Become A Savage & Live On Your Own Terms | David Goggins on Impact Theory

everyone I and today it's brought to you by our friends works I worked myself so hard that I turned a person this [ __ ] up into this [ __ ] right here not off of reading the [ __ ] book off a theorist off of going to work on myself and saying I don't know how to do this but I know that to get over there to that [ __ ] side I gotta grind myself into a [ __ ] fine power that did it everybody welcome to impact Theory our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams all right today's guest is widely recognized as the toughest man alive the only member of the US Armed Forces to complete seal training the US Army Ranger School where he graduated as enlisted honor man and the Air Force tactical air controller training he entered buds hell week three times in one year completing it twice despite a seriously damaged knee multiple stress fractures and a hernia he served in combat in Iraq was the bodyguard for the Iraqi Prime Minister completed an ultramarathon with pneumonia and once held the Guinness World Record for most pull-ups in 24 hours with 4030 all in all he's completed over 60 endurance and ultra endurance events often winning or at least placing in the top five and when he was asked how he's been able to accomplish so much he says simply that he hated what he saw in the mirror enough to make a change having grown up bullied and abused both physically and mentally by the time he graduated high school he was by his own admission broken and weak but instead of accepting that he turned inward stop saying what was me and got to work becoming the man he wanted to be to do that he learned to embrace suffering and leverage pain as a way to toughen his mind and the resulting man that he has become and his indomitable spirit has so inspired the world but he has become the one that the driven among us hang on their mirrors as a reminder of just how much as possible as iconic NFL coach Pete Carroll said in my pursuit to understand and learn from the greatest competitors in the world he is the one that sets the standard so please help me in welcoming the man who once ran 205 miles in 39 hours without stopping the author of can't hurt me the legend himself David Goggins so I am beyond excited to be doing the second to go around with you the first one for me was utterly transformational just researching you and the way that your mind works I'm really at meanne as evidenced by the shirt I'm wearing I really am that guy that like put your picture up and it was just became this reminder of of what we can all do if we're willing to push past that pain and all of that all right but speaking of pain I want to know why is the book called can't hurt me there's some I guess some inside [ __ ] use to people in there but it's the overall message to people that we're all you know a lot of us are going through a hard time in life some people have been bullied some people are distressed out some people are insecure some people are fat and overweight and the world puts a lot of this [ __ ] in your mind if not just you yeah you help it and my whole thing is about I had to develop a mindset a mindset that was indestructible I had to armor plate my mind and it's about what you're saying to yourself but it also comes at work so whenever I was getting beat down physically mentally spiritually whatever I was going through just saying you know I would put you know you can't hurt me can't hurt me just became a message I you know I would say to myself and that's this kind of where it comes from what I find so interesting is your concept of the governor that basically I've the chills that an expert is somebody who's gonna tell you what your limits are rather than the person that's out there practicing getting you beyond the limits so what is the governor and how do we strip it out of our lives I believe that most human beings are only living at about 40 percent of their capability so the mind has a governor like a car you're driving a car and the car has a governor on it the car may say 130 miles an hour but the governor set 491 once that governor sets in you get the 91 that car starts doing this the car wants to go the car wants to go but that [ __ ] factory said uh we're not going past 91 we have a factory a nice governor in our brain and it's the survival mechanism it protects us from pain and suffering the second we fill that [ __ ] our mind says no no this isn't fun we should back off we should sit down find something more comfortable and there's some about the mind the mind has the tactical advantage over you at all times at all times of your life the mind has a tactical advantage over you why is that it knows what you're afraid of it knows your insecurities and knows your deep dark lies and it starts to push you away from that [ __ ] it pushes you in a direction that is comfortable the mind controls everything so what I realized was that when I was growing up and I was 300 pounds and I got all fat and I got all insecure I realized that my mind kept taking me in this direction when things got uncomfortable for me when I was facing my insecurities I was facing my fears my mind said oh no we have the tactical advantage we just get you separate you from this feeling this feeling of your life's all about feelings we want the happy feeling we don't want that feeling of this sucks why am I here and you don't have any choice oh you can't answer those questions so you leave I started realizing that if in that moment you can answer those [ __ ] up questions and you are now in charge of your brain versus your brain ruling you that's where all that stuff comes from so so so the 40% rule is all of that you get to 40% your brain says we're done let's roll man this is going to get painful this is uncomfortable so you sit down you have to figure out ways and everybody's different that's how the book kind of talks about like we all have these things about you know five steps to this and four steps to this it's it's a lot more than that that's all [ __ ] it's it's a practice that you have to it's a habit so if you know that 40% I'm still you know I'm feeling pain at 40% feeling pain that's where the 40% rule kicks in now it starts okay I'm feeling pain my mind's saying all this [ __ ] to me it's saying get out of here run flee the fight-or-flight kicks in okay we're done we're not good enough it starts telling you all these things you start to believe it because the mind controls all this is the time where you have to gain control back of your mind it's okay let me see if I can go 45% and once you start giving yourself more and more hope and start realizing okay the mind starts to be okay what are you doing we're supposed to be going right and you're going left you start then controlling your mind start finding more in you know in yourself and it goes from 40 percents a lot further than that but that's the start of it though get to get to the spot where your mind is saying stop wherever that is yeah get there first and then that's when that [ __ ] starts to work for you you got to control yourself in that moment dude we're gonna try to thread a really powerful needle right now so your response to all of that has been so incredible so all right mine has a governor it starts to kick in when you hit pain you're looking for areas of comfort most people then live their entire lives there they never try to get out of it but you've had such a fascinating response you said two things which I think need to be explored one is that you created this alter-ego Goggins mm-hmm which i think is insanely powerful and it reminds me of mm talked about the same thing with creating Slim Shady was it was the way he once he had the persona he could face his fears and he could get up and then the other thing was you said you need to shut the [ __ ] up and listen but talking about just to yourself like not to try to get a distraction not social media not TV nothing like going room by yourself and really listen how do those two things the the creation of the alter ego and that listening to the sort of dark hateful things that you're probably saying to yourself how do those work together so a lot of people can live with themselves that's the first day a lot of people can live with themselves look in the mirror and say I'm okay with being afraid I'm okay with going on there's easy highway over here the easy highway has all these [ __ ] sighs and [ __ ] directions how to get somewhere and you have to first be uncomfortable with how you feel about yourself with that voice that loud most like to run away from we all have it we all have that voice that say hey man you know you're you're kind of wimping out right now you're kind of being a little punk right now but I would say okay that's okay it's okay to tell his little white lies to ourselves so we first have to face the real you the real me is David Goggins the real me is a guy looking at you right now saying I don't want to [ __ ] be on this show right now because I used to stutter as a kid and I'm afraid of that I'm afraid that here in a second I'm gonna start [ __ ] stammering a stutter and the whole world is gonna know they have all these issues but that's when I see right now okay Goggins you got to go on this [ __ ] show that's Goggins Goggins is saying okay David Goggins you're a punk life made you this way we can't live like this we can't live in fear we can't live in judgment we can't be afraid of what the [ __ ] people right now looking at me saying about me we cannot be afraid of that that's Goggins Goggins saying [ __ ] all of you who don't like me who don't want to in that person then comes in but you have to be David Goggin to say man I'm afraid of this I'm [ __ ] up here life made me this way here I stutter I have these issues with reading and writing and and I'm fat and I'm insecure you have to face that in that dark room in that dark room is who you are but in that dark room is where you have to create another human being that walks out of that dark room to face who you are that's the only way you're gonna get over all those things you have to create someone else not like you have two different personalities it is you but you have to find strength in that visualization of almost me cracking out Goggins like almost like that Superman cape like I'm coming out a different person a person that doesn't give a [ __ ] about anything who doesn't care about being judged who knows I'm weak who knows I'm afraid who says whatever you think about me take it whatever I'm here that's guidance in the dark room you face yourself you realize you want to be better you realize you don't want to be this weak insecure person in the world has all these problems that we all have we all have souls to me is a great platform to tell you who we want to be now who we are so that's where that dark room is I didn't know if you were gonna be able to surprise me today because I I know you so well from sitting across from you from researching you as much as I have but I just really got emotional as you were going through that because it's so tempting to make you extraordinary as a way to not have to live up to your standard like even now and I don't do it on purpose because I know better than that and I want to be extraordinary myself but even I like I find myself getting caught up in that and hearing you just now talk about still being nervous that you're gonna start stammering like if if people really hear that you're the way that you are now not because you pretend like you don't have those things but because you face them so fully and that you're able to like look at that be accountable and and talk so raw to yourself like dude that's when like again I have the [ __ ] chills because when you think about what you're what any of us are gonna be able to achieve in our lives it's because we finally get willing to look in the mirror and say you're dumb you're fat and I know right now people are freaking out when they hear me say that but talk to me about raw talk talk to me about how you started talking to yourself in the mirror because if they get this David like this is the transformational moment so in my book I talk about a lot is my junior year in high school and I fell back a lot I fell back in this [ __ ] hole of life the second you think that you've overcome it you climbed Everest you're on that last hole and life was saying not today [ __ ] you know push you down and my junior year in high school I missed a whole bunch of school was lining my mom had like a 1 point something GPA I was just jacked up I mean it was I was in when one of the worst parts of my life and my mom was going with a lot of [ __ ] too and she'd have time to sit back and baby me and it was me against me and my pants were down to my knees I was just I was not whatever was going on I was in bad shape so I went to the bathroom and I had this weird haircut because I wanted attention I was an attention getter I went to all-white school pretty much some of the kids like me allowed and didn't like me whatever then it [ __ ] matter I was looking for something so I would dressed differently crazy haircuts and I went to the mirror and the reflection and it revealed a lot of bad things a lot of things that I was hiding behind the saggy pants and I'm looking at myself in the mirror going like God dog dude you got you are something else man like you have created a character I want to be the cool guy table and whatever I could do to get attention I did it wasn't me it wasn't who I was inside but I was scared for anybody know who I was inside so in that kind of building mirror I call it I got real myself I said you have a third grade reading level which is hard to admit when you're a junior in high school that you copied on every single thing you did because of fear they're gonna put me in a special school we all know what special means I don't have a title on myself the rest my life and being cool you don't have a title on yourself so I started cheating I was dumb and people say oh he know your learning disability I don't learn this to believe I realized I was lazy so I called myself out there I called myself out every which way possible I called myself I was just honest I was honest look at yourself man look at yourself and it was that day in a couple of days after that I just got real myself and every day I came home I called the accountability mirror what am I gonna do today to change what I see in this mirror what am I gonna do today and a lot of it was I stopped sit with the cool guys I actually took my shirt in with the school looking like a man that's how I'm gonna look if you don't like it so be it I had to really wear this this this layer of skin I had to develop a really callous skin on me there to take whatever you're gonna call me you're gonna call me whatever I'm gonna be when a geek but whoever I am you're gonna see me you're gonna see me for who I am because I need to change who I'm not and that accountability member just became wrong and I became fat over the years kay I fell back in the hole I called myself fat because I was fat and people don't want to do that they want to say oh don't call yourself fat don't call yourself dumb if you're not real and raw with who the [ __ ] you are nothing's going to change in this nice new world that we live in we want to hear you're just a little big no man you might be fat and it's okay to hear that from yourself infra Maribel's so that's where it started at and it's raw it gets ugly sometimes with me in that mirror but I'm also proud of myself to be able to tell myself that and then fix what's in that mirror dad that's what hits me and that's what I really want people to hear is that you can say those things a because they're true and B because you can fix them right and your whole life has been about addressing those things so walk us through how in the book do you help people start addressing it because that's what I think so powerful about your book so the first thing about it is once you realize it and you have to realize it you got to call yourself out addressing it is very small it's like it doesn't go from like one morning I'm this way next when I wake up and presto the you know five steps to greatness no it ain't that brother you read my book this is hard work as every day like right now I had to be honest with you man I'm even shaking right now being on this show I'm a big time introvert how you address it is you face it you face it every day you face it every single day of your life where you say okay like if you're fat and these lose weight it's patience it's patience in this fact of accepting who you are right now I'm fat I don't like myself accepting the fact if you lose 3 or 4 pounds that's a huge accomplishment you have to live in your own [ __ ] world you cannot judge yourself that's why socially mean always things are horrible you can't judge yourself off of the so-called competition that we have made up in our mind the things that how people look how people act us more someone is this is a race that you run completely alone and you're all by yourself I had tons of sticky notes all over my mirror it wouldn't like be better than John or be as fast as whoever okay David yesterday you did this today our next goal for the week is this so I had a year goal weekly goals daily goals hourly goals and the big goals I lied a lot growing up I wanted to be accepted one goal was let's go one day without lying let's go one day and then when I would lie to somebody I would say hey man now go had to go back now and apologize a man I lied to you know how hard it is to go back somebody say I lied to you hey may know it back there I lied to you dude I was really jacked up so I figured out these ways of total total accountability like right now I had to run this morning before I talked to you cuz why that's what about I'm about mine Matt body fitness a lot of folks talk so much [ __ ] about hey I'm gonna change your life I'm gonna do someone do that are you accountable for what you're doing are you accountable and I mean to the T for what you're saying I am and that's where it started started with that total total accountability of let's not lie today let's tell people the truth about who you are and when you can get on and tell us someone like I'm doing right now exactly how [ __ ] up you are that's the goal in life to put your life on a billboard on the busiest road in the busiest highway in the world and say this is how [ __ ] up I used to be take it or leave it the first time we talked I didn't really understand why the being called a niger on your book and you said that was one of the best things that ever happened to me because the principal told me oh they're just ignorant and you said that in that moment I realized nobody was coming to save me and it hit me but I didn't really understand until I read the book and in reading the book really understanding how one thing after another from the abuse from your father to fleeing that to your mom being m.i.a and then thinking she's finally found love and then the [ __ ] guy gets murdered the day after Christmas I was like did that really no one came to save you know and seeing that now and hearing you tell these stories I realize like that's the crux of the power but how did you stop feeling sorry for yourself when you really sit back at your life and you in that dark room and you're looking at where you started from and you tell yourself God ma'am my mom is this way my super stepdad got murdered my dad beat the [ __ ] out of me I can't read and write to say my [ __ ] soul I've lied about it to everybody I've cheat on all these tests my god man and then you put a goal in your mind how are you gonna feel man when you accomplish this goal coming from that [ __ ] coming from the [ __ ] hell you came from a lot people start from a good starting point they have a good foundation what if you can surpass all these [ __ ] well if everybody who was [ __ ] way up here started up here and you had you started with no legs he had to grow [ __ ] legs to even start walking and then crawling and then running and then you start passing people and all this given to him I had to use all this negative [ __ ] that was making me weak and horrible as a person I had to use this as the power that now Hume he had to flip it on his head and say hold up this might be exactly what I need the darkness is exactly what I need it's how you look at your situation and I was looking at it all [ __ ] up in the book you tell people to make a list of everything working against them every real valid excuse right why do you have him do that there's a lot of power in that list so in that list of who you are what makes you [ __ ] up all these other things it goes back to once again accepting you have to first accept it before you can fix it a lot of people walk around oh man I'm good I'm good no you're not you have to accept which you're not you have to and people don't want to do that and that's the only way you can fix it you have to accept it first before you can go on the journey a lot of folks never even start the journey Mahan they never start to join him because they live in this fake life that who they want to be they act like they are but they're not because they haven't fixed all this stuff yet you gotta fix this first before we can start our journey in life so that's why I haven't make this list you fix these problems now your journey can begin because you no longer care about how people are judging you we when you care more about how someone judging you you're gonna stay right there there's no 4-momentum so that's that's one thing about that list all right speaking of making that list accepting where you're at so that you can address it in the book you talk about like what the things are that you're gonna be doing you're gonna be putting the lists together how do people go about using I don't know if it's the accountability mirror how do they go about addressing each of those issues okay so let's say the first one is you got the smartest person in school I had that issue so my big thing was how I dressed that problem was I had to sit down each thing that is wrong with you has to be a focal point you can't look at this gigantic listen I got to change all this [ __ ] my god this is crazy no you take off the first one I want to be smarter for me that was my thing I have to I have to become more intelligent I have such a severe learning disability man I can't retain [ __ ] I had to now get that one thing and then strategize in that one problem how can I do this I'm not gonna learn like you I'm not gonna learn like anybody else how am I gonna figure this out so I didn't figure that okay where my strengths here with my weaknesses in learning all right man how am I going to do this I figured out a way to do it by this strategizing so how I learned to this day if I have a big manual to study I will have to get a bunch of spiral notebooks from the from the daggone store and each page I have to write each page out maybe ten times so there was a thousand page dive manual that I got 18 months before I went to dive school most people I'm not smart I'm a ghost if I can pass this test I realized hang on a second I'm not smart how can I get past this how can I get through this obstacle I need to get I need to acquire this book 18 months in advance because it could take me 18 months to write down each page over and over again to then put it to memory so when the question came up I'd written that question so many times down in that and you know on paper that I can recall okay page 71 was where I remember seeing this and I can recall it that way and that's how I did it so you got to strategize on each problem you have in life slowly break down that problem don't think about all the problems you have just one at a time and before you know it you fix all these problems but you cannot focus on all of them just on the one thing at a time there's a concept in your book that permeates the whole book and I think really is one of the most important things for people to understand in their own life certainly to understand you and it's the notion of the testing mediocrity talk to me about that how do you how did you instill it in your life how can other people instill it in there's it's one of the biggest things in the world a lot of us mediocrities everywhere right now we're are trying to find an easy way out and we're judging ourselves let's say there's ten people in this room and we're all mediocre but I'm the best of the mediocre people I now think I'm great I'm great we surround ourselves around people that make us feel great they tell us what we want to hear the second we put ourselves amongst the uncommon people we don't like that feeling that challenge and feel that persons making about 330 more hey push your [ __ ] on we're going for a run we don't like that challenge we like that person who says hey you know I don't feel good today man and they said oh it's okay brother I'll take a day off maybe get a pizza and [ __ ] watch the game we like that we we love that feeling why cuz you understand man we're good bro we don't want that [ __ ] like this hey man no bro get your [ __ ] [ __ ] on man stop being a punk we don't want in our lives we don't want that person who's constantly challenging our weaknesses we want that process constantly you know making us feel nice and good insecure nurse that's the mediocrity of life we want to be the best amongst the average people people wonder how do you stay hungry all the time because after I accomplish something I don't sit back like a lot of guys to graduate buzz graduate this graduate that they get comfortable they wonder why I'm getting weak man I don't know I lost my edge what's going on cuz once you hit the top of the [ __ ] mountain guess what happened yeah I'm good I'm good so you wonder why you're falling down now because we reach the top of the mountain you got Buddha [ __ ] another one that's mediocrity there's a lot of people in mediocrity who have a nice resume but they're one-timers man they hit they hit a one time deal they busted open got a lot of money but they're good you're a mediocre now man what are you [ __ ] doing today tomorrow the next [ __ ] day that's why I listen to theorists I don't listen all that [ __ ] I listen to a [ __ ] who's like this man what's wrong man [ __ ] tired dude right tired cuz tomorrow I'm gonna do the [ __ ] [ __ ] again man whatever the [ __ ] is that made me [ __ ] nauseous and sick to my stomach it made me hurt there's no ending and that's the person I listened to that's the person who's gained knowledge you gain knowledge through suffering and on the other end the suffering is a world that very few very few have ever seen it's a beautiful world because that's where you find yourself you don't find yourself in over here you find yourself on the other end like the hundred mile race I was wrong I ran it for 24 hours I I myself on the other end of that [ __ ] race that 19 hours I found wow there's a whole nother [ __ ] world out here that never even saw but the worlds in your mind and that's with all that mediocrity is about mediocrity contagious talk to me about not getting civilized not getting as civilized is about having a savage mentality civilized is something where people so it's a comfortable world a lot of us say you know like for instance I see these athletes right now who retire you know I'm 38 you know I'm 39 I did 20 years at the top of my game and I'm chilling out now you see him a year later and how they look what the hell just happened to you do what the hell you're on the greatest athletes of all time kids looked up to you women men of all ages looked up to you and they hit the pinnacle where it's time to retire and their mind says I'm civilized the worst thing that could ever happen to any human being is they become civilized it's that total accountability like even when you retired as a [ __ ] looking at me and judging me right now man um I was the baddest person to ever live doesn't go away man you got to wake up even though you're retired you're never retired you're setting the example every single day of your life and being civilized feels so good I'm sorry man once you get to the top you may retire but you ain't never coming back home and now you're judged people see you falling off you want to be that guy who knows I may be retired from the sport or forever I did but I'll be damned if you ever see me looking like [ __ ] feeling like [ __ ] not arriving people I've arrived I've arrived mentality you're always setting the example civilization feels so good these comfortable feelings are what people want they want retirement they want that they need that they it's a yearning feeling I - people love putting a label on me about my god man you're just wired different not [ __ ] wired different dude I'm thinking right now after I got past my stuttering thing now I'm on a roll I'm good now you don't think about right now I gotta [ __ ] wake up tomorrow and do the same [ __ ] again I gotta leave this [ __ ] interview and go stretch out for two and a half hours I hate that [ __ ] but guess what it does though I'm constantly Callison over my victims mentality that I once had growing up everyday you have to do this [ __ ] because why when you stop doing it you don't just maintain it if you stop shooting a gun not gonna be a great shot for you pick a gun up a year from now the only way to keep from getting rusty is to constantly oh that mother [ __ ] machine the machine is this you got to keep challenging it every day the way that I think about that is very very similar and I've got to imagine this is one of the things that makes you one of the most misunderstood humans on the planet is to me driving that hard being not hungry pushing long after everybody stops has nothing to do with anybody but myself and what I my drug of choice is how I feel about myself when I'm by myself like nobody knows how hard I work and nobody's ever going to know not even my wife is up enough to see how much I really work right but it doesn't matter because the way that it makes me feel like in this moment right now where I get to say awed the world doesn't know I could be lying but I would know and the way that I feel right now because I know how true it is that nobody's out working me mm-hmm that to me is the juice and when people understand that what you're fighting to build the reason that I'm wearing a shirt this is what would Goggins do the reason that I chant Goggins like the crowd before we started rolling the cameras chanting Goggins the reason that's so resonant is because they want to do something for themselves they want to feel some kind of way about themselves now that you've become like this big-ass speaker what do people come up to you and ask you the most how do I do it how am I able to do what I do on a daily basis you know how do I fight the demons because I hear me speak and I'm very raw unreal how do you fight my insecurities all these things and I they're there every day day every day like you say I'm in a search for a feeling I'm not in a search for a trophy I'm not a search for love I'm not so is for more followers on Instagram or social media when I started this journey years ago and I realized that I'm gonna be somebody and I'm searching for a feeling a feeling of true victory for myself and only myself the second I shut out the whole world and realized that one thing that I am in this world alone I'm fighting in this race by myself yeah I'm all about people I'm all about team I'm all about that [ __ ] but I'm really all about right now and in my life just like you said no one knows the real truth about me how hard I really go I don't care if anybody knows I want anybody know I'm an introvert I live an introverted life and I love that about me it that right there is my fuel is I know that there's really no one out there grinding like me and if they are so be it if I know about you I'll make sure that my gang that's what the mentality is all about my whole thing is a mentality thing like I told you in the last I was on the show I view myself as the weakest person on the planet Earth my goal in life was to in my mind believe I'm the hardest man alive and that's why the whole thing is can't hurt me that's what it's about is about whatever you think you are you have to make that dream a reality but that's where the hard part is is making that dream reality that's what the hard work comes after people know how do you keep crying every day you have to make those insecurities those fears like when I was three pounds I didn't have any Drive I'm gonna go be a Navy SEAL what kind of stupid [ __ ] is that during her pounds they weren't like a drive to go be a Navy SEAL I was an insecure lying kid afraid I had to look at my insecurities and in my fear and find drivin that we're all looking for passion passions all around you you have a whole a whole [ __ ] stack of it all around you see your insecurities all that [ __ ] you got to dive deep in that [ __ ] oh it's all in there all the energy and fuel you need is right in yourself it's all there you got a lot of stuff to do to overcome and you know that's where I found it I found it right there in my own insecurities I found Drive in my own insecurities and that's that's the most powerful thing in the world when you can find Drive in your own doubt fear insecurities you become very unstoppable you may have just changed me at a deep and fundamental level I've never thought about it like that so the number one question I get asked is how do I find my passion to which the answer is very rudimentary and maybe ultimately not as true and powerful as what you just said which is there's another thing I need to tie this to that you talked about in the book which is people have lost touch with their bodies and you always tell people if you want to change go do something physically [ __ ] demanding like go find yourself in the suffering and in the pain of doing something with your body yes it is utterly fascinating to mean it's just hitting me now I'd never heard you say that before so I reserve final judgement for round three when we come back together but the thought of you feel lost you feel insecure you don't have a passion you don't know what to do you're reaching out to somebody you need that help you know you could do more be more and the answer is you in the last interview we did you called it the bag of [ __ ] if I remember right yes you reach in to the bag of [ __ ] and start changing those one by one that may be the most extraordinary piece of advice I've ever heard fact I will say the way it's hitting me right now that's the single most extraordinary piece of advice for self transformation I've ever heard it's the truth who is sitting here right now today this is the real me obviously but I'm gonna go kind of I'm a very philosophical person and I'm a go there with you real quick I believe in a higher power don't know the name don't know where it's coming from the leanings like that but I believe that this power and visualize will be real quick let's say it's a man up there a woman whatever and they have a chart and when you're born they say David Goggins born february 17th 1975 at 6 a.m. they write the chart down because they can see everything they know exactly what you're so [ __ ] supposed to be they know what you're supposed to be you die you go to so-called heaven you arrive at heaven I'm 300 pounds I retired as a Ecolab guy which is ok just a job whatever I go up there and God looks at me and he's chosen my chart and my chart on there says you were supposed to be a Navy SEAL you're supposed to be her in 85 pounds you're supposed to be one of the smartest people in the planet this this all this you see this and now you're in heaven you made to heaven but you're like God I'm supposed to live that life I'm supposed to live that life and then you find out that the reason why because we all think that if we pray on it if we do this if we do that whatever if we don't work we just whatever is could magically happen for us no I believe that when I'm all said and done with my whole job is to outwork the chart whatever the [ __ ] chart says about me to all-knowing power up there I want to get up there and say him look at me and say I know everything I didn't [ __ ] see this I didn't [ __ ] see this I want to feel that I want to get to the other end of this [ __ ] world and however I'm being judged whoever's judging me to look at me and said I did not [ __ ] know I had you at 185 had you that this but all this other [ __ ] I was riding as you were living it I want to I want to find more all I can and in that [ __ ] sack of [ __ ] you have to dive in that to find more because if you're not willing to go in there and face yourself and I can find anything you can live right here on surface man right here on surface so if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go in this a judgement you're gonna get there and you might see a chart in that chart may tell you who the [ __ ] you should have been and now you get to rest your life to think about that man I could have lived a much better life I just would've just suffered a little bit more if I just would have went in that [ __ ] and realized I had so much more but fear and the 40% and living here versus living here being afraid stop me so that's why I'm a big guy I'm visualizing I'm a big guy in making a world it may not exist to me it does to me it does and I'm overpowering myself every day and you got to find tools to do that that's the tool that I use so that's what it's all about god damn you said in the book that the only thing to fear is the man staring back at you in the mirror I thought that was insanely powerful and seems tied to this there's something else to that or is that what you're talking about that's all I'm talking about like you're your biggest enemy your biggest the most important conversation you'll ever have in your [ __ ] life is the one you have with yourself you wake up with it you walk around with it you go to bed with it eventually you're gonna act on it whether they good or bad you have to that's why the whole thing about this book I have it's about you it is about you it's strictly about you finding who you are so many people die live a hundred years never [ __ ] know who they are never know who they are you have to look in that mirror and know this there's so much more in here man because I can literally right now be a 300-pound guy spraying for cockroaches still to this day if I did not look in that mirror and say there has to be more to this this can't be it and then willing to go into it dive deep into it and give all I have to find it so that's what it's that's what all that's about and all that you've done and all that you've been through helped me understand when you were given you did not have a happy childhood I think that would be very fair to say when you were given the VFW award recently and you were listening to people that had impacted you and you got to your mom you couldn't even speak yeah it was chokes me up now so I get the VFW ward for the for the Americanism award for military service and giving back I'm as human as human can be that's why what you see is what you get at that moment when I was giving my speech and I thank my uncle for being there and I got to my mom it wasn't just about her it was I I know what she went through I know what I went through and we got knocked down so much I had a moment in front of all these great American heroes where I had a chance it was like so fast it went through me like like lightening of I can't believe I'm here I can't believe I'm getting the award like this that that kid who was in the fetal position the majora of his life and so much the fact that my body and my hip flexors are tight to this day that even though I was standing erect my mind was in the fetal position and when I looked out amongst all those people it was a sense of pride that I can't even I can't even explain it's the moments of three hell weeks it's the moments of in that room by myself studying for hours and hours and hours trying to catch up with all the kids who above me it's just those moments like the real raw moments of life that was like boom hit me and were gone but I was like I did that overcame that [ __ ] you know it's like this is power behind all that [ __ ] and that's the feeling I was looking for in my life I found it wasn't money when Fame wasn't awards and it was that feeling heavy right now I feel I'm about to break down but it's not of like oh my god I'm upset it's like I worked myself so hard that I turned a person this [ __ ] up into this [ __ ] right here not off of reading a [ __ ] book off a theorist off of going to work on myself and saying I don't know how to do this but I know that to get over there to that [ __ ] side I gotta grind myself into a [ __ ] fine power and I did it I did it off a sure will and very few people will know how that feels very few I love that more than you could possibly know before I asked my last question tell these guys where they can find the book so the book right now is called can't hurt me but by David Goggins and it's on Amazon right now it's a raw real book it's not a five-step book a real book about developing habits on how to overcome yourself and I believe all of us humans have an equation like you know pi is 3.14 that's how you solve for that equation every human being has a different equation and there's not like some cookie cutter book of hey read this book and you'll be fixed no you got to figure out your own personal equation and once you figure out that equation you now become a mathematical [ __ ] genius about yourself and that's what this book does it makes you a [ __ ] genius about who the [ __ ] you are and then from there when she realized 3.14 is PI you can solve any [ __ ] equation in the world that's what it's about oh my last question what's the impact that you want to have in the world the impact when have in the world is for everybody to be able to face who they are I would have that kind of impact where you can go on TV you can put your life on a billboard you're not ashamed of who the [ __ ] you are you're not ashamed of what life made you what you helped life make you all that [ __ ] all that bad [ __ ] that's now in this big pot that's stirring you're no longer ashamed of it you realize we're all [ __ ] up stop judging yourself against other [ __ ] up people who have hidden it better than you it's all they've done they've mastered [ __ ] better than you have and now they're flipping it back on you and saying you're [ __ ] up I want you to realize that this world life is one big head game and once you learn to play the [ __ ] head game there's no longer game any more at all you can start living your life [Applause] by this book I read it it is extraordinary it is one of the most amazing manuals for how to change your life ever and just this interview I think could be transformative for some people and the book goes into so much more detail and really reaches into you and shows you how to do it in your own life he helps you find that 3.14 for you so that you can go out and do the things that you need to do but the things that I hope that you take away from him be honest with yourself be raw but understand that you can fix it stop tolerating mediocrity you have to detest mediocrity in your life and you have to understand the only way you're going to meet yourself is through pain and suffering and if you can become a master of suffering the things that you can do with your life are truly unlimited you can truly break free of all of the limiting beliefs that you've put on yourself your circumstances put on you your family is put on you experts and put on you whoever it is you can get rid of all of that and completely blow your own mind with what you're capable of and one day you will have a shirt that instead of saying what would Goggins do you'll be asking what would I do because you're the right person to ask and when you get to that point nothing will ever be the same get the book alright guys if you haven't already be sure to subscribe and until next time my friends be legendary [Applause] they impacted this I hope you loved that episode with our boy David Goggins and now I want to take a moment to share with you about our friends at Wix it's no secret Wix is an awesome website building platform that lets you create your own amazing site with ease with 20:19 right around the corner you may be 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Keywords: Tom Bilyeu, Impact Theory, ImpactTheory, TomBilyeu, Inside Quest, InsideQuest, Tom Bilyou, Theory Impact, motivation, inspiration, talk show, interview, motivational speech, David Goggins, David Goggins Impact Theory, David Goggins Tom Bilyeu, Goggins, Can't hurt me david goggins, can't hurt me, Navy Seal

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Length: 53min 41sec (3221 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 11 2018

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[u/Chexpeare]

Wonderful! David Goggins is an inspiration!