Default Aggressive: a leader’s mindset to take deliberate and decisive action. As leaders we face challenges both known and unknown, with real consequences from our action or our inaction. We won’t always get it perfectly right, but doing nothing is almost always wrong. 

It’s the final day from the US Army Fitness Truck at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games where Fran Racioppi and Jessie Graff are joined by Jocko Willink, Founder of  Jocko Fuel, bestselling author, leadership coach, podcast host and retired Navy SEAL. 

In this conversation, Jocko shows us the power of taking action aggressively and intentionally, and how the greatest leaders have a bias for action while balancing humility with confidence and a little bit of cockiness when they step into the arena of execution. He also shares the vision behind Jocko Fuel, the hole he saw in the energy drink market and how combining the same caffeine as a cup of coffee with fermented sugar cane is providing the right amount of energy without the crash; and it tastes great. 

In our drive to be all we can be, doing hard things individually and as teams, combined with a decision-making attitude, humility and some Jocko Fuel is the recipe to make an impact. 

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Highlights:

• 0:00 Welcome to the CrossFit Games 
• 1:36 Jocko starts a CrossFit affiliate
• 3:13 What’s missing in the energy drink market
• 4:45 We need leaders who are willing to do hard things
• 7:15 How Jocko assesses his team
• 9:22 Default Aggressive vs bias for action
• 12:48 Jocko’s Three Daily Foundations to Success

Quotes: 

• “People that do CrossFit want to get stronger, smarter, faster and better. That’s what Jocko Fuel is for.” (3:10)
• “I liked the immediate feeling I would get from energy drinks before, but I would crash and feel like crap afterwards. (4:36)
• “If you want to be a better human being…you want to be mentally and physically stronger…you’ve got to put yourself under stressful situations.” (6:05)
• “When you want to unify a team, or build a team, it’s very helpful if you as a team get to do hard things together.” (6:15)
• “When you step into the arena…you got to get a little cocky.” (8:08)
• “You’ve got to make your default mode aggressive. You’re gonna go take action and solve these problems.” (11:12)

Jocko’s Three Daily Foundations to Success

• Know what you’re going to do tomorrow
• Aggressively do it
• Assess what you did

This episode is brought to you by US Army, Wodify, Hero Coffee, GORUCK &  Compass Workforce Solutions