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350. The System That Builds Great Men - What Great Training Looks Like · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 1: That's impossible. Let me tell you what I believe. That
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your co-host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across at a
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  Speaker 1: man so valuable, when he drives a new car off
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot, it goes up in value. That's right, friends,
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  Speaker 1: the former Navy SEAL, Garrett Unklebach, a man who brings
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  Speaker 1: value everywhere he goes, even if it's the used car lot. Which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, bro, I need you to drive my truck.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about selling.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 1: What a great power that would be. I would appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your vehicle. I'd borrow it. GMC wants to hire you, Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: All this union stuff you're doing, just pack it in.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a much easier job for you. All right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to spend too much time laughing at
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  Speaker 1: my amazing intro. And yes, I'm being a little bit
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  Speaker 1: self-indulgent saying that mostly because Garrett's very deprecating of them.
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  Speaker 1: But today's episode, man, this is one of those ones
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  Speaker 1: where we sat down to plan and I want to
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  Speaker 1: give you honor straight away, G. I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: tapped into some of the depths of greatness that you
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  Speaker 1: have because you're a Navy SEAL. I'm amped to give
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  Speaker 1: this because what's special whenever you're out there, there's so
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  Speaker 1: much information out there. When you can get access to
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  Speaker 1: something that very few people get access to, you should
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  Speaker 1: sit up and pay attention. I truthfully feel like this
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  Speaker 1: episode is some of that very specific greatness because you
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  Speaker 1: said a while ago, that seal punishment taught you to
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  Speaker 1: follow your training. And I've said this, I've quoted this
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  Speaker 1: many times on the podcast. I've quoted it when I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about what happened with me and my wife is
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  Speaker 1: that you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to
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  Speaker 1: the level of training, right? And I've said that over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. So today we're going to go into
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  Speaker 1: what makes a great training program. And I would hope,
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  Speaker 1: And I have to assume every person out here is
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  Speaker 1: listening to this podcast because they want to be great.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we would run people who want comfort
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  Speaker 1: and average off very quickly on here, G, because we
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  Speaker 1: are not the be comfortable and God just wants to
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  Speaker 1: be your buddy and make your life better podcast. We
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  Speaker 1: are the follow after Jesus. He is Lord. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be easy, but man, is it going
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  Speaker 1: to be worth it podcast? And so we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get into this today. And I'm just going to encourage
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  Speaker 1: you guys, sit up. pay attention. This is one that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to listen to multiple times. I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying that because I plan on listening to it multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we're tapping into so much of your greatness, Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: When we were planning this, I was very conscious of that.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm excited about this one. And so let's
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  Speaker 1: just get into it, unless there's anything you want to
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  Speaker 1: add there. Well, I'll just say, you're talking about great
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  Speaker 1: training plans. I'm going to talk about great training organizations
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  Speaker 1: here in a second. But I just want to say,
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  Speaker 1: this is, this is half of this comment is for
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  Speaker 1: me and it's for everyone else listening, but I would
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  Speaker 1: just say loved our prep for this episode. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a great episode, but I would also
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  Speaker 1: say we're probably going to come back to this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more in the future because as we put
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  Speaker 1: all this out, um, we spent a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: time than we normally do in the prep for this
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  Speaker 1: episode because there was a lot of content that we
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  Speaker 1: were developing, but as we were talking about it, it
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  Speaker 1: actually left me thinking we could have, we could have
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  Speaker 1: deleted everything that we wrote here and I might, um,
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  Speaker 1: redo some of this in a different way. So this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a great episode, but I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you, we're probably going to be coming back to
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  Speaker 1: this because there's, as you were asking me great questions,
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  Speaker 1: it was making me think there's actually a lot more
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about here.
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  Speaker 3: So great, great training, great training organizations. This is something
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  Speaker 3: I've said before on the show. And I mentioned me
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  Speaker 3: a quick second, G I'm sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt you,
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  Speaker 3: but I want it. Cause I want to, I want
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  Speaker 3: to ask everybody a question out there. Cause I feel
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  Speaker 3: like this is something you have to, you have to understand.
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  Speaker 3: When I say we're tapping into some of the greatness,
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  Speaker 3: we've said it before on here. The Navy SEALs are,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion, the greatest training organization there's ever been.
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  Speaker 3: Because most organizations rise and fall on the leader leaving.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Manchester United fan.
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  Speaker 1: We had Sir Alex Ferguson, who's the greatest manager that's
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  Speaker 1: ever lived. We had him for, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: 36 years or 26 years. The best period ever. It
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  Speaker 1: was so enjoyable. It was 26 years. Since he's left,
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  Speaker 1: we have sucked. And it's revealed all the things that
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  Speaker 1: are wrong with the foundation of That's most people's businesses.
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  Speaker 1: So my question to people is like, have you ever
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  Speaker 1: even been part of a great training program? Because most
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  Speaker 1: people go to school. How are the Patriots doing today? Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Not so great since Brady left. And we all thought
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  Speaker 1: it was Belichick, but man, it was the combination of them.
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  Speaker 1: And that's most things. So like, so most people's level
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  Speaker 1: of training, the reason I'm saying this, because I want
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  Speaker 1: you to like, what, what will help you? John the
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  Speaker 1: Baptist came to prepare the way for Jesus. And it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that he came and told everybody the son of
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  Speaker 1: God is coming. What he said is repent for the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of God is at hand. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: That means there has to be a humility to change
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  Speaker 1: your mind and realize that Jesus needs to be on
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  Speaker 1: the throne. That's the foundation of our faith is that
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  Speaker 1: if you don't say God, what you say is right.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't give up your right to identify what's right.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to miss so much of our faith. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking you to approach this episode with a level
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  Speaker 1: of humility to go, you know what? Maybe I've not
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  Speaker 1: been a part of a great training organization because for
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  Speaker 1: most of us, our training is school. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what school teaches you how to do? Teaches you how
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  Speaker 1: to be a good factory worker. If you go back
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  Speaker 1: and look at the foundations of it, look at how
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  Speaker 1: it is. Sit here, be here at this time. The
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  Speaker 1: bell's going to go. You're going to do this. Then
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  Speaker 1: the bell's going to go. You're going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: It is literally training people to just take instruction and
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  Speaker 1: be almost like mindless bots. And there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people who will find that upsetting about school. Forgive my generalization.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not training people how to think to go
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  Speaker 1: out and be world changers or to go out and
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  Speaker 1: be those that can create industry. It's teaching you how
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  Speaker 1: to be a great employee. So just have the level
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  Speaker 1: of humility to understand that maybe you've never seen a
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  Speaker 1: great training organization. But what's special about today is that
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  Speaker 1: we're getting from your great industry of being in the
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  Speaker 1: greatest training organization of the world. We're diving into that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I think it's
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  Speaker 1: an important point. Well, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, the SEALs have not lived and died on
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  Speaker 3: one person. They have built a great training program, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll get into that. But every great organization I've ever
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  Speaker 3: been a part of, and I put the SEALs in
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  Speaker 3: that category, but there's other ones that I have been
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  Speaker 3: a part of, participated in, studied, and ones that I've
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  Speaker 3: helped build. And what I would say is that every
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  Speaker 3: great organization is a great training organization. And here's what
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  Speaker 3: I mean by that. I look at greatness as the
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  Speaker 3: fulfillment of your entire purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Really, to achieve, it goes back to what we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about on the show before, all the way back in Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: where God said, be fruitful and multiply. Multiply is the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew word rabah, and that means to become great. And
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  Speaker 1: what is greatness? Greatness isn't just I did stuff. Greatness
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  Speaker 1: is you did everything God put you on the earth
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  Speaker 1: to do. That is you reaching your full potential. Because
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  Speaker 1: how could you be great if you didn't reach your
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  Speaker 1: fullest potential? Greatness isn't about who you are compared to
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  Speaker 1: somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: Greatness is, did you become everything you're capable of being?
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  Speaker 3: And so in the life of an organization, some organizations
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  Speaker 3: land with a massive splash and they achieve great things.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're looking for short-term outcomes, that's not what
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  Speaker 3: this episode is focused on. But if you want to
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  Speaker 3: achieve your greatest potential, if you want an organization to
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  Speaker 3: achieve its greatest potential, you have to build something that
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  Speaker 3: continually gets better. Not just the person gets better, but
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  Speaker 3: And the SEAL teams, you look at SEAL, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's always the joke, like this is a SEAL team
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  Speaker 3: joke of guys are like, Oh, you want what buds
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  Speaker 3: class for you to, you know, I was, I was
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  Speaker 3: 286 people go, well, 285 was the last hard class, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like the joke, the joke is that like, all the
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  Speaker 3: older guys are like, well, it was harder for me
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  Speaker 3: than it was for you. And there's some funny things
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  Speaker 3: where it was older in the past, but what is
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  Speaker 3: observably true is that SEALs today are better than SEALs
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  Speaker 3: were 10 years ago. SEALs in the early 2000s were
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  Speaker 3: better than the SEAL operators from the 80s. It's not
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  Speaker 3: saying that the man is better because when guys are
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  Speaker 3: making that joke, they're saying like, I'm tougher than you.
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  Speaker 3: But the observable truth is that SEALs keep getting better
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  Speaker 3: at their job. And that is evidence of a great
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  Speaker 3: training program. It's not that there was one person there
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  Speaker 3: doing everything, making everything happen. They built a program that
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  Speaker 3: continues to get better. This is exactly what Jesus did.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus didn't say like, Hey, I'm going to come here
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to do everything. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: speak to everybody. What did he say to his disciples?
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  Speaker 3: He says, he says, I'm not going to give you fish.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to help me gather fish. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to make you fishers of men. He says,
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  Speaker 3: I'm building something with you. That's what he said to Peter.
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  Speaker 3: He says, you're the rock. I'm going to build my
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  Speaker 3: church on you. We're building an organization that's going to
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  Speaker 3: perpetuate for thousands of years, right? And And again, I've
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  Speaker 3: said it before, whether you believe in Jesus or not,
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  Speaker 3: that point is still true. Whether you believe that Jesus
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  Speaker 3: is the son of God, he's the most famous person
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  Speaker 3: who's ever lived. More people know his name and more
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  Speaker 3: people have been impacted by him than any other person
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  Speaker 3: in history. And this is a man who didn't make
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  Speaker 3: it to 40. This is a man who never went
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  Speaker 3: more than a few hundred miles from his home. And
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  Speaker 3: compared to other people in history, how many people did
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  Speaker 3: he speak to? He is small in that regard and
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  Speaker 3: the size of the audiences that he had compared to
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  Speaker 3: many other people in history yet had the greatest impact.
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  Speaker 3: And that is he was living by some of these principles, right?
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we're always trying to do is live
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  Speaker 3: on the principles that God has given us that Jesus
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  Speaker 3: lived by.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're going to try to tap into today.
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  Speaker 1: What are the principles? What are the elements that make
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  Speaker 1: a organization great? And it's great training organizations. So let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. Yeah, I love that, G. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is, you know, and to that point that you made,
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  Speaker 1: the last thing he said was exactly what you just said.
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  Speaker 1: Go ye therefore into all the world and make disciples, right?
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  Speaker 1: So it's like now the train.
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  Speaker 3: And he also said, which is like the most radical statement,
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  Speaker 3: if you're someone who's really a student of Christ, one
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  Speaker 3: of the most radical things he said to his disciples.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the last things he said is you'll
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  Speaker 3: do even greater things than I did, which is like
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  Speaker 3: still anyone who's.
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  Speaker 1: A follower of Christ, that's a radical statement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think this is what a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: get wrong in when they look at following Jesus. And
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  Speaker 1: this is where, you know, I don't want to make
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  Speaker 1: any comments on how people enter into their relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: But I think a lot of times if you have
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  Speaker 1: set this out that this is to make you better,
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  Speaker 1: we put our own idea of better because it is
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  Speaker 1: it is going to make you better, but it's going
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  Speaker 1: to make you better in God's version. So when you're
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  Speaker 1: saying you're going to follow Christ, you're entering into a
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  Speaker 1: discipleship program for life, which means you're signing up to
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  Speaker 1: constantly train. And you see this in the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: 2 Timothy 3, 16 through 17. I love this scripture.
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  Speaker 1: This is Paul, who was literally the discipler of disciples, man, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, planted more churches than anybody else. This is
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  Speaker 1: what he said. All scripture is breathed out by God
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  Speaker 1: and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for
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  Speaker 1: training in righteousness, that the man of God may be
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  Speaker 1: complete equipped for every good work. Well, hang on. I
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  Speaker 1: thought I was going to get saved and then magically
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  Speaker 1: I was going to not want to do any of
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  Speaker 1: the bad things anymore. And like, you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: just not want to sin. No, no. You're entering into a,
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  Speaker 1: a literally a discipleship program of I'm going to train.
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  Speaker 1: God's going to continue to sanctify me. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: refine me. He's going to bring me to maturity because
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  Speaker 1: God wasn't just after like, Hey, we just need to
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  Speaker 1: change behavior and we're going to get into that more.
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  Speaker 1: But that scripture is really a foundational one for today.
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  Speaker 3: And this is very much of what the Impossible Life
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  Speaker 3: podcast is about. If you don't know the vision and
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  Speaker 3: mission of the Impossible Life podcast, I live by the
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  Speaker 3: visions and missions in my life. The vision for the
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  Speaker 3: impossible life is to shift the mindset of what it
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  Speaker 3: means to be a godly man. And I won't go
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  Speaker 3: into that. We've talked about it on other episodes, really
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  Speaker 3: where that came from. And the mission, which serves the vision,
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  Speaker 3: the mission, of the impossible life is teaching and training men, right?
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to do, we got to teach and
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  Speaker 3: we got to train. And so, so much of this is,
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  Speaker 3: is built.
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  Speaker 1: On the word.
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  Speaker 3: And the greatest outcome that I want to come out
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  Speaker 3: of the podcast is that people would use this in
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  Speaker 3: their discipleship programs, that they would learn how to train
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  Speaker 3: and grow in godliness. But at the same time, what
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  Speaker 3: we're doing all the time is I'm showing you, here's
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  Speaker 3: what the Bible says. And also here's the, here's how
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  Speaker 3: this works. Whether you believe in God or not, God
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  Speaker 3: built a world of order. And so we're going to
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  Speaker 3: both use this as an opportunity for you to grow
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  Speaker 3: in your relationship with God, growing discipleship. But at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, again, whether you believe in Jesus or not,
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  Speaker 3: these things are true. And this is how greatness is built.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to show you what makes a great
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  Speaker 3: training program. One of the hallmarks of a great training
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  Speaker 3: program is that it doesn't just train one person. Again,
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  Speaker 3: greatness isn't just about you. The purpose of life isn't
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  Speaker 3: about you. And you can take some elements out of this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give those to you where it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I want to achieve this outcome for me.
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 3: We'll show you how to do that. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to use some of the elements for that.
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  Speaker 3: But the hallmark of a great program, right? What did
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  Speaker 3: I say? Great training, great organization is a great training organization.
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  Speaker 3: It exists beyond itself. SEAL training isn't great because, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for 70, SEAL training isn't great because it just made
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  Speaker 3: one dude. But what it has been doing is for
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  Speaker 3: over 70 years, it has continued, you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: formed in 1962. So, continued to refine itself over and
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  Speaker 3: over and over again. And what it's done is each
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  Speaker 3: year it's gotten better. That's one of my MOs, one
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  Speaker 3: of my modus operandi in every organization that I get
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  Speaker 3: the chance to contribute to is, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be better next year than we are today. Not just
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  Speaker 3: what we built, but the way we build things, who
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  Speaker 3: we are as people. If we're really training correctly, and
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  Speaker 3: this is when you live by the laws of greatness,
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  Speaker 3: you will win.
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  Speaker 1: 100% you will win.
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  Speaker 3: Greatness has an order. Greatness has a way of doing things.
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  Speaker 3: And if you'll live by it, you are destined to win.
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  Speaker 3: And so what I've submitted to in my life is
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to live by the laws of greatness and
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  Speaker 3: it is going to lead me down the path of
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  Speaker 3: greatness is what I want with my life.
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  Speaker 1: So the SEAL training isn't just about one person. Great
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  Speaker 1: training organizations aren't about one person. There's a constant refining
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  Speaker 1: in that organization and it's aimed at a great fruit
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: in the end. Right. Jesus didn't say, I'm going to
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: teach her.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: I'm going to show everybody how great I am and
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: get you guys to like me and follow me around.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: He says, I'm going to teach you to live like me.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you this way of thinking. Right.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: What you should want in your life and in your family.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: It's the way I look at my kids.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: I don't look at my kids and say, I'm going
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: to help you live a happy, healthy life. I said, no,
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: I have this way of thinking and I'm going to
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: give it to you. Not just that you can do
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: what I did, but that in a way that you
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: can build on it and you'll go further than I
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: ever did.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: It's the same thing Jesus said to his disciples, you'll
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: do even greater things than I did. So there's a
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: constant refining that comes out of every great training organization.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so good, G. And I think for a
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: lot of people, we get asked all the time, how
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: do I build what you guys have at Mighty Men?
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Because Mighty Men is one of the largest men's groups
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: in America. Yeah. And what people want is they want
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: us to just give them our handbook, which I've sent
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: it to people and you can copy our handbook and
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: not have our same results. And we're going to, when
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: we get into, there's four keys to a training plan
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: that make a great train plan that we're going to
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: get into now. And, and what you just said of
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: giving them people a way of thinking, giving your kids
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: a way of thinking, I think it's going to make
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: sense after you hear the key points. But just know
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: like the, the purpose of this, yes, you could go
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: divine design, a great individual training plan. If you listen
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: to some of these points, but, I think for a
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: lot of us, you have to realize if it's not
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: just to train you, if you want a great training
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: plan and you're like, yeah, but I just want to
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: train myself. What this means is you're going to have
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: to go find somebody who's already laid a foundation. Find
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: a coach, find an instructor, find something that's already got
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: some fruit and realize you're going to have to pay
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: a price, whether it's money, time, effort, all three of
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: those things or even more. Like that's a place where
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: you need to have the humility to go like, okay,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. Because we live in such an
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: individualized society where it's like, I just want to cook
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: everything for me on demand the way I want it
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: when I want it. And part of training, and this
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: is where I think a lot of people leave Mighty Men,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: is it's like, why do I don't agree with that?
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Because you don't know everything, right? Like it's with your kids.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: When my kids get mad at me, and this is like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: this is for somebody out there. Your kids do not
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: know what's best. If your kids are pushing back on
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: your rules, that probably means that your rules are having
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the right effect. Because you have to understand that you
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: do not know best and the level of submission required is,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: that's why I said from the beginning about repentance. If
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: you don't have the humility to accept this, you're going
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: to be the person who fizzles out and says that
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: training plan is stupid. If you make everything about you,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: you're going to miss it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Like if you make your entire life about you, you
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: won't have lived the best life you could possibly live.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Think about physics and the laws of the universe. If
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you think that you're the center of the universe, your
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: laws of physics would be broken, right? Until you realize
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you're not the center of the universe, only then can
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: you observe how things work and then get to the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: greatest outcomes. And this is, I mean, a lot of
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: this comes back to so many biblical elements where this
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: is the life of Christ.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: This is what God's showing us as if you want everything,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: you have to be willing to give everything up, right?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: And we could go into that more, but let's focus
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: on what makes a great training plan, right? How to
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: have great training, how to build a great training program,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: four keys here, right? So number one is specificity, okay?
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: This is the most important thing to start with is
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: you really have to define the target.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: What do you want out of this? And it's a
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: hard question to answer, okay? What do you really want?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people think they want I want
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: money or I want this mark of achievement. And that's
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: really not what you want. That's just a milestone to
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: where you were trying to go. And if you aim
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: towards that short term point, this is why businesses who
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: don't do this, they think, well, we want to blow
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: up to a billion dollar business or a two billion
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: dollar business in this amount of time. And maybe you
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: get there. Maybe you don't.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: But if you do get there and that was your
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: only focus, that is where you fail. You fail the
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: day after that because you weren't, you were not moving
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: on a path towards a higher goal.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So you must define the target. When you build a plan,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you've got to understand what do you want out of it?
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: What is this supposed to accomplish? Where are we going
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to go? What do I, you know, the seals didn't say, Hey,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: we need a bunch of dudes who can shoot bad
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: guys in the face.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Otherwise we would have spent all of our time on
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the range. But what they did is they said, we
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: need warriors who are problem solvers. So they spend all
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: this time training you in a level of grit, training
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: you to think a certain way, building a certain type
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: of person. And they say, now we'll also teach you
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to shoot. So when we throw you into the worst situations,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you also have the skills to accomplish the objective. But
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: more so, you're the whole person that can achieve any objective,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: not just we trained you for a singular mission. In
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: a business, if you train people to be like a
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: task monkey, okay, like I can train you how to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: do this one specific task, whether it's in sales or
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I go teach you to be a CNC operator. If
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I just teach you to do this one task, that's great.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Until the task changes, until the world changes, and then
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you become nearly useless. All you knew how to do
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: was the one thing. So it's not, you got to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: think about what I really want you to achieve here.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I don't just want you to be able to knock
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: on a door and sell something to someone. I want
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you to be a great salesman such that if you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: are knocking on a door or calling a person or
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: talking to someone in any environment, that you can translate
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: value to them and move them further along in a transaction.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Not just, I'm going to give you the steps for
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: this one type of transaction in one specific circumstance. Now,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: real quick, that's what you just said, I think is
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: how most people interpret training is like, I want to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: get better at bench press. So I'm just going to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: go do like 50. I'm just going to do bench
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: press every day because that's all they only have the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: action of one thing. And it's like, well, now we're
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: going to move you to incline. But yeah, Well, wait,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: hold on. I'm not done inclined. And that's what I
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: think most people understand. Training is exactly what you said,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the task monkey term that you used. And so this
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: is a, this is a real shift straight away of like, okay,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: we're not just doing one repeatable thing. It's so good. Right.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Let me, let me put this in a biblical perspective.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: What is God one out of man?
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, God wants obedience, but if all God wanted was obedience,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: he would have done that in a different way. He
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: could have made us entirely obedient or put us on
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: a path that it was obedience or nothing else, right?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And he could have forced us in that direction. It's
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: actually not what he's done. God didn't want obedience. Obedience
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: is a part of it, but what God wanted was children.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: So all of those who live their life in a
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: biblical context, if you get this perspective, what you can
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: zoom out and see is that everything that God is
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: doing is he's developing you as children. He doesn't want
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you to do a certain thing. He just wants you
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to be like him. He wants you to be what
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he made you to be. So all of your life
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: is development towards this way of being, towards the person
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: that you become. And if you become like him, you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: will achieve great things. But if you just live your
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: entire life focused on one outcome, again, maybe you achieve
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: that outcome or maybe you don't. What you realize if
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you do achieve the outcome is that there's more after that.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And if you've lived everything towards this one outcome, now
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you don't know where to go. You don't know how
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to take the next step. Man, gee, that is so
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: deep because I think we've talked about this, that the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: purpose of your life is not just to sin less
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: or to not sin. And I think that we get
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: so distracted by what you just said, that zoom out
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of God wants children. Like that's not just Garrett coming
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: up with a cool thing. This was revelatory to me.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Romans 8, 28 is the scripture we love because we
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: go for God makes all things work together for the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: good of those who love him and are called according
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to his purpose. And we're just like, yes, yes. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: love God. I'm called according to his purpose. So I
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: know everything's going to work out for my good. And
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: as you once said, God's definition of good is different
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: than our definition of good. What the key scripture of
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: your actual purpose and what to the point that you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: just made is found in the next verse of Romans 8, 29,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: because it says for those whom he foreknew, let's talk
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: about us. This is the good. He also predestined to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: be conformed to the image of his son in order
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that he may be the firstborn among many brothers. Man,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: that is a radical shift to what you said. What
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: did God want out of men? Not a bunch of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: obedient slaves. He wanted children. And that's why he raises us.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And that's why we don't start fully, you know, Adam
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was the only guy who started off, you know, grown
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and developed as far as, as far as I, as
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we know. And I say, as far as we know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: because we don't actually know how old Adam was when
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: God made him. But the point of being all of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: us start out as babies. And that's, that's a pattern of,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of a natural supernatural correlation that that is a huge
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: shift of when you realize that God's developing children and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: not just developing obedience soldiers, because if you are an
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: obedient soldier, you can, you'll struggle to understand God's love.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You'll struggle to understand that he wants to have a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: relationship with you. You'll always be going, Lord, what do
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you want me to do when God's going, Hey, I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: want you just to be with me. I want, you
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like it's so different when you
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: have that understanding of what God actually wanted is a
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: huge shift.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: And, You know, you can think like, oh, I just want,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I just want a six pack or I just want
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: to be in shape. And that may be a short-term goal,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: but that's actually, if you'll, if you'll ask yourselves the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: real question, that's a part of a bigger picture, right?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: It's a part of a bigger picture. And if you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: hyper-focus on just getting to that one outcome, it may
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: actually be destroying or eroding the foundation that you needed
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to get to where you really wanted to go. If
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you just want men to show up, if you're just trying,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: if your goal is to get men to show up
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to church, maybe you can get them to show up
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: for a minute. But you're going to be hustling those
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: dudes around for forever. And if you're doing it in
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the wrong way, it gets harder and harder to get
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: them to show up to church because you're building the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: wrong thing.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: You've got to think you've got to build the world
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: where men want to be a part of this because
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: of how they're growing and developing in their process for greatness.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: If you just want employees to do a certain job,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: maybe you can get them to achieve that specific task.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: But over time, it gets harder and harder to keep
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: that person focused.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Right? A great organization continues to develop people. And I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: can say just a side piece of evidence from that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'm still benefiting from the SEAL training organization, right? They
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: created something that it developed in me and stayed with me.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And it'll stay with me for the rest of my life.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Some of the things that I learned there, that is
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: evidence of a great training program. All right.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: So I would just say on specificity, Right. You need
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: to know specifically what you want. And you can also
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: use this. Hey, you can build this around it. Really,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: what I want to focus on here is, you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: in 16 weeks, I want my body composition to be
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: do this, to be this. I'm not saying that there's
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: anything morally or ethically wrong about that. You can build
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: a training program around that. What is most important, though,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: is that you clearly understand what is it I want.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And don't buy an outcome that short sides you to
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: where you really want it to go. If being in
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: shape is the highest, greatest thing that you want with
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: your life, you can build a program for that. But
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: there's probably something that you want on the other side
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: of that. So make sure you're building towards the greatest outcome.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Very good, dude. Very good. Number two is that it
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: is measurable.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. We've talked about this seems obvious, but let's talk
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: about it for a second. We've talked about standards on
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: this podcast many times. You need to have a definable
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: standard of like it needs to be measurable. What is
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: pass fail or what is good, bad?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And sometimes that's that sometimes that's hard to do when
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: you have something like, well, I want to be as
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: great as I can possibly be. I want to achieve
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: everything that God's called me to be. You're aiming towards
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: the highest outcome. It gets harder and harder to define
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: what that standard looks like. Let me give you a
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: great example of that. It's more than just a standard.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: You've just got to have the tools that you're able
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: to measure and observe growth. And I'll give a spiritual
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: example that is one that's hard to measure. And I'm
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: going to show you how you can measure something like that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: You can say like people who really get locked into
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: transformation and I want to hear from God.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I want to know. I want to hear his voice.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: How do I know?
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: How do I measurably know I have more of the
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit in my life? Where's my Holy Spirit meter? Hey,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go talk to my pastor and ask
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: him to like, hey, can you score me on what
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: my level of Holy Spirit walkingness is? There's not really
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: a way to do that. Yet in scripture, they gave
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: us Galatians 5. Galatians 5.22, which is the fruit of
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: the Spirit. And it tells us, right, you might not
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: be able to put a quantifiable number on what your
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit level is. However, there is the fruit of
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the Spirit that is the fruit of this, okay? The
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: goal is not just to pursue fruit, but the more
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you walk with the Holy Spirit, the more you have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the more you have these things in your life. This
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: is the evidence that comes from it. And again, I'm
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: not going to say, what do I got to do
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: to make myself more gentle? What do I got to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: do to make myself have more love, more joy in
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: my life? If you chase that, You won't necessarily get there,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: but you've got to understand what are the things I'm
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: going to walk down this path. But what are some
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: metrics that I have to help me get there?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And the SEAL teams, there were all these different metrics
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that they were measuring us on that were actually just
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: fruit of us developing towards the greater path of being
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: an incredible problem solving warrior that you could throw into
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: any situation. Like, what was this like? Or when you
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: say that, do you mean like running and shooting and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: like all the different stuff? Like, cause you guys were
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: measured on everything, right? Like you guys did time shoots
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and there's different things. Those, yeah, those were, those were
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: all things that we developed in that ultimately led towards, right?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: We didn't succeed on every mission, but what the SEAL
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: teams had was a fruit. And it's why the SEALs
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: have become more popular today because the more missions you threw.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: At them, They had great outcomes on those missions. Didn't
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: succeed in every mission. Hey, look, this is a filter
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I have for life. King David was God's chosen man.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: God said, this is my king. He's my guy. I'm
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: going to show you what a leader looks like. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: even while God's hand was on David's life, David didn't
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: win every battle. David got his butt handed to him
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: multiple times in scripture. So it's not necessarily that you
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: win everything. But it's look at the outcomes we have
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: today versus the outcomes we had 10 years ago versus
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: the outcomes we had 20 years ago.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: We're continuing to grow. And let me give you another example, right,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: of a and I like to use these because it's
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: just like such a simple business analogy. And not every sale,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: not all sales happen this way. Many sales transactions are
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  Speaker 1: more complicated. But a sales guy, a guy goes and
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  Speaker 1: knocks on a door. You could measure sales.
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  Speaker 3: How many times they knock on the door, like how
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: many door knocks you have, how many encounters you have.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: And you could measure like, Hey, here's the work that
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: you did. But this is the point that I want
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: to get to. And this is one of the truths
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: that you have to learn in life is that effort
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: does not equal outcome. I could train you to go
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: knock on doors and talk to people. But ultimately, where
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to teach my sales guys to be is
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: that you can actually sell things that there are great
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: outcomes for you. So not just how many doors did
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: you knock? Cause here's the thing. I can take a
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: few different sales guys and make all of them knock
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: a thousand doors. And out of that a thousand doors
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: we're going and they could, you know, necessarily knock on
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: the door that I want the way that I wanted
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: them to. And they could maybe read the script that
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I gave them. But out of these men who all
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: knocked a thousand doors, some men are going to sell
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: a lot more than others.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: So I'm not just measuring, Hey, can you knock on doors? Really,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: what's more important is the development. I need to be
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: able to break down what are the things that lead
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: to completed transactions, not just getting you to do reps.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: You can rep after rep after rep. And one of
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: the things we said in the SEAL teams is you
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: can't miss fast enough. You can shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: But until you learn how to hit, none of those
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: shots are worth anything. So, yes, you need the measurables.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: You need the measurables that is, hey, I'm putting in
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the work. You're not going to sell anything if you
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: don't knock on any doors.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but.
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  Speaker 3: More than that, what are the measurables that I have
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: to look for? And I'm not giving you the answers
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: to this. You've got to ask these questions yourself. What
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: are the measurables that I need to really focus on
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: that don't just lead to attempts, but that lead to
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: successes that lead to completed touchdowns?
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Very good. All right, gee, let's keep moving, man. That's
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: so good. So just to repeat, number one is specificity.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Define the target. What are you actually trying to train?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: What are you training? Number two is measurable. It's measurable outcomes,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: but it's also what are the, and it's difficult. This
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: is how you know you're creating great training. Because again,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: let me just give this example again to help it stick.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: It's not just that I can get you to knock
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a thousand doors. And it takes discipline to do that.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: But what I care about is how many sales did
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: we make out of those 1000 knocks? And if I'm
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: only training you to knock on the door and make
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the attempt, we're not going to get great fruit here.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: So what are the other measurables that I need to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: be training that lead to completed sales? So look at
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: in the same way. It's not just, hey, I want
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to read my Bible every day. Yes, do that.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: But what are the what's the other work that I
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: need to be focusing on? What's the other work that
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I got to measure that actually leads to the fruit
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: of the spirit?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: So good. Number, number three here is sustainable or sustainability.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: And this is like, we're going to talk about this
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: as like the principle of sustainability and understand there are
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: some things that are not meant to be sustainable and
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: you need to be, if it is, you need to
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: be aware of that. Or there's things that you want
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: to sustain for a long time and you need to
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: be aware of the things that can break sustainability. Um,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: This is something, sustainability is something that you're going to
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: continually build on, something that you can continually execute on.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: You want to design training programs. You want to design
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: your life in a way that you keep getting better,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: that you keep growing. Not that like, hey, I don't
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: just want my marriage to be great next year. I
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: want my marriage to get greater every single year. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: a training plan isn't worth very much. if it kills you,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: before you actually get to where you want to go.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: And you could do all of these things that maybe
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: work for a season, but you want to win long term.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I dug this one deep out of the well this morning.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I think this is the first thought that I ever
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: really synthesized for myself.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I have it somewhere.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I've shown it to my wife before, but one of
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: my eighth grade projects in school was they made us
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: write a book for the first time, like write your
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: own book. And it was not, it was not a
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: long book, but it was a book. They made you
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: write a book, like, Hey, put some, put your thoughts together.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: And I synthesized the parable of the tortoise and the
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: hare into this thought intensity takes the lead, but consistency
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: wins the race. I put these dots together this morning
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: talking to Nick. This was the beginning for me in
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: eighth grade of learning how to live on a long-term
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: timeframe orientation. And that parable of the tortoise and the
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: hare shows it. And there's other elements of wisdom in there.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: The tortoise takes off running really hard and everyone says, oh,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: the turtle's an idiot. But you know what the turtle is?
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Turtle's consistent. The turtle just keeps going, right? And you
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: need a plan for your growth, for your development, for
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: your outcome of not just measurable, not just a momentary success,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: but a plan for your ultimate greatness in your life
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: where you can say, I can keep going on this.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I can be consistent in this. I can do this
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: for a long period of time. An example in my life,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I want to be closer to the Lord every year
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: than I was last year. And that's a hard thing
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: to do. We all go through difficult seasons. I'm not
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: like Billy Graham that I read hours of scripture every
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: single day. And some of you are. But that's not
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: the commitment that I'm not saying it's bad if you do.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: It's wonderful that you do. What I knew I could
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: commit to and what I knew would help me walk
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: down the path I wanted to walk down was I
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: made a commitment to read scripture every day. And sometimes
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: that's just a couple minutes. And it's hard to, you know,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: if I open scripture for one minute, I'm going to
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: at least be in there for five or 10 minutes.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And that's the commitment that I make.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: But sometimes I'm traveling and I was up till one
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: in the morning and I got a breakfast with somebody
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: at seven or 730 the next morning. And I'm going
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: to try to at least sleep a couple hours and
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: I got to work out and do all these other things.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: But even in days like that, I'm going to squeeze
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: in at least my five minutes or my 10 minutes
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: of scripture. I've lived on a commitment since I was
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: 14 years old. of reading the proverb of the day
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: every single day. And sometimes that's pretty much all I get.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: There's other times where I study for hours, but the
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: point that I'm making is I have made a commitment
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: for myself that I can consistently maintain. And more important
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: than just taking off really hard for a season, like
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going to read the Bible in 30 days or
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: something crazy. I'm not saying that you can't do those things,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: but what's more important is that you can live on something,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: build a training plan that is sustainable for you. Or
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: another way of saying it, the, um, what I always
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: tell people, I said, the best workout plan is the
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: one that you'll do.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Not, not what's the greatest workout plan. What's the workout
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: plan that you'll do. That's a great workout plan. And
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: then over time, as you continue to grow and develop
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: what you, you actually improve on what you can continually sustain.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: And we'll come back to that here in a minute. Um,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: With sustainability, just talking about the law of sustainability here
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: for a minute, there's these competing elements between your level
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: of desire and your level of commitment. I'm not saying
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: that you can make everything a Navy SEAL training program.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: And a lot of people think that Garrett's just a
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: super Navy SEAL guy. Mighty Men's a Navy SEAL program.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Everything I do is a Navy SEAL program. You've misunderstood
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: me if that's what you think. I have learned things
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: from a great organization. And I want to teach that
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: in other places. And you're not going to be a
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Navy SEAL for forever. It's a finite period of time
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: that you're going to live in that program. But they've
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: built an organization that continually builds into the next person.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: You've got to think of when I talk about competing
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: levels of desire and commitment, this comes back to the
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: first question of specificity. You've got to really define what
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: it is that you want. And sometimes you will define
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: training programs that are not meant to be sustainable. The
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: only important point is that you're aware of that.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. If you like sign up for a fitness competition
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: and you say like, I'm going to live like a
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: psychopath for the next 16 weeks or the next 20 weeks,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: you are going to do things that are not sustainable.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: And I'm not just saying not physiologically sustainable because there's
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: people who do choose to live with like bodybuilding competition,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: level of fitness, discipline, eating, training, all of that. And
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: they live it for just, that's their life. That's how
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: they live it. But that's not what most people want
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: their life to be about. And when you make those
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: types of decisions, it has a cost on many other.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Areas of your life. So if you're going to set
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: off on some, you know, psychopath, maybe SEAL training, good
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: for you. I love you.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I'll high five you at the end. You just need
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: to be aware that sometimes those things are not sustainable.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Don't build a program that you thought you were going
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: to do for forever. That is not something that you
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: can long-term sustain. If you don't step into that program
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: with the awareness at the beginning, this is only for
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: a short period of time. One note of wisdom on
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: that as well. I step into seasons like that at
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: times in my life and I have awareness of it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: But one of the things I do to help me
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: manage costs and other areas of my life, as I
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: make the people that I do things with and I
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: make sure the people that I care about are also
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: aware of this.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Okay. That's good.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I have been, I have been in some difficult seasons
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: in my life. And one of the keys to doing
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: hard things is I tell myself, I have not, I
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: don't have to do this for forever. I just have
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: to do it for right now. And when you mature
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: as a leader, one of the things you realize is
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: that your decisions affect not just you, but other people
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: around you. And when I've been in these seasons where
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I'm on something that is not necessarily sustainable for the
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: rest of my life, I make sure that people around
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: me understand the same thing. Because if you don't communicate
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: to them, they're going to think like, oh, well, you
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: just gave up on me. You quit on me. You
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: don't treat me the way that you did before. One
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: of my friends who trains for triathlons, I said this
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: to him one time of, hey, Make sure, you know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: when you're going through this ridiculous level of training program
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: and discipline that you're communicating with your spouse. Hey, this
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: isn't for forever. This may hurt some of our relationship
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: in the short term, but we're not going to be
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: here for forever.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: So this is really about understanding sustainability. And the other
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: piece of sustainability is really what you want in a
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: program is what is the minimum amount? This isn't being lazy.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: And by the way, I love the thought where Bill
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Gates says he hires lazy people. And you misunderstand what
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: he's saying in this, but he says he hires lazy
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: people because he says they're good at their jobs.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: They have figured out what is the minimum. Like, you
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: don't want a lazy attitude person. He's calling high achiever
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: lazy people, not just someone who does nothing. But he's saying,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: where's the guy who's figured out this is exactly what
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: it requires and nothing else to get to a great outcome?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: And so part of sustainability is you designing your training
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: in a way that this is exactly what I need
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: to do. And I'm not just beating myself up and
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: hazing myself and making myself do all of these extra
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: things that don't necessarily... result in great rewards, right? What
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: is it that produces results? And don't spend time just
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: beating yourself up if it's not developing you in a
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: certain way. So it's not being overly punishing. It comes
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: back to the specificity and the intentionality of, I want
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: to design the program that does exactly what I need
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: it to do and nothing else. Don't be adding in
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: all of this extra pain for the sake of, well,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: cause what that can turn into is a little bit
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: of hype, right?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Like look how hard I beat myself up. Right. And
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you feel good.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: You get this dopamine reward of like, look how hard
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: I hazed myself, but it's not sustainable and it doesn't
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: lead to great outcomes.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I think what you, the way you phrase it, G
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: was you said the minimum amount of standards. And I
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: think that might surprise some people and they're like, wait,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Navy SEAL guys telling me not to have 400 standards
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: for every, it's like, no, minimum amount of standards means
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: that you're efficient and it means that everything is tied
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: to a why, because you can standard yourself to death. So,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: so I know exactly what requires success because when you,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: when you aim to do great things, it's very hard.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Don't make it harder than it has to be. That's,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: that's really the principle of sustainability.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: All right. And we, so we've got, we've got sustainability.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Let's get to the last piece. This is like a
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: longer tools and tactics, but it's only because there's so
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: much to unpack. And so we didn't want to shortchange
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: you guys. Okay, last piece here.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: And again, all of what we're doing here, what I'm
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: doing so often, and we're going to come back to training,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: and this will turn into more tools and tactics episodes
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: on a training plan where we get a little bit
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: more specific. We did lean a little bit more heavy
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: on the mindset, but I'm laying some foundations so we
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: can come back to this later. Because what I want
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: in all of this isn't just to tell you what
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: to do, but tell you how to do it yourself.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yes. It's what Jesus did. It's what they did with us.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: They didn't say, here's how you assault this building with
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: this amount of enemies around it in a desert environment
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the night. They taught us how
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: to do that mission or this mission or any other mission.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: They gave us all the tools there. And so I'm
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: trying to give you the tools so that you can
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: build a great training program.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. And then here's number four. Number four is that
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: there's a level of progression. right?
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: One of the things that I love to talk about
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: is mastery of basics. If you ever get the privilege
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: of coming to Mighty Men, some of you who listen
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: to this show, you're there every week. And I love
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: getting to meet people from the show. You come from
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: North Carolina, you come from Oregon, and you made a
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: trip to come down here and spend a weekend with
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Nick and I. I love getting to meet you guys.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: If you ever come on a Saturday, you'll hear me
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: say the same thing I say Every single Saturday, right?
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: And I start by giving this analogy of, hey, when
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: we got on to, we stepped onto the range in
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: the SEAL teams, we didn't, the first thing we did
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: wasn't something we'd never done before. We didn't say, okay,
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: today we're going to learn how to do barrel roll shooting.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: You're going to, you're going to, you.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Know, dive into a barrel roll and take a shot
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: at the same time.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: And I'm, I'm making an extreme analogy because that's what
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: people see in the movies.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: And they think that's what you do. Or, or today
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: we're going to practice, um, sliding backwards down a staircase
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: on our back and shooting an enemy pursuing us. We
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: never practiced any of those things. Well, what we did
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: every time we got on the range is we practiced
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: the basic fundamentals. We did some of the same things
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: every single time. So we started Mighty Man. We did
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: some of the same things every time. But the point
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: here is in progression. And I'm going to break down
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: some of the pieces of progression that I'll give an
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: example really quick. As they in SEAL training, like the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: first thing they do is like, here's the most basic test.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: One of the things that is required here in the
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: program is you got to have a high amount of
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: grit factor. You got to be a really tough dude.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: And so Hell Week is really the first major test
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: that you go to. It's a dumb test, meaning you
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: don't have to be smart. Like you could have an
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: IQ of 17 and make it through Hell Week. Right.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: You're maybe not that low, but you could have a
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: pretty low IQ and make it through Hell Week. There's
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: not a lot of intellectual challenges. It's what amount of
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: grit do you have?
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Okay. And then they build on that and they go
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: to the next test. And that's pool comp. Pool comp
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: is grit plus attention to detail.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: We know you're like everyone who makes it past hell week.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: And there are, there are people who make it past
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: hell week and they don't graduate as a Navy SEAL.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: But those people who made it through hell week for
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: the rest of their life, they know like I have
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: a high amount of grit. You have passed that test,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: but it goes on to the second test, which is
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: grit plus something else.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: And I'm just using that as an example of this
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: is progression. I want a training program that, Then I'm
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: going to take one skill. I'm going to prove I've
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: got this. Now I'm going to build on to the
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: next thing.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. I want to break down progression into three categories here.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: The first really progression category, think discipline.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: This is if we relate this to fitness or to
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: a basic job, you've got to have the ability to
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: show up on time. You know, if it's a workout,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: like if I'm your fitness trainer, don't hire me as
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: your fitness trainer. There's way better people than me. But
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: if you hired me as your fitness trainer, I'm going
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: to say, look, show up on time, show up hydrated,
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: show up rested. You don't have to be intelligent to
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: do that. You just that's that's discipline. That's obedience. Do
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: what I need you to do. But any of you
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: who are disciplined, you understand that there are levels of discipline.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Step one is like those basic things show up on time,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: show up hydrated. They did the same things to us
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: in basic SEAL training. Be where I need you to
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: be on time with the gear I told you to
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: be there with. And it's what they tell you in
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: SEAL training. SEAL training is easy. Just do what we
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: tell you to do when we tell you to do
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: it and you'll graduate. That's a discipline question. Now, it's
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: very hard, but it's can you do it? Can you
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: do what you tell yourself to do? So there's there's
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: a level of progression and discipline in your training program.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: There's a second type of progression and there's a progression
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: in your fundamentals. And working out, this is aerobic capacity.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: This is muscular development. If you're a basketball player, I
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: can teach you to dribble on day one. Like that's
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: level one skill of dribbling. But I know how to
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: dribble a basketball, but there are NBA players that they
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: dribble basketballs too. And well, Honestly, the NBA is not
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: a good analogy because I think dribbling and ball skills
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: has gone backwards, but that's a side point. The players
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: in the 90s had way better dribbling and basketball fundamentals
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: than the way that players do today. The game's progressed
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: in the wrong direction, not going to go down that
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: rabbit hole. But you get the point that I'm making
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: is that there's fundamentals, but you've got to progress.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: In those fundamentals.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: I can teach you the fundamentals of how, like there's
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: five skills that I teach you to shoot a pistol
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: or shoot a rifle, but you got to progress in
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: those fundamentals. So there's progression in those. And then the
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: third piece, and we could just kind of like, we'll
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: make a CrossFit analogy here, whether you like CrossFit or not,
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: it is a nice, wholesome system.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: And so they're asking you to do the same thing.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: show up on time. They're going to develop you in
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: the fundamentals of aerobic capacity, of muscular growth. Then you're
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: going to start to learn a lot of technical skills.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: You're going to do some practice in bear crawls. You're
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: going to do grip strength. You're going to do deadlifts.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: You're going to do a bunch of core work. You're
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: going to learn how to do handstand pushups. And then
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: eventually all of these skills come together to learn how
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: to walk on your hands, right? But the point of
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: CrossFit is not, hey, I know how to walk on
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: my hands. The point of CrossFit, or at least the
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: original point of CrossFit, that sport has changed a little
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: bit too. The original point of CrossFit was how do
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: we build a fully well-rounded, extremely capable athlete? And what
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: happens in that, that's supposed to be the end goal,
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: the end desire of CrossFit. How do we build the
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: most well-rounded, fully capable athlete? CrossFit was originally born out
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: of special operations. That's what they wanted. We need a
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: guy who can do everything and do anything. And what
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: there is, is there's progression in all of these things.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: You don't show up to CrossFit and say, we're going
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: to become great handstand walkers. If that was your only goal,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: you should spend a bunch of your time walking on
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: your hands. But if your goal is to be a
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: well-rounded athlete, you learn that I have to develop in
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: all of these areas. I have to develop in my discipline.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: I have to develop in my fundamentals, just aerobic capacity
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: and muscular strength. And there's more to it than that.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: I'm oversimplifying. And then I've also got to have a
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: progression in my fundamentals and each one of my skills.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: In SEAL training, it was, hey, we're going to develop
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: your grit, right? It's just how tough are you? And
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I can tell you what I thought was I was
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: way tougher as a SEAL operator than I was as
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: a BUD student. But I was really tough as a
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: BUD student, and that was my maximum grit. My grit
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: grew over time. The more things that I went through
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: and the longer that I maintained this level of grit,
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: my baseline of grit continued to go up. And then
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: they teach you how to think a certain way. Then
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: they teach you a bunch of basic skills, patrolling, shooting, jumping, swimming,
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: gear management, all these things. And when you do all
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: of that, it turns into a world-class assaulter. But if
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: I could take Nick out on, Nick and I could
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: go to a shoot house. And if I did an eight-hour,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: 10-hour course with Nick, I could teach Nick how to
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: clear a room. But Nick is not ready to be
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: a SEAL team assaulter because he has not been through
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: the full training program that is a well-roundedness towards this
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: final development of what do I really want. So the
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: progression is built on what we started with in the beginning,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: which is the specificity. What do I really want.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: This to be?
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: And I can, if you're putting all these pieces together,
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: maybe you're a discipleship leader, you're a business coach, you're
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: a trainer, you do some level of a training program.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: What you're going to start to put together here is
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: you realize, okay, maybe I'm not getting the outcomes that
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: I want out of my training organization because I've set
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: the wrong goal for my training. Hey, I just want
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: this one thing. But really, you've got to look further
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: down the road. Look out to the horizon of what
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: do I want this training plan to be? What do
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: I fully want it to accomplish? And ultimately, what this
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: leads to is a level of adaptation. Adaptation is like
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: the fullness of progression. What used to be heavy for you,
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: what used to be hard for you, it's not hard anymore.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: As you grow in the gym, 225 might be a
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: lot for you on bench, but once you do it,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: then you get to two reps. Then you get to
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: warming up. I'm not here anymore, but this is where
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: I used to be. I used to walk into the
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: gym and my warmup set, I started with 225 on
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: the bar and did 20 reps. That was also when
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: I worked out for three hours, six to seven days
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: a week. But the point being is that there's an
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: adaptation of all of your skills. And this is a
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: wholesome growth. Instead of just saying, hey, I've got this
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: one skill.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: I'm really strong. It's all of this led towards the
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: greatest outcome. I want to.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: kind of end today's lesson with this thought, okay? This
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: is a promise that I can give you. I'm just
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: going to ask you to not put a timeline on it.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: When I showed up to a SEAL team, I thought
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: I had it all figured out until I met the
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: guys that had it all figured out. Now, what's interesting
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: is we had been through the same training program and
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: that's what's cool. You can look at another SEAL and
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: it's like, you've learned the same things that I've learned.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: But these guys had a little bit more real world
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: experience than I did. I learned all the same rules
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: of room clearance. But I watched this happen for myself
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: as a new guy, the other people in my platoon.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: And then I watched it happen later on in other
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: platoons where I was training other people. And I watched
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: people come to the same magical click. What I'm telling
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: you is if you build a training plan correctly and
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: you say, hey, I just want to grow. I want
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: to develop. I'm leading towards this great outcome. You'll get
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: to this place where this is what they were ultimately
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: training us for. I don't want to teach you how
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: to clear this one room. I want to teach you
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: how to clear anything. And when new guys would show
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: up to a team, they would struggle. It's like, man,
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: I know all of the rules, but I keep getting
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: stuck on a problem. And I walk into this room
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: that I've never seen before. And I think I know
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: what to do, but I'm not sure. And there's got
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: to be a level of belief in your training and
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: a level of courage to move forward, where when you've
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: built a great training program, you say, I'm just going
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: to keep moving forward. And this magical click happened for
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: every single guy where they finally believed in their training
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: and they stepped into that room that they had never
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: seen before. And they trusted their training and they just
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: responded to the problem. Even though it was something they
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: had never seen before, they were able to just put
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: all of their pieces together. It wasn't that the guys
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: who had more experience than us, that they had had
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: different training. It's that they had trained for so long.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: They learned how to rely on their training. And this
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: is one of the things that I've said before that
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Nick said he really appreciated. I'm not trying to be
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: a person who can do everything. I want to be
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: a person who's capable of doing anything.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: So I've developed myself in a way that any problem
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: that's thrown at me, I have the pieces to solve
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: that problem. Not I know the answer to every equation,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: but I am someone who can solve any problem. That's
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the training program that they built for us. And I
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: promise you, if you build a great training program, this
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: is the magical click that you're going to have for yourself.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: It's like having an MBA, right? You went to, you know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: you got a Columbia MBA, you got a Harvard MBA,
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: but you've never built a business. You know, all of
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: the right things. You just haven't done it yet. But
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: the more, if you trust your training, you actually know
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: all of the answers, but only when you've come from
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: a great training program.
• 53:35
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