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Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.

Jocko Willink

The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Leadership Person Team Togetherness
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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Myself Reputation Responsibility Right Time
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Reading Start
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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Bad Control Politics
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Fight Learning Thinking

Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.

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