NAVY SEAL JOCKO WILLINK: “YOUR KIDS NEED TO EXPERIENCE FAILURE TO CONTEND WITH THE VICIOUS WORLD THAT AWAITS
Posted: December 19, 2019
Jocko Willink is an intimidating customer. Weighing in at a 104 kilos of lean muscle, he’s a fearsome man-mountain with a freshly shaven head. He’s also a legend in the Special Operations world. The former Navy SEAL commanding officer led the most decorated special ops unit in the Iraq war (American Sniper Chris Kyle was their point man) and then oversaw the training for all the SEAL Teams on America’s west coast.
After retiring from the military, Jocko became a popular speaker on the corporate circuit on the subject of leadership. He’s subsequently published a succession of bestselling books – Extreme Leadership, The Dichotomy of Leadership and now Leadership Strategy and Tactics – and launched The Jocko Podcast, a wildly successful weekly chat about discipline and leadership in business, war, relationships and everyday life.
But somewhere along the line, Jocko – the man described by Tim Ferris as “the scariest Navy SEAL Imaginable” – became an unexpected spokesman on fatherhood (he has three daughters aged 20, 18 and 10, plus a 17-year-old son).