Want to earn some money and become rich? You need financial discipline for it as well as a rule of thumb, if someone’s selling you shortcuts, he’s 100% lying to you. Want to become a great footballer? Once again, unless you’re in a cartoon, you won’t achieve that through some magical transformation, but by showing up to practice every single day for a few hours for at least a decade. Want to become a good guitarist? You need to have the discipline to practice. It’s pretty simple when you think about it! Willink describes discipline as “the root of all good qualities,” “the driver of daily execution” and “the core principle that overcomes laziness and lethargy and excuses.” There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline. It will not happen cutting corners, taking shortcuts, or looking for the easy way. To reach goals and overcome obstacles and become the best version of you possible will not happen by itself. And if you want to take the easy road, it won’t take you to where you want to be: Stronger. If you’ve come him looking for the shortcut or the hack – Jocko Willink is pretty adamant about this – you will never find it. This is, by far, the most important lesson of the book: there’s nothing without self-control, and the only way is the way of the discipline. ![]() Overcoming Procrastination: When and Where to Start? Key Lessons from “Discipline Equals Freedom”ģ. Since even listing all of the lessons inside would take us too much space, for our summary, we decided to select and digest only the best bits of the book.Īnd since the second part is much more practical (it even includes “the workouts”), we’ve relied almost exclusively on the first one. Willink covers many topics throughout the book, mostly from a theoretical standpoint in its first part (topics here include discipline, fear, procrastination, weakness, regret, etc.) and in a much more practical manner in the second part (diet, sleep, working out, etc.). More specifically, Discipline Equals Freedom is actually divided into two parts – “Thoughts” and “Actions” – with the latter part subdivided into three sections: “Fuel: Feeding the Machine,” “Repair and Maintenance: Injury Prevention and Recovery,” and “Appendix: The Workouts.”įurthermore – and as already suggested – the lessons come in distinctive tiny dosages, bursting with energy via short, powerful sentences and bolded, all-capped crescendos scattered all around the page. It’s not as tightly structured as Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership.It’s filled with images of Jocko and stuff, and everything’s even more intimidating and motivating than you’d expect it to be because the entire book is in black and white.It has unusual dimensions for a self-help book (7.7 x 1 x 8.8 inches) and a pretty much distinctive military-feel design.Jocko Willink is the sole author, aka it’s not co-written with Leif Babin.When compared to the other two works by Jocko Willink we’ve summarized here ( Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership), Discipline Equals Freedom is rather unusual in at least a few ways: He is also the host of a popular podcast, the Jocko Podcast. In addition, he has also authored four books on his own Discipline Equals Freedom is one of them. ![]() With fellow former SEAL Leif Babin, he has authored two incredibly popular books on leadership, Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership. ![]() In addition to commandeering the most decorated SEAL unit during the Iraq War (SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser), Willink is also a graduate from the University of San Diego with a BA in English. Jocko Willink is a retired United States Navy SEAl commander, a bestselling author on leadership, and a renowned podcaster.
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