Jocko Underground: I Wish For Peace. BUT...! Finding a BADASS Purpose. Jiu Jitsu.,

Jocko wishes for peace for his son.. BUT... Finding a purpose in life that is BADASS. Jiu Jitsu. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/jocko-podcast/exclusive-content

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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  This is the Jocko Underground Podcast, number 14 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. So, recently on Jordan Peterson. And

• 0:13Jocko Willink?

  there were some, some comments about it that came out. And, and look, we, as I go through some of those comments on the YouTube channel, we can probably do some kind of a

• 0:26Jocko Willink?

  an underground podcast about the comments and just kind of reflect on them and, and respond to some of them. And we could probably do that. We've talked about doing that with some of the other of our podcasts in the past, but

• 0:40Jocko Willink?

  there was one, there was, there was a bunch of things, but there was one that I saw came up a bunch. So at some point, Jordan asked me

• 0:50Jocko Willink?

  if I wanted peace for my son. And for some reason, he focused on my son. I also have daughters as well.

• 0:59Jocko Willink?

  And, and I said, I thought about it for a second. I said, yes, I want there to be peace for my son. And, and whenever I said that, he like started talking immediately and I wasn't done yet. And, and, and I said, but, and, and he, he started talking and wasn't, it's not like he was being rude. And I saw some people like, let Jocko finish talking and don't. Look, you've got to remember, a podcast is a conversation. That's what it is. And so when you're having a conversation, you know, you got, when you think of something you want to say, you don't want to lose a font. He thought of something and he started talking and I didn't obviously make it clear that I had a little bit more to say. And so we, we moved on.

• 1:40Jocko Willink?

  But I did get that but in. So people knew that there was more to the answer. And I just wanted to kind of expand on that just a little bit. So of course, I want my kids, my son and my daughters to have, and not just them, but my family and friends and people that I know. I want people to have peace and prosperity. Of course, right? That kind of a, that's kind of obvious.

• 2:10Jocko Willink?

  But, but I also know that I want them also to have struggle. I want them to face adversity. Right? I think that I think that is also very obvious. And I think there are some people that in the comments said, the but was what he wanted to say. And that's kind of true too, right? It's such a big but that I didn't really need to say anything else. So there was that aspect to it too. But look, if you have everything easy in life,

• 2:46Jocko Willink?

  you just get soft and weak.

• 2:49Jocko Willink?

  I mean, if it, why not have your kids in an isolated, insulated, reinforced, concrete bunker with filtered air and a supply of food and water and padded walls where nothing can ever happen to them. Right? Because that's, that's what you do. And you actually put them on a calorie restrictive diet. So that's the maximum lifespan and all that stuff like that. If that's what we're gonna do,

• 3:13Jocko Willink?

  what are you gonna end up with? You're gonna end up with someone that's, they live for a long time, but do they really live?

• 3:22Jocko Willink?

  Do they really live?

• 3:25Jocko Willink?

  That's the question. So yeah, I want everyone to have peace, but at the same time, I think that struggle is good. I think that struggle makes better people. Adversity makes you tougher. And that's what the but was about. Goes back to,

• 3:39Jocko Willink?

  a little bit goes back to something that I said to Sam Harris about combat and cancer. You know, I had said that,

• 3:46Jocko Willink?

  he was saying, you know, you say that, that, wait, that wasn't a very good Sam Harris impersonation, was it? He said, uh, he said,

• 3:55Jocko Willink?

  he said, he said, you know, Jocko, you say that. Combat is horrible, but at the same time, you also have said that it was the best experience in your life. How do you reconcile those thoughts? So that's what Sam Harris said to me. First attempt. So he, he, he asked me that and I, and I said, well, it's like someone that has cancer, not, not someone. It's like some people that have cancer that when they get through the cancer, they say something along the lines of, it's the best thing that's happened to me, you know, I got to put things in perspective. I got to understand what's truly important in life. And so they actually do take something away from it in a, that's positive.

• 4:39Jocko Willink?

  But they say, I'd never wish it on anybody. So that's, that's what I say about combat as well. So that's what, there is some benefits.

• 4:50Jocko Willink?

  Do I want peace and happiness for my family, for my friends, for the people I know? Yes, absolutely. But there you go. And with that, let's get to some Q and A. Cool. Little Q and A.

• 5:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, I felt that when I listened to that podcast, I felt the same thing when you were like, but, and I figured I knew what you were gonna say, you know, but I still want to hear that. And I think you said it like twice where you're like, but like you said again.

• 5:19Jocko Willink?

  Trying to get it in there. And the other weird thing is you can't, you can't recreate what you were gonna say at that moment. So now I could plot it out and I could write a paragraph about it and I could, or make bullet points and then kind of speak to it. But I won't, I can't even go back and like recreate what I was about to say and the spur of the moment. So that is a little excerpt of what we are doing on the Jocko Underground Podcast. So if you want to continue to listen.

• 5:54Jocko Willink?

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• 6:39Jocko Willink?

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