. I can only go to, like, one of her matches, because I was working, and that was absolutely terrible.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 33:13
Were you, you mean, when you’re active duty,

Speaker 1 33:14
or were you? No, I was I had an event for Echelon front. I was going to speak with a company. And, you know, there’s that’s just the way it is. No one thought Randall was gonna be able to make a state. We didn’t have it on the calendar, you know, because it was an impossibility. And sure enough, it wasn’t impossible for her. So I think that people, there’s a lot of this, tell themselves, which is, I want to do more. They don’t really want to do more. So that could be the lie, which, again, I there’s nothing wrong with it. Like that is perfectly awesome to get to a point in life where you can actually enjoy your your family and your kids and your time and whatever. And so that’s fine. So don’t lie to yourself and put this undue pressure on yourself to go and do other stuff when you don’t really want to just admit to yourself, hey, this is a good spot. I’m going to enjoy it. There’s nothing wrong with that. So I think that’s part of it. Or you may be lying to yourself that what that you really want these things when you don’t really want them. So I think, I think that’s fine. And I think as a person that’s in charge of people that you need to accept that there’s like, oh yeah. Like, someone says, I got someone at my company that that, you know, when the bell rings at five o’clock, they leave immediately. And I’m like, Well, do they show up at eight o’clock, when things kick off like, yeah, every day, yeah, and they do their job, yeah. I’m super stoked to have that person. That’s awesome. And does that person want to get promoted? Maybe not. But do I abandon them? No, I’ll Hey, you know, how’s it going to you? Are you thinking about moving up? You know? I’m pretty happy right now. Okay, cool. And I’ll check back with you once every six months to see if you you’ve changed, or there’s something else going on your life. And maybe you want to, maybe not. Do want to get married, and you recognize you’re going to need a house, and so you want to move up in the in the world of your financial capabilities, which is cool, but a lot of people, they’re, like, totally stoked just to be there. And that’s fine. I mean, you have all kinds of guys in the SEAL teams like this. Everyone thinks every seal is like, you know, just this ultra Apex achiever, no, those guys are like, Oh, I’m out of here, you know, like, I’m going home. And that’s the way it is. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Like, that’s will be the vast majority of a seal platoon is guys that are there. They’re going to do a good job, they’re gonna do solid job. And then they’re gonna go, do, you know, normal stuff. And then you’re gonna have some guys at the high end that are very proactive and making all kinds of stuff happen. And then you’re gonna have some slugs. And the slugs get kind of dragged along, and, you know, just like anywhere else. I mean, if they have a if they have a if they start to have an actual negative impact, they’ll be gone. But if they’re doing their bare minimum, they’re still going to be there, and they’re going to kind of mosey through the ranks for their 20 year career, and that’ll be that.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 36:14
What about the people that want to get better? Maybe just don’t know how. And I know that that might seem weird, but I do think that people plan to excel when the big moments happen. But there’s just lots of these little moments, just day to day life. And I don’t, I don’t know if there’s, there has to be ways to practice to be able to become better. Just don’t wait for the storm. Oh yeah,

Speaker 1 36:40
for sure. NATO, for sure. No, you can’t let you know. Again. I hate to keep bringing up SEAL training, but people say it’s 90% mental, or something like that, and I don’t really believe that, because, for instance, rope climb, they will make you do rope climbs. And at a certain point, doesn’t matter how much you want to climb up that rope, you will not be able to anymore. And this, it’s literally 100% physical that you cannot achieve this, but where you can kind of agree with the 90% mental thing is, if you wake up every day and you work on your pulps and you work on your rope climbs, you’re going to be able to do a lot more when that moment arrives. So yeah, every day you need to prepare as much as you can for whatever is going to come your way. And I think that, I mean, this is stuff that you talk about all the time, right? You want to get ready for whatever is going to come your way. Well, cool, wake up early, work out, eat good, clean food. Get rest when you need it, like that’s just the way you need to operate, for sure.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 37:39
And there’s this delta between those that can do it and those that don’t. And what I’m hearing you say is you kind of allow people to just be where they’re at. And I also think that some people have lost their way, and it requires an absolute devastation for them to change their life. I’d love to not have people get there. I mean, again, as a physician, my job is to to care for them. And you know, the way that the landscape is going, people are very distracted. I don’t know when you were getting ready to train for, for the teams, you know, to go into the teams or in the teams. Were you ever distracted before? You know? I mean, there’s all kinds of things happening, mcpeas, I don’t know,

Speaker 1 38:26
I was always really into, you know, being in the SEAL teams. There was no distraction. Yeah, and, you know, part of being in the SEAL teams was mcpeas, you know, back in the day. But I just when you talk about people that like they’re not reaching their potential, and you’re in a leadership position, and you want them to reach their potential. And because, again, like there is a bucket of people like I mentioned, that they’re kind of where they want to be, which is fine, but now you’re talking to start talking about people that have more potential, that should do more and and for me, again, it goes back to one thing is that is telling people the truth about where they are, what they’re going to do and where they’re going to end up. And it’s really difficult with kids. This is why kids do dumb things. Kids do dumb things most of the time, because they don’t connect what they’re doing right now with how it’s going to impact their future. Is that

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 39:22
why you’ve written so much for children?

Speaker 1 39:25
Yes, yeah, it’s one of the reasons it and it’s the same thing with adults, but it’s more profound with kids. You know, I had a buddy whose kid was not doing well in school, and this guy was a seal, and he’s and he’s a really good seal with really good one liners. And he was talking to his son, and he says, you know, you’re doing terrible in school. You got to get your grades up. And the kids kind of like, why? And he says, Well, I don’t need to get my grades up because I don’t really know what I want to do. And he said, Exactly, you don’t know what you want to do, and you’re going to. You’re closing so many doors by not performing in school, not doing not doing well in school. So you, if you, if you’re not focused on those kind of things, then they’re not going to they’re not going to turn out for you. But it’s the idea of, it’s the idea of strategic thinking versus tactical thinking, meaning Long Term versus short term. That’s, that’s what all this boils down to and if you work for me, and I say, hey, where do you where do you want to be? And you say, oh, I want to go out on Friday night. You know that’s where, that’s where your long term thinking is, is that you want to make enough money this week that you’re going to be able to go and have a good time over the weekend. That’s your long term thinking. I, as a leader, need to show you. Okay, well, where do you want to be in three years? And you say, Well, I’d love to have my own condo downtown. Okay, let’s talk. You’re never gonna be able to afford that, yep. And if it’s on Coronado, exactly. But now we can talk through. We can talk through, how do you make that happen? And so strategic thinking, long term thinking, it’s the same thing, like the donut, a donut is going to taste great, right now, the tactical, the tactical value of a donut is huge. It’s like tastes delicious make me feel good, dopamine hit. But we know that’s a long term strategic loser. So and kids are the same way. They have a harder time connecting. I mean, it’s hard for a 23 year old to make those connections, right? That’s why seals would come home off of a deployment with a $48,000 re enlistment bonus, and they would come and they’d go buy a brand new f3 50 Super Duty, because that’s what they wanted in that moment, whereas they could have hung on a little bit longer, save a little more money and bought a house instead, and they just wouldn’t make those moves. So we want our employees, we want our kids to be thinking strategic long term. Where do you want to be and going back to like anybody that I’m interacting with, my goal is to get them to think long term. Same thing for you. You’re a physician. You’re telling people, Hey, don’t think about what you’re going to be today. Where do you want to be in three years? In five years? In 10 years, where do you want to be? Do you want to be incapable of going surfing or doing Jiu Jitsu or hiking or whatever the thing that they’re into? Or do you want to have that capability for longer? So it’s just getting people onto the path of strategic thinking that’s so important,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 42:19
which makes me think about failure, right? There’s successes and failures. Are there things that failure teach you that success won’t Oh, yeah, you got to

Speaker 1 42:29
get you got to get back up again. You’re going to get knocked down. You got to get back up again. And that’s in SEAL training. One of the, one of the stereotypical guys that goes through SEAL training and doesn’t make it, is a guy that was like, the best football player on the quarterback, and he had basically been winning his whole life, and then all of a sudden you get to buds, and you’re gonna lose, like, there’s gonna be some stuff you’re not

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 42:54
gonna be able to do. Were you prepared to lose when you Yeah, got into buds? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 43:00
I mean, I was not like a star in anything. I wasn’t the smartest kid, I wasn’t the strongest kid, I wasn’t the fast kid. So for me, it was just, you know, I’m prepared to kind of lose it, whatever, but I’ll keep going. Did you think it was fun?

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 43:14
Were you just like, This is awesome? Yes, it was awesome. Shane said the same thing. He he didn’t think he was, you know, he was totally prepared to lose but he was like, wet and Sandy. This sucks,

Speaker 1 43:24
but it’s so awesome. Yeah, yeah. You know, I never, people say, everyone thinks about quitting. I never thought about quitting for a millisecond. Yeah, for him, yeah. I just was having a good time, and it was fun, but I failed. I failed. I failed a little bit of everything, you know, and when I failed was Okay, gotta try harder. So you didn’t think,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 43:44
oh my gosh, I’m an idiot. And now what?

Speaker 1 43:49
No, I just go harder. Yeah, yeah, God, need to push harder, because that’s all it was. You know, I failed a run. I paced myself on a run, which was the first run I paced myself on, meaning like, Oh, I’ll hold back a little bit because I think I’ll make the time No. And I realized no every run from here on out, you could need to go as hard as you possibly can. And that was what I learned. Same thing, I failed to swim. Same thing. Like, okay, there’s no pacing yourself. You gotta go as hard as you possibly can.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 44:15
Do you think there are dangers in avoiding failure?

Speaker 1 44:19
Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure. You know, it’s a real common jiu jitsu thing. You know, as you change Jiu Jitsu, and you get better, and you you become a blue belt or a purple belt, or a brown belt or a black belt, it’s all of a sudden, you got to protect your ego, and so I don’t want to roll with that person, because I think they might be really good. They might tap me out, whereas when you’re a lower belt, you’re just like, I don’t care. Get tapped out by whoever. It’s no big deal. So you and then you’re, you’re you progress quicker. So when you start looking out for your ego, that’s when you start you don’t progress as quickly.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 44:55
Um, so I experience you as very selfless when. Which might be a weird statement to make, but I feel like a lot of what you do is it’s for people. And was there a decision to do all of that, to write these books, to speak? Yeah, it’s just unusual that someone in your position, it’s not about them. And char and our mutual friends would say he’s, it’s, it’s not an ego based perspective.

Speaker 1 45:29
Yeah, I think at some juncture in my Navy career, I certainly recognized that it was a way more gratifying to help other people than it was to like, you know, and there’s examples in the SEAL teams, you know, guys that are looking out for themselves. Is not a good is not a good take in the SEAL teams. And it’s real obvious. Everyone can see it, and it doesn’t go over well. And I’m not saying that there’s some of those people climb through the ranks and they go really far in the SEAL teams, but it’s like they’re going really far in the SEAL teams. They’re not really, they’re not really the guys that people want to work with. And so for me, you know, when I was helping people out, it always seemed the best thing for the teams, and that’s kind of what I’ve always just kind of done,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 46:22
and then did a transition from the teams to humanity.

Unknown Speaker 46:27
Well, I don’t know about all humanity,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 46:28
but Well, listen, well at least, I mean, we need it, yeah, yeah. If there’s leadership in the teams, in these elite groups, there has to be some translation, yeah, over to the and I didn’t

Speaker 1 46:39
really know that that was going to take place as much as I think about, you know, to have talked about strategic thinking and strategic planning. I didn’t when I when I retired from the SEAL teams, my plan was, I was, you know, have a gym in San Diego, and I love Jiu Jitsu, and I love to surf, and love hanging out with my kids. And so I was going to train jiu jitsu, surf and hang out with my kids, and that’s was my plan. And I ended up going and talking to a friend of mine who wanted me to go to talk to his company about leadership. And I went and did that, and it just as soon as I was it was when I started getting asked questions about leadership. I realized that the leadership principles that I had learned were directly translated to everything, everything. And yeah, so then it was okay, well, if I can help them learn these principles, it will help them do better in life. And so that’s kind of

Speaker 2 47:28
where it started. And do you read a lot now? Oh yeah,

Speaker 1 47:32
yeah, because I have a podcast where a lot of what I do on the podcast is I either cover old books, military books and history books, or people come and I read, like when you came on my podcast, I read your book, and so I’m, I’m almost always reading books. Yes, is it?

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 47:51
Have you always been that scholarly?

Speaker 1 47:54
No, so I didn’t, you know, when I was a kid, I didn’t like academics. I was more of a physical type guy, and I didn’t do great in high school, and it wasn’t until I joined the Navy, and they said, Okay, you need to know these things. And that’s when I learned how to study. And then then they the Navy sent me to college. And when, when the Navy sent me to college, it for me, it was a competition because I was 28 years old, and, you know, I was a 28 year old seal officer at the time, and I’m in college, and I just got competitive to and I was competing with the teachers like I didn’t want the teachers to be able to ask me a question on the test that I didn’t know the answer to. And that was too much, little extreme. I studied way too much, but,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 48:43
but, yeah, anything is way too much studying. What’s that? I mean? Is there anything? Is there any way too much studying? I definitely

Unknown Speaker 48:51
would did. Did too much studying. I should have chilled a little bit,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 48:55
but it is what it is. Look here you are now. Do you get inspiration for Have you started thinking about what your next book is after the way the warrior kid movie comes out? Have you begun to think about what the next

Speaker 1 49:08
iteration, next iteration of kids books, or next iteration of adult books? Yeah, oh yeah, they’re already they’re being written right now. So obviously, I’m working on another leadership book, and I think it’s going to help people. I it’s almost like the negative space in leadership that people don’t see, that I think my next book is is going to help people. And if you think about the negative space of things that you don’t really see right, when you have an interaction with someone and you go, that wasn’t right. Or you go, Oh, that, that person seemed cool, like there’s but you can’t really identify what it was. And you go, what was that? I kind of know what that is, and it’s the little. Negative space that that takes place. And so I think that’s what I know. That’s the book that I’m writing right now, on the leadership front, and then on the warrior kid front, my daughter ran is working on a book right now. Yeah, because, you know, girls and boys all read the warrior kid book, but there’s a lot of girls that would like a warrior kid with a girl as a warrior kid. And so Rana’s got a beautiful story that she’s put together, and so we’re working on that.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 50:31
I can’t wait till she’ll come on the podcast when that’s ready to come out. Can’t wait. I know that we’re closing in on time, and I want to touch on the physicality unfortunately, death is coming for all of us, and it’s, I think it’s harder for those that have really been in their body and training as we all get older. You know, I did my, I don’t know if you noticed, I did my fellowship in geriatrics, where it was end of life care, and that was, it’s, I mean, it’s, it’s tough. So as you think about, like, that’s kind of a battle that nobody wins, how do you think about training that? Do you think about it? You know, I know I wake up and my shoulder hurts and my knee hurts and, yeah, it’s

Speaker 1 51:20
the straight up, classic rage, you know, rage against the dying of the light for sure. And I’ve been saying that, of course, you do as much as you can all the time. I will also say that this is like there is an arc to the story, and there’s a beginning and there’s a middle and there’s an end, and there’s a reason for that. And if you are so horrified of the end, then you’re probably going to waste a lot of time being focused on that, instead of being focused on like the middle. So yeah, I think I’m going to keep going as doing as much as I can, I think, the strategic vision of knowing that you can lose movements, you know, like, there’s movements that you can lose. Like I had a I was in a situation, a living situation, where I couldn’t do muscle ups for like, those, it was over a year. I mean, I could do them occasionally another place, but, like, if they weren’t, like, a consistent part of the program, and when I went, when I got back, I was okay, I can start muscle up skin. I had to re earn the muscle ups. I had an elbow injury, and I couldn’t overhead squat. And when I, when I finally, my elbow healed up to where I could overhead squat. It was like, Cool PVC pipe, you know, like, no weight, because I just didn’t have that movement anymore. So that those, those couple things made me realize, if you’re not doing it, it’ll go away. But it also made me realize what, you can re engage and you can get it back. It’s just going to take work. So, and I think so you got to keep doing the things. You got to keep moving. You got to keep your mobility and range of motion as much as you can. And, and, like I was a terrible stretcher, and, and, but if you don’t stretch, you’re going to lose that component of your life. So you got to just pay attention and think strategic and keep getting after it. Every day it’ll go away. You know, when I was a when I was a kid, I would show up, you know, eat a eat three pizzas over the weekend. Drink, you know, eat total trash, food and just physical disaster. And you just be able to come in and take a PT test and crush it, and then by the time you’re like, 35 or 40, you’re like, I better, I better tamper what I’m doing a little bit. And so, yeah, you just got to pay more attention to it.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 53:59
Do you think that physical strength and being very physically active is a prerequisite to good leadership.

Speaker 1 54:11
Yes, I do. I do. I think that it’s not a, it’s not a black and white prerequisite, because there’s people that are in, you know, positions where maybe they don’t have the physical capability for whatever reason. I mean, Roosevelt was in a wheelchairs, you know,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 54:31
actually thinking about those. I was thinking about Stephen Hawking and people that are really mentally tough in many ways, but not physically.

Speaker 1 54:42
Yeah, so that’s why I say it’s not like a It’s not like a cut and fast rule. But it certainly I mean, I gotta tell you. Let me just tell you this from my perspective, if when I was in the SEAL teams, if you had a guy, if we had a seal that was not in good shape, you. He did not have respect. And if he was in good shape, it doesn’t matter if he he might have been, you know, big, small, but he was in good shape, it was like, okay, cool. And that was sort of the bare minimum. So you didn’t really think too much about that. But occasionally you’d have a guy that was out of shape. And when you see a guy that’s out of shape, it just be like, Hmm, now he could reprove himself, but he’s got to dig himself out of a hole, right? And so don’t put yourself in that deficit. Just, just be

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 55:26
in good shape. Yeah. I mean, I agree that. Do you think that those that were in the command or in the higher positions, those that were in shape were more respected?

Unknown Speaker 55:37
Oh, yeah, 100%

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 55:39
no doubt about it. And you know, I just think even in this landscape, if you’re a physician, if you’re in a leadership position, it’s your responsibility. People don’t like when I say this, but it’s kind of 70, more than 70% of Americans either overweight or obese.

Speaker 1 55:54
I mean, yeah, it’s definitely very strange. If you go to see a doctor and they’re not in physical in at least some respectable physical shape, it would seem to me that that would be a bit of a priority.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 56:10
But, I mean, I think with anything, because, again, it’s not black, black or white, but there is a level of discipline, there’s a level of commitment, there’s a level of execution that if someone can’t manage that physically, then, you know the mental aspect is really important, being able to train that.

Speaker 1 56:30
And look, I think it’s just, what we both are saying is it’s don’t put yourself in that deficit, yeah, like that, where, when I meet you, I’ve got to prove to you that I have discipline. I’ve got to prove to you that I will get the job done, and you have to kind of overlook the fact that I don’t really care about getting the job done for myself, but I’ll still take care of you, just I wouldn’t create that deficit.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 56:56
Sorry, you guys can cut out my cough, those kids I you know, you’d mentioned that when someone goes to SEAL teams, no one knows he’s going to make it right. Because I was thinking very you know, over 10 years ago, I’ve been taking care of operators and their families for 10 years. I had a large practice in New York City. It was expensive, and part of the cost that we would take from the patients that were coming in. We’d used to treat the team guys coming out in their families, and I helped a few of the guys through buds, and I would take their blood work, and I thought, Okay, well, I’m going to be able to identify just based on just, you know, years of looking at this, who is going to be able to make it right, whose cortisol is too high, whose testosterone is too low, who? And I, you know, when you’re a young physician, you think you have figured out, and I couldn’t right. I just had no idea this guy’s blood work who looked terrible, had the testosterone levels of a girl was he just crushed it. And it just makes me think about those leaders, that if you meet leaders, because obviously, you’ve been teaching people now, how long have you been? How long has Echelon front been? I think we’re

Unknown Speaker 58:07
coming up on 15 years right now.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 58:08
15 years. There’s a lot of leaders that you increase with. Can you tell? Is there almost like a pattern? Can you tell if someone is going to be able to make it as a leader or not

Speaker 1 58:22
again, it really pays to put them in that position where, and that’s generally speaking, what happens in organizations is we put you in a

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 58:32
so like, I meet you. You asked me a couple questions. I can give you some answers. Is it like humility? Is it openness? Are there other well, attributes?

Speaker 1 58:41
Yeah, I mean, humility is definitely the most important attribute as a leader. We this is something that we have been teaching for 15 years. And the reason that I the reason that I identified that so clearly, is, number one, the best leaders that I worked for were the humblest people. And number two, when we were fire people from the SEAL teams, we would fire people because they lack humility. The end of leadership is, look, a shooter, an operator, he might get fired because he, you know, he’s unsafe with his weapon, or he’s just can’t make decisions quick enough. But generally, the leaders, they would get fired because they lack humility. They wouldn’t listen to anybody else. It was their way to the highway, and so that that is always the biggest problem. Now, again, this doesn’t mean that you don’t have to have enough of an ego to have confidence as a leader. You know, if I’m if I’m scared to make a decision because I don’t know if I’m going to be right or not, like, that’s if I can be too humble, right? Too humble, where I’m like, I’m not really sure what we should do, and that’s not going to be a good situation either. But generally speaking, people over index, and they become arrogant, and they don’t listen anybody else, and that’s the biggest problem with leaders. So all this is a balance, you know, humble but confident, right? Not totally risk averse, but not hyper aggressive, where you’re making mistakes like every you know. Can communicate effectively, but doesn’t over communicate. And now I’m talking and trying to give everyone detailed instructions on every little thing you could go down the entire list. Everything is we’re looking for a balanced person when we’re getting when we’re talking about leaders. And the most important quality still definitely is humility. If you don’t have that, you’re not going to improve. You’re not going to be better, you’re not going to listen to anybody else, you’re not going to respect your competition, and you’re gonna have problems.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:00:28
You think that something can be trained? Oh, yeah. Oh absolutely, yeah. How does one train humility?

Speaker 1 1:00:34
Well, if you are going through my training and I saw that you were a little arrogant, I would say, Cool. And I would put you in charge of an operation that would be slightly outside your level of capability, and it would be a disaster. And you would come back to me and say, I really need some some work, don’t I? And I’d say, Yes, you do,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:00:51
assuming that that individual would say, recognize that they that they screwed

Speaker 1 1:00:55
up, yep. And occasionally they come back and say, Well, that wasn’t realistic training, and your guys got to jump on me. They didn’t do but they make a bunch of excuses, and so then, okay, cool, let’s eliminate those excuses, and let’s do it again. And we would do that iteration three or four times, and by the fourth or fifth time, it’s like, Oh, guess what? The problem is not all of us. The problem is not all the new guys in your platoon. The problem is not your platoon chief. The problem is not the leading petty officer. The problem is not the trade at CADRE, who’s this leaf? Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s you. So yes, you can, you can humble people, most people, some people, they don’t. They will never, they will never show an ounce of humility. It’s not in their blood, and it hurts them.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:01:35
I have one final question, yes, if someone listening to this wants to be better tomorrow, whether it’s leadership, whether it’s parenthood, whether it’s physical. What is one piece? Yeah, wake up early and work out. And how early are we talking?

Speaker 1 1:01:48
I think you wake up early enough that you get to do some kind of physical activity before your day starts. Hey, whether you good up and you do 10 minutes of burpees, and that’s what you’re going to do cool, if that’s all you can get. Get it, but waking up early and getting some kind of physical activity before your day gets started. I think that is probably the single best habit you can have to improve the rest of your life. When you exercise, everything in your life is going to be better. You’re going to be better in meetings. You’re going to be better interacting with other people. You’re going to be sharper. You’re going to make better decisions. Everything is going to be better. So wake up early, half an hour early, 20 minutes early, an hour early, and get physical activity before the day starts.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:02:34
And to be clear, even if you go to bed late that night, something happens. Stay consistent, even if it’s a 1am 2am

Speaker 1 1:02:41
you know, if I try and get at least five hours of sleep. And so if I start getting like, I’ll travel, and let’s say the plane was delayed or whatever, and I get home, and now it’s one o’clock in the morning, because I normally get up around 430 in the morning. And so now I’m gonna be looking at three and a half hours of sleep that I’ll probably, I’ll, probably just won’t wake up until I probably gonna put my alarm to whatever, six or seven. So I get six or seven hours of sleep, but consistency and waking up as you know, how often do you get dragged to where you’re gonna stay up until one o’clock in the morning? It shouldn’t be that often. So no, my

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:03:16
four year old, six year old still, yeah, we’ll get some Yeah, every night. Jocko, thank you so much for taking the time looking forward to the warrior kid movie. When is

Unknown Speaker 1:03:29
that up? November 20,

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:03:30
yes, and where the premiere is in?

Speaker 1 1:03:33
Well, it’s Apple TV. It’s going to be a worldwide, global premiere on November 20. I’m there. Yes, we all are, thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Good to see you.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:03:46
So great. Right on fun. We’ll just take a picture. I’ll send you back on your way. Sweet. Do you guys? Do you need snacks or anything for Helen, like protein snacks? She might be happy, pumped about it,

Speaker 1 1:04:13
disaster. I think she’s fine, really. She travels with milk.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:04:18
Well, I might just one alone and then one with me. Yeah. How cute was Leo? Jo,

Speaker 2 1:04:33
good. It’s probably terrible. Last time you said that in a crush, terrible. I crushed so he’s a paratrooper. Oh, awesome. Where were you in? I was in the army. Oh, yeah. P for Alaska. I.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon 1:05:00
Not gonna be good. So this is for you know who, and he’s gonna love it. I guarantee he doesn’t have Yeah.