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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  This is the Jocko Underground Podcast, number 193, sitting here with Echo Charles. You all have submitted various questions. We will give you courses of action. We will give you guidance. We will give you possibly answers. But we will certainly give you some direction that you can move into. So here we go.

• 0:22Speaker 01

  First question. Good evening, Jocko. I recently just turned 25. And my wife of almost three years and I are about to have our first baby come to this winter. When I found out it was going to be a boy, I was overcome with joy, but also a deep nervousness and almost shame. I grew up with a father that was always in my life and was a great example and was always in very good shape. I believe that I have gotten after it when it comes to my work and pursuing my career and goals in life. But my health and fitness is currently falling short. I was always in sports growing up, so training was always with the goal of football in mind. But going through college and being out in my career, I've had times where I'll be in the gym and be eating clean

• 1:06Speaker 01

  and healthy for a few weeks or a few months and feeling really good. And then I lose focus and get out and go right back to where I was. What advice would you have when it comes to being able to stick to a healthy lifestyle? I want to be able to give my son the same enjoyment that I had with my own father. P.S. The way the work kid is already on its way.

• 1:25Jocko Willink?

  Oh, yeah. You're miking the dragons too. That's a little bit younger version, a little bit younger book.

• 1:33Jocko Willink?

  This is the situation here, bro. Congratulations on your kid. You know what you need to do. And here's the positive change here is you're not just doing it for yourself anymore. You're doing it for your family. You're doing it for your son. So you know what to do. You know what to do. Got to get up early. You got to train. You got to lift. You got to run. You got to sprint. You got to do jujitsu. You got to get after it. You got to eat clean. You got to get the trash, junk, donuts, Doritos, Cheetos out of your freaking house.

• 2:08Jocko Willink?

  And you gotta be a good example. And as far as being focused, like, uh, you used to look in the mirror and say, geez, I'm letting myself down. Now go look at your son. In the eyes. And remember that he is going to mimic you in life.

• 2:28Jocko Willink?

  And if you are fat and out of shape and pathetic, he's going to grow up being fat, out of shape and pathetic. And if you're strong and you're fit.

• 2:39Jocko Willink?

  He's going to emulate that.

• 2:42Jocko Willink?

  So you know what to do. You know what to do. Get on the path, stay on the path. That's what we're doing.

• 2:51Speaker 01

  You know how that there's like a bias or whatever, when you can see something in someone else, like all their mistakes and flaws, you know? But it's hard to see it with yourself or whatever. You can do that where if you just keep your mindset like, okay, anything I want for my kid. Like basically I have to do it. Because it, you know, the whole. You know, some parents will be like, do as I say, not as I do. Whereas like, bro, that's almost impossible. By the way, like. I can think of a lot of things that my dad said to do or or not to do or whatever. And it's just one in one ear, out the other. But at the same time, I can. I can point to a bunch of different things that my dad.

• 3:32Speaker 01

  Has done that I'm like, oh, like you would think from a logical standpoint, I wouldn't do that. You know, if I would, if I even like, whatever, a level, level headed, right? I'll be like, I just, I won't do that part. But then it's like. Subconsciously or something, it kind of like makes. That stuff, if it's bad, it kind of seems like normal, so it may not be that bad. So yeah, I'll do it, you know, I'll let it happen, you know, kind of a thing. So it's like, yeah, you're gonna, you know, I want my kid, you know, my boy, you know, I want him to be strong. Disciplined, patient, you know, all this stuff or whatever.

• 4:02Jocko Willink?

  You gotta be all those things.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  You gotta get, yeah, you gotta, you gotta get on it and that's. The way I see it, and you know me, I don't know, but this is really what it seems like. There's kinda no other way. Like, you can't just be like, "Hey, I want my son to be this," and I'm not, but me, I'm not gonna be that at all. I'm just gonna tell him what to do. Pride doesn't work, you know? So if you can make that reflection in your mind, and that's a new mindset, I think it'll work.

• 4:28Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, not to mention, your kid needs you to be able to feed him. That means you gotta have a job. That means you gotta be healthy. You gotta be able to rescue him if there's a fire. You gotta be able to defend him if somebody attacks him, or someone comes into your house, or someone gets road rage and approaches your car and is like, has a way, you gotta be a man. So, that is a little excerpt of what we are doing on the Jocko Underground Podcast. So if you want to continue to listen, go to jacood underground.com and subscribe, and we're doing this, we're doing this to mitigate our reliance on external platforms, so we are not subject to their control.

• 5:09Jocko Willink?

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• 5:53Jocko Willink?

  we can still support you. Just email assistance@jacood underground.com, and we'll get you taken care of. Until then, we will see you mobilized underground.