Willink: I am not anti-technology at all. Schawbel: What are some disciplines for using technology less and focusing on deep personal relationships more? As you continue to spend time attacking your weaknesses, over time, they will become strengths. Afraid to email your boss on that tough topic? Send the email.Īlthough all these actions will be uncomfortable at first, you will get more comfortable over time. Uncomfortable speaking to groups? Volunteer to teach a class at work. Instead of avoiding weaknesses, try attacking them. When we do that, we never progress or get any better. We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. Willink: Step number one is not to run from them. Schawbel: What are some strategies for conquering your weaknesses and potentially turning them into strengths? Life becomes much better when you do that. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Discipline equals freedom applies to every aspect of life: if you want more freedom, get more discipline. You also have to have the discipline to say “No” to things that eat up your time with no payback-things like random YouTube videos, click-bait on the internet, and even events that you agree to attend when you know you won't want to be there.
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If you want more free time, you have to follow a more disciplined time management system. If you want financial freedom, you have to have financial discipline. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline. Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. Jocko Willink: While Discipline and Freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
After retiring, Jocko continued on the disciplined path of success, co-founding Echelon Front, a multi-million dollar leadership and management consulting company, writing the #1 New York Times bestseller Extreme Ownership, the children's book Way of the Warrior Kid, and creating one of the top-ranking podcasts, JOCKO PODCAST.ĭan Schawbel: What is the connection between discipline and freedom? How does this build off your previous book, Extreme Ownership? Willink was a Navy SEAL for 20 years, rising through the ranks to become the commander of Task Unit Bruiser―the most decorated Special Operations Unit of the Iraq War.
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