Jocko Willink Shares His Super Power: Detachment | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

There's nothing but darkness . So helping people move forward , take action and be able to get that perspective , detach and get outside themselves , get outside their own heads . You know , Tim Ferris said , get out of your head , get into your body .

Jocko Willink Shares His Super Power: Detachment | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

And it's , it's so , it's such a helpless feeling to , to sit there and tell someone , hey , you , you , you , you just move a little bit towards me and you're gonna get , get out of this storm and it's so much easier said than done . And , and that's why trying to engage with people and trying to give people that superpower of detachment where they can take a step back and say , you know what ? You're right man , that , that girl , she , she wasn't who I really thought she was .

Jocko Willink Shares His Super Power: Detachment | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Being able to take a step back detach and see the bigger picture to me is the true superpower of life of life . And it's , it's a lot harder than it sounds .

Jocko Willink Shares His Super Power: Detachment | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

But easier said than done . And that's one of the biggest challenges I think that , that we have as friends and in parents and uh teammates is helping people learn to detach , learn to see the bigger picture , learn to see that the , the problem that you have that your whole world is actually not that big of a deal . You know , when I wrote , I've written a bunch of kids books and one of the things that triggered me to write kids books is realizing that , you know , one day my daughter came home , it's my oldest daughter and she came home from school and she's like I , she says , I'm stupid .

Jocko Willink Shares His Super Power: Detachment | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

And , and now what are they gonna do when you're facing a significant problem in life ? A relationship , a problem with a job , you gotta remember that you're in one ecosystem and if you step outside of that ecosystem , no one really cares . And you could go move into a whole day .