A retired Navy SEAL says SEALs' blind obedience shown in books and movies isn't anything like real life
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- Jocko Willink served in the military for 20 years and led SEAL Team 3, Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated US special operations unit of the Iraq War.
- Willink said soldiers do not blindly follow orders from their leaders.
- He learned that a good leader shouldn't feel like they have to force people to do things.
If you're not in the military, you probably think soldiers blindly follow the orders of their leaders, since that's all movies and books have lead us to believe.
But according to former Navy SEAL commander Jocko Willink, that blind obedience is a "complete fallacy," he told Business Insider's Rich Feloni on an episode of the podcast "Success! How I Did It."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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