Jocko Podcast - DEF 07: All Failure is Psychological

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

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Discipline equals freedom episode seven sitting here with echo Charles and Dave Burke other than death All failure is psychological and that is from the army field manual FM 1022 the 1951 version that we covered in Podcast 177 and I know you ran this into this the other day echo because we were talking about it you're doing your 20 rep squat workout and you made it to 18 yesterday yeah and And I text you texted me you didn't make it. You failed. You made it to 18 and I texted you back all mental. And you didn't even deny it.

Because it's true. That's one of the things about that workout is that it is mental. Because you can get one more rep. You should be using a weight that you can get one more time. And you didn't get it. because you didn't want to. It's failure. We can face this, right?

We can all face this. You can face this at any time when we don't do what we are supposed to do. This happens. We don't do what we're supposed to do. And it's really sad because we all know what we're supposed to do. We actually know it. There's very few people that have no idea

what they should be doing. We all know what should be doing. We definitely know what we shouldn't be doing. But it's a failure. It's a failure to control our minds. It's a failure of mind. control I wrote about this in the manual in the other field manual the discipline equals freedom field manual let's go to the book here you your mind that is you

that's an important point when you say you when you say I that's you that's your mind you have control over that thing you can control it you are the machine and you can control it people ask me how do I get tougher be tougher How can I wake up early in the morning? Wake up early. How can I work out consistently every day? Work out consistently every day. How can I stop eating sugar?

Stop eating sugar. You can even control your emotions. How can I stop missing that girl or guy or whoever broke up with me? How do you do that? You stop missing them. These are the things. These are these simple answers. The simple answers.

But they're the truth. They're the truth Every other look if you can if you get someone that says well you know for waking up early in the morning What you need to do is you need to put an alarm clock across the room and you set multiple alarm clocks Those are all techniques But essentially there's only one technique that you need to follow And that is control your mind Which you have full control over

You have control over your mind back to the book you have control over your mind you just have to assert it You have to decide that you are going to be in control that you are going to do what you want to do interesting isn't it interesting isn't it that we actually do things that we don't even want to do we don't well there's part of your brain wants to do it there's a little immediate gratification that's screaming that's begging that's directing that's driving that's strong that knows little ways to manipulate but that's the that's the infeat your being.

That's the lesser being. It's the weaker being. And yet we let it step up. Weakness doesn't get a vote. Back to the book, weakness doesn't get a vote. Laisiness doesn't get a vote. Sadness doesn't get a vote. Frustration doesn't get a vote.

Negativity doesn't get a vote. Your temper doesn't get a vote. Now listen, as I'm reading those, guess what? That's not completely accurate. Let me rephrase it. I was going hard in the pain. Right against lazy because because hey does laziness get a vote? It does get a vote right gets a vote

It gets a vote maybe it gets two vote Maybe sadness gets a little bit of a vote maybe frustration get they get they have a vote But they don't have the majority They don't have the dictator veto power which you have You have dictator veto power No matter what it doesn't matter how many votes they assemble They could assemble thousands of votes. Doesn't matter.

You're the dictator. You rule. You have mind control. You can overrule these votes. 100%. They have no pragmatic control over the situation. Zero. You do not have to listen to them.

This is like a tyrannical parent. Right? The kids can, the tyrannical parent with five kids. And the kids are like, we want an ice cream. We want ice cream. I'm going to ice cream. You do not have to listen to them. The tyrannical parent does not have to listen to them.

If you really want to be a tire, you can tell them, shut up. The tyrannical boss at a company, the tyrannical CEO. Oh, the workers are saying that they want to have Friday afternoon. I don't care. Shut up. Keep working. That's the control that you have. You literally have that.

Continuing on. So next time you are feeling weak or lazy or soft or emotional, tell those feelings they don't get a vote. Or if you want to, if you need to, you can say, yes, you get a vote, but I'm not going to listen to you. You're getting vetoed. Continuing on. You are declaring martial law in your mind, mind control. Impose what you want on your brain. Discipline, power, positivity, will.

And use mind control to move your life where you want it to be. Stronger, faster, smarter, quicker, friendlier, more helpful, more driven. Don't let your mind control you. control your mind, then you can set it free. So it really is under your control. You have the keys. It's not a magic key either. Check this out. Imagine that you had to play yourself in tic-tac-toe or in chess or in basketball or whatever. Can you beat yourself? Before you get all esoteric on me, I'm not talking about equal echo separate and complete being from this other echo I'm talking about you against you can you be yours yeah of course you can you can throw the game

You can throw the game You can do whatever you want against you Yeah, yeah like there's two echoes echo one and echo two they're gonna play each other in chess. Okay, I'm gonna bet five million dollars on echo two and I'm gonna let echo two win. That's what you're gonna do Yeah you completely control the game. It's you against you. And yet you lose for no reason to yourself.

I see what you mean now. Yeah. So the only way you can lose is if you actually decide you're going to lose. You accept it. And all I'm saying is don't do that. You have veto power. You know what's good for you. You know what winning will bring you.

You know what winning will bring you. You know it'll put you in a better place in life, but what do you have to do? You have to control your mind. You have to control your mind. That's what we're doing. And that's the discipline. For more of this, check out the deafreset.com.

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