Coaching practices for Extreme Ownership as a Caregiver
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- My team dropped the ball again and my first instinct is to point at them or at circumstances
- I run myself into the ground taking care of everyone else and I’m always the last person on my own list
- I care about my people so much that I’ve started absorbing their personal crises and trying to fix their lives, and I can’t tell anymore where being a supportive manager stops and me overstepping into someone I shouldn’t be begins.
- I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
- When I’m overwhelmed I just clamp down and handle it by myself in silence, even with my partner right there
Practices that may help
- Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential. - Take extreme ownership
When the team fails, the leader looks first at what the leader did or failed to do.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical - Fierce provision: identify and meet your own needs
Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical - Know where care ends and overreach begins
Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs - Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
Secure-Functioning Relationships - The concentric-circle extension of ren
Deliberately extend the quality of care you have for those closest to you toward more distant others.
Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach - Take extreme ownership of outcomes — even ones that aren’t your fault
Claiming ownership of everything in your domain — even external failures — is the fastest path to fixing them.
Discipline Equals Freedom: Jocko Willink's Framework - Protect your sense of autonomy while pursuing the goal
Keep the goal yours even when a coach, boss, or partner is involved in it.
Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical - Fierce protection: say "no" from care, not fear
Defend your time, body, and dignity as you would defend a beloved child — because you are equally worth defending.
Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Daring Greatly As A Caregiver
Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
- Extreme Ownership At Work
Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential.
- Extreme Ownership In A New Job
Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential.
- Extreme Ownership Meaning
Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential.
- Extreme Ownership Practices
Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential.
- Extreme Ownership When Starting Out
Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential.
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