hi Jocko I have read your book extreme ownership from cover to cover and I
learnt a lot from it and I have a question that bothers me
the question is how can I be noticed by the people and get chosen for a leader
okay good kind of a another question that I
hear you know people get worried that if they're just kind of putting her head
down and working then they were not gonna get noticed I don't get noticed I
become a leader stop worrying about being noticed
hmm that that's number one stop worrying about being noticed and keep working
hard hmm stop worrying about being chosen as a leader if your goal is to
get chosen as a leader no work hard actually work really hard and then put
the team first so all these thoughts and efforts that
you have around getting noticed and being recognized instead of having them
focused on being recognized and being noticed put those thoughts on making the
team successful Wow Wow put the team first that's what I'm
saying right now with this question you're actually putting yourself your
self recognition above the team so instead of thinking about that think
about how you can help the team win and the more of a team player you are the
more people will want to work with you the more you help the team win the more
people say I want you on my team and eventually they say okay you know
what I want you to lead this team because do you want this team to win so
bad we want you to leave this team mm-hmm so that is what you do now is
that being said right there's always there's always a balance because I'm not
saying that you sit back and just keep your fingers crossed that if you work
hard every someone's gonna notice you now with this guy who's all worried
about being noticed don't worry about being noticed you're gonna get notice if
you workout and put your head down but there's some people that they're there
so they might be so humble that they're not gonna get noticed for what they're
doing so how do you overcome that well this doesn't mean that you sit back
your pass if there's a and I'll tell you the best way to stand out or one of the
best ways to stand out is volunteer volunteer for everything that comes up
and then crush it the crappy jobs that no one wants volunteer for those things
that's what I used to see you should see the young new guys in the SEAL Teams
that's how you tell you get some crappy job
you walk out to a group of guys going through training through a bunch of
platoon guys new hey I need three guys there be like two new guys that would
just be like my other hands would be up before you could get done say in the
sentence mmm and you just see the look on their face what do they want to do
they just want to win and you I love those guys they're just like oh I'll do
that hey hey I need a couple guys to boom their hands are up you know you
know gonna say go clean the sewer out they don't care they don't care they're
volunteering for everything ain't no when I got this when I got to the team
that's what I did volunteered for every as a matter of fact I volunteered to be
a radiomen because I had heard that it was a really hard job that no one wanted
I was like okay I'll do that job you got a job that's really hard no one wants
carrying a heavy weight you don't get to shoot it right you get to carry an m60
there's a major benefit to that that is you get to unload massive amounts of
firepower you carry a radio you're just sitting around with batteries kind of
hardcore in a different way yeah it is it is and I luckily I got I got told two
things number one that no one wanted that job and number two that if you were
radio man you'd go on every mission because they always need a radio man you
know so tell me oh that's me I want to go on every mission so give I'll take
I'll carry that radio but that that and everything you use volunteer for
everything so that's that's one of the best ways that you can make a good
impression is by volunteering for stuff and then crushing it and eventually
people look at you and they say huh this guy doesn't care what we give him he's
gonna crush this task and you know what people like working with him because
he's worried about the team and this person seems like a blood skip let's
give him a little task and lead something mm-hmm
because sometimes when you volunteer for something you're volunteering for
leadership position hey I need four guys one of those people is gonna be in
charge hmm right for it's not gonna be four
guys going equally into some thing right no someone's gonna be with interaction
someone's gonna take charge of it be that person huh yes good this um when he
said how can I be noticed so to work hard oh yeah but you know how it's like
okay that's that's what I want I want to be noticed right so you ever walk into a
bar or something and a girl walks in and she you can tell she's trying to be
noticed the bad luck man so what I'm saying is you like if you're
trying to be so people can see that stuff like this guy's just trying to be
noticed right here understand it does the opposite obviously that's yeah
you're right that's the hardest thing to convince of people convince people of is
the fact that if you're just if you're just working hard you'll get noticed you
will get a noticed it's like um you do something kind of good or whatever brave
I don't know hey Luke did you guys all see how brave I was right there no yeah
Brad no one wants you to be leader it's like saying hey hey guys that task
I did pretty good right I was really humble no one's no one's more humble
than me no one home with me stop worrying about you and think of helping
the team in volunteer a bunch and that's that's where you end up you know in a
leadership position