Jocko Willink ON: Leading Like a Navy Seal & Taking Extreme Ownership of Every Problem in Your Life

We all want to have financial freedom ... But if you want to get to financial freedom, what do you have to have? You have to have financial discipline. You have to have the discipline to work hard. You have to have the discipline to save your money. You have to have the discipline to invest your money properly. You have to have the discipline not to buy stupid things that you don't even actually need. And if you can have that kind of financial discipline, you'll end up with financial freedom.

Turn off your brain, and go do what you're supposed to do. That's what you need to do to overcome that procrastination.

What people are going through—that is their world. And, so, depending on who you are and what your situation is, people go through different things. And whatever is happening in your world is the biggest emergency that's going on in the entire world because it's happening to you.

What do you need to do as a leader is, first of all, work on your own skills. Get as good as you can at the various categories. And then, when you have areas of weakness, it's okay. Be humble enough to build a team that complements your leadership weaknesses so you can become a solid leadership team.

...Listening is the most underrated skill in leadership and as a human. You should listen a vast majority of the time.

The argument of whether you're born a leader or whether your made a leader, the answer is absolutely both.

The biggest thing that you learn in the SEAL teams is that you are not as good as you think you are. There's always going to be someone that's better than you at something ... You're always surrounded by someone on your team that can run circles around you in whatever category, whether it's shooting or diving or parachuting. So, it's a very humbling experience.