What The Army Taught Me About Winning At Life - Commando Steve #152

On The Biggest Loser there was a yellow line, and Steve Willis says the moment a contestant fell below it their fight was no longer in their hands, it went to a vote. He uses it as the whole argument: do the work while the decisions are still yours to make.

Steve "Commando" Willis spent more than ten years in the Australian Army, including selection into 4 RAR when it was re-tasked as a commando unit, and nine years as a trainer on The Biggest Loser. He now runs a gym in Rouse Hill with his partner Harika.

What you will learn:

- Why recruits had their socks measured with a ruler, and what that has to do with being handed a weapon

- The one degree bearing analogy he uses instead of telling people to overhaul their lives

- His order of operations for change: awareness first, then competency, then confidence

- Why he says the 3am wake up posts are nonsense, and what preparedness actually looks like

- What he thinks stopped The Biggest Loser being made, and what the show got wrong about obesity

Chapters

00:00 The yellow line, and the day your fight stops being yours

04:01 Joining at 18, and how infantry chose him instead

08:02 Malaysia, 1996, and the selection nobody saw coming

12:02 Socks measured with a ruler, and why you have to earn the rifle

16:03 Life is indifferent. The meaning is the one you bring

24:05 Twenty two years of CrossFit, and meeting his match

32:10 Awareness, then competency, then confidence

36:10 An hour and ten minutes of burpees, and the resistance you bring yourself

44:14 Training in a park in the cold, and the trouble with comfort

48:18 Counterterrorism training, and learning to work inside disruption

55:02 Why awareness is a double edged sword

1:05:02 Coaching people whose lives had already fallen apart

1:10:03 We are for the few

1:15:03 Draw a line in the sand, then forgive yourself

1:20:03 What happens when you stop eating until midday

1:25:04 Why the show would not be made today

1:30:07 The 3am wake up posts, and the preparedness nobody films

1:37:31 Dumbbells in a four wheel drive, and a gym built in lockdown

1:54:05 Be a good person, and be careful who talks you out of things

1:59:36 At 50, learning about money for the first time

Steve Willis does the work while the outcome is still in his hands. Property should work the same way.

Most properties only make money if the market does. The ones that pay for themselves from the day you settle are bought differently, and it comes down to four points.

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