Jocko Podcast

Key Takeaways 

• Your survival may depend more on your personality than upon danger, the enemy, the weather, the terrain, or the nature of the emergency 
• Survival depends a great deal on your knowing and facing the situation, but you are part of the situation 
• Taking action reduces fear; there is nothing that makes fear worse than hesitation 
• Survival requires the ability to detach from the situation
• “You can only improve your weaknesses if you’re humble enough to admit them.” – Jocko Willink 
• Both pessimism and unrealistic optimism are equally dangerous to survival 
• Seek out things that make you uncomfortable so that you become more comfortable with being uncomfortable 

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Psychological Aspects of Survival, 1954 Air Force Manual.

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