what advice would Jocko give his seventeen year old self regarding school
social relationships parents peer pressure etc yes like the actual Jocko
podcast tonight all these questions are about a job yeah okay that's kind of
what I was asking like outside of the military yeah you know if I was gonna
tell myself something here's a couple things that you know I would tell myself
too did you hatch I tell myself to learn that I would tell myself that that girl
isn't the whole world yeah and it was friends aren't the last friends you're
ever gonna have and the party isn't gonna be the best party of all time and
all those things that you think is what we talked about earlier all those things
that you think are a huge deal when you're young they're not a big deal and
I know that's kind of messed up but it's true man
it's true the things that you think are a big deal when you're 17 years old yeah
not that big of a deal and it's really hard to convince someone that seventeen
years old of that right yeah they also also what they don't recognize
is things that are a big deal they don't recognize they think they're a little
deal right so they're doing stupid things right yeah whether it's drinking
and driving whether I mean kids still drink and drive now like yeah how dumb
is that yeah and so people don't think you know
nowadays we've talked about social media are easy but people post stuff on social
media and you come and you know I've heard now you know we work with a lot of
different companies when you apply for a job they go and look at your social
media and see what kind of an idiot you might be hey that's a good movement no
it's a great move it's a great move so yeah just just recognize that some of
the little things are actually big and some of the big things are actually
little and I'd square those things away and the unsaid this before when you're
young you've got to realize that how you act now is directly related to your
future success to your future happiness to your future financial situation to
everything so so it's hard to make that connection right we are young impossible
it might be impossible some kids get it though I'm telling you some kids get it
I think they're just no some kids get it some
of my oldest daughters friends they get it like they're on track yeah they're on
track they're like hey I'm doing this I'm doing that they're on track they're
16 years old they're studying for the SATs they're taking the AP classes
my daughter included like they're on track to make stuff happen yeah but I
think and I'm nothing this is the case but this is probably the case one way or
another I could be wrong man but okay so and we talked about this before you in
that part of your brain that understands all that that you're talking about
that's near develop develop so this is you know and this is from what I
understand how you kind of influence people you just put them on a routine
kind of like okay so is the difference between understanding like what I'm
doing now and having it tangible no untested I know where you're going with
us and your UI I believe that there are definitely some kids like that that are
just they're just like hey okay I'm supposed to get good grades may be all
that track I know for a fact kids that are like no I am going to do this this
this and it's gonna leave me here actually you know what you're right cuz
this is good Blake you know remember Blake I used to do videos for ya um so
he we did like a thing where it was I think he's like a Q&A or something like
that and he was he was talking about that where in elementary school he
remembers feeling like if if I don't have perfect attendance and have perfect
straight A's I won't pass this not pass but I won't
like be the the perfect guy or whatever and he said that he would you would like
create like this track to his whole future and his life would be ruined
that's how it felt like whoa so I'm living like literally minutes a minute
and the reason I wanted to do my homework and get good grades is so I
wouldn't get in trouble straight straight not to get into college you
were sure none of that stuff for sure and then that's the way most kids are in
my opinion most kids aren't hey I don't want to get in trouble some immediate
repercussions myself included yeah hey I gotta pass this so I can go to the next
grade yeah and stuff yeah or I don't want to be the guy in class who didn't
do his homework you know kind of thing yeah
but yeah I guess so yeah I guess so that's that's me trying
to I got a step outside myself on that one and I guess the final thing
obviously I tell myself discipline equals freedom which is basically what
we're saying yeah so get this wonderin how you live your life yeah I think the
biggest one there is to whether they totally understand that or not say like
what you're doing right right now is the important things in life the things that
you think are important or not are not important and then things that aren't
that you think are not important are important so it's kind of like a like an
iceberg you know I'll be old you know the people that watch over that little
statement you know why cuz people really like the way you say important you just
said eight times the flurry of glory and and rainbows emojis yes I agree with you
so like the iceberg thing you know you know the iceberg metaphor where it's
like people only see the top of the iceberg
below that is like this huge iceberg so that's what that's what important things
are in life right so you think it's just this little small little iceberg but
when you think of the whole scope of life would you have no access to it by
the way as yet it's that whole iceberg you know so if you're not focusing on
that important part of the iceberg well I guess an iceberg situation is not that
important but yeah another metaphor but it'll sink your ship yeah yeah you know
they like in that kind of situation um but and then at the same time the things
that aren't really important meaning they don't have an iceberg under there
they're just little floaty thing you think that's so important that thing's
gonna melt or get crowded or whatever you know not gonna thank you no it's not
gonna thank you it's just kind of it's fleeting