648 - NO EXCUSES with Jocko Willink

It's really easy in this world right now to just consume information, right? Whether it's Instagram or TikTok or Snapchat, you can just go on there and consume, but you're not producing anything; you're not making anything; you're not creating anything. You shouldn't be in a deficit. You should be hating if you end up at the end of the day that you've consumed more information than you've actually produced or you've consumed more creativity than you've produced.

The harder you guard your ego, the more obvious it is that you're insecure.

The way that you take ownership over things that you have no control over is you take ownership of how you respond.

Life is filled with all kinds of resistance and insurgency that's fighting against you, and if you don't impose your will on it, your life will go in the wrong direction. There's no doubt about it.

If you think it doesn't pay off to be competitive in business, and your competitor is going to open their store at 6 o'clock in the morning and you're going to open up at 5:30... You don't think that's an advantage? That's an advantage all day long.

Knowing who you are means you have to be aware of what you know and what you don't know.

Short-term gratification is not long-term success, and it's not long-term happiness.

If I recognize that someone has no humility and is not going to listen, I'll probably fire them pretty quickly.