[Echo] Jocko, I am a chronic excuse maker
How do I stop making excuses and get things done?
Chronic excuse maker?
How do you stop making excuses?
This is actually pretty simple
And I said it the other day, and you have to realize
You have to know, you have to accept that
[Chorus]
All your excuses are lies
All your excuses are lies
Just think about the lies you've used to rationalize
Taking the easy road
Taking the easy road and leaving discipline behind
Your excuses are lies
Think about them
You don't have time
That's a lie
You don't have support
That's a lie
How do I stop making excuses and get things done?
Chronic excuse maker?
How do you stop making excuses?
This is actually pretty simple
And I said it the other day, and you have to realize
You have to know, you have to accept that
[Chorus]
All your excuses are lies
All your excuses are lies
Just think about the lies you've used to rationalize
Taking the easy road
Taking the easy road and leaving discipline behind
Your excuses are lies
Think about them
You don't have time
That's a lie
You don't have support
That's a lie
The scuba training
They would do very traumatic things to you
Underwater with your scuba gear on
Rip it off, rip your face mask off
Tie your regulator hoses in knots, just create total mayhem
And eventually they'd do things that are so horrible to you
That you had to come to the surface and when you came to the surface
What they told you to do immediately was say the words
[Chorus]
I feel fine
I feel fine
I feel fine
I feel fine
They would do very traumatic things to you
Underwater with your scuba gear on
Rip it off, rip your face mask off
Tie your regulator hoses in knots, just create total mayhem
And eventually they'd do things that are so horrible to you
That you had to come to the surface and when you came to the surface
What they told you to do immediately was say the words
[Chorus]
I feel fine
I feel fine
I feel fine
I feel fine
There's so much knowledge out there
There's so much information, so many ways to get better
And we make, we make so many mistakes
We're the product of our mistakes
And oftentimes the lesson is sitting there right in front of our face
It's there to be learned, but we miss it or we don't pay attention to it
Or we think we know better, until it punches us in the face
And the most important thing to learn is that we have so much to learn
We all do
And we can learn from school and people and from experience
And we learn from life
[Chorus]
You get one shot
One shot at this gig right here
Life
One life, that's all you got
One life
One shot
But you have to process the information and you have to absorb it
There's so much information, so many ways to get better
And we make, we make so many mistakes
We're the product of our mistakes
And oftentimes the lesson is sitting there right in front of our face
It's there to be learned, but we miss it or we don't pay attention to it
Or we think we know better, until it punches us in the face
And the most important thing to learn is that we have so much to learn
We all do
And we can learn from school and people and from experience
And we learn from life
[Chorus]
You get one shot
One shot at this gig right here
Life
One life, that's all you got
One life
One shot
But you have to process the information and you have to absorb it
[Echo] What do you do on the days when you're just not feeling it?
Those days
Those days
Those days when I'm tired or worn out
Or just basically sick of the grind
What do I do on those days?
I go anyways
I get it done
Even if I'm just going through the motions
I go through the motions
I don't really wanna work out? I work out
I really don't wanna hammer on a project? I hammer on the project
Don't really wanna get up and get out of bed?
Yeah, I get up
Those days
Those days
Those days when I'm tired or worn out
Or just basically sick of the grind
What do I do on those days?
I go anyways
I get it done
Even if I'm just going through the motions
I go through the motions
I don't really wanna work out? I work out
I really don't wanna hammer on a project? I hammer on the project
Don't really wanna get up and get out of bed?
Yeah, I get up
Default aggressive
[Peterson] Do you know who Akira the Don is?
[Rubin] Of course, he's amazing
Proactive and aggressive are similar
And they're both good
You certainly have to be proactive in the world
You want to be dictating what happens
Not responding to it
And, yes, that means creating or controlling a situation
As much as you can
But being aggressive, that means you are ready to attack
As I always point out, this doesn't mean you walk around with your chest puffed out
Ready to bang heads with everyone around you
It doesn't mean that you confront people
Physically or mentally, head-on, without a tactically superior plan
It doesn't mean you go straightforward into conflict without thought, without reason
It doesn't mean you engage in attrition warfare
[Peterson] Do you know who Akira the Don is?
[Rubin] Of course, he's amazing
Proactive and aggressive are similar
And they're both good
You certainly have to be proactive in the world
You want to be dictating what happens
Not responding to it
And, yes, that means creating or controlling a situation
As much as you can
But being aggressive, that means you are ready to attack
As I always point out, this doesn't mean you walk around with your chest puffed out
Ready to bang heads with everyone around you
It doesn't mean that you confront people
Physically or mentally, head-on, without a tactically superior plan
It doesn't mean you go straightforward into conflict without thought, without reason
It doesn't mean you engage in attrition warfare