Standard Directive 014: Just Get Started

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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  Just get started.

• 0:03Jocko Willink?

  Just get started. The longest time in the world is the hesitation between thought and action.

• 0:11Jocko Willink?

  Well, at least it has the potential to be the longest time. It can actually be forever.

• 0:19Jocko Willink?

  Forever.

• 0:21Jocko Willink?

  Einstein, his theory was that time is flexible, time is pliable. And to prove that, beyond what Einstein said, one second can actually become an eternity. That's how much it can flex. You can hesitate for one second to get started on something. A workout, a project, a task, something that you know you should do. You can hesitate for one second. That one second of hesitation, all of a sudden it turns into five seconds. And then 10 seconds, and then 10 minutes.

• 0:58Jocko Willink?

  And then just like that, you drifted into the eternity zone. One second became an eternity because something that was gonna happen is now never gonna happen, ever.

• 1:09Jocko Willink?

  Why is that? Because you hesitated.

• 1:13Jocko Willink?

  You hesitated. So don't take that chance. Instead, take action.

• 1:19Jocko Willink?

  Take action. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. You've had enough damn rest. Go take action.