Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “You know what the police need more than anything else? They need money for training.” – Jocko Willink
  • Police do a tiny amount of training for such a serious, high-pressure job
    • Navy SEALs would train for 18 months for a deployment
    • Cops get about 4 hours of combative training a year
• “If we want to help the police through these situations, we need to invest more money into them. We need to get them better training. We need to pull them out of the field to train and pull them out of the field to decompress.” – Jocko Willink
• Leadership is a skill, people can get better at it but they need the right type of training
  • “There are actual moves that you can do as a leader that are just like a jiu-jit-su move” – Jocko Willink
• Jocko and Joe would both love to see Dwayne Johnson be the President of the United States
  • “I think he would have to run as an independent and I recommend he does it right now” – Jocko Willink
    • “I think he would win” – Joe Rogan
• “Jocko and the Rock 2020…come on son” – Joe Rogan
• Jocko and Joe would both love for police officers to have experience in BJJ and be purple belts so that they know how to handle people without using excessive force 
  • “The amount of confidence and mental clarity that cops would have if every cop was a purple belt, it would be amazing” – Jocko Willink
• “The vast majority of problems would be solved amongst reasonably people if they just talked it through” – Joe Rogan
  • “The way we exchange information with each other back and forth through social media is the absolute worst way people can talk. You’re not looking at each other. You don’t get any social cues. You don’t feel any empathy towards that person.” 
    • People didn’t evolve to talk to others through email or social media. That’s why a ton of miscommunication happens with online communication.
• You need to experience failure in life and remember the pain of it so that you’re motivated to keep going the next time around
  • “Feel that sting so that when it comes up again, you’re like not today bitch. Not today. I’ve been here before, keep going.” – Joe Rogan

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Jocko Willink is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, author of the book Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he is a leadership instructor, speaker, and executive coach. His podcast, The Jocko Podcast, is also available for download via Apple Podcasts & Stitcher.