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Standard Directive 001: Take Control
Standard Directive 001:  Take Control

Standard Directive 001: Take Control

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Jocko Willink
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Oct 2, 2023
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Our minds are their pliable.
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Everyone's minds are pliable and the different levels, some people have more pliable Minds than others, but our minds are pliable and we get influenced by our environment. That's what happens, music words, that you read, movies, books, social media, the the news, the people you're around family friends.
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People that you work with, you're getting influence, that's what's happening. Think about how you feel when you hear some aggressive music.
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Think about what that does to your mindset, you hear aggressive music and you start feeling a little bit amped up or you hear some sappy music.
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Or some party type music. It impacts you it influences the way you're thinking movies.
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Can change your mood, right? I mean, everyone's felt that you watch some movie. It's a happy movie to sad movie. It's an action movie.
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it influences the way you're thinking your friends,
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you got friends that like to party, right? They like to go out there like to drink and go out to the club's, you're on. Those people also need to start feeling that little urge.
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And you got other friends that are disciplined. They are going to go to the gym early in the morning, they make you want to work out.
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So these are examples that we might not be thinking about them, but if you think about them, you know, they're obvious.
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This is happening all day long.
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This is happening all day long. Our minds are morphing from minute to minute.
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if we let them,
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if you are not paying attention, if you are on cruise control, then your mind is not under your own control. We can't be in cruise control, you can't let your mind be in cruise control. You have to be cognizant of what you're thinking.
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You have to be cognizant, you have to be aware of how you are being influenced.
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because in this day and age right now, if you aren't careful,
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you can slide down the path of least resistance, the path.
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Path to weakness.
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The path to fragility.
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And the path to a lack of control as to what is happening in our lives in your life.
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Life will happen to you.
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instead of Life happening for you,
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Do not allow that. Just do not allow that.
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You have to take control.
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You've got to do something to get control of your brain of your mind. You got to check yourself. I don't care how you do it. I don't care if you if you set an alarm every 45 minutes so you can audit your thoughts. So you can audit, what is influencing you? So you can control, its influencing you control the things you think about,
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You can actually control how you feel, you can control what you think and you can definitely control what you do.
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Do not be a slave to
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influence.
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You got to be the master of your mind. You gotta control your mind. You gotta exercise mind control.
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That means you got to pay attention and be aware all day.
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That's what you got to
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do.
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So go execute.
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