F**K Your EXCUSESS - 1 Hour of David Goggins

[Music] the worst thing that happened to me is I lost myself I never had myself I never found myself had no self-esteem so I knew through working out and through learning I it it took a lot for me to learn also I started finding self-esteem once I found that that's when doors started open I started I stopped caring about people that what they thought being judged wow if I say this if I started right now are you going to make fun of me I stopped caring about that and that's my life started really changing for me slowly but surely I could barely read and write when I was in a junior in high school I wasn't going anywhere I was a character I was trying to find myself through a character I was making different hairstyles and sagging my pants and I was off I was off man I was I was a clown I was a clown and and I was like this is not this is not where you're supposed to be in life man I'm not happy the biggest thing is they say look at his eyes eyes look at his eyes man have you seen his eyes look he has demons in his eyes look so unhappy the biggest thing is I'm not happy I'm not I'm not fulfilled you know they're so missing the point man is a very focused driven human being who found a buried treasure within himself not many people found it so the journey I'm on is very different than most people which why I don't judge people I say that many times I don't judge people I'm judged a lot by how I look my eyes my my not smiling all the time not laughing not joking right now it's easy to be happy it's easy to smile those are the good times the good times those times don't need to be trained even know had to train myself for Good Times those times for most people don't need be trained what I'm trying to give you all is the misery of sometimes we go through in life those are the times we don't want to talk about we want to skip forward to peace let's skip all this pain and suffering and misery of real life let's cover it over nice big blanket and let's find peace no sorry it's not possible I'm training my mind and my body and my spirit so it's all one so I can handle what life is going to throw at me because the life I've lived it throws a whole bunch at you and if you're not physically and mentally prepared for that you're just going to crumble and you're good for nobody in times of suffering what we do is we forget how hard we really are because that's what suffering is suffering is a test that's all it is suffering is the true test of life is now where I'm at today and that is when you finally get to that point for me it's forever lasting peace greatness isn't running 200 miles at a time or doing 4,000 PS or being a seal greatness is whatever the hell you dreamed of in your own mind you got to first see it you got to First create this Vision in your mind and then that's when I come into play once you create this Vision in your mind it's how am I going to get there now we're all we are all great no matter if if you think you're dumb no matter you think you're fat no matter if you are fat no matter if you've been bullied or no matter if you just got back from Iraq or Afghanistan and you have no legs or your arms or whatever man we all have greatness it just you got to find the courage you got to find the courage to put your Bo his headphones on and silence the noise out of this world and Def find it that sets you apart from everybody else hope is not in your hands you can't control hope man you can't it's just some hopefully this thing happens but when you get belief when you start to create belief and belief isn't like an after school special most people think oh man like your mom and dad you know you need to believe in yourself Sesame Street when I was growing up and you know you need to believe in yourself that's not the belief I'm [ __ ] talking about it's the belief that you harness through hard work and dedication and it's something that you know what you are capable of because you've gone there several times in those dark times so my belief why I kept on going back to Navy SEAL training and going back to all these different things not because I hoped training would get easier it's because I believed I could make it through the training I put myself through I just wasn't doing in executing as I should and I knew that it was all on me so then when I put that belief into work and that hard work came to fruition everything happened for What Separates Me From A lot of people is they go into an a daunting task and the task is overwhelming like you have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this once you shut your mind down to possibility that it can be achieved there's no way can happen so that's why my my eyes and my body light up about things cuz I know that if you're in a fight you have to attack you have to keep attacking the enemy has to know he is not going to give up you must break the soul of whatever the is in front of you that's what I realized I was never breaking the soul of anything in front of me so that's why I came with the thing called taking souls in my book I started to devise ways to break a soul of a human being of a of an object of of of whatever's in front of me if you keep on attacking something nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is Relentless nothing people don't really understand what that is when you're in the worst environment possible the worst situation possible and everybody's looking like God man I hope this ends and you see that time slows down and you see that you're you're feeling that everybody has that look on their face like God this got to go I don't want to be anymore and what I started realize I started playing mind game I was like you know what I bet these are looking at us judging themselves about when they were going through hell week about let me see I'm looking at goggin right now I was better than him I like okay okay you going to judge me right all right so this what I'm going to do to you they tell you how you're supposed to feel you are feeling that way I was like uh don't let these mother tell you how you're supposed to feel no it's day one mother this is hour one so I was getting my Bo crew all jacked up I said we're going to take these motherfcker Souls so when they had us doing this simple thing that guys were struggling with I looked on the instructor's faces and it looked like someone had just with their soul and I looked at my guys in my B I said hey guess what we own space in their head we own space they're going to think about us tonight we start fueling off the fact that man it takes one second of energy to steal everybody's and then you have all the energy you need it's all you need you need to look at someone's eyes you know how it is when you fight somebody you broke that he's like oh God man I don't want to go back the next round and you feel like my God I can fight all day I can fight all day long that's what taking Souls is but you have to have the will the heart the courage to go that distance when you're exactly jacked up you have nothing left to give and give more charging and we start fueling off of that we start fueling off the fact that man it takes one second of energy to steal everybody's and then you have all the energy you need it's all you need you need to look at someone's eyes you know how it is when you fight somebody you broke that mother he's like oh God man I know want to go back the next round and you feel like my God I can fight all day I can fight all day long that's what taking Souls is but you have to have the will the heart the courage to go that distance when you're exactly jacked up you have nothing left to give and give more about what you're 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 this 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 just kind of where it comes from I don't trust a lot of people a lot of people live on the surface man they they tell you all this bull like Instagram this it's [ __ ] a lot of people just foolish man for me it takes a long time to get there like I see where I'm at today but I know where I come from and it's kind of hard to almost separate that I'm I'm almost not in a way I'm kissing my own ass but I'm amazed at what a human being can actually do so when I start talking to myself in the third person is strictly because I know that I literally made this human being out of a out of just like a whole bunch of scraps out and and I wasn't you know I was wasn't a a mechanic I wasn't a carpenter so I didn't know how to do any of this you know I wasn't trained in how to build a human being from nothing you know like my mom didn't train me my dad didn't train me life didn't train me well life did train life did train me correction and I started putting this scrap met together like I wonder what that happen you know the first year I try to do is all [ __ ] and after a while I started learning more and more and more through pain and suffering start learning just learning so much about stuff before I knew it man I built this beautiful car like how I do that and I knew how I know how to do it because I have all the tools through all the failure I went through trying to build this person who's goggin you know people didn't think I was human they thought I came from outer space man from some spacecraft landed down here and just formed goggin from the rocks and the soore of the earth no it's not how it is man so I said I'm going to I'm going to share a secret with you all while looking in the mirror at yourself cuz I did a really good job by creating this guy I'm now so I can just go by and just live by this guy here this who I am there's no room in that mind for discipline there's no room for consistency they may do it once or twice but then the mind takes over and that garage comes in and then it's like a circuit breaker man a circuit breaker just overloads and Sparks and our minds that's that's our mind man it's like a circuit breaker that's so much [ __ ] in it you keep on loading it you can't put any more into it I talk about it in there man so much about clearing space in your mind so then you have room for all those discipline waking up early taking those they do mean something but we don't get to that dark matter that is keeping you from clearing out that mental garage people with a talent problem who are so talented they're hard to train they're hard to to push if you're their coach and you trying to get them to see that we got to get you past this Talent problem we got to get you the point where you're into that mental Zone okay you got to get you way past your talent and it's it's hard for coaches to take these Fighters or whoever past your talent and on the other side of that is where they gain true true levels the levels Beyond Talent that's where it really is cuz if you're able to take a mother to the deep end while [ __ ] just putting his toe in feeling the water and [ __ ] if in the deep end he would take you down there he's mentally strong it's over it's over man they because they because they live in the deep end they live in it man break down situations very quickly within some trauma in your life some Devastation in your life because it's going to come the devastation the trauma is going to come and you can't allow that to become a jersey barrier it can't be a Jersey Barry has to be something that you can maneuver through very quickly and move forward that takes a lot of toughness man when you give what I've given I've given everything people make oh you you ran on up knees you taped your feet up you blah blah you had two heart surgy you kept on going which makes me who I am we all look for toughness we all want it but we look for it in a comfortable environment you will not find toughness in a comfortable environment yep sure did I had somewhere to go I got there and Buddy when mother tell you you can take a break now hey you up as long as my knees are halfway work I got to run you're telling me man may maybe a chance I can't run no more H give me an excuse I do but as long as I have no excuse I got to do it I was happy where I was I gave everything I gave everything to who I am and that's why I'm people always I don't believe that don't don't believe it I gave everything you have no regret people didn't understand me people don't understand me now I don't give a I know exactly what I was doing I'm not a masochist I'm not crazy I'm not this and that people try to title me and label me no I had something can do it's like our minds are like in garage and the garage if you open a garage and it's all cluttered up you can't put your car in there you got but and you got kids toys and everywhere but if you organize that garage and you put everything in this rightful spot you can pull that car in there you can put two cars in there you can put bikes in there and that's like with the Mind people talk about discipline determination repetitions and all this consistency there's no room in that mind for discipline there's no room for consistency they may do it once or twice but then the mind takes over in that garage garage comes in and then it's like a circuit breaker man a circuit breaker just overloads and Sparks and our minds that's that's our mind man it's like a circuit break that has so much [ __ ] in it you keep on loading it you can't put any more into it I talk about it in there man so much about clearing space in your mind so then you have room for all those discipline waking up early taking those they do mean something but we don't get to that dark matter that is keeping you from clearing out that mental garage every morning starts with a run and that's because that's the one thing I hate to do more than anything in the world so that's like my cup of coffee and I'm all about armoring yourself so the second you leave your house and the second you open your phone the second you do any that you are now letting them poison in cancer so I make sure a lot of things you can't avoid so as I get up I start to armor plate my mind and body and discipline is good too but without a clear head space there's no discipline what you mean so let's say we have a circuit breaker okay and I'm loading everything up to one circuit just load it up it's going blow once that thing blows man the circuits areed up you got to have each thing plugged into the right spot like a crowded garage you can't put anything in it once your brain is crowded discipline is great motivation is great but if you can't fit in your brain because it's all cluttered with sh there's no discipline you may have it sometimes when it fits in that crowded garage of your mind but you don't have the consistency that you need to have with that discipline and people don't get that your mind has to always be clear that's why that's why I meditate 2 hours every single night because I refresh I reorganize the garage which is my mind every night so then discipline's in there organization everything is in this right spot so when I wake up I'm ready to go and can't hurt me my mom was like you're not going to put some of my life in this but over a period of time like mom this this just wasn't your life I was a young kid watching you go through this I was living it with you and I didn't have the brain to absorb the adult life that you put my childlike brain in so I lived it even more than you lived it and trust me it took several years for me to figure out who the devil was and the devil was my father but like I put in that book no one's going to come back and say hey man I apologize maybe someone does so at the end of the day when all things are said and done with while my dad was the devil and I believed that for a long time I had I had to confront him and when I confronted the devil so what I thought was the devil I realized that I was the true devil I was the one holding me back I was the one looking for the escapegoat and you know I was the one looking for all these ways to say it's okay David you're a loser you're a born loser so it's okay and I was hoping my dad was going to give me that confirmation and he was a loser himself but at the end of the day when I left there I realized well man it's on me my dad's my mom's the people around me are they're not going to save you you got to save yourself my friend so that's when all that reality hit me when I went to Buffalo to see my dad and that drive home I was like man this rest of your life is going to suck it is going to suck not because you're going to be a loser but because you're going to finally start to win people with a talent problem who are so talented they're hard to train they're hard to push if you're their coach and you trying to get them to see that we got to get you past this Talent problem we got to get you to the point where you're into that mental Zone okay we got to get you way past your talent and it's it's hard for coaches to take these Fighters or whoever past their talent and on the other side is that is where they gain true true levels the levels Beyond Talent that's where it really is because if you're able to take a [ __ ] down to the deep end while [ __ ] just putting his toe in feeling the water and [ __ ] if Mother In The Deep End he able to take you down there and he's mentally strong it's over it's over man they because they because they live in the deep end they live in it man they thrive in it yep sure did I had somewhere to go you need to look at someone's eyes you know how it is when you fight somebody you broke that he's like oh God man I don't want to go back the next round and you feel like my God I can fight all day I can fight all day long that's what taking Souls is but you have to have the will the heart the courage to go that distance when you're exactly jacked up you have nothing left to give and give more charging and we start fueling off of that we start fueling off the fact that man it takes one second of energy to steal everybody's and then you have all the energy you need it's all you need you need to look at someone's eyes you know how it is when you fight somebody you broke that mother he's like oh God man I don't want to go back the next round and you feel like my God I can fight all day I can fight all day about what you're saying to yourself but it also comes with 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 you know I would say to myself and that's just kind of where it comes from and this is one thing about life this is why you always must be ready always be ready never get ready people oh hey what are you training for David I ain't training for [ __ ] when something pops up I ready so when Cam Pop the up and cam calls hey man I'm going to be in uh Las Vegas you want to go for a run sure do sure do brother sure do while the Run sucked I was ready hey come here brother let me talk to you real quick Brother people don't like that man but I'm not going to allow you to go to a place that's going to be hard to get out of it's going to be hard if I allow you to gain five more pounds or allow you to take four more days off of school or allow you to keep on procrastinating in your life and I see it and I tell Jennifer behind your back I'm doing you no justice zero justice so where this world is now you can't say a mother thing I do I still do and I always will don't like me don't like me I'm good with that in my mind a lot of times man I'm like it doesn't mean I quit I don't quit you know I may not make it the first time but I'll come back I gotta call audible I can get my head back in the game I got to I got to figure this [ __ ] out it doesn't mean you leave it means you study it more it means you study it more and and whenever I fail at something people always say man how do you handle failure man I fail a lot dude I fail all the time they go how do you handle it what I'm trying to do and this isn't being arrogant man I I it's being real not many people are trying to do there's not many people that who who can even open their mouth and criticize me when I do fail cuz I'm on trying to do man that many people aren't trying to do but I don't look at failure as failure I look at failure as your first second third fourth fifth attempt I look at them as attempts I don't look at anything as failure because when you're willing to try to do some not trying is failure that's that's and that's not some after school special [ __ ] but when you're able to go out there there there is no failure it's attempts cuz when you're trying to do something that's bigger than you whatever you are whoever you are if if if you're paralyzed you're trying to walk one step and you didn't you didn't fail mother that was your first attempt if that's your biggest thing that's how your mindset needs to go into everything so I don't look at it as failure is a big word like that gets people down we give so much power to words I don't I take the power right away I didn't feel where it gets hard and the harder it is the more you start to push back and the more you push back and it's not right for people to talk about it's not right for like let's say you are fat I was fat that's why I talk about it go ahead and say something I was fat too and it was hard every day to get up I know what it feels like when you roll your fat ass out of bed and all you want but I can't want it more than you and so many people just want it the easy way it I'm sorry man it's not so what they start to do is they build this Narrative of it's okay when the narrative should be you need to can work harder you need discipline your mind better we need to help people more than just saying it's okay it's okay that you're not willing help yourself out that's not okay it's not okay it's not acceptable even though it's your life if that's if if that's acceptable that's unacceptable and there's a lot of people in this world me included that if I accepted that I wouldn't be anywhere so yeah a lot of people just they they start creating a narrative about themselves that make it okay the ultimate get out jail free card and now the world is set up to to have so many gel free cards everything is okay and you can't say a [ __ ] thing about it I want you I want you to go there with me I'm taking you there with me I'm I'm a Storyteller I want to take your ass down Paradise where I so the house I lived in in Buffalo New York that I got my ass beat every day funny we lived on Paradise Road and it was anything but Paradise so I want you to go there with me you want to learn from me let me take your ass home let me take you there so that's the whole thing about it man we're we're scared to dive into our lives what made us who we are the beautiful people that we are we're all jacked up in so many ways that's the beauty of us that's the beauty of me I'm jacked up but I figured out my own little process on how to get unjacketed up and how to I'm not going to get the same you know I'm not going to get the same way you're going to get there you may get there by going point A to point B I might go Point C to D to e to f i going to be there to same same way you are just a little harder that's how I train my brain so it's just different I'm just different thinker my part-time Savage with me running like 50 miles a week what I used to do and I do now is I got to a point i' be running and I was like okay man we could do 10 miles today I get I get to 10 miles like oh no that demon that I let out every morning that walks the streets at night he comes say no bit today man there's somebody out there that you don't know have never met in your entire life that is doing 12 13 14 going to do another one and when you meet him you ain't get ready so goggin kept on running but what motivated me this kid came from that I'm in the hardest train in the world in the worst shape of my entire life what if I can graduate amongst these studs all these guys around me they're stallions they're Gladiators they're all healthy they're not broken like this if I can start the hardest train in the world broken and graduate you are now from the weakest man you are now the hardest man to ever live if if you can do this only those people who have been there a million times in their minds and have lived in that water and have suffered a million times and realize my legs may break my knee may break my bones will hurt I will be the coldest I've been in my life I will be miserable and accept that because what happens is in three months later my stress fractures were healed by running on them when the mind and the body connect and you don't give yourself a way out the only way out for me at that time was there I'm going to be a Navy SEAL or I'm going to die trying period and my body said Roger that we're going to get you through this I learned how to control my adrenals if you know how you know how you get that fight ORF flight response when you get to move real quick yeah and you know I I started learning the mind a lot how to get myself jacked extremely fast like in a horrible environment when everybody's miserable I learn how to really find strength in the misery when everybody's suffering everybody's all poopy pants and their mentality is down and everything I started just like my God this is where I shine and I started using all that misery for tons and tons of tons of drive and motivation to to to then lead people further because you can get a lot of power through misery and once people see that my God goggin is going then everybody says Roger that let me get my sh and go too I started realizing that if you can just find strength just a little bit longer you will have a crew of people falling you along the way people always say failure is a part of life and failure is how you grow I've said all that stuff before but it really is a bunch of sh it really is man I'm going to be honest with you man I'm so tired don't hold back or anything no I'm so tired of hearing all these cliche you know like goal setting half the people who write that aren't even doing the talking the reason why I believe I can talk on failur because I'm still failing today and I feeling in a major way and I'm living when I'm talking so many people who talk about all this their their has beens their people who used to do back in the day now I talk about it are you living it today visualizing is is my biggest tool of life that's why I've been able to put myself in cold water put myself in a 100 mile race millions of times before I've done it and I'm able to go through the race and see how I'm going to feel at my 50 almost to the almost to the exact exact feeling right so when it comes up it's no surprise no surprise I've already done this a million times and that's the one thing I practice and practice and practice and practice overnight but also the most important thing is I practice that feeling of accomplishment I'm going to have it's all in done with most people who are failing are trying their ass off most people who are failing are being criticized by people who having attempted what you're even trying to fail at so when I'm failing at so after I I did 2500 pull up it's my first time going for the record you mean people were criticizing me people sitting there eating chips on the couch do a pullup exactly look at your audience who's criticizing you first of all they're not even in your world you don't even talk to me block them out that's the first thing yep the second thing is through failure you get all the answers you get all the lessons all of them yes they're all there yes so I was able to go back through and say okay this happened this happened this was wrong this was wrong this was wrong so I don't even look at failure like I don't even call it failure I I don't because I don't look at like my God I failed no I look at okay like trying to invict the flight bul I'm Afra to know but what's failure I'm trying to invent a lightly bulb I'm trying to break 4,020 pull-ups that's failure anything you do along that way is amazing that's how you got to look at failure I have to be very present and everything I do like right now I'm in Rich role I'm not thinking about but Rich role and what the [ __ ] come out of your mouth right now that's what that's what gives me a huge advantage in life especially today in this day and age with so much going so fast and everybody wants to keep everything going everything up and everything I want to be the greatest you know the greatest multitask of all time not me if I put my 100% into what's in front of me I will destroy it if I'm out here just multitasking I'm going to half ass everything I do so that's it is the most important thing in the world to me is being focused at the task at hand so for me failure is is something that you should be afraid of it should be afraid of but that's why you should go out there and challenge yourself to fail because if you're not failing at something that means you've set your goals to pass to succeed at everything you do which means you're not setting your goals high enough so for me okay I'm going go out and break the GB RS record for pull-ups lofty goal which is why I failed it twice before I finally got it I knew going into everything I've ever done in my life Navy s training three times before I got it everything I've ever done in my life took me three times before I got it I knew that there was a huge possibility of failure but what I gain from failure is this when you see a movie and you watch a movie about a person who keeps failing and at the end they succeed how do you feel as you watch that I lighted amazing right yeah I become the movie I wanted feel how I feel watching someone else in the movie when I watched Rocky get his ass kicked and I watched all these different things of failure the second you look at your phone the second you turn the TV on you're in a battle I want to win the war in the morning if you do something you don't want to do every morning you're already giving yourself the proper selft talk to attack the people that don't like you to attack your insecurities to attack what the world's going to give you I once had that mentality that no one understands what the I'm going through and if you keep that mentality you're going to stay in the same exact spot that you're in everybody's going through so when people get this mentality of like you don't understand me you can throw a rock to someone that can understand you if they're willing to break themselves down and stop hiding a lot of people understand you but you got to stop hiding and then this guy was in my mind we suffer we suffer every day it's what we do we do stuff that sucks every day so then when the suck stuff comes you're ready for it and that's how it started coming up you know I just started being very uncomfortable and now I'm it's like a just a way of life what I realized is for me to become the man I wanted to become I saw myself as the weakest person God ever created but I never blamed God for anything he did to me so I wanted to change that to be the hardest man ever created am I that I don't know but you had to have a goal I learned how to control my adrenals if you know how you know how you get that fight ORF flight response when you get to move real quick yeah and you know I I started learning the mind a lot how to get myself jacked extremely fast like in a horrible environment when everybody's miserable I learn how to really find strength in the misery when everybody's suffering everybody's all poopy pants and their mentality is down and everything I started just like my God this is where I shine and I started using all that misery for tons and tons of tons of drive and motor motivation to to to then lead people further cuz you can get a lot of power through misery and once people see that my God Goin going then everybody says Roger that let me get my go too I started realizing that if you can just find strength just a little bit longer you will have a crew of people following you along the way 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 who graduate buzs graduate this graduate that they get comfortable they wonder why I'm getting weak man I don't know I've lost my Edge what's going on cuz once you hit the top of the mountain guess what happened I'm good I'm good so you wonder why you're falling down now because once you the top of the mountain you got to build 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 a one time deal they busted it open got a lot of money but they're good you're a mediocre now these people go to the gym they get big they get jacked they can run fast but the only thing they're doing is they're coding over the mind all you're doing is building a bigger stronger quitter your mind hasn't gotten any stronger so second adversity comes like my God I'm so fit what's wrong your mind is still soft life beat me up bad I mean I was uh knocked out in the 12th round of a of a 15 round heavyweight bout I was knocked out but what happened was in the 12th round when the Challenger turned his back on me I was getting up and I got up and won the next three rounds so that's my mind about can't hurt me I was hurt man like literally I had overcome so much those first 26 years of my life and I still do every day today you know it's not over we're going to get you through this but the mentality of can't hurt me is just that matter what's in front of you man you have to face you have to confront you have to overcome and move forward so my father you know some of the kids that bullied me my learn disabilities all these things I went through in life stuttering had so many different issues failing and failing and failing i' overcome him or they would have overcame me throughout this journey I started becoming this new person I started creating this new person people started seeing me as this amazing superhero in the back of my mind I knew the real story and I was like man one day you have to really share it I'm like man but do you have the courage you know like it's great to live right here I've established this people think you're great just stay here don't go back let's not go back but the only way you can help people out is let them know that this is possible so I had to go back and say this is where I come from and where I come from is hell because what we do so well in this world is we see superhuman people and we title them the second we title them what that does that gives us a get out of jail free card is that they're the one person Sinners I'm not even going to try to do that because that's not even in Me God made them special they're special people there are no special people they're special minds and the mind can be created on your own you can do that yourself so that's why I write book like I write it so people can look at me and say my God he came from this he had to overcome all of this so I take away all the titles even crazy even the fact that he's superhuman all those titles are now Stripped Away but what's funny about that you will have my book in your hand you will read it in its entirety you'll hear the audio book whatever you get and by time you get to chapter 9 or 10 you already forgot chapter 1 2 and 3 three of the hell I came through that's how fast the Mind wants to soften you up and say this guy's just nuts he's superhuman that's how fast the mind you already forgot what you read and you love the book you're loving the book and you already forgot the first three chapter because your mind is saying this is impossible it's already guiding you down that path of least resistance as you're reading the book it's how powerful it is so we got to constantly remind ourselves of go back to chapter 1 2 and 3 always remind yourself of those chapters of that you can also do this but you have to first self-examine or live autopsy your own personal life people always say failure is a part of life and failure is how you grow I've said all that stuff before but it really is a bunch of sh it really is man I'm GNA be honest with you man I'm so tired don't back or anything no I'm so tired of hearing all these cliche you know like goal setting have the people who write that aren't even doing they talking the reason why I believe I can talk on failure because I'm still faing today and I'm feeling the major way and I'm living when I'm talking so many people who talk about all this their their hasb beens the people who used to do back in the day I talk about it are you living it today visualizing is is my biggest tool of life that's why I've been able to put myself in cold water put myself in a 100 mile race millions of times before I've done it and I'm able to go through the race and see how I'm going to feel at Mile 50 almost to the almost to the exact exact feeling right so when it comes up it's no surprise no surprise I've already done this a million times and that's the one thing I practice and practice and practice and practice overnight but also the most important thing is I practice that feeling of accomplishment I'm going to have and it's all done with most people who are failing are trying their ass off most people are failing of being criticized by people who haven't attempted what even trying to fail at so when I'm failing at so after I I did 2500 pull-ups my first time going for the record you mean people were criticizing me people sitting there eating chips on the couch do a pullup exactly look at your audience who's criticizing you first of all they're not even in your world you don't even talk to me block him out that's the first thing yep the second thing is through failure you get all the answers get all the lessons all of them they're all there yes so I was able to go back through and say okay this happened this happened this was wrong this is wrong this is wrong so I don't even look at failure like I don't even call it failure I I don't because I don't look at like my God I failed no I look at okay like trying to invent the flight ball I'm my AF to know but what's failure I'm trying to invent a flight ball I'm trying to break 4,20 pull-ups that's failure anything you do along that way is amazing that's how you got to look at failure I have to be very present and everything I do like right now I'm in Rich role I'm not thinking about rich role and what the [ __ ] come out of your mouth right now that's what that's what gives me a huge advantage in life especially today in this day and age with so much going so fast and everybody wants to keep everything going everything up and everything I want to be the greatest you know the greatest multitasker of all time not me if I put my 100% into what's in front of me I will destroy it if I'm out here just multitasking I'm going to half ass everything I do so that's it it is the most important thing the world to me is being focused at the task at hand so for me failure is is something that you should be afraid of it should be afraid of but that's why you should go out there and challenge yourself to fail because if you're not failing at something that means you've set your goals to pass to succeed everything you do which means you're not setting your goals high enough so for me okay I'm g go out and break the GB rolls record for pull-ups lofty goal which is why I failed it twice before I finally got it I knew going into everything I've ever done in my life Navy SE training three times before I got it everything I've ever done in my life took me three times before I got it I knew that there was a huge possibility of failure but what I gained from failure is this when you see a movie and you watch a movie about a person who keeps failing and at the end they succeed how do you feel as you watch that I lighted amazing right yeah I become the movie I want to feel how I feel watching someone else in the movie when I watched Rocky get his ass kicked and I watched all these different things of failure I was able to put myself there and said God how much do you feel now that you finally got there that's what failure has done to me I've watched so many things and watched someone succeed at the end of it it's like God I want to feel like that but failure causes that one feeling without that failure involved you don't have that feeling if you just pass and you succeed and you're great that feeling yeah okay I'm good what takes you years months years to accomplish because you just can't get over the hump but you continue going back to the drawing board you're looking for those few seconds after you finally figure out the equation whatever the equation may be to get you to finally pass to succeed I live for that feeling but I can't get that feeling without going through I feel this equation I feel this one I feel this one I feel this one oh I'm figuring it out so you start to feel it before you even pass before you even get to to to the success part and then once you succeed the feeling is unbelievable and you take that feeling of Success Through failure and you put it in your cookie jar and you say I I'll come back and get you again I'm going to need you again down the road in my life but the one thing I'm most scared of in the world is is losing losing touch with the the best thing in the world is is your mind your mindset how you can picture yourself how you can focus how you can drive how you can put yourself in so many situations get out of it because those headphones we listen to those those phones that that we Google to to find information there's so many situations in my life but that not going to help me it's not going to help me you have to be David goggin and say man I'm afraid of this I'm up here life made me this way here I stutter I have these issues with the 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 going to 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 and that visualization of almost me cracking out goggin like almost like that Superman C like like 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 godance 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 who 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 so it's how I start talking to myself and put myself in a whole different category and that would fuel me the next day and I kept using that as fuel and fuel no one would do no one would do this you're the bad mother around you're the bad mother live and I had I kept fueling me with the with with the right kind of message that I needed to hear that I was never telling myself and through time it became reality to myself so I take a lot of passion in who I am as a person as you hear as this podcast gets going and going and going what you're going to do is you're going to transform me from this guy right now that's kind of chilled out this room David Goggins to Goggins and I had to invent this person David Goggins is an introverted um soft kid that got beat up growing up and mindset had had the lie to create friends to get friends to be accepted my my life has really been about two people very scary but two people I had to invent a whole another human being to get outside of my comfort zone and that human being became goggin I had to develop a really callous skin on me to take whatever you're going to call me you're going to call me whatever I'm going to be know I want to 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 accountability M 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 raw with who you are nothing's going to change and 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 everybody else so that's where it started at and it's raw and it gets ugly sometimes in me in the mirror but I'm also proud of myself to be able to tell myself that and then fix what's in that mirror so what happened in my life was we start to get I call it like the ruck sack a ruck sack is a pack that you carry in the military and you put all your stuff in it your radios your food your water all that stuff you have to carry in the military that's your rug sack the backpack pretty much as you're growing up we all have a back pack most of ours hopefully is empty you know and what we put in it is all the crap we go through in life that's what is in the backpack for the civilians and we carry it around with us so what you have to start doing is realizing that no matter where you're at in life my dad abused me you know learning disability stutters immaturity insecurities self-doubt so much crap on top of me so much stuff I lied a lot to create friends so people so much stuff was in my backpack no one's coming back to help me so it starts with that person in that mirror you have to realize you are on your own now and whatever else you believe in I don't care what you believe in but on Earth it's a very lonely journey and it starts with the accountability mirror looking at saying hey my dad who beat the hell he's not coming back all these things are coming back I have to face myself and you have to own all those things that people may have done to you now it's yours you got to own it it's yours now to fix the problems that people did to you it makes no sense it's not fair I get it but if you live in that wo was me mentality of guess what my dad did this to me my mom just this to me people who bulli did this to me you're going to always live right there you have to figure out ways to move forward because you're not coming back it starts with the mirror I call it the accountability mirror in the book I don't enjoy it it's necessary it's necessary so every morning I wake up it's not just about working out but for me working out has been a very big part of my mental growth so for me if I am not challenging myself every day and I swear to God people will not believe it I was over almost 300 pounds twice in my life a person that does that twice in his life does not enjoy cardiovascular activity so people can put anything they want to in their head I did realize one thing the things I don't enjoy that I still do that's where growth is at and that's for me the only place growth is at is in that very uncomfortable zone so I have to visited every single day I realized at a young age how to change myself was through discipline and the military didn't teach me that it was something I real I had zero discipline zero self-discipline and I realized I have to start developing this and I started really because I was horrible at reading I was horrible at writing I have so many learn disability is not even funny so I just sit down at the table and spend so much time in this reading and writing and learning and that kind of translated over to my self-discipline with working out so that's where it started I started when I was about 16 years old and said well I'm a fourth grade reading level you know let me go ahead now and start really uh focusing because I'm not going to get in the military and I got pass the test so that's where it started for me each thing that is wrong with you has to be a focal point you can't look at this gigantic list and say 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 I had to now get that one thing and then strategize in that one problem how can I do this I'm not GNA learn like you I'm not gonna learn like anybody else how am I going to figure this out so I then figured out okay where are my strengths here where are my weaknesses in learning all right man how am I going to do this and I figured out a way to do it by this strategizing so how I learn to this day if I have a big manual to study I will have to get a bunch of spiral notebooks from the dagone store and each page I have to write each page out maybe 10 times so there was a th000 page dive manual that I got 18 months before I went to dive School most people I'm not smart I'm GNA go see 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 I had written that question so many times down in that paper that I could 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 I fell back in this pole 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 it was me against me my pants were down to my knees I was just whatever was going on I was in bad shape so I went to the bathroom 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 at myself in the mirror going like God dog dude you got you are something else man like you have created a character if I don't give you all of me why the hell am I here why how will you learn from me people take so much offense to me you will never learn from people if we always tap dance around the truth we tap dance around the truth by finding the right words so I don't hurt you because you have thin skin no tighten up people it's okay trust me it's okay it's okay what are you going to do now they don't own your life how are you going to control that now how are you going to flip it upside down and say Roger that now I'm going to harness and you'll read about me years from now some are actually born with some genetic freakishness I was not don't forget the first three four chapters and I couldn't read as a junior in high school where I hit out where I got beat so badly that I became afraid of every mother that ever lived on the planet Earth everybody people for I had to reinvent a human being I sat at home so for so many nights by myself broken broken not just physically mentally spiritually mental toughness strength power I'm like I have any that I once had that mentality that no one understands what the I'm going through and if you keep that mentality you're going to stay in the same exact spot that you're in everybody's going through so when people get this mentality of like you understand me you can throw a rock to someone that can understand you if they're willing to break themselves down and stop hiding a lot of people understand you but you got to stop hiding and then this guy was in my mind we suffer we suffer every day it's what we do we do stuff that sucks every day so then when the suck stuff comes you're ready for it and that's how it started coming up you know I just started being very uncomfortable now I'm it's like a just a way of life what I realized is for me to become the man I wanted to become I saw myself as the weakest person God ever created but I never blamed God for anything he did to me so I wanted to change that to be the hardest man ever created am I that I don't know but you had to have a goal you're alone you're alone you may have a shrink you're going to you may have a best friend you're going to but there there's 24 hours in the day where you're alone in this brain and your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways and it wants to control you and pull you in these different Pockets if you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you your you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there you got to control it if not it's over we have a lot more a lot more than we think we have and all I did was I picked up that shovel and that shovel I made my own path and you may have big boulders they may be getting 200 miles up the road faster than you but going through this path of life this journey over here there may be some days I get up with poopy pants and I'm like you know what man this man like why am I having this this such a structured life why and I'm like you know what I'm good I'm done with this and I sit around I say okay so you want to be normal so you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world not knowing the power that's in them being fine with being mediocre I'm like [ __ ] that man but you have to go into those dark chambers that we often shut off and you got to open them up you got to open up and fight that fcking demon get in there talk to that mother say what's up get to that dark place in your mind figure out it may take months may take years figure out your purpose figure out what you want to be in life and then from there okay I have my purpose it's easier to accept the fact that I'm just not good enough I wasn't made to do that and yeah some of us can't be lebroning James but I'll tell you right now man we can do a lot when it comes to this pure arm guts and willpower and getting through we have a lot more a lot more than we think we have we like that person who says hey you know what I Manan I don't feel good today man and they say oh it's okay brother take the day off maybe we get a pizza and watch the game we like that boy my whole life that's why myf hate my ass boy cuz I'm hard on me if I'm hard on me I don't give about you I basically a lot of mornings I wake up and say your feelings and that doesn't mean like don't take it literally your feelings but sometimes you have to go beyond what you're feeling and my knees were but guess what I wanted to run and I knew that okay you can get knee Replacements this and that like I said it wasn't because of I Ran too much people always want to say oh man you ran so much so you your body you know you don't want to be like David Godin I hear all the time you don't be like David Godin I study the darkness you find no answers in the light none it's too happy it's too nice and we're not we don't need to be taught how to live in happiness that that just comes naturally to us happy moments but the dark times man you can't and you can't get there unless you put yourself there life will take you there but when you get into those dark moments that's why people how are you able to write like this man I go to such places in my mind and I study the darkness like it's not just physical when I was growing up and I saw my mom getting beat and I got beat and I was some stuttering little black kid in allh school and I'm on stage and I got to say one line one line in front of 15 people and I walk off stage come with and stutter all those insecurities and all those things man I used to go home and cry by my God man hang on man as I got older we got to study the only way we're going to get through this if you study it so every time I'm in the dark moment and life's up around me whether it be physical or just life I get in it man with in pen and paper I'm like okay this sucks I can feel like I'm losing my let's and study this you can't fit discipline in that you can't fit structure you can't fit consistency you can't fit the grind and then when you try it just gets overrun by the clutter in your [ __ ] mental garage I got to a point in my life where I realize this is life and so I move on past things real quick so people like oh my God what are you going to do David if you can't run I'll swim or I'll go to college or I'll do something else like this isn't my life I'm very aware how quick life can take from you and I've always prepared my mind for the next chapter and what happened with me was I started this thing called front loing so when I was young I used to be a little pie you know like oh I'm not good enough I can't do this I can't do that the second I got my head out of my ass and I realized man you can achieve a lot of sh you get off your ass and you start moving and you start motivating yourself start becoming a self motivator so I started front loing every time I'm in a bad situation I study it and that's the only reason I do have to [ __ ] I do is I'm studying this because I know that I never thought I was going to be writing books and trying to help people get better but I was always trying to do it because I knew I sucked and so when you know you're trying to get somewhere you know you suck you know that you you believe that you're a born loser you are taking snapshots man like you know you you see something on your phone like oh man I'm going to take a snapshot of that I do that in my mind so when I get in these moments I'm likeing okay wow that's good knowledge right there man I snapshot it cuz I know that I can use that later I can use this cuz I'm not out there just I'm not most people that go and they run and they go out and do and they're like oh this is beautiful looking mountains and no I don't like it my body hurts I'm hurting how do we get through this

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Published: Mon Mar 04 2024