# The Leadership Rule Most People Refuse To Follow. Jocko Willink.

Channel: Jocko Podcast
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6BivYjur8
Duration: 10 min
Language: English
Words: 1826
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[0:00] Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions. I think there's a book about that. Yeah, I hear good things. You are responsible for all that your unit does or fails to do. You are responsible for the decision and its application regardless of your subordinate's actions. You must issue all orders in your name, stick by your convictions, and do what you think is right, but accept justified

[0:26] criticism. Never remove or demote a subordinate for a failure resulting from your own mistake. It's important. And just remember, stick by your convictions doesn't mean keep doing the same thing when it's not working. [laughter] Learn the duties of your immediate senior. Be prepared to accept responsibilities for these duties. Take every opportunity that offers increased

[0:50] responsibility. That's a rough one. Perform every act, large or small, to the best of your ability. Stand up for what you believe is right. Have the courage of your convictions. That doesn't mean close your mind. That doesn't mean don't listen to people. In fact, I would add a caveat. Try and understand other people's perspectives. Cuz what you believe is right might not

[1:13] be right. Carefully evaluate a subordinate's failure before taking action. Ensure that the apparent shortcomings are not due to an error on your part. They probably are. They work for you. You're the boss. Take ownership. Consider Marines that are available. Salvage one if possible, replace when necessary. You don't always You don't always just get a new Marine. In the SEAL platoon, you fire a SEAL, you're probably not getting a replacement. Sometimes you do, sometimes

[1:40] you don't. Can't count on it. In the absence of orders, take the initiative and to perform the actions that you believe your senior would direct you to perform if you were present. And then closing it out, here's the summary. These leadership principles are proven guidelines, which, if followed, will substantially enhance your ability to lead Marines. Remember, by implementing these principles, you will earn the respect of your fellow Marines, juniors and seniors, and you will become an effective commander. So,

[2:11] there you go. Anything we have not heard before? I don't really think so. I don't really think so. Why do we need to keep hearing it over and over again? That's the question. The answer to that is cuz it's against our instincts. Our instincts are telling us to do the opposite. [clears throat] Blame other people. Work in silos. That's what That's what our instincts

[2:32] are telling us to do. Leadership is counterintuitive. So, we have to pay attention. It's good guide This is a little guidebook. Kind of let you know, little reminders. To Reminder to to pay attention and do what you're supposed to do. Not what you want to do. Not what feels good. Not what seems right. Not what you can convince yourself of. Not what you can uh debate with yourself about. Not what you

[3:01] can rationalize. Do what you're supposed to do. Do what you're supposed to do. That's how we're leading. Also part of leadership, we heard it a couple times today, physical fitness. Man, you got to be physically fit. Should be your number one strategic goal in your life. Does that sound crazy? To me that does not sound crazy now. one strategic goal of your life should be to be

[3:29] healthy as you can. Needs to be. Cuz once we lose that, now look, does that mean that every season of your life it's going to be the number one thing? Nope, there might be 3 weeks where, you know, work is consuming or kid gets sick or there's something you got to do. I mean, I I got a friend that had a very

[3:48] sick daughter. And he like physically he wasn't able to do anything for months. He was explaining to me it's like awful. But that's what you do. You know, you take care of family. So, are there going to be seasons? Yep. Where the strategic priority becomes taking care of your daughter? Yeah, absolutely. As soon as you get through that

[4:08] guess what? Get back on the path. You got to get back on the path. You the health Again, I'm going to quote RFK Jr. A healthy person has a thousand problems. A sick person only has one. So, you got to So, you if you want to contend with the world, all the problems that we have in the world, all the things that we got to do in the world, you got to contend with all those

[4:26] things, you got to be healthy. So, that means guess what? We're getting after it. We're lifting. We're running. We're sprinting. We're training the digital. We're just generally getting after it. That's what we're doing. And when we do that, Echo Charles, is there anything specific that we need? Some fuel. We need fuel. Hey, check out Jocko Fuel. We have everything that you need. We got protein. We got the best tasting protein. We got the most efficacious

[4:51] protein. We got protein that tastes like dessert. Uh we got the best energy drinks that are clean and healthy. We got hydration. We got supplementation. We got everything that you need. Creatine. Get on the creatine train. Get on I just Someone just hit me up on social media. They're they they doubled their creatine dosage. They're

[5:12] getting in the my zone. Hell yeah. No, I think No, they doubled their creatine dosage and they're in half my zone. Most people I'm doing my zone. Yeah. What are you doing? 10 g 10 g a day? Morning, night? Morning, morning. Two. Two scoops in the morning. Dry scoop? No. Mix with hydrate? No, I mix with hydrate, water, you know,

[5:29] some other good stuff. The muscle drive? Do you have muscle drive? No, not yet. You you got to get on the muscle drive. Muscle drive is it's very interesting. It's very helpful. Like it One thing that kind of especially for me cuz a lot of times I'm not hungry in the morning, right? But I

[5:49] know my body needs a little bit of fuel. Yeah, me too. That Muscle Drive is good to go. And it gives you it's it's satiating. Oddly enough, it's kind of makes you feel your body goes, "Oh, cool. Thank you. We're good for a little bit." Right, right. It curbs the hunger. For for weight cutting, got some folks weight cutting, obviously. We have a a gym where we compete, and people are cutting weight,

[6:10] and that Muscle Drive has been clutch. Yeah, that stuff is good. Clutch. I was talking to Nate, and he was like, "Yeah, he's been cutting some weight." And he was like, "Good to go." Yeah. Maintain the strength, cut the weight. So, Muscle Drive, we got all kinds of great products. So, available kind of anywhere right now. But, if it's not available at the store that you go to, well, ask them for it. And in the meantime, also, jacofield.com. You can just order it. We'll ship it to your house. We got a amazing uh logistics team, and they will get it

[6:40] to you ASAP. Usually ships same day, by the way. Right on. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. It's kind of crazy, you know, that the Jaco Fuel team there's so many so much data that gets analyzed. Sure. Yeah, that's tough. But, know like on a daily basis, usually I usually I get the report on a on a Fridays, but every day the logistic team knows how many packages to ship are

[7:07] outstanding that day. Mhm. And it's like, "Oh, yeah, we got we got seven packages that didn't go out. They're going out first thing because of whatever." Yeah, yeah. You know, but you know, you're shipping thousands of packages. Like, "Oh, yeah, we got seven that didn't ship." Yeah, yeah. It's pretty pretty amazing. Yeah, it's good. So, the logistics team, jacofield.com, they'll get you what you need. They'll

[7:25] get it to you stat. Hell yeah. Uh also, since we are training, Yep. and we're training jiu-jitsu, hopefully, originusa.com, we've got jiu-jitsu gis, jiu-jitsu rash guards, jiu-jitsu shorts. We got everything. But, not only that, you're not training jiu-jitsu all the time, unfortunately. We're also going to the restaurant with our spouses. Sure. You're going to need jeans.

[7:47] Yeah. Origin USA jeans. Made in America. Yeah. For husband and wife, by the way. Husband and wife. Yeah. Husband and wife. We got everything that you need. Hoodies, t-shirts, everything 100% made in America. No communism. No communism. This is an American-owned company. This is made in America. This is the the the material that the shirts are made of is American. The zippers are American. The buttons

[8:15] Yeah. are American. The strings are It's all American. It's 100% American-made. This is what we're doing. We're rebuilding the manufacturing capability in America. We're rebuilding the economy in America, and we're rebuilding the communities in America. So, go to originusa.com and get yourself some American-made goods. Freedom. Let's go. Yes. Shout out to those little uh What are those? The dry-fit kind of

[8:44] hoodies that you get? Mhm. You know, the little What do you guys call this? Yeah. Yeah. Bro, that's like a everyday scenario. Yeah. Everyday scenario slash I have one of those at all times with me. Yeah. So, when I travel, I have one in my bag. It's real small. I have that and I have

[9:00] the the wind shirt. Yeah. That thing goes with me wherever I go. You can survive like 90% of situations that you'll encounter in the continental United States with that right there. Bro, I'm so with you. So, the Wait, you called it the wind shirt? What's that? Wait. Is that the Wait. Is that the

[9:15] jacket? I forget the Is that like a jacket with the zipper, right? And the hood. Okay. Bro, I'm 100% with you. Bro, cuz it fits anywhere. Bro, you can put it in your pocket if you need to. Yeah. Bro, that the Yeah, that thing is so clutch. And the reason we That's one of the first things that we made like outerwear. And when we started reviewing

[9:35] like, "Hey, what are we going to make?" I was like, "Hey, we're going to make a windshirt. The reason I knew that is because in when I was in the team's work in the day I would carry that windshirt with me because it we it it saved me. It saved me. You're getting this cuz when you cut that wind out you're kind of GTG. And look, if it's a torrential rain it it's it's not waterproof but you know, like the light rain that you're going to get that you that you can seek shelter from

[10:04] you know? You'll you'll be okay.

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