jocko what motivates you i heard you mentioned the man in the cave can you go deeper on this what motivates me well i’ve talked about this before and it’s kind of what we were talking about a couple minutes ago as well and that is first of all with the man in the cave and this idea and this thought of the enemy and and that was a thought that used to drive me and kind of haunt me and make me get up early and work hard to push myself because i knew that somewhere out there there was an enemy a real enemy a real man a person a human that was waiting for me and that was preparing for me and therefore i needed to prepare for him i needed to be ready i needed to be the things i always talk about i needed to be stronger and faster and smarter and better so that when we did meet on the battlefield i would be ready for that rendezvous for that meeting that fate that battle and that thought that thought of the enemy yes it absolutely fueled me and when i was a leader in the seal teams in charge of men it was even more profound because i was thinking about that rendezvous for everybody that i led everyone i was in charge of everyone that i trained and i felt that burden the burden of responsibility to prepare those men and protect those those men those those frog men those warriors my brothers and it it was my burden to train those guys and prepare them and that burden it may have made me a little bit crazy a little bit paranoid a little bit over the top but i didn’t really know any any other way and so now i am no longer a combat leader i no longer prepare men for war so the drive and the motivation is from a different place it’s from a solemn place the drive now and the motivation now is not really from the enemy anymore now it’s from my friends my brothers it’s from those seals that i knew and that i cared about more than anything and that they sacrificed everything for us and for me and those guys they gave their lives for us and now i cannot help but think and remember that every breath that we take is a it’s a gift it’s a sacred gift from those men every day we have every sunrise every thought and every smile and every laugh it’s a gift and i will treasure that gift that gift of life and i will not let it go to waste not one second of it and i’ll cherish every moment of it and i will live it i will live it in their memory and in their honor
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