#502 - Jocko Willink - Creating An Unbreakable Mindset

Lift weights, do jiu-jitsu, go for runs, stretch out, eat good, stop drinking. It's pretty straightforward ... If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. Every day that you don't do work, you're going backwards, and it definitely will hurt you, and it'll show up.

Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes, and it doesn't matter whether it's there or not. Discipline is infinitely more important. So, no matter how you feel, get up and do what you're supposed to do. That's it. And that's discipline; that's not motivation.

Any person, any human, realizes that if you want some kind of a good outcome, you're going to have to work hard for it. And if you don't work hard for something, you're not going to get an outcome that's really worth much.

In 1955 in America, there was 340 inpatient beds for people with mental health issues per 100,000 people. So, for every 100,000 people in America, there was 340 inpatient beds... for people with mental health problems. In 2007, it was 17 beds per 100,000.

What you have to do when it's not working with a girl is wish them luck—give them the best of luck, wish them luck—walk away, and don't look back.

The most interesting thing that I learned from Jordan Peterson... was that he's a trained academic that studied this stuff his whole life, and we came to a lot of the same conclusions about things. And I just came to those conclusions through living and the experiences that I had, and he came to them through studying this stuff in a very rigorous way.

That's one of the nice things about jiu-jitsu. You're going to get choked. You're gonna be uncomfortable. You're gonna get smashed. You're going to have to tap out. Your ego is going to get abused.

Training for police officers is totally insufficient ... I've been saying for the last several years that police officers should train 20% of the time. 20% of the time that they work, they should be training.

Jiu-jitsu, boxing, wrestling, Muay Thai will elevate that primordial confidence in a young man or a young boy or young girl that is going to prevent so much bullying from happening that it's incredible.

Jiu-jitsu is 100% a superpower. There's no doubt about it. I mean, it's 100%.

I actually don't drink ... That's really no factor for me.

Human beings can control a lot more than they think they can.

I would recommend that you don't let the random bots or people on Twitter bother you that much. That's my recommendation.

There's nothing really that goes on in my family that I would say to my wife, 'No, that's your fault,' because I can just about guarantee that everything is my fault.