Quit Thinking So Much and Take Action - Jocko Willink

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Excerpt from JOCKOPODCAST 23

[fifthlevelbard]

"Stop your thinking and end your problems." -Lao Tzu

[ABRAsylum]

I struggle with this so much. I'm always so worried about making the wrong decision and mapping out the possible pros and cons.

[Razgriz__]

"There's a fine line between consideration and hesitation. The former is wisdom. The latter is fear."

[michaelmiller]

Make a decision and roll with it. If it isn't working out, make a new decision. I can try 8 different things while you are still trying to make your first decision.

[Luke-ciuq]

“Twitter callsign” the most special ops thing I’ve ever heard

[proudofyourfreedom]

I sometimes have to be “checked”. These short videos serve as that check sometimes. I appreciate y’all.

[spectretacitus]

"If you allow timidity to guide your play then you will never achieve victory, Kai. All you will find are new ghosts to fear. Too often you allow the fear of that which your opponent has not even considered to keep you from greatness." The Emperor, Warhammer 40K

[jcc]

My grandfather said to me once “Some things are easier to do than to think of... so... go and do it and then think on the outcome.”

[robroberts]

I've had an embarrassing pathological fear of failure my whole life, so much so that now that I am way closer to the end of it than the beginning I realize that I didn't have much of a life at all.
Thankfully I have found people like jocko and others who have given me a blueprint for life. I don't know how the rest of my life will come out but it will be intimately better than what it was. 😊

[rivalsports]

I actually needed to hear this right now. I swear they know exactly what I’m thinking

[mr.matthews]

Salute to those who served. 🇺🇸
God bless America and the Jocko Podcast crew.
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[evasivezim]

I woke up, watched this, then cleaned the floors of my house, I feel good. Happy 4th y'all!

[theownersmanual]

God has not given us a spirit that fears. If we see fear in our lives, it didn't come from God. We overcome fear with truth, passion, and clear thinking! (2 Timothy 1:7)

[sterlthepearl]

Thinking about it is also taking action. Of planning the work, before working the plan. If the goal is big enough it requires a plan. And if a person usually fails to plan, their planning to fail.

[BFaluup]

Right on...I have defeated myself out of so many things especially in my teens and early 20s not because I couldn't do it but because I thought myself out of it...its almost like an insanity that you create this world in your head were you are certain you will fail. A philosopher said "the thought is worse than reality " or something lime that and its so true.

[banderfargoyl]

Jocko's exactly right. Overthinking is due to unacknowledged fear. That's certainly true for me, and I expect for everyone else who chronically overthinks and underacts.

[Mke]

"Jocko, we're on the wrong sides for this episode."

"Quit thinking so much and take action!"

[fisayoo]

I've learned the only way to build self-confidence is through experience and through practice. You simply must take action.

[David-nquz]

All I do is think.... i think out every part of my day. I’ve been told I think to much.

[matthewlawrencescigousky]

Nothing will change unless you take action! The answers you seek will reveal themselves as you take steps. Everyone wants all the steps laid out before ever taking one it does not work that way!!!