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Self Awareness, Self Assessment, and Self Improvement

Jocko Willink

(4 minutes)

 

Jocko’s practical approach to self awareness is great: detach from yourself and consider how other people see you.

Yes, Jocko seems to be holding his blade in this video…

 

 

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  • Self awareness starts with being able to detach from yourself and see yourself
    • How do you do that?
      • Imagine the way other people see you and what other people are thinking of you.
      • Do you represent yourself well?
  • When you first start looking, it is like you’re looking at an overgrown lawn
    • Do a big general cut of the grass, take care of the big obvious problems, then you see some small detailed issues, fix those small issues, refine infinitely

 

Break Habits of Procrastination & Laziness

Jocko Willink

(2 minutes)

 

“How to get more work done?”

“Ways to be more productive”

“How can I procrastinate less?”

“Easy ways to wake up earlier”

“Math equation solver”

“Fastest ways to memorize for a test”

You just do it.

 

 

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  • Start here and now – that’s it.
  • You want to get better.
    • Where do you start? Here.
    • When do you start? Now.
  • The idea isn’t going to execute itself, you need to actively do it.
  • That means you need to stop thinking about it, you need to do it.

Taking Responsibility

Jocko Willink and Jordan Peterson

(5 minutes)

 

Jocko is a Navy Seal and Peterson is a Psychologist/Philosopher, and they have learned the same lessons of responsibility along their paths. I appreciate being able to watch these two talk about individual responsibility and understand two different perspectives on the topic. Peterson’s message is to take on responsibility by starting with yourself and slowly expanding your area of influence. Success will come from starting with cleaning your room and meeting your daily requirements (chores, schedule, homework, learning, family time, environment, etc.) before attempting to sort the lives of others or fix the world.

 

 

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  • Extreme ownership
  • Jocko Willink learned on the battlefield what Jordan Peterson learned through Philosophy and Psychology
  • Peterson mentions Dostoyevsky, stating that every man is responsible for everything that happens to him and everything that happens to everyone else
    • This is a crazy statement but there is a level at which this is metaphysically true
  • You need to have humility, because what do you know?
    • First sort out the things that you can actually sort out and then grow your realm of influence