Brilliantly said. I've always had that mentality of 'starting on monday' but that's an excuse. Start now and just do something. Doing something regardless of how good it is, is still an improvement that not doing something.
I'm one of the "...chronic, ferocious analyzers" that Jocko is referring too. It really is a torment. The amount of time I have spent in my life over analyzing a simple task or an upcoming event to the point that I mentally exhaust myself, has resulted in a lot of regrets. Despite that however, watching these videos from Jocko and from that other great thinker Dr Jordan Peterson has started to have a real positive effect on my life.
Its like you read my thoughts and stole them. Everything was analyzed for me; career choice (is there a demand? whats the pay? do I need experience? Oh god, what if I don't like it?) going out with friends (should I prepare topics to talk about? Make sure not to be moody. Have fun and make sure they see you having fun or they won't invite again). Its on and on and on.
Yeah it's a double edged sword, go when you have to, sometimes it's best to wait and build a better picture,,, th-cam.com/video/4azM1DKqFI8/w-d-xo.html
It truly is that simple. It's like the elephant who won't escape. He can, he has the power to escape the chains. But learned helplessness keeps him stuck.
Jocko is pure knowledge straight from empirism. There are few people like this in the world, that can dig into their experiences and produce this level of knowledge
"If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution." - Albert Einstein
Some people are taking this too far lmao. Remember, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." You need to have some course of action but don't over analyze because things will happen along the way
Dude. This guy is incredible. Wow new fan, always scrolled past him in recommendations but lordy lord. What a great role model Jocko is. So desperately needed in today's society. A father figure for many I'd imagine.
Perfection stops so many people making progress see it every day and people think they are be good or that its a good thing its not just go - thanks Jocko for your honesty and no bs message
Thanks for this video. I'm one of those over-analizers. It's a gift to have the support of a coach as you've described, versus the chronic critic in the camp (sometimes also me). Really needed to hear this today, thanks again!
Love the advice! Always planning for perfection and the simplest things never go as planned. Simply time wasted "IMPROVISE ADAPT and OVERCOME". Thanks and keep the great advice coming!
I'm also an analytical overthinker but I learned a few years ago this had to change. My colleagues and I took a personality test that was conducted during an advocacy workshop that helped learn about ourselves and I was the ONLY person in a room of almost 30 people that was evaluated as analytical. During the workshop that day I learned that sometimes actions have to be taken despite all plans not being figured out. From that day it helped me to understand people who rush through decisions - not that they always made the right choice or achieved all outcomes desired but that they didn't want to spend more time delving into thinking while things are changing around them all the time.
"The longer you take to plan, the less irrelevant your plan becomes". --- That was a gut punch I needed. -- This few minutes of a video is like a nuclear bomb in the short speech game.
I am not an american but my county has mandatory military service. But you can apply to particular/ certain branches. Because of this epic man I want to volunteer as the special forces "commando" force that they call it and get after it. You changed my changed my outlook on life Sir.
Koality Gainz you dont need to "want"You can do it. After all, Her Turk Asker Dogar. Something unfortunately new generations want to forget. I wish you godspeed.
Vatansever Thanks, Im 14 doing what I can physically to prepare myself. Theres a lot of patriotic american films I like but I apply it to Turkey. Makes me feel the need to keep out terrorists.
That's what I have all my life very Passionately - sit in one place to plan and analyze. This guy has touched something in me. Hope I can move this year.
"Planning is Essential; Plans are totally useless" (Dwight D. Eisenhower) "In a Dogfight, whoever gets around the OODA loop faster WINS" (James Boyd, Ace Air Force Pilot, aka "40-second Boyd"....basically your life-expectancy in a Dog-fight with Boyd) OODA=Observe, Orient, Decide, Act Great Video, just wanted add my 2 grains of wisdom learned.
I'm a ferocious analyzer. Thankfully I have a few close friends (and wife) who are doers. It's stressful at times, and there is conflict, but we sharpen each other! Thank you Jocko, and Echo for all your insight. I'm becoming the man I was meant to be. Constant small moves forward equals progress.
As Mattis once said about war "Improvise Improvise Improvise". You're gonna plan it 70 percent right at the most. The rest you gotta figure out. All you need to know are the things that never change.
Jocko. Love your motivation and your truth. Don't forget to tell the people that recon matters. Get your Intel first and then react to you situation if you need Plan B.
you are changing my life man, you might not be right 100% or I might not agree with some thoughts here and there but all of the time, but you are real and objective. Thanx bro, Honesty, you gave me the tools to survive my job, Thanx again man
Wait broke the wagon! The phrase “Wait broke the wagon” is a mantra for those of us who may have knowingly or unknowingly adopted the attitude of David Glasgow Farragut, a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” in U.S. Navy tradition.
Hi Sir Jocko WillinkI came across your channel after hearing your speeches on certain motivational videos. Having heard your talks about not listening to the 'voice' in your head or how to overcome your ego and how to discipline yourself.. I realised this man really knows what he's talking about so I tried to find who the speaker was and hence I found your channel.I do wonder how you learnt the art of overcoming the ego but without a doubt it is the same teachings of Sufism.I'm sure if you have reached a certain stage of overcoming your ego you are able to do many miraculous things that will amaze people. Coming from a person who would love to implement the practice of overcoming the ego but struggles very much.Many thanks.
Contingency planing to the point logic box flow charting creates opportunities out of problems and processes as a consequence of the ferocious analysis and over planning as a result in itself over time... but it is more a result of experience from getting after it... than a original version of a planned plan or a designed contingency... for example information, location, party, intention and actual affiliation are each given a variable indicator... then as actions, confirmed, vetted, consequences and results are tallied... score cards are developed... and before you know it... you know whats up before it happens... allowing you to leap forward and proactive rather than reactive... you know them better than they know themselves. You can dismantle their plans with simple actions controlling the tempo and initiative. This is only possible for experienced professionals who keep their notes and after action assessments... with a strong degree of honesty and critical thinking. I don’t worry about the enemy tanks because I work against their fuel resupply... i stay out of their range when possible and when I appear to them it’s to move them were I want them... so that I can take out their fuel trucks... while letting them think they are in control. The trucks are light easy targets... the tanks are essentially useless without fuel. Eliminate the weak links and isolate the strongest. Then the command and control must reveal itself in order in regards to not losing the tanks. When it’s pouring rain the deer move to ridge lines... and mountain lions follow the deer... wheres the nearest drinking water after the storm... where the brush is thickest or slope is steepest the mountain lion is resting... hunting mountain lions and ambushing armored battalions is the same math problem. The labels on the variables change. Math, logic and statistics is scary but only if you get out there and get after it... knowledge is power.
EXCELLENT! Historical comparison: Patton vs Montgomery. Patton: "Perfect is the enemy of Good!" Montgomery: (British Doctrine) Move in the morning, consolidate in the afternoon. Patton "Attack! Always Attack!"
That's me: "I need a blueprint, I'm not gonna do anything until I have one. I won't spend tens of hours trying to figure out a study/problem-solving method custom-tailored to ME, I'd rather have something "universally-approved of" and "tried and true" "
Under thinking is worse BUT overthinking can leave parallelized with inaction so yea sometimes yea got to make a decision. My problem is I think a lot then still dose shit impulsively so worth of both worlds sometimes
"Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection's impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that." ~ The Warrior Elite by Dick Couch, P. 288. I put a lot of stock in the previous statement, BUT I am now opening my eyes to training as professionally as one can and then trust my training to go get the job done. Being able to adapt on the fly, I may require the rest of my life to work at that.
I’m tryna ask my best friend to be my girl. So much planning is running through my head rn and i need to execute even though im scared. This is exactly what i needed. We shall see how it goes
I will play this next time I present w/ an engineering plan and the higher-ups say "that sounds good...but what if we do something totally different..."
usually I see the opposite where people don't plan at all where they spend maybe 15 minutes talking about something without writing anything down for a six-month or one-year project. Failing to plan is planning to fail.
My manager is really annoying about the perfection. My job is distribution and she constantly is pissed off because something may not go her way. We are at 98 or 99% perfection. We are extremely close and she fails to realize that nothing will be perfect. It’s like you can never be happy because she is always hounding on everybody.
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." -Gen George S. Patton
Brilliantly said. I've always had that mentality of 'starting on monday' but that's an excuse. Start now and just do something. Doing something regardless of how good it is, is still an improvement that not doing something.
"We fought the wrong enemy" -General Patton
It's interesting hearing this considering that Alexander the Great used this same concept when he conquered the Persian Empire 2300 years ago.
love this
A violent plan executed greatly now is better than an intriquite plan executed timidly next week
“We don’t need perfection, we need to move forward.” Love that. So relevant in facing fears.
I'm one of the "...chronic, ferocious analyzers" that Jocko is referring too. It really is a torment. The amount of time I have spent in my life over analyzing a simple task or an upcoming event to the point that I mentally exhaust myself, has resulted in a lot of regrets. Despite that however, watching these videos from Jocko and from that other great thinker Dr Jordan Peterson has started to have a real positive effect on my life.
Paralysis by analysis.
Its like you read my thoughts and stole them. Everything was analyzed for me; career choice (is there a demand? whats the pay? do I need experience? Oh god, what if I don't like it?) going out with friends (should I prepare topics to talk about? Make sure not to be moody. Have fun and make sure they see you having fun or they won't invite again). Its on and on and on.
Same
Same... It just cost me the love of my life.
Theres nothing wrong with analysis in life. Analysis is what a well trained mind is supposed to do. The key is learning to do it on your feet.
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
My biggest weakness but also strength. It's a double edged sword.
Willy Dat Fookin' Guy Dafoe fortunately there are jobs that you can go for flawless execution.
Yeah it's a double edged sword, go when you have to, sometimes it's best to wait and build a better picture,,,
th-cam.com/video/4azM1DKqFI8/w-d-xo.html
Myles Johnson, you called Sir?
Lol I LOVE planning but never OVER plan.
Line it up and pull the trigger.
de@th by det@il
Yes you know what is about to come
I love how Jocko's advice is basically "Well stop it!"
It truly is that simple. It's like the elephant who won't escape. He can, he has the power to escape the chains. But learned helplessness keeps him stuck.
This is my #1 problem. Good shit. Thanks, Jocko!
I proofread this 3x before I hit send
@@AlKayproductions how many times did you proofread this?
Jocko is pure knowledge straight from empirism. There are few people like this in the world, that can dig into their experiences and produce this level of knowledge
"If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution." - Albert Einstein
No plan survives first contact with the enemy.... - Batman
wolfwoodphreak
-Wayne Gretzky" -Micheal Scott"
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Mike Tyson
What?? Batman actually said that? I wonder what his facial expression was.
@@Kinoti9 von Moltke said that
Some people are taking this too far lmao. Remember, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." You need to have some course of action but don't over analyze because things will happen along the way
Dude. This guy is incredible. Wow new fan, always scrolled past him in recommendations but lordy lord. What a great role model Jocko is. So desperately needed in today's society. A father figure for many I'd imagine.
He is pure agressive wisdom.
Watched this vid then just won gold at a BJJ comp... cheers Jocko!
did you win by perfectly executed armbar?
Flawless debriefing is not flawless analyzing your mistakes. I felt that one
This guy connects so many memory paths for me. Sure sign you’re learning something.
Perfection stops so many people making progress see it every day and people think they are be good or that its a good thing its not just go - thanks Jocko for your honesty and no bs message
Thanks for this video. I'm one of those over-analizers. It's a gift to have the support of a coach as you've described, versus the chronic critic in the camp (sometimes also me). Really needed to hear this today, thanks again!
Im a High Voltage Electrician and this makes a whole lot of sense even in my field.
I own a pool cleaning business and really hits home for me
Too much planning without execution is nothing.
"Every plan goes perfect, right up until the first contact," a man who knew more than me, once said. :)
Love the advice! Always planning for perfection and the simplest things never go as planned. Simply time wasted "IMPROVISE ADAPT and OVERCOME". Thanks and keep the great advice coming!
Love this. I wrestle with it constantly.
Five years after this podcast was recorded, it continues to inspire. Thank you Jocko and Echocharles!
I'm also an analytical overthinker but I learned a few years ago this had to change. My colleagues and I took a personality test that was conducted during an advocacy workshop that helped learn about ourselves and I was the ONLY person in a room of almost 30 people that was evaluated as analytical. During the workshop that day I learned that sometimes actions have to be taken despite all plans not being figured out. From that day it helped me to understand people who rush through decisions - not that they always made the right choice or achieved all outcomes desired but that they didn't want to spend more time delving into thinking while things are changing around them all the time.
"The longer you take to plan, the less irrelevant your plan becomes". --- That was a gut punch I needed. -- This few minutes of a video is like a nuclear bomb in the short speech game.
The less relevant*
I am not an american but my county has mandatory military service. But you can apply to particular/ certain branches. Because of this epic man I want to volunteer as the special forces "commando" force that they call it and get after it. You changed my changed my outlook on life Sir.
Vatansever I want to be a bordo bereli man
Koality Gainz you dont need to "want"You can do it. After all, Her Turk Asker Dogar. Something unfortunately new generations want to forget. I wish you godspeed.
Vatansever Thanks, Im 14 doing what I can physically to prepare myself. Theres a lot of patriotic american films I like but I apply it to Turkey. Makes me feel the need to keep out terrorists.
Where are you from
I swear I feel wisdom soaking in when I listen to these.
That's what I have all my life very Passionately - sit in one place to plan and analyze. This guy has touched something in me. Hope I can move this year.
"Planning is Essential; Plans are totally useless" (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
"In a Dogfight, whoever gets around the OODA loop faster WINS" (James Boyd, Ace Air Force Pilot, aka "40-second Boyd"....basically your life-expectancy in a Dog-fight with Boyd)
OODA=Observe, Orient, Decide, Act
Great Video, just wanted add my 2 grains of wisdom learned.
UnderseaCaveman his nickname wasnt 10 second Boyd it was 40 second Boyd
I'm a ferocious analyzer. Thankfully I have a few close friends (and wife) who are doers. It's stressful at times, and there is conflict, but we sharpen each other! Thank you Jocko, and Echo for all your insight. I'm becoming the man I was meant to be. Constant small moves forward equals progress.
How are you now?? All good?
@@surajjain7119 Hmm. Well you see. Nothing is ever all good. Or all bad. It's what we make of it that matters. I'm still moving forward!
@@687805 good to know, habit of analyzing has just no end, feels like endless loop..
Jocko haa the only comment section not seething with ignorance. Thank you team Jocko
"No plan survives contact with the enemy."
This was for me. Thank you!
As Mattis once said about war "Improvise Improvise Improvise". You're gonna plan it 70 percent right at the most. The rest you gotta figure out. All you need to know are the things that never change.
Thank you my friends, these videos are changing my life for the better.
I needed this so badly
Jocko. Love your motivation and your truth. Don't forget to tell the people that recon matters. Get your Intel first and then react to you situation if you need Plan B.
Echo Carles is the sweetest person ever!
"Everybody's got a plan till they get hit in the mouth." - Mike Tyson
awesome excerpt!
Thank you for this, exactly what I needed, god bless you brother 💖🙏
Be concise, and decisive.
As someone who is the ferocious analyser, This was extremely helpful for me to hear right now... Great advice and I'll be taking it
Thanks Jocko! I needed this.
I love these. "Dave Berke Business Insider" for extra humble pie.
Thank you
This is great stuff as usual
thank you for this
Thank You Much 😊
Thank you.
you are changing my life man, you might not be right 100% or I might not agree with some thoughts here and there but all of the time, but you are real and objective. Thanx bro, Honesty, you gave me the tools to survive my job, Thanx again man
Thank you Gentlemen ⚡♦️⚡
great video guys, thank you.
Wait broke the wagon!
The phrase “Wait broke the wagon” is a mantra for those of us who may have knowingly or unknowingly adopted the attitude of David Glasgow Farragut, a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” in U.S. Navy tradition.
Great podcast was awesome
Brilliant...
I needed this thank you.
Wow just wow need to implement this asap
Hi Sir Jocko WillinkI came across your channel after hearing your speeches on certain motivational videos. Having heard your talks about not listening to the 'voice' in your head or how to overcome your ego and how to discipline yourself.. I realised this man really knows what he's talking about so I tried to find who the speaker was and hence I found your channel.I do wonder how you learnt the art of overcoming the ego but without a doubt it is the same teachings of Sufism.I'm sure if you have reached a certain stage of overcoming your ego you are able to do many miraculous things that will amaze people.
Coming from a person who would love to implement the practice of overcoming the ego but struggles very much.Many thanks.
Spot on! N business also..awesome
Balance Planning and Flexibility
Hey jocko, HOOYAH!!!!!
Having a process you can trust goes a long way towards taking the nitpicking out of your setup phase, too.
A good decision now is better than a perfect decision later.
Damn this is GOLD
Contingency planing to the point logic box flow charting creates opportunities out of problems and processes as a consequence of the ferocious analysis and over planning as a result in itself over time... but it is more a result of experience from getting after it... than a original version of a planned plan or a designed contingency... for example information, location, party, intention and actual affiliation are each given a variable indicator... then as actions, confirmed, vetted, consequences and results are tallied... score cards are developed... and before you know it... you know whats up before it happens... allowing you to leap forward and proactive rather than reactive... you know them better than they know themselves. You can dismantle their plans with simple actions controlling the tempo and initiative. This is only possible for experienced professionals who keep their notes and after action assessments... with a strong degree of honesty and critical thinking. I don’t worry about the enemy tanks because I work against their fuel resupply... i stay out of their range when possible and when I appear to them it’s to move them were I want them... so that I can take out their fuel trucks... while letting them think they are in control. The trucks are light easy targets... the tanks are essentially useless without fuel. Eliminate the weak links and isolate the strongest. Then the command and control must reveal itself in order in regards to not losing the tanks.
When it’s pouring rain the deer move to ridge lines... and mountain lions follow the deer... wheres the nearest drinking water after the storm... where the brush is thickest or slope is steepest the mountain lion is resting... hunting mountain lions and ambushing armored battalions is the same math problem. The labels on the variables change. Math, logic and statistics is scary but only if you get out there and get after it... knowledge is power.
Great podcast guys.
You guys had me rolling taking about Echo's skinny knees and ankles.
it's better to move than to think, overthinking is a poison
I have this problem for BJJ and Judo competitions, I´ll try to apply this concept.
Had to learn this lesson for my BJJ tournament. Just fucking go, attack and submit. Same thing for life.
I deal with this so I just try to repeat a mantra or focus on a thought that is creative
JOCKO!
i heard someone once say, "if all you do is plan, plan, plan, pretty soon you're not planning; you're hiding."
EXCELLENT! Historical comparison: Patton vs Montgomery. Patton: "Perfect is the enemy of Good!" Montgomery: (British Doctrine) Move in the morning, consolidate in the afternoon. Patton "Attack! Always Attack!"
Ressources equal discipline
Echo Charles "mh(yeah)" count: 24.
The analyzer and the cowboy - Spock and Kirk 🖖
Good evening Echo
John Footpenis GOOD EVENING
That's me: "I need a blueprint, I'm not gonna do anything until I have one. I won't spend tens of hours trying to figure out a study/problem-solving method custom-tailored to ME, I'd rather have something "universally-approved of" and "tried and true" "
GOOD
I'm guilty of overthinking a trait I need to drop...Don't overthink just execute the fucking plan!
Under thinking is worse BUT overthinking can leave parallelized with inaction so yea sometimes yea got to make a decision. My problem is I think a lot then still dose shit impulsively so worth of both worlds sometimes
GO!
"Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection's impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that." ~ The Warrior Elite by Dick Couch, P. 288. I put a lot of stock in the previous statement, BUT I am now opening my eyes to training as professionally as one can and then trust my training to go get the job done. Being able to adapt on the fly, I may require the rest of my life to work at that.
OODA loop
KEYMOD VS M-LOCK !!!!!!!!! Jocko please! Address this !!! Love the show! THANK YOU
MISERSTYLE
NSW Crane already settled this. Extensive testing showed that MLOK is more durable over all
MLOK is life.
5 4 3 2 1 Go!
Most plans go out the window the moment the shit hits the brick.
So true. Just fucking send it
I’m tryna ask my best friend to be my girl. So much planning is running through my head rn and i need to execute even though im scared. This is exactly what i needed. We shall see how it goes
How did it go
I will play this next time I present w/ an engineering plan and the higher-ups say "that sounds good...but what if we do something totally different..."
The new SEALs moto might as well be "Send us, we'll go"
04:16
Me: TRIGGERED
LOL
usually I see the opposite where people don't plan at all where they spend maybe 15 minutes talking about something without writing anything down for a six-month or one-year project. Failing to plan is planning to fail.
gold
My manager is really annoying about the perfection. My job is distribution and she constantly is pissed off because something may not go her way. We are at 98 or 99% perfection. We are extremely close and she fails to realize that nothing will be perfect. It’s like you can never be happy because she is always hounding on everybody.
I'm willing to admit I'm a recovering ferocious analyzer... enough said.
Hey jocko any chance of doing a book review on legacy by James kerr
Jocko, when are you and Tim Kennedy going to put that t-shirt out??
🙏🏼
The Perfect is the enemy of the Good.