Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink ( PDFDrive.com )
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ME VERSUS ME<br />
There are people in the world who have skills and<br />
strength and talent that I will never have. Never.<br />
These notions that you can “be whatever you want to<br />
be as long as you want it bad enough” are not true.<br />
They are fairy tales.<br />
We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes<br />
to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right<br />
genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure,<br />
if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have<br />
be<strong>com</strong>e fairly decent in those sports.<br />
But the best in the world? No. I simply do not have<br />
the DNA to be the best in the world in those<br />
categories.<br />
But what does that mean? Does that mean I give up?<br />
Does that mean I quit?<br />
Of course not. Not at all.<br />
It means that I am going to try to be the best that I<br />
can be.<br />
The strongest.<br />
The fastest.<br />
The smartest human being that I can be<strong>com</strong>e.<br />
That is what I am going to go for. And it doesn’t<br />
matter that I will not be better than others when I<br />
<strong>com</strong>pare myself to them. No, I will look at others who<br />
do achieve greatness in a category, and I will say:<br />
Look at what is possible.<br />
How close can I get to that greatness?<br />
How close can I get to that glory?<br />
But my glory, it doesn’t happen in front of a crowd.<br />
It doesn’t happen in a stadium or on a stage.
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