Jocko Podcast - Jocko Underground: Your Next Mission | How to Build Self Discipline | Best Questions

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

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On this episode of Jocko Underground, we discuss how to find a worthy mission when your last one is complete. We cover how to build self-discipline when you can't seem to make it stick. We explain strategies to talk politics without causing turmoil, as well as how to stay safe in the streets by presenting a hard target. Then we explain how to excel in your team and finally how to overcome unexplained depression. Jockle Underground, best questions answered. You have talked before about finding a new mission for fellow veterans after their service ends, so I was hoping for some help with a similar situation. I'm 24 married and have a very blessed life.

However, I feel there is part of me missing as I played baseball for about 17 years of life through college. My career ended due to COVID in 2020, so I felt as if it was taken away from me and I didn't get a final say in the matter. It has now been two years and I do not feel the sense of drive or purpose that I once felt. I'm a real estate agent now, but have a hard time fully committing to this position, even though I think I would be good at it. I miss the camaraderie and drive to be the best from being in athletics. My whole life, being in athletics my whole life, and I feel as if nothing can feel that void completely. I feel that there are many student athletes in a similar position as me who struggle.

with this any advice on trying to find a new mission after our playing careers have ended and trying to stay on the path when things out of your control occur thanks for your time okay well of course I'm gonna start with just go start training jiu jitsu because start training jih Tzu man there's how many crossover athletes are in jiu jitsu echo charles all of them it's like crazy how many people come from football baseball wrestling soccer Just any, any sport, it's a crossover sport, and you can come get into jitza and you'll love it. So start training jiu-jitsu.

And you know what? Beyond jiu-jitsu, there's other sports. Baseball, like you could still play baseball, some kind of pickup league. You play softball. You play basketball. You can play flag football. They have a freaking kickball league.

Right? Yeah. And again, you got jih Tutsu. There's also individual stuff that you can become kind of part of a tribe for running or triathlons or crossfit or something like that like there's so many things that you could do to go out there and freaking get after it in the same way and I can guarantee you as hard as you train for baseball you start competing in jiu jitsu you're going to have you're going to be training just as hard if not harder so that's that's the out of the gate man don't give up on

athletics because you didn't say you broke your you blew your knee out or you freaking blew your back out or something sounds to me like you're a military age male healthy military age male which means you are good to go so go get in on the mats go get back on the field of some kind you're gonna meet new people you're gonna be able to train hard and you can take it to the thing that's cool about you jitsu look if you're playing kickball you're playing softball it it's competitive you know you can be part of a competitive of softball team. But not everyone on the team is going to be taking it, you know, as serious as you are.

And how far can you go? Dude, in Jiu Jitsu, you can legitimately go compete in the world championships. The world champion. You can become a world champion in Jiu Jitsu. At white belt, at blue belt, at purple belt, out brown blah, and at black belt. So it's a great crossover sport for you. Okay. So there you go.

Real estate. Hey, is this the right job? This could be the right job for you. Look, real estate is competitive. It takes a lot of action. It takes a lot of effort. It takes a lot of team. Right.

So it could be the right job. But I'm feeling like there's a void. So what's that void? Is there another, is there something else you should be doing or could look at? I don't know. But if real estate is the deal, awesome. Then you have a new team right there as well. Build that team.

Grow that team. Win together. And that's kind of what we need to do. Here, and let me give you some good, everything I just said, you're probably like, oh, okay, yeah, I guess so. Let me, let me close the deal right now. You don't want to be Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.

Right? You don't want to be Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. Well, when I was in college, I threw the winning, whatever, right? You don't want to be that guy. You want to move on in life. You want to get past it. Dude, you were a competitive athlete, man, in college, a college competitive athlete, you're an elite athlete.

That's awesome. You're not in that sport anymore. Those days are over. Don't live in the past. Focus on, you know what? You can focus on, look, even if you didn't do jujitsu or other sports, now you have a new career that you can go out and dominate and kick ass in. And then you can make money and build that team and buy houses and flip houses.

There's all kinds of badass things you can do. All kinds. Now look, did jujitsu or any, replace the whole in my heart for my career in the SEAL teams? No, of course not. Of course not. I'm Uncle Rico when it comes to that, right? That was the highlight of my life, but I don't sit there and dwell on it and think, oh gosh, no, I don't do that. It's like, guess what I do now? I have Eshlan Front, have Joko Fuel, have origin, have Jocko Podcasts, have all these things going on, train Jiu-Jitsu, train Jiu-Jitsu all the time, run, bow hunting, got

into bow hunting. We're out there shooting the bow, out there hunting, like doing all these things. And look, they might not measure up to what I did at the highlight of my life, but I'm not worried about it. I don't feel down about it. Man, I was freaking stoked. I had the opportunity to have the opportunity to play ball in college. That's badass. I'm stoked I had the opportunity to be in the SEAL teams and deploy and be in combat.

That's badass. Great. But I'm cool. I'm thankful. Not regretful. so let's not be Uncle Rico let's start training Jiu-Jitsu let's become a dominant

kick-ass real estate agent that's taken over the world with your team that's what I got this is um I could I could not agree with you more with the Jiu Jiu Jitsu part of it because I mean so baseball there's an element of money and fame

that I'm not saying that's what he's like embracing us why but there is an element of money and fame that's not quite going to be there in jujitsu as much is there money in jiu juts? Sure. Is there some famous? Sure. But not like baseball and these more mainstream sports or whatever. So there's that. And here's one thing you do have need the heads up with if you come from freaking 17 years of killing it in baseball. You're going to have to start from the beginning. And you're going to get your ass kicked. Yes. You get choked, man. You're going to be a white belt. By this by a little

scrawny little kid. Yep. A 15 year old kid. Depending. Look, if you're If you also wrestled and you weigh two 60 you might not get choked by a 15 year old kid Yes, but if you're a hundred and eight eight pounds and There's a 15 year old kid in there and he's pretty good You're gonna choke you don't be surprised on that happen don't be surprised yeah and we bummed out Yeah, it's gonna be okay and that's the point where it's just no as a heads up you have to be a white belt. All right? So you're gonna be doing white belt stuff and getting white belt happenings to you here's what's really cool you are you are already down selected as a athletic human.

By that, I mean you've already proven that you're an athletic human. So you got, it's like when you select stuff for military usage, you start off with 20 guns, and then they down select to 10. Oh, okay, so you already made the cutter. Yeah, they down, select, down, select.

Finally, we get to two guns left and we pick our final gun that we're going to use. So you already made it through selection that you're a legit athlete, right? You played college baseball. So that means you have the capability of being really good at Jiu-Jitsu. Oh, yeah. So brace that, man.

And you know about getting tired. You know about training hard and working hard, even outside of actually playing the sport. You know about that kind of stuff. So, yeah, you're down-selected. Probably in a couple of ways. But if you, like I said, miss the camaraderie and drive to be the best, bro. Jump right in, Hawaiian. Jump in that competition freaking training.

Yeah. And you can. Yeah, you can, and you can, and you'll have everything you need. I mean, obviously it depends on where you go, of course. But yeah, you go competition training. You get better and better, and that'll make you better. You go compete. You win.

You got coaches. You got teammates pushing you. Oh, man. All day. All day. All day. All day. All day.

Awesome, man. Hey, Joccoe. I want to say that. I really appreciate your work you guys do. Put out and try to help people reach their goals and better themselves all around. I'm 16 years old, and lately I've been having a, a really hard time getting myself to do things by myself. I'll sit around and watch YouTube or TV shows all day

because that's the only thing that I feel comfortable doing by myself. When it comes to any work that needs to be done or exercising, I'll try for a little bit, but ultimately stop because the entire time I'm fighting the urge to do something comfortable again. However, when I'm doing work with friends or doing something that others rely on me for, it will get done no matter what and in a timely manner to. I feel that this is self-destructive behavior because I don't think I'm worth enough to work on myself, exercise, and be healthy.

But when it comes to others, I'm always on it. My question is, how do I become comfortable working on myself for my own or on my own? The last couple of weeks, I've been wondering what to the point, or what the point is to everything. I know that no one can do it for me and I must help myself, but I would just like some advice. So check this out. At 16 years old, there's something that I don't think you've realized yet. So I'm going to tell you. And that is that you are a human being.

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