Extreme Ownership, written by retired U.S. Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, is a powerful and insightful book that delves into the mindset and principles required to achieve success in any field. Drawing from their experiences in the battlefield and in business, the authors reveal invaluable lessons on leadership, responsibility, and taking control of one's life.
The book is structured around a collection of gripping combat anecdotes from the authors' SEAL deployments, highlighting the life-or-death decisions they faced and the critical importance of ownership in achieving mission success. Through these stories, Willink and Babin demonstrate how the principles they learned on the battlefield can be applied to the corporate world, sports teams, and personal life.
1:06 - Chapter 1: Extreme Ownership
7:06 - Chapter 2: No bad teams, only bad leaders
15:20 - Chapter 3: Believe
20:29 - Chapter 4: Check the ego
23:01 - Chapter 5: Cover & move
25:40 - Chapter 6: Simple
27:12: - Chapter 7: Prioritize and execute
32:50 - Chapter 8: Decentralized command
36:35 - Chapter 9: Plan
41:13 - Chapter 10: Leading up and down the chain of command
45:30 - Chapter 11: Decisiveness among uncertainty
48:02 - Chapter 12: Discipline = freedom, the dichotomy of leadership
