Jocko Willink says he feels perpetually inadequate at writing, speaking, and social media, and credits military humility and relentless work for pushing him to improve. Simon Sinek notes that military humility fuels high performance but can clash with how business operates.
I wish I was a better writer. I wish I was a better speaker. I wish I was better at social media. I wish I was better at, like, everything that I look at. I don't feel like I'm really that good at anything. Yeah. I feel like I constantly have to try and get better. I think that the attitude of, hey, I'm not that good at anything.
Yeah.
Which is the way I grew up has stayed with me. And so I got to wake up every day and. And work hard to be able to do what I do.
There's a humility in the military that is looked well upon, which doesn't really do very well in business. And I think this is a really important thing that you're touching on, which is you don't think you're great at everything. You don't think you're great at anything. And it's that belief that actually makes you such a high performer.
Nothing was ever easy for me. You know, I wasn't the best athlete. I wasn't the strongest, I wasn't the fastest, I wasn't the smartest. I got in the SEAL teams. I wasn't the strongest, I wasn't the fastest, I wasn't the smartest. What you have to do to overcome that is you've got to work hard. You get humbled all the time. And by the way, if you're good at one thing in SEAL teams, there's someone that's better at that thing than you. You're constantly trying to do your best, and if you're not trying to do your best, you're going to have problems. So I think that's. I love this. Pretty normal.
I don't think it's pretty normal.
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