Jocko Podcast 3: H. John Poole, 'The Last Hundred Yards'

• Do not sit stuck in your own brain afraid to ask others for help
• Knowledge is fine, but it is useless without common sense
• Don’t be paralysed by thinking and being locked into a way of thinking - be bold, take action
• One must continually study the possibilities
• Your opponents will have similar skills and similar resources - so what makes you different?
• You get better when you are trying something new
• Exercising initiative will give you freedom
• Only he who suffers, remembers
• Human beings want structure - life is not structured
• If you try and control things are not controllable, you will destroy yourself
• Honour is more important than strength
• “What can I take away from their perspective?”
• Have low expectations of humans
• Most people you meet you cannot rely on
• When you are in a leadership position and do succeed, you do not take responsibility - you pass that onto your team
• If you can say the word good, it means you are still alive. You still have some fight left in you
• Get after it