Building the Elite Podcast

18-Delta, the Special Forces medic qualification course, and SOCM, the Special Operations Combat Medic course, are among the most difficult schools in the US Special Operations pipeline. The people wh...

9 Aug 20221h 12min

Special operations selection teaches you to rethink your relationship with pain. The discomfort of doing something with a painful but partial effort isn't meaningfully different from the pain of givin...

2 Aug 202217min

Eustress training is a way of training your body to do more work, easily by raising the baseline of movement or exercise that you can do without stressing your body out or making a significant demand ...

26 Jul 202215min

Over our lifetimes, as years of experiences accumulate, we can begin to formulate a universal lesson: No matter how many bad things you went through in the past, you were still alive when they were ov...

19 Jul 202227min

In the second half of our conversation with Dr. Andy Morgan, we cover topics including:⁠ ⁠ - Advice for people seeking careers in the intelligence community⁠ - Andy’s work as an expert witness testify...

14 Jul 202247min

Dr. Andy Morgan is a Yale-educated former CIA medical intelligence officer, and one of the world's foremost experts on performance under stress in special operations personnel. In this episode we co...

12 Jul 202249min

Self-herding is when you refer to your past actions for subconscious guidance rather than mirroring what others around you are doing. This effect can persist a lot longer than the situation that produ...

6 Jul 20228min

In SOF selection, you'll often hear instructors say "Don't set yourself up for failure." From your viewpoint in the pushup position with wet sand abrading every inch of your body, this might seem li...

28 Jun 202214min