@jocko_willink on his source of motivation & drive

What are your sources of motivation? And I'm going to guess that some of them are internal. We could point to head or we could point to heart, doesn't really matter. But like when you think of sources of motivation, do you have a palette of them that you can dip into? Well, you probably, you probably heard me say that motivation isn't something that I am going to count on because it's just an emotion that's going to come and go. And it's just like feeling happy. You feel happy right now. Maybe you won't feel happy in 15 minutes. You feel sad now. Maybe you won't feel sad in 15 minutes. You feel motivated right now. You might not feel motivated in 15 minutes. Therefore, I can't rely on it. So I'm not going to put any, I'm not going to put any money on just being motivated because it doesn't really matter to me. So the daily actions that I take aren't from motivation. They're, they're just from discipline. Like, uh, like I said earlier, I'm not going to get up and go through some big debate about, well, we're like, do I really feel like doing this? No, I don't feel like doing it, but it doesn't matter. So I'm just going to go do it. Now, if we start to look at sort of a broader movement through life and continuing to try and move forward and move on, you know, uh, my buddy Seth died and he was the Delta platoon commander in tasking a bruiser. And he, he died in 2017 and it was in a parachute accident. I mean, it's definitely unexpected. Um, and, and also he'd already been through multiple deployments, um, was with, with us, with me in the battle of Ramadi. He then went back into Sadr city and led a ton of very dangerous operations. And then he did other deployments and was kind of done with his deployments kind of done. And now he's just talking about when he's going to retire and he's a couple of years away from retirement. And, you know, I'm talking about, Hey, we're going to work together again. And it all seems like we're on a pretty good path to just move forward. And then he ends up dying in a, in a parachute accident. And he's a guy that, you know, was really just kind of, you're, you're, you're not going to be able to replace, there's a uniqueness to him that is, you're not going to find. And, you know, I've got some stuff that he wrote. He was an incredible writer and I'll like try and write something like him. I can't, we can't do it because he had a bigger vocabulary and a more articulate way of writing. And so I can't write anything as well as he wrote it. He was incredible at guitar. He played guitar, played ukulele, like sick, like an incredible at playing guitar. And he's a total knuckle dragger, like a total meathead knuckle dragger. You know, his nickname was unfrozen caveman because he just, he just, you know, look like a big caveman. And yet he spoke French and, you know, could recite French poetry and was really good at learning languages. And he was an artist, you know, and, and very, a very emotional guy, a very emotional guy who would, you know, you know, I was talking earlier about being a balance for someone. I had to balance this dude out on a daily basis. Sometimes, you know, he'd be so mad about something, you know, one, one day he'd be, I hate the teams. I hate all these guys. And I'd say, yeah, I get it, man. And the next day I'm, I'm never getting out of the teams. You know, he would, he would oscillate that bad. And I would tell him, Hey, you're Hey, bro, you're oscillating again. And just would do anything. And he, and he loved his guys and would do anything for his guys. So when he died, you know, we're, we're at his, we're at it's not his funeral. It's before the funeral. It's like the, um, the open casket thing, the wake thing. And myself, his brother, Alex, um, lay fab and who I wrote extreme ownership with. And JP didn't know who's one of my brothers who, who works with us at Echelon Front now is with us in Ramadi and was very close to Seth. And, and we're like, everyone kind of cleared out for us. We, we go in there and I think JP gave him, JP had one of those Memorial bracelets with guys names on it that had died in JP, uh, gave that to him. And I think Leif gave him some surf wax. Cause also Seth was a, was a surfer. And, um, and I gave Seth his black belt cause he started training jujitsu with me and he had, he had his purple belt. He'd gotten his purple belt. I gave him his black belt and, um, and everyone was just quiet. And, you know, J JP was telling the story the other day. Um, and, and I just said, we will not fail him. Meaning that him, Mark, Mikey, Chris, Seth, and countless other guys. They, they're not here. They don't have the opportunity to do the things we do. They don't have, they don't have the opportunity to get up in the morning. So that's what it is, man. I won't fail those guys.