Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink ( PDFDrive.com )
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WEAKNESS<br />
Do I have weakness?<br />
I am nothing but weakness.<br />
I am not naturally strong, or fast, or flexible.<br />
I am certainly not the smartest person in the world.<br />
I get emotional over stupid things.<br />
I eat the wrong foods.<br />
I don’t sleep enough.<br />
I procrastinate and I waste time.<br />
I care too much about meaningless things and not<br />
enough about important things.<br />
My ego is too big.<br />
My mind is too small, often trapped inside itself.<br />
Now all that being said, I have a saying: A person’s<br />
strength is often their biggest weakness.<br />
But, their weaknesses can be<strong>com</strong>e strengths.<br />
Me? I am weak, in all those ways, I am weak.<br />
BUT<br />
I don’t accept that.<br />
I don’t accept that I am what I am and that “that” is<br />
what I am doomed to be.<br />
NO. I do not accept that.<br />
I’m fighting.<br />
I’m always fighting. I’m struggling and I’m scraping<br />
and kicking and clawing at those weaknesses—to change<br />
them. To stop them.<br />
Some days I win. But some days I don’t.<br />
But each and every day: I get back up
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