002 Jocko Manual: We Are ALL Expactant.

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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  This is the manual podcast number two. I think we kind of landed on that name after the last podcast talking about just making sure people get out of cruise control and go into manual mode and take action and have thoughts that you're in control of. Now, there's a term that's used in combat trauma. The term is expectant. Do you know what that term means? Yeah, you told me. Okay.

• 0:31Jocko Willink?

  Well, if you don't know what it means, it means that the patient has suffered wounds or injuries that are so severe that the survival of that patient is highly unlikely, even with optimal care, even with optimal resources, they're probably not going to make it. And so in a triage scenario, so look, if you're in a regular hospital and you've got plenty of resources, they don't really use this word because they don't need to, they're going to keep working. But if you've got seven, eight, 10 wounded people or injured people, you know, a really bad car pileup or something like that, you have to prioritize

• 1:11Jocko Willink?

  and execute. And so there's going to be different levels of who you're going to treat. So one form is minimal, and that's someone that's like basically walking wounded minor injuries. You're not going to worry about them. The next category is delayed, which means they're seriously injured, but they don't have any life threatening injuries. Like maybe their bone is shattered, it's their femur sticking out of their leg. So they're definitely in rough shape, but artery didn't get hit, they're bleeding, but not too bad, they're going to be okay. And then comes immediate, which is someone that needs urgent treatment right now. And if they get that urgent treatment, they're likely to survive.

• 1:55Jocko Willink?

  And finally, expectant.

• 1:59Jocko Willink?

  Which

• 2:01Jocko Willink?

  means they are likely to die. And they are the kind of care that they're gonna get an expectant patient is

• 2:11Jocko Willink?

  basically like comfort. You know, gonna get some morphine and then we're gonna move on to someone that we think we can save. So it's an awful term.

• 2:20Jocko Willink?

  It's clearly it's needed in combat trauma scenarios or emergency mass casualty scenarios, but still is an awful term.

• 2:34Jocko Willink?

  But I was thinking about this term the other day.

• 2:38Jocko Willink?

  And

• 2:42Jocko Willink?

  the deal is

• 2:45Jocko Willink?

  we're all expectant.

• 2:48Jocko Willink?

  Right? Like, we are all expectant. We are all going to die. And

• 2:57Jocko Willink?

  we should not simply be looking for comfort. Right? We should be looking to treat that.

• 3:10Jocko Willink?

  We should be fighting against that.

• 3:14Jocko Willink?

  Because

• 3:17Jocko Willink?

  it seems like, again, switching, if we go into cruise control, if we go into normal mode and we're not thinking about what's happening, then we just, we just we just accept that label. Right? We just accept it.

• 3:38Jocko Willink?

  And I say, don't.

• 3:42Jocko Willink?

  Do not go gentle into that good night is the term. Right? Imagine, imagine this, imagine being that guy in that situation. You've been wounded, or you've been in an accident and you're hurt bad. And you hear the medic, or the corpsman, or the doctor

• 4:08Jocko Willink?

  declare you're expectant.

• 4:14Jocko Willink?

  And you realize that it's over.

• 4:21Jocko Willink?

  It's all over.

• 4:23Jocko Willink?

  All the plans, all the tomorrows that you have, all the ideas that you have,

• 4:31Jocko Willink?

  they're gone.

• 4:41Jocko Willink?

  But the fact of the matter is,

• 4:45Jocko Willink?

  we have been declared expectant.

• 4:50Jocko Willink?

  So don't wait.

• 4:55Jocko Willink?

  Time is short.

• 4:59Jocko Willink?

  Don't wait until tomorrow.

• 5:04Jocko Willink?

  Don't sit around and plan anymore.

• 5:11Jocko Willink?

  Go out and do the thing.

• 5:16Jocko Willink?

  Do the thing.

• 5:21Jocko Willink?

  And that's what I've got for tonight.

• 5:24Jocko Willink?

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• 5:34Jocko Willink?

  Thanks for listening. Until next time, this is Echo and Jocko.