If- By Rudyard Kipling, Read by Navy SEAL Jocko Willink
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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My mom gave me a book with this poem in it as a gift when I turned 18, and I remember how proud she was for the man I was becoming.
What is the name of the book? Is there more like this in it?
@@mattsimpson1690 it is an illustrated version of the poem. The isbn code is 978-9896262372 so you can Google it
My father framed this poem and gave it to me at my Commissioning ceremony 26 years ago. I did the same for my son when he enlisted in the Navy. IF you can do one thing in this life....seek wisdom. Pass that wisdom to your friends and family. Then, you will be a man (or woman) my friend.
Excellent advise sir...I literally just ordered two of them for my boys
I don't know who Needs to Hear This but " Greatness is often built when no one is watching ". So don't give up and keep going
Integrity: Doing whats right when no one is looking! Good call
One of my favorite poems! It's cool to see Jocko narrating it.
I love this poem. "if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same"
Thats the exact line that struck me the most. Great stuff.
Perfect Stoic wisdom
A letter to his son. I remember in high school when the teacher introduced this poem. Wise words. Goosebumps.
A poem of stoicism
This is one of the most rewarding videos I have ever watched or listened to. Life changing. Thank you.
This poem has been a guide for me since my father recited it to me the day I left for college. Thank you for posting this powerful reading. I think the world would be a better place if more people took this poem to heart.
I was introduced to this poem 25 years ago in undergrad by a very dear friend. Still love it. Still live it.
Living it is the hardest part
My dear sweet Dad also a Navy Man but not a Seal loved reading especially poetry read to us all the time even when we were grown...one of my favorite to share...great post channel
If: If
If after Jocko: Done
Stay true, stay virtuous, & stick to your path no matter what life throws your way.
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. But during those crushing moments when we feel our everything means nothing; it can be hard to trust the future when all we have from the past is evidence why we should not. Learn from Yesterday, Live for Today and Hope for Tomorrow. And one day it will all hopefully make perfect sense 🖖
You bet
I SEE u everywhere my dude
Interesting how different branches of philosophy can be so intertwined. I don't know if Kipling is a stoic, but this feels like a stoic poem
The truth will shine through. Everything is connected
Seems Christian to me...
Stoics are often referred to as proto-Christians. Stoicism grew out of a European Pagan tradition, Christianity came to many of the same conclusions growing out of Levantine Jewish tradition, and halfway across the world, the samurai came up with quite similar ideas out of a Shinto/Buddhist tradition (read Musashi). Taoism and Confucianism have elements of these ideas in them as well.
I believe Kipling was a Christian, but he was definitely a soldier, and military traditions in Britain and the US overlap quite heavily with certain stoic ideas by necessity. Because Stoicism is essentially a system to deal with the world as it is, not in its ideal state, but with all its tragic flaws.
This is a poem entirely about stoicism
@@SturFriedBrains really? Stoicism predates Christianity but hundreds of not thousands of years
A fine reading of a timeless wisdom. Bravo.
Nothing is exactly what you need to become something.
Shit. That was deep.
Thanks man👊
If a man can live up to these words, he will be a great man!
No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice💃💃🔥🔥
This is the best reading of the poem I’ve heard.
Love this poem, and invictus
Had to memorize this in eighth grade. Would love to have had Jocko do a podcast style rundown of this poem, complete with pointing a knife to make his point. It doesn’t need explanation, but still. . .
If memory serves, he did break this poem down line by line in the podcast from which this clip is taken.
Wow.
I've seen Jocko Willinik in interviews. This just highlights the feeling of a bear comforting me. He is someone that has experienced a lot. . . At the same time, he can create comfort and home.
This was an excellent read.
Please consider running for public office. The Country needs leaders like You.
Wow, great speaking! Thank you. I am using this in my homeschool class for 2 classes: ELA and speech.
Always love this poem
Love this poem
My son does too
Love Jocko and great words!
Finally no background music
TY for ur service, Lt. Comm. Willink (RET)🎇🎆🎇🍎
It hung on the wall when I was a kid. Didn't mean much to me then.
As I've gotten older I've come to learn that there is great wisdom in these words.
Thank you Jocko for giving the voice it deserves.
Rudyard Kipling and Jocko Willink: 👍🏻👍🏻
Bravo. A great recitation of a great poem. I recently tried to listen to a recitation of this poem by Sir Michael Caine. It was ruined by the elevator music background track that drowned out the words. I caught none of the emotion his great voice could convey.
We'll done Jocko.
I lost my job because of the pandemic so I started a meditation and healing channel🙏🏽
@Terisa Amis .
Great presentation
Is this Poem the Epitome of Stoicism? We Will Die, but today, we live!
It is the cryptic handbook of being a man … it was a gift to us all … it should be passed on for generations
Thanks
An Englishman is happiest when he is fighting for his Queen.
Do you still treasure this powerfull poem Jocko?
Do meditation for a month daily and after that month listen this.. good wishes
I always think of The White Man's Burden which was about colonization whenever I hear Rudyards name.
Very well done Jocko.
"Good"
"Good" is probably the modern day answer to Kipling's "if"
OK - the Kipling poem that you really need to read for us is The Female of the Species!!!
Didn't know i needed that
Listen to Akira the Don’s song based on this reading.
Deep!
Read very well, sir.
Priceless poem❤️
I read this first in 7th standard ❤️
Jocko should read Invictus
I've lost everything.. my job. My pursuit of college, my fiance..
I got a dui the other day after saving a guy I didn't know from being stabbed to death..
The would be stabber was never arrested, but I was, as I left the bar it happened at. A cop that was "watching" the bar, followed me.
I've been broken from past traumas, I fought for my country for 6 years in the military. I was a firefighter for 4 years.. lost those too.
I am but a shell of a man I once knew.
But that shell?
Will be the home of the man I will become from looking fate in the eyes and saying " you will NOT break me"
Phucc, it's so deep!
I can't decide which version is more epic, read by Jocko or read by Michael Caine.
Yeah, I found a load of these preprinted things in my desk in the 1970s, destined for guys at the front. Really weird.
Can someone tell who's made the painting on minute 0:39 ? :)
Love jocko's voice on that but it ends better with " England will be playing, four four-fucking- two"
ok, ok, that broke me
This sounds a lot like what the zen monks are described by Allan Watts
Oh hell is that all? sign me up.
If
Amazing
What is the second painting called at 12 seconds?
you can lead a fool to knowledge but you can't make him think..
Because of UA-cam censorship I'm leaving this platform at the end of the year. Are you on other platforms?
Ah yes, Rudyard Kipling...and nobody kippled better than he
Most of this has always sounded profound and also self evident, but would someone please be kind enough to explain why its good or manlike to bet everything you own on a game of pitch and toss and not care how it plays out ?
I think that the important takeaway from that line is more about picking up the pieces and not complaining when you lose, even if you lose everything. But obviously betting everything on one thing is often stupid. Great poem but like all things, not perfect.
@@firstnamelastname9444 thank you very much.
in the world but not of it.
There is always a choice!🙏🙏🙏
Great poem. But too much drama in the voice for me.
You'll be a man my son 🔥🔥🔥🔥
He sounds a bit angry.
GOGGINS VOICE??
Any 12th grader here its in our couse
If this don't motivate you, find another video that will.
Pfft! Curious omission, Kipling and his era left girls (half the population) completely out of the picture. Makes me wonder why REAL men find strong women so threatening? Little matter: I am raising my daughter to aspire to loftier things than poetry (and anything to do with the military).
Basically, be invincible in your attitude towards the disasters / joys of life. Ah, humans always strive for some sort of ideal philosophy that would create "heaven on earth" or at least some sort of peace of mind. The problem is that excess is inevitable, it's human nature. Can you name any figure in history that wasn't excessive in his/her approach to life/politics/art/whatever? The poem praises balance and a kind of indifference to life, which is already a false start, imho.
Also, the narration is from a military guy, too intense and oppressive to my taste.
Apparently, being "a man" is a highly coveted goal.
Always has been
As well it should.
Wow! And I thought Jocko just killed people.
😵AIRBORNE!😵
First
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Why though do I think of Donald Trump when I hear this
Yep.
same
Why would you? It's written by a British guy from India
@@anonb4632 maybe because he's actually going thru it
@@anonb4632 this doesn't apply to anyone if they're not a British guy from India. Got it.
It's about Jesus... No joke.
Definetly not an aurator...
The American accent ruins this.
But Jocko is amazing
Disagree, it's the meaning and delivery with feeling that matters.
So Nice 💘💘💘💘💘💘