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Jocko Willink

There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Bad Fundamental Heart Important Leadership Team Truth
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness Leadership Team
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational

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