Standard Directive 005: Do It Anyway

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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  Of course, you don't feel like doing it. Of course you don't. It's hard.

• 0:09Jocko Willink?

  Whatever it is, could be a workout, could be a run, could be starting on a project, could be doing the damn dishes.

• 0:20Jocko Willink?

  Whatever it is, you don't feel like doing it.

• 0:24Jocko Willink?

  And you rationalize and you justify and you make excuses like a high-priced defense attorney, trying to win the case for weakness. And boy, I'll tell you what, that lawyer in your head is good. Real good. He's got all kinds of legalese in his pocket that he's gonna throw at you. He's been doing this for a long time. And I hate to tell you this, that lawyer,

• 0:57Jocko Willink?

  that attorney for weakness that's in your head is smarter and better at debate and discourse than you could ever hope to be.

• 1:08Jocko Willink?

  That lawyer knows just what to say.

• 1:13Jocko Willink?

  That lawyer knows all the legal loopholes and definitely knows how to sway the jury.

• 1:23Jocko Willink?

  Definitely knows how to sway the jury. It's gonna leave you standing there like an idiot. So how do you compete with that? How do you compete with that?

• 1:33Jocko Willink?

  It's actually pretty simple and pretty straightforward. Don't play the game.

• 1:38Jocko Willink?

  Don't play the game. Don't argue, don't discuss, don't negotiate. You tell that snake of a lawyer that's in your head to shut up.

• 1:51Jocko Willink?

  Tell him you don't want to hear it. Tell him you don't need to hear it because you are not the guilty party.

• 1:57Jocko Willink?

  You're in the right. You're on the side of strength and stability and you don't need approval from this lazy lawyer to go and do what you're supposed to do. So don't listen

• 2:15Jocko Willink?

  to that lazy lawyer in your head. Instead, just go get to work.