Standard Directive 024: Watch For Brainwashing

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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  People get brainwashed.

• 0:03Jocko Willink?

  Happens all the time. People get brainwashed. They get brainwashed in cults, in codependent relationships, in academic institutions, in government institutions. People get brainwashed. They can get brainwashed in a way that completely changes the way they act.

• 0:27Jocko Willink?

  They can get brainwashed in a way that completely changes the way they think. And in some cases,

• 0:33Jocko Willink?

  people get brainwashed where it completely changes who they are.

• 0:39Jocko Willink?

  Their minds are pliable and get reformed into a new model.

• 0:47Jocko Willink?

  And when these happen, when this happens, usually that new mind that has been created, usually it has been created to be subservient

• 1:01Jocko Willink?

  to the cult leader or the organization that has done the brainwashing. So that's what makes brainwashing so horrendous, is that you end up being controlled by someone else.

• 1:19Jocko Willink?

  And it's not that hard to do. It's not that hard to be victim to the brainwashing, where you end up being controlled by outside forces.

• 1:31Jocko Willink?

  Now you take that, and on the other side, isn't it crazy that you can barely control you?

• 1:40Jocko Willink?

  You can barely control your own actions.

• 1:44Jocko Willink?

  And yet you could be brainwashed by some external force, but you can't even control you. What you need to do is brainwash yourself.

• 1:56Jocko Willink?

  Indoctrinate yourself.

• 2:00Jocko Willink?

  Repeat your sacred chant. That discipline equals freedom.

• 2:07Jocko Willink?

  Follow the rituals of iron.

• 2:12Jocko Willink?

  Make sacrifices to the burpy god. Bring other people along and brainwash with them.

• 2:21Jocko Willink?

  Mold yourself into who you want to be.

• 2:27Jocko Willink?

  Stronger, faster, smarter, better.

• 2:35Jocko Willink?

  You have the power to do it.

• 2:38Jocko Willink?

  Make it happen.