Episode · The Shawn Ryan Show · 2025-11-27
Shawn Ryan & Jocko Willink: books mentioned on The Shawn Ryan Show #257
#257 Jocko Willink - Commander of SEAL Team-3 Task Unit Bruiser aka "The Punishers"
Jocko Willink is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer, bestselling author, and leadership expert with a 20-year military career. Enlisting at 19, he completed BUD/S class 177, served with SEAL Teams One and Two, and later commissioned as an officer with deployments across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
Jocko Willink discussed About face by David H. Hackworth.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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About face
Discussed“one of my biggest mentors and heroes is a guy named Colonel David Hackworth and Colonel David Hackworth was a wrote the book about face and he was a Korean War veteran and a Vietnam war veteran.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Extreme Ownership
“His books—Extreme Ownership, Discipline Equals Freedom, and the Way of the Warrior Kid series—share his principles of leadership and personal discipline.”
Passing Way of the Warrior Kid
“His books—Extreme Ownership, Discipline Equals Freedom, and the Way of the Warrior Kid series—share his principles of leadership and personal discipline.”
Passing Discipline Equals Freedom
“His books—Extreme Ownership, Discipline Equals Freedom, and the Way of the Warrior Kid series—share his principles of leadership and personal discipline.”
Plugged Extreme Ownership
“And there was some, you know, it's funny, we we in Extreme Ownership, Leif and I were writing our kind of chapters independently and it ends up there's three chapters in there that are about blue on blue.”