Jocko Willink on His Source of Motivation & Drive | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

What are your sources of motivation ? And I'm going to guess that some of them are internal , we could point to head or we could point to heart doesn't really matter .

Jocko Willink on His Source of Motivation & Drive | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

You feel happy right now , maybe you won't feel happy in 15 minutes . You feel sad now , maybe you won't feel sad in 15 minutes , you feel motivated right now , you might not feel motivated in 15 minutes . Therefore , I can't rely on it .

Jocko Willink on His Source of Motivation & Drive | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

And so I'm gonna do it because I can , what are your , what are the paints on your motivation palette if you will ? Well , you pro , you probably heard me say that mo motivation isn't something that I am going to count on because it's just an emotion that's gonna come and go and it's just like feeling happy . You feel happy right now , maybe you won't feel happy in 15 minutes .

Jocko Willink on His Source of Motivation & Drive | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Therefore , I can't rely on it . So I'm not going to put any , I'm not gonna put any money on just being motivated because it doesn't really matter to me . So the daily actions that I take aren't from motivation .

Jocko Willink on His Source of Motivation & Drive | Jocko Willink & Dr. Andrew Huberman

So I'm not going to put any , I'm not gonna put any money on just being motivated because it doesn't really matter to me . So the daily actions that I take aren't from motivation . They're , they're just from discipline .