Extreme Ownership: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Quotes

"Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame."

"Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems. They are better leaders, better followers, more dependable, and actively contributing team members, and more skilled in aggressively driving toward mission accomplishment. But they're also humble—able to keep their egos from damaging relationships and adversely impacting the mission and the team."

Paradigm shift

Another self-improvement classic, Extreme Ownership has had a massive influence on me over the years. To me their concept of taking responsibility essentially for everything that happens in our lives is only one or two steps away from the idea of maximizing our personal agency; they are intimately intertwined. I feel personally that anytime we abdicate responsibility for an outcome, oftentimes no matter how far it is from our hopes or intended actions, we lose that much agency over our own lives. Having Extreme Ownership, or as Lynn G. Robbins puts it, "100% respo