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#86: General Stan McChrystal on Eating One Meal Per Day, Special Ops, and Mental Toughness

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Is There a Correlation Between Military Performance and Military Achievement?

I'm curious if you noticed any correlation between those types of infractions and later high ranking officers or people who were a recognized as outstanding later. Is is that kind of mischief a common component, or is it? Is it not at west point a doing the tours was not always a correlating factor; i would tell you a lot of guys just didn't get caught. The guys who really turned out to be good soldiers that i worked with, mike my peer group at west point, tended not to be at the top of the class but they tended to have high peer ratings. I would say that there's a higher correlation between people who know how to live life than there is between

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