Extended Cut: How to Take Ownership

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To see y'all there. Aloha. Welcome to this episode of The Growth Cast. It is me, Jackson Campbell, again, joined with Dallas Pruitt for today's extended cut episode. I'm very excited to be here with y'all before we dive into what we're gonna talk about today, just a quick reminder. To rate, review and subscribe to the podcast if it's your first time here.

If it is your first time here, let me give you a quick rundown of what the growth cast is. Monday through Thursday, we have daily drips provided by Dallas Pruitt, who is he, who is here, joined with me today. He does three to five minute episodes, again Monday through Thursday to get your mindset straight before you start your day.

And then on Friday we have a Tyler DeVere who jumps on and does an Aloha Friday episode where he's either. Being interviewed by myself where I ask him a multitude of questions so we can gain some knowledge from him or where Tyler is interviewing other high level guests as well. If you're tuning into this episode, the episode that was recorded, it dropped right before this one was actually Tyler DeVere interviewing Inky Johnson.

So if you haven't listened to that one, go back to that one very powerful episode that I'm guaranteed that you will gain something from. But that's what we do here on the Growth Cast. Can't forget about Saturday. Saturday is the extended cut episodes where I get the opportunity to interview Dallas and we talk about the book of the month.

So it is the beginning of a new month, so we'll just dive right in to what that book is gonna be this month. The book that we are talking about, that we will talk about on these extended cut episodes is Extreme Ownership by Jocko Wilington La Babin. Very powerful book. But we're gonna dive in Dow.

Let's just dive right in. I feel like saying Get some. Get some. Yeah. What is that? Get some. Get some. Yeah. We're gonna maybe even talk about, we're wanting even maybe talk about something else that they used to say as I feel like I need to talk in that kind of voice during this episode today.

I know. Have you listened to this book? Oh, dude. Yes. I love it. It's Jocko, isn't it? Isn't it Jocko? It's one of a reading. It's one of a kind man like that, his voice. It's incredible undeniable. And it, it creates an impact. I, it does. So if you do like to listen to books, big recommendation is to listen to this one.

It's it's I just said his name. Why? I just go what? Jocko. Jocko Willing. Yeah. It's Jocko reading it. Yeah. Very powerful. And it does totally add to what he's trying to teach, hearing his voice talk through these things. Totally. But what principle from the book do we want to dive into today?

Yeah, so we're gonna, we're gonna jump into a little section here in just a second. This book, I just wanted to kind of preface, extreme ownership. The principle in and of itself at its root is really this idea that if you wanna be a leader you must first own everything in your world, right?

You have. Over so much, and until you can learn how to control the controllables within your own life and lead yourself , it's really tough to reach your potential as a leader of a team a leader of a family, a leader of a business, and a leader of yourself. That's where it is, that's where it starts, right?

Yep. Is like you, you are the leader of your life. And yeah, that's one thing that I pulled, I pulled so much from this book, but just at its heart, at its root, just to give a summary there, it's very tactical. As a book written by a Navy Seal would be. And but yeah, if you are struggling, if you are struggling to control the controllables, if you're struggling to lead yourself again, this is a great, this is a great resource.

But also if you are a leader of teams and you find yourself in the midst of chaos in, your company, your business, hell, your family  as mom or dad at the helm. It's a great resource. It's a great resource, and the application of the principles is universal across the board. So anyways, just wanted to kind of purpose first time.

No, let me, I want to add on something there. The first time I read this book, the biggest takeaway that I got from this book is that if you really understand this book and you really. Put the principles that it teaches to work. What it does is it completely eliminates victimhood, that victimhood mentality that everything's happening and you're not in control.

And there's all these outside forces that are affecting you. So that would be my, that would be my quick thing. If you if you were struggling with being, with feeling like you're the victim of terrible circumstances and you're having a hard time taking con complete control of your.  and control of these outcomes.

This book will completely change the way you think about how, think about things that happened to you and how you can attack them. So it's a very powerful book. I just wanted to add that. It's interesting you bring that up. Before we jump in. I believe that this book was at the tell end of my career.

When I was a teacher in the public education system. So those that don't know background story on me, short and simple, I used to teach high school. I used to teach high school in the public education system, and that's where I got my start in education in my professional life as an educator, as a teacher, as a speaker, if you will.

And I remember starting my company. And building that out at the same time as working, 40 to 50 hours a week in the school system and being dad and everything else. And then just being frustrated about the system, the broken system of public education. I was a part of it, and I remember falling into victim mentality, and I remember reading this.

As I was building my company and working with other leadership groups and companies in my home state, leaving work to go, deliver on what I needed to with my personal business and getting excited about the growth there. And this was a huge contributing factor to my growth at that stage of the game.

But what I wanted to point out was, interestingly enough, after I finished this book put the principles into practice was really purposeful and strategic about not just reading it, but like really making changes in my. I got to a stage where I freaking loved my job. It was the most interesting, paradoxical thing on the face of planet Earth where it was like, I'm this entrepreneur who's trying to grow my company and my business, and.

Prior to reading this book, I didn't quite grasp these principles enough to not get frustrated or feel like a victim because of what was going on at my personal job. And I'd find myself in this like in between world of being excited but then pissed off. Like a victim, but not a victim. And when I got done with this book, dude, I remember telling my.

When I finally exited my career and, my, my what was producing on the business front surpassed, my income in education. Very strategic process there. I remember telling her, Oh man, this is weird. Like I'm exiting my career in public education, but because of books like this, I had become such an owner of the environment and such an owner of myself within that environment and such an owner of all the things that were happening.

I was super happy. So I guess I wanted to point that out as I don't care whether you're an entrepreneur trying to do something great. You are in a professional career trying to do something great. You're a teacher, a and a dad, and a business owner like I was, or you're two of those three things, or you're five of other things.

It does not matter at the end of the day. The root is you've chosen all of that, you've chosen all of that, and you get to choose your happiness within the discipline you provide yourself.  in those aspects because you bid off those pieces and you chose to chew them all off at the same time. And that was that awakening for me. And I do believe that was a huge contributor to my level of happiness and kind of this weird paradoxical like sting when I left my professional career in education, which was I'm gonna miss this place, I'm gonna miss all the things I own here. I'm gonna miss the impact I'm able to have here.

I'm gonna miss the impact this has on my life. And. Just a super powerful It is powerful resource. It really, no, dude, I love that experience and I love that you shared that. Thank you for sharing that. Another thing just alongside to those is when you take ownership of even the problems, You take ownership of the things you don't like.

Again, just to wrap up this experience, dude, you end up taking ownership of it and then it's fun. You have nobody else to blame. You have nobody, you have no finger to point anywhere at extenuating circumstances or anybody else, but it becomes fun because now you're in control and you get to decide how the outcome is, right?

We can't always explain. We can't always decide what happens to us. That's. We can't always decide what happens to us, but what we can do is we take ownership on the. Leading from that, whatever. We can control how we respond. Exactly. We can control how we respond. And exactly. It's a perfect segue to, in the forward of the book he states this, he says they made no excuses.

Instead of complaining about challenges, he's talking about the seals. They ma and leaders from his perception, writing the book, they made no excuses. Instead of complaining about challenges or setbacks, they developed solutions and solved problems. They leveraged assets, relationships, and resources to get the job done.

Their own egos took a backseat to the mission and their troops. These leaders truly led and. That kind of summarizes what we just broke down. The no excuses, the mentality of it's all good. Those that have been a part of our education understand there's a section where we break down stress and how the proper response to stress should be it's all good, period.

Not like no bad stress. No good stress. Stress is just stress and our response to stress.  can really build us up and we can become more courageous in life based off the way we respond to stress. And so if you really view it that way, like all stress is good. Stress.  And it made me think of in recent, News bring some recency into today's episode with this new book of the month.

Anybody who likes the playoffs in the N F L I don't know how many Jaguars fans are out there. Probably pretty, this is probably a pretty small number. , I better watch what I'm saying. We got a pretty solid home base in Florida, but my assumption is Jay Carter. I think our own j Carter's a freaking gag wires fan.

If I thought, I think he is mistaken, but I think he is of 10 maybe but. I became 11, I guess I became 11 with this response. So Trevor Lawrence was interviewed in an, in a game recently against the Chargers. And did you catch this game? No, I haven't watched Chargers are up by a ton at half. And Trevor Lawrence has had the worst game of his career.

Worst half really. He's thrown four interceptions and he's playing atrocious. It's just not going well. Okay, so fast forward Jaguars end up winning. Yeah, I knew that there, there was a massive comeback back. It's a massive comeback. Trevor Lawrence has the best half of his career, right?

Immediately after, within the same night of his worst half of his career. And so they asked, they wanted to like peek into his mind, we talk about mindset and he said what were you thinking? And he said, the only thing I could think of at halftime when I thought about the four interceptions and the way I played was.

good. And he goes, where'd you get that from? He goes, I actually got that from Jocko Wiling. I was listening to some extreme ownership stuff, and he was talking about Jocko's content and everything else. And he said, and the only thing I could keep thinking was good, like adversity, good challenges. Good. And it made me think of this other part that I wanted to highlight this week. And this principle, I wanted to drive home. This was telling a story. It's later in the book under the plan under the plan chapter, and he says, Jocko looked at me and he said, I guess you guys are gonna get some, he said, with a confident smile and a knot.

He fully understood the risks, but he also knew our plan. Was sound in our assault force and supporting assets were well prepared to meet the enemy threat, so I said smiling back at janko and nodding in agreement, adding a phrase we used when facing anything particularly challenging or miserable.

Good times. Good times, and that is a crucial branch of living a growth mindset is your response to challenge. Embracing challenges, right? Growth mindset at individuals, leaders, if you will. When a challenge pops up, they don't stray away from it. In fact, what great leaders do, leaders of themselves and thus be being able to be better leaders of others they prepare for those, right?

So I thought about Trevor Lawrence and that story, it's like the only way a guy like that could have a response at half of good is because. He has worked his tail off and he's been in that situation not just once, but a bunch of times before at some capacity, and he said good multiple times prior to, if I can add something right here.

Yeah, go ahead. I watched it. I sent you this video from that, from the doctor just to add some science behind everything that you're talking about. Is when you say good to challenges, when you tell yourself, this is good, this is pushing me, this is helping me grow, I'm actually enjoying this. You are changing your brain.

You're changing your receptors in your brain to release dopamine. The stuff that makes you feel happy and good during times of challenge and difficulty and stress rather than, Creating a separation and putting that feeling of success on an item or on a trophy or on the outcome. You're putting the happiness, you're putting that struggle, or you're putting that happiness on the struggle and on the stress.

And when you do that, You change your brain, dude. You actually reinforcing, yeah, you're reinforcing to yourself to do hard things because that's good. It makes you feel good and it's gonna help you grow. It's incredible. It's incredible, dude. It's a game changer. That literally is the main focus today.

If there's one thing we can glean from today's episode it is your body, your mind. It literally will wire itself appropriate. We talk about growth mindset when we choose the proper mental response, which is so interesting because it has to be a mental response first. Then our physical body follows.

 And words help, but it's crazy how that's, so Kelly McGonagal, she's somebody who's done groundbreaking work in this aspect as well. She's a professor from Stanford and she said that you can literally change. Your biological makeup to become a courageous person when you do this.

That's literally where courage comes from. Instead of leaning away or running away from something that's stressful. When you lean into something that's stressful and you tell yourself, Hey, this is good. You recognize that it's a good thing for you. Challenges help you grow. When you recognize that and you wire your.

then your body can follow suit and then thus your life changes. And it's just so good and it's interest. Good. Cause the data backs it up. They asked about heart disease. She was researching heart disease and, she basically came to the conclusion that what is the major, one of the major contributing factors to heart disease, to arteries.

Having issues and all this stuff right with your heart is actually people's response. Heart disease. One of the major contributing factors per her research was not diet and all these things. It was that people run and have a bad perspective or response. To stress, they run away from it. And if people would understand what stress truly is, it would change their lives forever and they can re, but the cool thing is she gave an anecdote.

Anecdote, which was you can train yourself to run towards it. You can train yourself to lean into it. You can train your response to go, Hey, good, I threw four interceptions. Good adversity. Now you're following those kinds of paths in your life and it's oh. And then you look back and go, oh my gosh, like life did happen for me.

All those hard things, they happened for me. So anyways, I love the route that took because Me Too. It's extremely it's a complete and utter life changing. Thing to literally just cultivate the proper response to stress. And I do believe that does, my personal belief is that life was designed that way on purpose, right?

Yeah. Like at the root of truth, like it's supposed to be messy. It's supposed to be really hard. It's supposed to be challenging. Yeah. Because look at what it does for us as people. Look at what that does. And I am, I don't mean to get theological with everybody, but I love to hold onto the belief and idea that.

Dude, somebody laid that out for me one day, Pryor, somebody laid that out and I got so excited and jacked about that idea, that truth. I got so pumped because I was like, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Because it was all laid out for me and I was like, oh, send me now. Send me now. I'll go And. It's just a game changer, man.

It is, man. I'm grateful for today's episode. This was me. Fun one. I'm excited about diving further into this book as the month progresses. Likewise. I just want to add one thing here as you wrap up, like this is all incredible stuff, d but there's, I just want to add this. You're going to, as you take ownership of things, challenges are gonna become easier.

They really will. Challenges, like you're saying, dude, they will become easier, but that's exactly when you know you've grown and now it's time to find new challenges that are gonna push you to utilize that exact same method, but now with a different challenge and now with a different stress. And that's how.

And that's how growth combines, right? It compounds that way. So valuable. I love this episode so much. Dallas, thank you so much, man. Thank you so much for teaching pointing out these important principles. I'm very grateful for you, so thank you, man. Crushed it. Thank you. That was a fun one.

What we gotta close out with a get sum. We got it real quick. Before we close out this month, for everybody listening, we're gonna continue to talk about extreme ownership every Saturday in the month of February. So grab a copy, read along with us. Even if you don't read the whole book, open it up.

There's so many powerful things to be learned in this book. Then that's what we're gonna be talking about this month. So grab a copy and get to reading. Dallas, thank you again so much for your time, man. What do we wanna sign out? We're gonna sign out with, get some classic Jocko wiling.

Ready? 3, 2, 1. Get some. Get some . There we go.