Motivation Doesn't Work. Do This Instead. | Jocko Willink | Leif Babin |
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- In this new video series, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, the authors of the NY Times #1 Bestseller, "Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win", explain how "motivation" is a myth and cannot be relied upon to keep you engaged.
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JOCKO and Leif. Get some.
Motivation isn’t what we are relying on. Discipline is what enables us to do what we have to do.
Standing by to
Get It Done 🙏💪
Yessir
"Let discipline be your guide, not your emotions." Love it.
Love this ❤
If you are trained and disciplined enough would you then be be willing to shoot unarmed civilians if ordered? Mothers and children. Let's say the death of civilians might turn the tide of a war?
I guess I now understand why calling the military in a civilian situation is so dangeorus.
just words. lifeless, numb, irrelevant
I didn't want to listen to this podcast, but I did it anyway.
Discipline Equals Freedom.
This was so "motivational" no sarcasm intended. "Discipline trumps your feelings." "You have something that needs to get done but you don't feel like doing it - doesn't matter." I love it! Thanks for life long lessons within a 14 minute frame.
If you are trained and disciplined enough would you then be be willing to shoot unarmed civilians if ordered? Mothers and children. Let's say the death of civilians might turn the tide of a war? I guess I now understand why calling the military in a civilian situation is so dangeorus.
@@snaphaan5049 When I get some time I'll have to watch this vid again so I can see how it relates to your comment. But to answer your question no I would not be willing to do that. When I was in the military I heard it said, "follow all orders unless they are illegal, immoral, or unethical."
“People get defeated by the alarm clock, people get defeated by a DONUT.”
I FEEL ATTACKED.
“Good”
I hate when someone at work brings a box of donuts at work. It takes out half of the department.
Next time, throw the the whole box in the bin "it's for your own good" 😂
@benjaminnichols1157 ... 😂 oh man.. 😂
Wow. Brilliant. True story: Ike while President was told by his doc that his 3 pack a day cig habit was killing him. He quit that day. A reporter asked how he did it. “I gave myself an order to stop.” He never smoked again.
A true warrior isn't one who wins a thousand battles but he who battles himself and wins . Bless you Jacko ,i honour your words 🙏
By far, one of the most important videos I've seen you men put out. Thank you both.
Discipline is the root of all good qualities. Thank you for your support.
Forrest Gump is my favorite movie for this one principle...he did not let intelligence or a belief get in his way. Just do it.
That was me growing up. I got tired of ending up in bad situations and decided to start thinking before acting
It occurred to me that when Jocko says when you don’t know where you are in life; when you are lost; you get up and you move. Move forward. Start walking. You’re not where you were then. You are changing your situation. That part of Forrest Gump starts running, it’s when he is like that. He doesn’t know where he is going. He is just moving forward and away from where he was where he felt lost. He finds his way out of that eventually.
In other words, you're a dullard LMFAO LMFAO LMFAO!
You got me at the gym at 4am every morning, discipline get's you there not motivation. I love the analogy of the General and Soldier in your mind.
Right on. The General is getting you to the gym, but you are the Soldier who has to enact that discipline and get the workout done. Keep getting after it.
A friend from China was talking to an American neighbor woman, and the neighbor told her that their kid was not doing well in math (high school) because "...she doesn't like it..." . My friend was appalled, "What does not liking it have to do with anything?"
The message was loud and clear: just get the job done!
Two days ago before bed I decided to go back to the gym. Yesterday after work I was far more exhausted than usual. I heard a voice telling me to just delay a day and get some needed rest. I didn't listen. The voice told me I needed to go get some caffeine from home before I could get a decent workout in. I ignored it. Today is day two of hard exercises and I can attest, sometimes you just need to get it done.
That sounds like schizophrenia….”jokingly saying that” good for you man keep it up
@@Nonsense410 Thanks man, I appreciate it. I'm starting to see some muscle definition now, and my weight is starting to come down.
Can't wait to meet the man who agrees with the mantra "discipline overrides emotion." I ran in collegiate track meets at the age of 37 as an unattached runner in the 1500 b/c my running coach said I could rock it. If I had let emotions take over, I would have puked at every meet.
Emphatically true wisdom spoken here. Thanks for this.
I am just a volunteer firefighter, however when u are called out you burn a ton of energy in all types of conditions. I need to be a lot more fit, this truly hit me with a wow just use my discipline!! Thanks a lot!!!
You brothers are the best and you self fund!!! VFD is just another branch of service. It's the firefighter that goes "over the top" for a rescue. *Salutes*
@@hounddog3476 Appreciate ya for sure 👊
As a teacher I love reminding young people that "wanting to" is nor a requirement... do it anyway. Discipline is keeping myself to that same standard. Great stuff, gentlemen.
Real ”motivation” is staying true and doing things that will give you what really want. Get after it👌 Great job Guys🤩
Doing the right things is a consequence of being motivated to do so. What you really want is your motivation.
Self-discipline is everything in life. With your body, mind, spouse, friends, kids, diet, and spirit.
Thank you. Thank you. I have never heard this so well spoken and well said. Discipline = Liberty and Freedom
I remember going before the board to make Senior Master Sergeant and being asked about how do you motivate your troops? I had already thought about this and came to the conclusion long before for myself that your motivation Is a reminder of your why and your belief in it. You're ultimate why, your mission. But what gets the job or mission done is being a disciplined person. I'm not cancelling out giving good feedback or teaching peop!e to take ownership of their responsibilities given, or accalades, or kudos or atta boys, or medals or certificates they are all good and should be used for merit and I hope I instilled those things in those I supervised. I believe wholeheartedly in those. I just agree that disciplining yourself or being disciplined thru training is what gets the mission or job or goal completed in the best possible way and with best outcomes.
Love this!
I followed my feelings my whole life and because of that I was stuck for many years, or even decades. I was a slave of myself and that's truly a really awful situation, you're consumed by guilt and regret and you feel like a fool, a failure, a good for nothing... but the only one responsible for that is YOU and your lack of self-control, discipline, a strong mentality. Those will always be essential in everybody's life.
I'm still fighting my own mental war, sometimes I lose some battles and sometimes I win others, but the most important thing is to not give up and keep striving to improve and become a better version of yourself.
We should acknowledge our feelings, but if we only listen to how we feel, we will end up down a path of self-indulgence. Discipline is what will give us true freedom to do and get what we want.
I have been knocked down by life maybe times and left with nothing literally. Many times my own fault. Yet i have always gotten up, and have come a long way from where i was in life. Not going into details, but it's a far cry from where i was. Internal motivation, and having good people in your life to push you, and not co sign your b.s. had helped me get to where i am
i have been so tired and discouraged that i felt defeated, i started listening to motivational videos and i would listen to them every night and use them to help me have reason to not give up, and i would say those reasons to myself throughout the day
because i did not give up i developed discipline
that is the only thing that confuses me about your argument, i am not disagreeing with you exactly, but i was so tired and discouraged that i was giving up and the motivational videos the words they said were guidence and strength and I don't think i would have continued without them
10 years i dragged myself through constant work and loss, i though I would never come out
Understand completely. Just discovered these vids.
Congratulations
All the videos do is remind u that the key is discipline just like the seals who fail by going to clubs life has so many distraction
This is pure Gold!
I’m 68 with major health issues. The least of my issues: I cannot run. Bad knees.
Every morning I get out of my toasty warm bed and leave my soft pillow at 5am to take a cold shower and swim 400 yards in a cold pool.
I always look for happy motivation but rarely find any.
At a certain point after months of this I realized I can’t depend on my fickle mind for a happy, motivated attitude.
This tape has not motivated me but it rings true in my personal experience.
Thanks, Jocko.
This is my life. I get my training done at 4am. Doesn’t matter if you want to do it. Doesn’t matter if you didn’t get enough sleep, nothing matters. Just fkn get it done.
Wow! I’ve never heard this before. It is absolutely true. That motivation is worthless. Discipline is all that matters. motivation always evaporates.
Thank you for your service to our country. Bless you for the continued service with teaching men the things we didn’t get for one reason or another. I don’t know where I would be right now without guys like you and Chad Wright, David Goggins. I’ve pieced myself back together with gaffer’s tape I got from watching all you guys.
This makes a lot of sense. Developing discipline is psychological power, this is good mental input.
Growing up in a Navy family, it does my heart good to see these guys going online and sharing their thoughts about the good, bad and ugly of their journey. I think it's healthy
This needs a definition for "motivation". I / many understand it as the reasons/conviction for doing something. So what you do at the moment CAN be unpleasant/undesirable/unlikeable/un-feel-like-doit-able --- but you still do it if you have ... strong motivation.
Motivation in turn can help you develop discipline.
I have zero motivation to lift weights, I have to force myself to do it every day, and I mean every day. I tell myself every day that I will hate myself if I don't do it. I am only pleased when I see the results.
Hey I am reading your book "Extreme Ownership" and I am loving it.
Yep. I get up and around and once I start that first set, the workout is ON! I don’t stop until it’s done.
Motivation has a place.
Inspiration- By Action or Words = minutes to hours to be motivated to create a plan to be valued.
Motivation- Create a Plan= Time/Cost/ROI. Minutes to 48hrs to for basics of value. The plan can vary depending on new info.
Discipline- Without discipline A Plan is just words on paper.
Been watching Jocko for years very serious guy
This is very well stated and absolutely true!
As they were talking, I was able to reflect on many areas in my life where I've become very disciplined, with that discipline being what gets me through.
Many years ago, for example, I developed some specific food allergies -- nothing that will kill me, but even so I've developed the discipline to avoid these foods even when I really want to eat them or when everyone else does, and I shouldn't.
Discipline gets you through!
THE FORCE flows through Jocko
He explains how to be a force of nature
By harnessing nature itself
It is THE very power of WILL
The spaces that occupy every atom of your body and make up almost all of it
You my friends
Are the makeup of pure WILL
A FORCE THAT TRANSCENDS SPACE AND TIME
AND JOCKO
Just reaches out and grabs it❤
Fantastic video and almost as equally fantastic are the amazing comments, no one is disagreeing with what is being said because we all know it is impossible to argue against this advice.
8:40 Make discipline the only thing that's left
10:10 There's no negotiation in combat.
No negotiation in discipline.
10:50 Execute with pure discipline
11:35 ppl get defeated by less significants 12:00
12:45 do it, it doesnt matter
13:30 dont allow feelings to dictate what u do
Discipline is king. 💪🏻😎👍🏻
What jacko just described is what I experienced doing Ice baths and saunas. Discipline was actually an unexpected by product of the practice.
I’m lucky enough to have a wellness center that has both premium ice baths and a sauna. I love being warm and I HATE(with a burning passion) being cold. When I arrive I’m warm, cozy, and feel comfortable. It is the greatest shock to get into 37 degree water. Shock is an understatement! Even after a year I still hate it. But I do it for 2 minutes. When I get down to the last 30 seconds I count the milliseconds and start negotiating with my self to get out- but I stay in.
When I get out and go into the sauna it is the greatest feeling. It’s so luxurious and relaxing. And then I go back into the ice water for 2 minutes. And the pain begins again, the hardest of which getting into the water.
I expected increased energy and endorphins. But I did not expect my diet to improve, my relationships, and overall fitness to improve. Every single hard thing became easier! Delayed gratification because the standard. It was all because nothing is worse than being wrapped up in a warm blanket with a pretty candle watching a beautiful relaxing video to in the next 10 minutes getting into ice cold water & sustaining that pain!!!!!
I've never been in a combat situation, but I remember sleeping in a park at 17 after escaping home where I was trafficked for 5 years.
To survive, I walked into local small businesses and asked to write articles for their blog for $20. It was hard to survive, and I did not want to do what it took because I was scared. But I did it anyway and relied on the discipline to keep going.
That and spite.
Now at 33, I'm still a content writer and strategist, and I remind myself when I don't feel like doing the work that sending cold emails to potential clients and executing my marketing strategy are not on the same level as what I had to do before and I need to grow up and just do it.
I'm beyond grateful for owning my own business and get to live on my own terms, and I know if I want to keep it, I need to do the work.
It's also why I got addicted to being backed against the wall in life -- because that's my do-or-die situation where I'm forced to take action. Fear becomes irrelevant, and the brain fog clears. It's harnessing this fierceness in the comfortable times.
I'm writing this before even starting the video. I know motivations fade away easily. We love Batman and we all want to be like him, but, in reality, motivations fade. The strong keep the motivation, but the average guy can't hold on to it. So, I'm very curios and expecting a lot from what Jocko has to say here. I'm not going to edit this one after watching the video either. Hoping for the best!
I didn't edit my initial statements, so this one is based on the conclusion after watching the video and I quote: "if you allow your feelings to dictate what you do, you will end up being a slave to your feelings".
Taking small, but constant steps really works. Tortoise and the Hare 🐢🐇
Discipline,dedication,& desire,3D's of life kudos for a great session.
This is the second video I’ve watched from you guys now really good content. Very brief story I was also 82nd airborne for a brief moment of my life. And I got into a verbal conflict with somebody because I said. “ this part of the job is so cool you know getting ready to jump out of an airplane at night doing a full mission, etc. and then I shook my head and said it’s the coolest job for like 15 minutes or so then I wanna go and do something else.”
At that time, I was 22 and a complete fucking idiot. That 20 minute rule applies to even real life.
I’m gonna watch this a couple of times good information about motivation and discipline. It’s very difficult to be disciplined for many people including myself. Takes an insane amount of work and dedication. This is a good reminder for me and a good time to get put in check. Again, thanks for putting out these videos.
Sent this message using Siri so I’m sure none of it makes any sense
You don't start when you're motivated, you start when you have to. And you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when you're done.
Discipline gets involved when you already started doing something, when you got into something. Motivation is needed to START doing something. In this example - get into seal training. Different things.
Motivation is overrated,
Discipline is the key
Right on. Discipline equals freedom.
Discipline over motivation.
Mindset over circumstance.
You need to be motivated to become disciplined to become disciplined.
Disciplin is really just motivation. Why would you want discipline in your life? The answer to that, is your motivation.
If you are trained and disciplined enough would you then be be willing to shoot unarmed civilians if ordered? Mothers and children. Let's say the death of civilians might turn the tide of a war?
I guess I now understand why calling the military in a civilian situation is so dangeorus.
I just want to say,"you have reestablished something in me that I've been looking for for some time and want to express my gratitude"... I have for some reason been relying on finding motivation rather than concentrating on discipline. Not"can I do it" but " I have to do it"... There's no other choice this is what must be done no if ands buts about it, there is no other choice you must do it.. thank you brother
That resonates strongly. I call it willpower, not discipline, but whatever. Sophism. Not on your scale, to be sure, not even close, but I do stuff I really positively absolutely do not want to every day. Because I feel it's the right thing. Or it gets me somewhere I want to be, literally or metaphorically, and nobody's gonna do it for me and not doing it just leads to excuses for why I didn't get there. I totally concur motivation is irrelevant. To my mind, it is one of those excuses. You didn't do /achieve X because you lack the motivation. It sounds so cliché, yet that's what I experienced in my life - you either suck it up and soldier on, or you choose stay behind with only your excuses to keep you company. Everytime and anytime I failed or succeeded in my life it boiled down to simply that. It really wasn't complicated. Great video, thank you for sharing.
Exactly, discipline = freedom
Bullseye over the target. I have abused my freedom. Back into the water, I go.
Get back on the Path of Discipline. That's how you can unlock more freedom
@@EchelonFrontBible?
Holy hell Jocko. . . Thank you
@@CarlosVerdinOfficial what
@@EchelonFront Yes, Sir! I just saw this reply. My procrastination is shameful. Honored for the reply.
This is the best video I’ve seen on the topic! That hit hard!
Gosh I absolutely love his viewpoint and examples of discipline!!!
Self-discipline can work wonders and is achievable with clear life goals. Thank you for promoting liberating values in your channel.
I have always had a problem with the word "motivation"
Motivation is the reason to do something.
Your motivations to eat are you are hungry and survival. Often a reason to do it aint enough.
I’m inspired by both Jocko and Leif! Just bought an Extreme Ownership hat from the Echelon front website! Discipline Equals Freedom.
How wonderfully convicting. 🙌🏼
Discipline = FREEDOM
Jocko and his video's about discipline helped me to get trough a lot in life. The books were very good as well. Thanks for the video #Staydisciplined #keepuptheGOODwork
Discipline is the motivation. One personally witnesses the evidence and results that discipline creates. Discipline defines ones character by delaying gratification for an improved end result. But discipline can blind one to discernment ie: the fact that what the military is ultimately doing is creating mind controlled robots who never question the principles being disciplined out of them. The idea that following orders and commands that very well may violate conscience, is paramount. Discernment combined with discipline is the key so that one knows that one's actions motivated by discipline is right and not wrong.
Self Discipline is the best Motivation
Thx so much for a great video, I will be from this day forward working on my discipline thx again 😊
This is why gyms are packed in January and empty in February. However discipline is learned, it's not something most people can just flip on like a switch. And most people don't have it. So the question is, how do you learn discipline?
Start small, get some little wins, recognize the dopamine hit, feel accomplished, get encouraged by it, aim a little higher, rinse and repeat.
Discipline begets more discipline. The more discipline you enact on yourself - getting the workout in or waking up early - the more discipline you will accomplish throughout the day. If you get off the path and miss a workout in one day, don't let it become two and keep moving forward.
@@ryancairns139 Spot on. Get some small wins that will inspire you to achieve bigger goals.
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What really built it for me is simply do things when you don't want to do them. When you have a rough day at work and don't want to hit the gym is when it's most important to hit the gym. That's what builds the discipline.
Discipline == freedom 🔥 🔥
Opposite. Discipline requires you to do something. If you are free, you dont need discipline.
I have been going to school for CS and found that tenacity and hard work do not come from inspiration they come from the need to succeed and the want for bettering yourself rather than the pleasure of doing it within itself. So when you make yourself do something like complex math and you don’t want to do it you remember that the outcome ie more money having a comfortable life and a good job is enough to force yourself to be motivated. Also focusing on people who are worse than yourself is important and setting your expectations as low as possible and seeing yourself as being bad at it. Both things cause you to work harder.
The only valuable comment so far. Well done for not kissing their boots like everyone else.
Great insight regarding motivation vs discipline.. question now is.. how do I discipline myself?
Thanks Jocko. It makes sense that motivation is a lie
This is absolute gold
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Yet it yields a harvest of righteousness for those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:11
This sounds like something I heard before, but explained another way. The Three Hats. Or something along those lines. You have the entrepreneur, the manager, and the employee.
The Entrepreneur creates the ideas sets the table.
The Manager takes the idea and create a process so it can function.
The Employee turns the gears in that process.
The employee hates the manager thinking they can do a better job. The manager hates the entrepreneur who freely tweaks and changes the process. And the entrepreneur is always making changes to improve the process or the business. And sometimes we have to wear all 3 hates in our minds.
This hits the nail on the head!
Jocko, Can you and the team do a segment on the proper way to implement changes? What is necessary when implementing a change in a process, and why? What is the proper way to handle a situation when a change is implemented in a way that doesn't have your full buy in?
I work at a manufacturing plant and we implement changes pretty frequently, but you don't hear about the change until it's time to implement them. There is no chance for feedback. People make changes without authority or knowing the process in other departments, only consider how it it's going to benefit them, despite it having an effect on everyone. Animosity builds and communication degrades.
Great question. Change is absolutely necessary to innovate and improve, but it's our human nature to avoid or limit these changes. We'll work on creating content around your specific topic. In the meantime, we recommed reading the chapter of Extreme Ownership, "Innovate and Adapt"
@@EchelonFront Yes sir
13:25 @Jocko "Discipline = Freedom" 👈
Excellent points. I think I will implement this tomorrow.
I don't see myself as being overcome by a doughnut, I take ownership and BECOME THE DOUGHNUT!!
No motivation but still got that that's above on the ehchelon on the beat man I really wanted to pursue that which is on other players
i just took the courage to smash my alarm clock this morning... sleep thru like a pig! thanks Jocko! First!
GREAT video 🥊
Seneca "TREAT THE BODY RIGOROUSLY so that it is NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE MIND" -- Stoicism & Jocko go Hand in Hand.
The Apostle Paul said something very similar. Discipline is the key!
1 Cor 9:24-27
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Jocko is very wise
Simply fantastic….
Strong.
Wow. Just realized that Leif sounds like the movie trailer guy, Don LaFontain. “In a world, where it’s all up to you…”
Thanks 🙌🏾 #no lies detected 🧐
Taking directives from head quarters is following necessity because you have too.
Head quarters is head(frontal lobe)and shoulders above the rest for paradoxically the same have to reasons.
Discipline is doing the same(directives) while easily predicting outcomes.
Mercenary and missionary work are heavy as duty and real as spontaneous healing.
As awesome as always.
I think the motivation is more long term, like graduating SEAL basic for example. You have to have long term goals, then use discipline on the day to day and minute to minute. And you need to believe you can actually achieve your goal.
I like the distinction between motivation and discipline; would some sort of distinction also be applicable to discipline vs. instinct? i.e. is discipline a nuanced version of baser instincts we possess?
"Discipline protects you from temptation"
If you are not tempted, you dont need disciplin. And if you are not motivated, you dont have it.
Awsome!!!!
Thanks for watching.
Awesome 👍
Great stuff
Brilliant!
We were not designed to live this fast paced automated lifestyle. We aren’t supposed to rush around like this and live on apps and emails and passwords, work 40-80hrs a week to afford to live and then not have time to do anything else. You have to stress out just arranging time to make Dr appointments clean and get things done, spend time with family. It costs so much money and time just to eat healthy in this country. That’s why we’re defeated by mundane small things
Good
"If youre not uncomfortable, youre not growing" -Wisdom/Life/Nature/Every successful person over 50 in my personal life.
P.S. Dont hurt yourself though.
Leif sounds like the narrator on every movie trailer
Self-discipline is Self-control
Hhahahaha imaging your leader in the navy seals "alright guys, today I'm gonna motivate you"
It’s 4:30am and I now have a lot of old motivational posters from the early 2000’s that are useless to me.
Nike summed this up quite well in their slogan: "Just Do It"
Discipline Will Set You Free. -Jocko