FEARLESS | Best of David Goggins Compilation | Powerful Motivational Speech

you have to create someone else not like you have two different personalities it is you but you have to find strength and 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 he 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 he has all these problems that we all have we all have social media is a great platform to tell you who we want to be not who we are so that's where that dark room is my book i talk about a lot is my junior year in high school and i fell back a lot i felt back in this [ __ ] whole of life the second you think that you've overcome it you climbed everest you're on that last hold and life will say not today [ __ ] it'll push you down and my junior year in high school i uh missed a whole bunch of school was lining up mom had like a one point something gpa i was just jacked up i mean it was i was in one one of the worst spots in my life and my mom was going through a lot of [ __ ] too and she didn't have time to sit back and baby me and it was me against me my pants were down to my knees i was just i was not whatever was going on i was in a 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 a lot of them didn't like me whatever didn't [ __ ] matter i was looking for something so i was dressed differently crazy haircuts and i went to the mirror and the reflection in it revealed a lot of bad things a lot of things that i was hiding behind the saggy pants and i'm looking myself in the mirror going like god dawg dude you gotta 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 to get attention i did it wasn't me it wasn't who i was inside but i was scared for anybody to know who i was inside so in that accountability 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 a 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 of my life and being cool you don't have a title on yourself so i started cheating i was dumb and people said oh you know you have learning disability i don't learn disability but i realize i was lazy so i called myself out there i called myself out every which way possible i didn't call 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 with 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 sitting with the cool guys i actually took my shirt in with the school looking like hey man this is 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 to take whatever you're gonna call me you're gonna call me whatever i'm going to be you know i want a geek but whoever i am you're going to see me you're going to see me for who i am because i need to change who i'm not and that accounting billionaire just became raw and i became fat over the years 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 wrong 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 and from marbella 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 you know what because first of all it does set you free mentally and it gives you a starting point you have to have the truth to have a starting point so when you like if if i'm lying to you about who i am or i'm lying to you about whatever there's no starting point there's a false reality you have to create the real reality so that's what i call my accountability mirror in my book that's the real reality where the [ __ ] am i going to start from so for me i was lying to this lying about that so i had no starting point once you come face to face with who you are you have a starting point all right i'm not real smart i have no courage i have no self-esteem i have no nothing nothing that's my starting point now we can move from there but if i tell myself i'm strong i have courage i'm smart and all these are lies you continuously push that starting point backwards so that starting point is the truth the no [ __ ] [ __ ] truth that only you can tell yourself so it's the starting point the truth's the starting point especially nowadays in this society we like to surround ourselves it makes us feel so good those people who say it's okay it's okay it's not okay it isn't okay man and i and i get it society's changing and we love to feel wanted and loved trust me that's all important it is but you have to have the truth from people hey you're not working your butt off hard enough you're not trying hard enough we all think we're trying hard but what are you gauging that off of are you gauging off of like i talked to this one kid the other day college is kicking my ass i said what are you gazing that off of i go are you trying because yeah i'm trying my ass off i'm studying hard i go what are you gauging trying hard off of well in high school i didn't have to try at all and i made great grades in college i'm trying hard you're trying hard compared to what you did in high school which was it came easy to you so your reality is something you created off of something easy so you trying hard it's two hours of studying i'm going to tell you a difference in trying hard and trying hard trying hard is something in your mind just doesn't stop we where we know two hours isn't enough so it's all about you know reality and what you're basing things off of 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 if 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 for 91. once that governor sets in you get to 91 that car starts doing this the car wants to go the car wants to go but that [ __ ] factory said uh-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 feel that [ __ ] our mind says oh no this isn't fun we should back off we should sit down find something more comfortable and there's something 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 it 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 off 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 need to get you separate you from this feeling this feeling over 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 so so 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 the 40 rule is all of that you get to 40 your brain says we're done let's roll man this is starting 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 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 at 40 i'm still you know i'm feeling pain at 40 i'm feeling pain that's where the 40 rule kicks in now it starts okay i'm 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 to 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 you gotta get there first and then that's when that [ __ ] starts to work for you you gotta control yourself in that moment a lot of people can live with themselves that's the first thing 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 this easy highway over here the easy highway has all these [ __ ] signs and [ __ ] directions how to get somewhere and you have to first be uncomfortable with how you feel about yourself with that voice that a lot of us like to run away from we all have it we all have that voice to 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 a lot of us say okay if that's okay it's okay to tell these 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 and stuttering and the whole world's gonna know that i have all these issues but that's when i see right now okay goggins you gotta 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 are looking at me saying about me we cannot be afraid of that that's goggins goggin's saying [ __ ] all of you who don't like me who don't want it and that person then comes in but you have to be david goggins and say man i'm afraid of this i'm [ __ ] up here life made me this way here i stutter i i have these issues with with the reading and writing and and i'm 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 [Music] 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 they hear me speak and i'm very raw and real how do you fight my insecurities all these things and uh they're there every day the day every day like you said i'm in a search for a feeling i'm not in the search for a trophy i'm not a search for love i'm not searching for more followers on instagram or social media when i started this journey years ago and i realized that i'm going to 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 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 to 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 yet they are so be it if i know about you i'll make sure that up my game that's what the mentality is all about my whole thing is a mentality thing like i told you the last time i was on the show i viewed 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 it's 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 where the hard work comes that's where people know how do you keep crying every day you have to make those insecurities those fears like when i was 300 pounds i didn't have any drive i'm going to be a navy seal what kind of stupid [ __ ] is that 300 pounds it wasn't like a drive to go be a navy seal i was an insecure lying kid afraid i had to look in my insecurities and in my fear and find drive in that we're all looking for passion passion is all around you you have a whole a whole [ __ ] stack of it all around you it's your insecurities all that [ __ ] you gotta dive deep in that [ __ ] all 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 among 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 i believe in a higher power don't know the name don't know where it's coming from don't anything like that but i believe that this power and visualize me real quick let's say it's a man up there or a woman whatever and they have a chart and when you're born they say david goggins born february 17th 1975 at 6 00 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 go to so-called heaven you arrive at heaven i'm 300 pounds i retired as an ecolab guy which is okay just a job whatever i go up there and god looks at me and he shows me my chart and my chart on there says you were supposed to be a navy seal you're supposed to weigh 185 pounds you're supposed to be one of the smartest people on the planet this this all this you see this and now you're in heaven you made it to heaven but you're like wow i thought i was supposed to live that life i was 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's gonna 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 the 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 say i did not [ __ ] know i i had you at 185 had you did 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 you're not going to find anything you're going to live right here on surface man right here on surface so there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go and there's a judgment you're gonna get there you might see a chart and that chart may tell you who the [ __ ] you should have been and now you get the rest your life to think about that now i could live a much better life if i just would have just suffered a little bit more if i just would have went in that [ __ ] and realized i had so much more but fear in the 40 and living here versus living here being afraid stop me so that's i i'm a big guy in 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 gotta find tools to do that that's the tool that i use this is greatest true greatness let's say that i'm the greatest tennis player of all time okay let's say that let's say i'm the greatest tennis player of all time and i did 22 years i read all the grand slams i have all the i beat roger federer i am the best ever and we're having an interview and you're talking about my greatness what i achieved and i'm retired don't play tennis anymore haven't touched a racket in years and you're making me go back through my life you're kissing my butt about how great i'm sure and i'm answering your questions every question i'm answering it i'm with you but in the back of my mind all i'm thinking about is all the times i could have won those matches that i lost by not bringing my best mindset you're haunted by all the opportunities that you missed by not bringing your best at that time when you could have won but you didn't win because you allowed life to interfere with that one shot when you're sitting there getting ready to serve for the match and your mind is not thinking about where that bald place needs to be but thinking about your family this or this at work or that at work that's greatness greatness is your recall on every single shot that you missed throughout a 20-some year career every shot you can go back and say i was here this person was in the red shirt there greatness is being so aware of the time of life in the second that went by and you can recall like it was yesterday greatness is being able to go back there not making that same mistake again and being haunted by it that is greatness why i wrote the book is honestly i have a story to tell as we all have a story to tell and what i realized on my journey was a lot of us don't believe that we can achieve the impossible and along my journey i started realizing man i gotta [ __ ] tell some people about this [ __ ] man like i discovered something that some people have but they don't even [ __ ] know all of us have it but along this way i wasn't like i said i wanted a theorist i became a practitioner and i was like my god i'm busting down so many barriers of like i have a learning disability okay but i'm catching up with everybody i i figured that out i figured out all these negative things in my life that were keeping me in this hole i'm like i gotta tell people man that hang on a second man you can [ __ ] achieve the absolute impossible you don't need great parents you don't need like a private school you don't need to have this humongous gpa and all this other [ __ ] what you need is the one thing i talk about my book which is straight up brutal work ethic you have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world and that that that's the hard part that's the hard part this isn't like some five-step process where you do these five [ __ ] steps you're gonna end up with this magical world no i'm basically teaching you how to callous over your victim's mentality i'm teaching you how to like i did 67 000 pull-ups and training for the pull-up record i was seriously calloused in my hands to protect them what i'm trying to do with people is teach them how to find more themselves to where they empower themselves i'm all about the underdog so that's all that so that's what the book's all about man it's all about having that step process and i had to share this with people well word started making me i had to stop giving a [ __ ] about people that was the biggest thing i had to stop caring what people thought about me i realized that everybody's [ __ ] up that's the one thing i realized i walked around i put these people on a [ __ ] pedestal everybody was better than me so i can't tell you anything about me because you're going to judge me and i'm going to feel even worse than what i am what i realized once i calmed my mind down and sat back and looked at how jacked up this world is once you realize that you are not alone everybody that's talking to you about how jacked up you are the only thing they've done better than you is they've hidden their [ __ ] up world better than you have that's all they've done so once i realized that if you want to sit back like for instance there's all these things that are on tv and we have all these news people judging people who [ __ ] up in life yeah they made big mistakes but that person who is judging you on tv i guarantee you that that news person they say i'm glad that my [ __ ] didn't come out but i'm gonna judge the hell out of you i know that about people so if you want to sit back and judge how jacked up i was and how messed up my life was merry christmas go for it have a good time but i'm smiling at you right now knowing you have a secret that you're not willing to share it gives you a lot of power when you're able to go on a podcast this big and say hey tell me i'll tell you anything you want to know i no longer care and that is a lot of power in that to be able to put your life on a billboard for the whole world to see and say judge it man judge it like just me talking about it makes me feel good and that's and that's another thing about it when you are willing to talk about how jacked up you are the strength that big rock that you carry it just starts to come off you it just starts to come off that's why i do this often like hey man i'll tell you anything you want to know i'm tired of being afraid i'm tired not telling your [ __ ] i'm tired of lying about how good i'm not when i got through with that first hundred mile race that i did around that one mile track that i didn't prepare for it i was considerably it was horrible and i'll never forget i found such peace and beauty and i got that i was in the worst pain in my [ __ ] life and i got down and my wife pulled the car up on the my ex-wife pulled the car up on this little lawn and i got in the back of it and i got up the stairs i'm not gonna go through the whole story but i remember laying in the in the tub and she put the shower on me and i ran 101 miles like 19 hours and i was like peeing dirt out of me and i'm sitting there and i'm i'm jackhammering and my body is just the most broken it's ever been even to this day and this feeling came over me call it crazy if you want but very few people i guarantee they've ever felt this before to push themselves so far outside of what they thought was even possible even for me i laid in that tub and i didn't want it to go away i had drained myself of every bit of strength energy i had and it was the best feeling i had in my life all that pain it was it was confirmation it was confirmation that i had gone through a crucible and i figured out another level of david goggins a level that i thought was humanly impossible for anybody to do when i was at mile 70 and [ __ ] and pissed all over myself and i was able to go 31 more miles in that process of the next 31 more miles i found out more about myself and that 31 miles than ever have in my entire life the conversations the mental blocks the road blocks the everything horrible it was just feeding at me like light speed get the [ __ ] out of here man like but i was able to figure out different tactics and when i finally got done with that i laid in that tub and it was over the feeling of my god man you just really discovered a whole new world a whole new part of the brain that guaranteed very few people have so it's a it's a feeling i can't even describe it's not about the underdog so much i think we're all an underdog i think i think the top ceo on the planet earth still has that doubt yeah i don't give a [ __ ] where you're from kobe bryant michael jordan the best on the planet we're all underdogs whether you're underdog because you put yourself there to be hungry or yes a real life underdog we're all an underdog and so this this is about the mind and people discovering the mind their own mind and one thing i know is we all have an equation we all have an equation like you know i'll talk about three point you know 3.14 is pi there's different equations to figure out different kind of you know mathematical problems we as human beings are mathematical problems i cannot give you a book for every [ __ ] body in this world that's from my book even though it's one book it's tailored to the individual it's not like you do these five steps you're good no i'm helping you figure out your [ __ ] equation because it's different my equation's different from your equation what's going to make you tick what's going to make you go the distance what's going to make you go to that spot in hell and say i love this spot it's okay that's what this book does it helps you figure out your 3.14 helps you figure out your [ __ ] mathematical equation and say oh because once you figure out the equation in any math problem you no longer fail man you got it figured out so my self-esteem even though i was building it up and i lost weight and stuff like that i'm now around the most uncommon of uncommon people and i'm like my god i'm here do i belong here do i belong do i do i belong here so your mind has a good way of taking the path of least resistance whenever friction happens friction causes growth whatever friction happens that's why a lot of us don't have any growth because when friction happens we go the opposite direction so in my mind when friction happened my mind said oh hey man let's let's get out of here you're not real right you've lied your whole life you come from this you come from this you can barely read right those things so whenever times got hard my mind said you're not good enough let's go right so my mind wasn't my eyes my mind weren't connected right so how you combat that is this i call it the cookie jar you have to remind yourself we all have a story we've all all of us have gone through very hard times but we're when we're in a hard time our mind has a way of forgetting what all we've overcome i have a way of taking one second when i want to quit and say okay you endured this so i look at my life and how i came up as the ultimate training ground versus most people look at it as why what was me god why exactly why i had to flip this upside down and say hey on a second god was training me to be one of the baddest men on the planet absolutely right that's how he this was this was my journey because those things beat me but they didn't kill me i was able to work around them and figure out ways to do it so when i was in the worst time of my life in hell week i looked at everybody and said i'm the most trained person here i've gone through more mental torture than any of you i'll even fathom so i'm looking at the baddest people on the planet i'm looking like this you guys can't hold a stick so i started looking at verses like i don't belong here versus like i might be the best person ever come here who could have pulled this off who could have been given a sewer to live in in their mind and say okay at birth i'm gonna put you in the worst place on the planet earth and let me see if you can go to the top of the mountain right with nothing but just hard work grit and figuring it out and not putting yourself back in the dungeon every time something got hard so that's what became my daily voice was you really are the baddest person on the planet and after a period of time you start to believe that and so that's what happened to the you know the first two weeks the second healthy the third hell week that became my new norm so what most people fear i can never go through one i don't want to go through two right even stills will tell you that that navy so i did 18 months in navy seal training it's only supposed to be six months long it became my new norm right and that's what you don't do enough of you're always looking for a new norm and that's how my my mind started saying getting beat getting tortured suffering broken legs kidneys you know kidney issues this is my new norm and my mind started changing with the reality of who i want to be i think pushing yourself physically is the number one factor of life that is the true spot where you can really dive deep into life's about self-discipline it is about self-discipline we tend to do the things that are easy and that is the it builds no mental toughness it does no mental hardening it builds nothing when you work out working out is where you can build that the fastest because it's a constant it gives you instant feedback it's yeah you may not lose the weight you want to real fast but the discipline it takes it transfers over to all aspects of your life it's not people man why are you always working out stop stop looking at that way this is the foundation of life when you look in the mirror every morning we all look in the mirror to get ready to go to work to go anywhere the first thing you see is your reflection if you don't like what you see in the morning you lost the war already it's not even liking what you see it's about look in the mirror and you may start man i feel different that reflection maybe not that reflection is not everything it's a feeling you're supposed to get so you have to in life once you leave your house the war begins in your house you have some control and that reflects in that mirror you have to control that reflection in the mirror that's how you start your day if you leave your house feeling like okay i can fight i've established the mentality to fight and that all that comes from working out it's not just from you know you can't find that in the office we all have different things in our life that have scarred us we want to act like those scars don't exist little scars like you know if you go out and you get cut that scar is going to be there on your arm you can go down and look at that cut and say oh or or that scar and say oh that happened from you know i was in the kitchen or what happened we had the same thing in our brain i have all these scars on my brain from growing up from you know suffering through life from having a learning disability from stuttering from having just a really bad childhood and so all those memories i had to cut open that scar and go into it and that was a hard process for me to do not only was that a hard process for me to do for me to have the courage to share that with people you know because i'm the so-called toughest man on the planet so they think so for me to break open that shell and tell people hey that wasn't always me you know it's it's hard to do you know it's hard to do so it was a tough process my dad was a person that um he was an alcoholic he was really big on being a powerful man and he had two different sides of him he had a side that once you left our house so our house was the dungeon no one knew what no one knew anything about what you know about the inside that house the inside of that house was was horrible it was evil you know like the evil monster came out to play but once left that house he was the nicest person on the planet so no one knew you know who this guy was so um the scarring started happening inside the dungeon and my dad didn't really believe in us going to school he had a family business and the family business was a skating rink and also a bar so my dad owned it was called the vermillion room was the bar and the skating rink was called land so from the time i was able to walk i was working that's that that that that i'm skating right and i worked it from like nine o'clock at night until like 12 o'clock in you know in the morning pretty much that's what we did you know i'm through i'm four years old scraping gum off the off the skating rink floor doing stuff like that me and my brother and my mom once the skating rink was shut down the bar would open up the bar will be open from like midnight like four o'clock in the morning three o'clock in the morning once that closed down we go upstairs and clean the bar so by the time you work like this you know i'm a young kid it's time to go to school so most time we didn't go to school so we missed school a lot but thank god for me i didn't like school anyway with learning disability with a stutter you know i had white splotches all over my skin from being stressed out um hair you know passive hair falling out at a young age and once my dad got drunk that's when the nightmare began that foundation of life that i didn't have that's how it started off for me and this progressively got worse so when you have a horrible foundation it's like building a house on a [ __ ] up foundation this is what you're gonna get you know any kind of uh earthquake or something happen the house is going to go down sometimes you know don't even take an earthquake takes a little windstorm so that was me i was just a little windstorm away from breaking yeah all the time a windstorm away from breaking but no one knew it i walked around like i was a pillar of strength at a young age but that internal conversation you're having back here is this weak little kid very afraid and i think that's what makes the book very powerful because i take you there yes i take you to that spot of you know i'm super human now so you think but a lot of people have a lot of problems that they can't overcome it happened when i could never get over the hump i kept on feeling like i was getting over the hump and then one little windstorm small little wisdom to come by and push me back to scratch it's like why why am i not you know i'm you know i'm learning how to read now you know i was a junior in high school and couldn't read that well a fourth grade reading level because i would i would cheat on everything and i learned how to read i learned how to write i taught myself all these things all these disciplines but whenever the first real big challenge would come that little windstorm pushing back in the hole and i realized man i'm not i'm fixing stuff on a surface level i'm all surface man i'm not going deep into the cellar of my mind and fixing the foundation of my soul my soul is broken and but you know i knew i could fix it but i was afraid to go back i was afraid to face the demons of my life you know because you start lying you want anybody knowing this [ __ ] about you so you start lying about who you're not and start creating a person about who you want to be but it's not who you are so that's when i started realizing man i'm never going to get over the hurdle i'm always live on a surface level until i go deep deep into the sewer of my mind to figure out and face all of these different demons that's hard it's hard we all like social media we all like everybody to see us for who we want to be that's why we post beautiful things about us that's not that's not going to fix you so i realized that and that's when i started going back so i was about um i was about 24 years old and i went from 175 to almost 300 pounds and that's when i sat down on my couch and realized we got to go back and it started with me going back to my father so we we left when i was 8 years old we went to a small town in brazil indiana it was about five to ten black families in a town of eight thousand to ten thousand people so when you come from a messed up foundation like i did in buffalo new york and now i have that messed up foundation now i'm here being the only black person i call it the only in my book being the only black person my mom's working three jobs we're living in a seven dollar a month place she's never at home so it's not like i had some mentors coming in to help me you know they're trying to put me in these different group places for like having some shrink talk to me and these eight nine kids and one kid sitting this house on fire another kid's peening in the trash can another kid had a helmet on banging his head up against the wall and i'm looking at this at eight years old you know and i'm gonna get back to your question that you asked me but these are the things i had to go back and relive you know i'm 24 years old now and i have to go back to all these things that no one knew about me in this group place where i'm in this place where these people are crazy and they think i'm crazy and i'm looking at them thinking i'm not crazy you just don't know where i come from i came from a place that truly damaged my mind damaged my soul and now i have to go back on my own to face this [ __ ] so you know at 24 years old i sat there a lot of time like one day i woke up and said i gotta face this this haunting [ __ ] voice in my head kept on saying man we gotta go back the only way we can go forward is to go all the way back and that's very scary to do for everybody the only way you're gonna fix yourself is to go all the way back to the beginning to your childhood because that's where everything starts

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Length: 41min 23sec (2483 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 24 2021