Taha Pourjalali

“If the stress is something you can’t control: Embrace it. You can’t control it, but— How can you look at it from a different angle? How can you use it to your advantage? I couldn’t control the chaos of combat. I had to embrace it. I had to figure out a way to take advantage of it. Make it into your ally.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

“People are not who you want them to be. Kill your idols. Sure there are things we can learn from people—but people aren’t going to be what you think they are—what they should be. People, even those people you have put up on a pedestal, are going to be faulted, weak, egomaniacal, condescending. They are going to be lazy, entitled, shortsighted. They will not be perfect. Far from it. That’s fine. Learn from their weaknesses. Of course: Learn from their strengths and mimic and copy them in what they do well. But equally as important: Learn from their faults.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

“Is this what I want to be? This? I this all I got - is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

“You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual