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Service Mindset
In the book Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek discusses a story that involved the U.S. Military — specifically a U.S. Air Force pilot. The pilot was recognized for his bravery and his willingness to sacrifice himself for his team. When asked why the pilot would risk his life to save others, his answer was the same as those of many military members: because they would have done it for me.
1% Better Everyday
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back 5 or perhaps 10 years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent.
Playing Through Pain
Pain is an infinitely curious subject. We, as a scientific community, know so little about the phenomena. Pain's most objective measure to date is through the Visual Analog Scale – a diagram that shows 0/10 pain with a smiley face and 10/10 pain with a crying face.
Success requires no apologies. Failure permits no alibis.
The basketball legend Kobe Bryant once said, "When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself, 'You are a failure,' I think that is almost worse than dying.".
Extreme Ownership
By taking lessons he learned while serving abroad in the military and applying them to business in the homeland, Jocko explains how anybody and everybody can succeed in their field. The concept is simple: no excuses, no blaming, just ownership.