GRIND ALONE IN SILENCE - 1 Hour of David Goggins

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 an 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 happen 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 the 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 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 games I was like you know what I bet these are looking at us judging themselves about when they were going through Hillway 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 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 bull 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 saying to yourself but it also comes at work so whenever I was getting beat down physically mentally spiritually whatever I was going through just saying you know I would put you know you can't hurt me can't hurt me just became a message I you know I would say to myself and that's 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 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 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 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 metal together like I wonder what going to happen you know the first year I try to do is all F 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 card I'm 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 well looking in the mirror at yourself cuz I did a really good job by creating this guy 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 mine 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 break that 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 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 cuz if you're able to take a mother down to Deep End while [ __ ] just putting his toe in fing the water and [ __ ] if I'm up in the Deep endend he able 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 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 barrier it 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 surg 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 and go I got there and Buddy when mother tell you you can can take a break now hey you fued up as long as my knees are halfway work I got to run you're telling me man may maybe chance I can't run no more H give me an excuse not do but as long as I have no excuse I got to do it I was happy where I was I gave everything I give everything to who I am and that's why I'm people oh 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 is 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 boats 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 put bikes in there and that's like with the Mind people talk about discipline determination repetitions and all this sh 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 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 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 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 of that sh you are now letting in 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 do 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 circuit's areed up you got to have each thing plugged into the right spot like a crowded garage you can't put anything in it when 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 two hours every single night because I refresh I reorganize the garage which is my mind every night so then disciplines 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 these are said and done with while my dad was the devil and I 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 you know I was the one looking for all these ways and 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 all me my dad's my mom's the people around me are up 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 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 [ __ ] down to the deep end while [ __ ] is just putting his toe in feeling the water and [ __ ] if Mother In The Deep End he would 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 and you broke that mother he's like oh God man I don't want to go back to 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 at work so whenever I was getting beat down physically mentally spiritually whatever I was going through just saying you know I would put you know you can't hurt me can't hurt me just became a message I you know I would say to myself and that's 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 take four more days off of school orow 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 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 got to call an 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 feel a lot dude I feel 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 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 cuz when you're will to try to do something 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 then 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 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 to 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 G jail free card and now the world is set up to have so many G jail free cards everything is okay and you can't say a mothering 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 un jacked 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 the 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 was me running like 50 mil a week what I used to do and I do now is I got to a point I be running 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 not 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 getting 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 the stallions the Gladiators they 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 realized 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 3 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 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 failures are part of life and Fa 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 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 there there has been the 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 what 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've 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 and it's all sitting done with most people who are failing are trying their ass off most people who are failing are being criticized by people who haven't attempted what you're even trying to fail at so when I'm failing at so after I I did 2500 pullups 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 criticizing you first of all they're not even in your world you don't talk to me block him 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 my God I failed no I look at okay like trying to invent the flight ball I'm Afra to know but what's failure I'm trying to invent a flight ball 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 a 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 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 to 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 youve 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 gonna go out and break the G 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 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 that 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 I'm not happy the biggest thing is they say look at his 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's 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 you know I had to train myself for Good Times those times for most people don't need to train 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 stuff and misery of real life let's cover it over nice big blanket and let's find peace no sorry it's not possible got to go into that hell hole of life that you have that F you up and fix it and that's what I'm here to you must go to war yourself before you find peace so I'm trying to give you tools on how to do that and I'm not considering a smile and be happy about it it's a hard journey it's a real journey it's it's a journey that's going to take you way outside of being comfortable you be very very uncomfortable so basically I start running and I get to about mile 40 m 50 and I'm feeling pretty good I get to mile 70 and it was the the worst pain in my life I sat down this blue lawn chair at Mile 70 and my the rich crackers after mile 20 became R cracker balls I wasn't hydrating correctly I didn't know what to do I was drinking mlex for my nutrition cuz I couldn't eat these rich crackers have very minimal water if any at all and I was just dying so I sat down this blue lawn chair as I was watching all these runners go around in this circle I was all dizzy and lightheaded hadn't gone to the bathroom it's been about 12 hours I went 70 Mi about 12 hours which is good and I looked at my ex-wife now and I was like I I started seeing like three of her and once my body stopped my mind just went off and had to go to the bathroom and the bathroom's like it's like 20 ft away from me if that and I couldn't it's the hidden [Music] work people see a one minute you know video of me running and [ __ ] these Fighters you know they they see during the fight or after the fight they don't see these mother man what they deal with every day I'm not good enough I'm not good enough I shouldn't be here I shouldn't be here because every day even though they're from the best in the world that little mother seven or eight years old is still in there saying oh man we we don't have sub we not good enough you shouldn't be here so you're always fighting that [ __ ] even though you beat it you never truly beat it and you get up earlier and all these things you do to start forming yourself when you quit your mind does this once you say I'm not going to quit this is the 40% when you quit your mind says we're done so it doesn't expand there's no expansion when you quit when you say uh-uh this sucks I'm drowning I'm miserable I'm suffering I'm broken but I'm not going anywhere what happens to your mind is it does this it says he's not leaving so we got to expand we got to grow we got to figure this thing out so then these compartments in your brain start to work they have to work and then you start to engage parts of your mind that you never engaged before but you can't engage it by sitting back in these nice chairs drinking this nice water talk talking to you talking about what I want to do so that's where the 40% thing comes in it comes in when you're in suffer mode and you say I'm not going to quit you're forcing your brain now to operate on a level it's not used to but then it becomes used to in times of need even the hardest person forgets how badass they are so I've been through a lot of my life when you're going through a hard time right now you forget all the hard time time you endured so the cookie jar is a reminder that oh I can get through this hard time right now but you got to take a second or two to reach into the mental cookie jar you got to open up and say okay man I was in three hings and I got through two of them you know I was in Ranger school I saw these beatings my mom soon to be husband got got murdered all these things I endured alone I had to remind myself of the strength and the power that I have that is in me it's just a reminder of how badass you are in hard times cuz you know we just forget that bad time consumes our mind I see where I'm at today but I know where I come from I'm amazed at what a human being can actually do so when I start talking to myself in the third person it's strictly because I know that I literally made this human being out of a a whole bunch of scraps you know I wasn't 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 me correction and I started putting this scrap mill together I'm like I wonder what's going to happen and after a while I started learning more and more and more through pain and suffering started learning just learning so much about stuff before I knew it man I built this beautiful card I'm like how did I do that 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 it's called raw accountability not just accountability where we find that nice happy word if you're fat you look in the mirror you say wow I eat a little too much no you're fat you cannot say that to yourself you have to make a list of the things that you don't like to do this list should be very long like if you don't like making calls the very first thing you should do is start making a ton of calls cuz why that begins to own you you start to drive yourself This Way versus this way but you'll figure out if you start making a whole bunch of calls if you like calling call a lot guess what happens you get over it so what we do a lot is I heard a lot of people say triple down on this triple down on most of your strength no no no no no that works for a lot of things but when you're afraid and you don't have the courage you have to Triple down on your weaknesses and make that become where you start to guide yourself okay I don't like calling today I'm making a 100 calls I'm going to dial 100 times what happens is when I was younger life and Society made this big world with all these Endless Possibilities my life made my possibilities this big because it made me afraid of all these different things so all this stuff trapped my mind it Shackled my brain it made me a prisoner within my own self saying this is all I can can do because why I'm afraid of this I'm insecure over here I got self-doubt over here back behind me good Lord who knows who's behind me I'm like look behind me so your life is this big versus it being like I can do all this shot here if I start to break down these walls and barriers and that's what I started realizing I could become a Navy SEAL I could become this but I was afraid of the water think about this why are you're going to go be a Navy SEAL when all you do is play in the water for and we don't play we're in it and we're living in it so my mind is I'm going to go be a native seal if I didn't face that fear no one would ever know me I was number three behind Michelle Obama for a long time until my book sold out and I was a guy just 21 years ago who was 300 lb could barely read and write and now have a book just two spots behind Michelle Obama just because I was afraid but you overcome those fears guess what happens the whole world you unlock this door and everything opens back up again I'm the hardest working guy that that doesn't talk about so basically I don't take any days off as far as working out first thing in the morning time is you have to build your confidence and every day you're constantly gaining and losing confidence you're never staying the same so how you build your confidence is if you like what you see in that mirror that's how you start your day off if you wake up and you and you look fat you look out of shape you not feel good which is you know or you don't feel good inside so my whole big thing is get up and work out shed some calories get the adrenals going get the mine going get all that going every day I run every day I work out a lot of people what they do is they have these these Finish Lines and I have a saying that says I don't stop when I'm tired I stop when I'm done when I was uh younger I didn't have any goals it's not really so much about goals it's just to-do list a to-do list and as a human being if you don't have a to-do list you're going to sit back and just fade away your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world if you can't control your own brain 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 a good human being a fulfilled human being doesn't need to break anyone down all they do is want to build you up so anybody you meet that calls you out of your name that bullies you that messes you up that that makes you feel not lifted they are dealing with something deep rooted when you quit your mind says we're done so it doesn't expand there's no expansion when you quit when you say uh-uh this sucks I'm drowning I'm miserable I'm suffering I'm broken but I'm not going going anywhere what happens to your mind it says he's not leaving so we got to expand we got to grow we got to figure this thing out so then these compartments in your brain they have to work and then you start to engage parts of your mind that you never engaged before when you're in suffer mode and you say I'm not going to quit you're forcing your brain now to operate on a level it's not used to but then it becomes used to it the only way anything gets accomplished you got to work hard I can't remember what's in this paragraph to pass this test to get in the military read again still not getting it read it again but if you're not getting it write it out and guess what happened I got it I can't swim I'm negative buoyant go back again I can't swim go back again go back again go back again I got it I realize if I keep going back and going back and going back your mind was safe okay we're going to figure it out because he is not going to stop I always equated working out to struggle I struggled my whole life but I ran from it so I started realizing man I got to start facing the struggle and I got to be mentally strong for the struggle I'm training for Life mentally I'm training for life I'm not training for like to to live 400 lbs and I found out on my own pretty much is that through this through through discipline through self-discipline through repetition through tons of repetition the same thing that you don't want to do you develop mental armor for your mind start to armor your mind your mind's like okay we suffer we suffer every day we do stuff that sucks every day so then when the suck stuff comes you're ready for it I had two options to either be that 300 lb guy who's pray for cockroaches and made $1,000 a month or I can totally just fail and fail and fail and until succeed so I started calling recruiters up I said I'm going to go be in Navy SEAL there's a weight and height limit to get in the military and I was 6'1 and 297 he saw me put me through the weight standard all this other stuff and to get into the class I had to get into I had to lose 106 PBS in less than three months I was like can't do that I grabbed my chocolate milkshake and went back to eolab and I said this ain't going to be it for me I quit my job and I went home and I started working out like somebody I was I became the most obsessed person on the planet Earth I had to invent a guy that can take any pain any suffering any kind of judgment and I built it through suffering and I started realizing through this through this process and I started opening different doors and the more doors I open up the more I started realizing that my potential is damn near endless it changed my whole mindset I don't care what you believe in doesn't matter I'm not judging anybody but let's say my thing is God you get to heaven we're sitting down just like this you're God and I'm David and he says look at this I'm look at this chart and on the chart it has all these different things I was going to change the world I was going to set records I was going to be a Navy SEAL I was going to be honored here honored there I'm like this isn't me like it says David gogins I was an Eco laab guy I sprayed for cockroaches and I'm 300 lb said here I'm 185 and God goes no that's who you were supposed to be my biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world and there's a final judgment and you talk to something much bigger than you I don't want to sit down and have a conversation with someone that says you're in heaven this is what you should have been on Earth I want God to be up there right now as we're speaking writing stuff down saying my God he exceeded even my expectations that's how I live my life I now know that there is no cap on the human mind there's no cap we cap in ourselves we all have to start from zero with pain and what that means is if you don't go back we all have something that bothers us everybody in this world is insecure and whenever you're in physical pain even though you might not be thinking about that mental stuff that happened to you your mind is thinking about it all these dungeons that our life has created most of the time we quit is because we don't have any mental tools to get us through the other side my whole thing for people is you have to examine why are you doing it in the first place what makes people quit so much in Seal training and all other special op training is the mind it's always comfortable to sit there you're watch the Navy SEAL show Discovery Channel you're in a 72 Degree house I can do that oh sure trying to find more of yourself knowing that the real you is afraid likes Comfort likes living in a world that is uh that likes to Pat you in the back give the things that you want to hear not the things that you have to hear to get better that's where all this kind of start I don't need it I'm I'm good why do you still do this you right now are a leader you sit in this chair right now to thousands hundreds of thousands of people that's why you do it why you get up at 3 4: 5 6:00 in the morning is because you are setting the example for others to follow people always go what drives you now what should drive you now it's no more you like you said I'm comfortable I'm good it's not about you anymore you have to change your mindset to God gave you everything you want it's pay time you got to now start paying bills for the people in your mindset so you're suffering now like when people say why do you get up at 6:00 in the morning so then you can come in and set the example for everybody else 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 buds 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 top of the mountain you I buil 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 still [Music] soft there's a lot of quiet time I shut out a lot of noise I only have people in my life that that need to be there if you don't need to be in my life I'm not about acquiring more friends I'm not about noise I'm about okay are you trying to go somewhere you can you can jump on board if not I don't want to hear all your problems you have a solution for your problem that's what I'm all about right now so I'm not about whining complaining I'm about okay we need to go this way I'm big into visualization and also selft talk but also like where do I want to be in life where do I see myself and then I start making these plans and how I'm going to get there and I don't deviate from that plan because I realized once I was talking to myself the right way and all this wasn't in my mind wow I went from this kid who thought he was dumb not successful insecure who stuttered when I first saw somebody to a person who can now do all these things just because I now control my own mind and I don't care a lot of people say they don't care when you get to the point when you really don't care you become very very dangerous I'm not saying don't care like I don't care if I do that no when you don't care about other people and how they view you about how you walk how you talk how how you dress where you want to go with your life you know growing up I didn't want to tell anybody I wanted to be in the military cuz why some of my black friends I was afraid of what they think you know why you want to join the military man I was afraid of what other people thought about me so now you're not going to military I didn't know you want to feel the military y ain't tell you cuz afraid what you thought once again man you're allowing other people to Shackle your mind it's the worst thing in the world and what's funny about that often say it on the other side of that extreme place that I call suffering there's a whole another world that people have not even examined but you have to go to that extreme place to examine it you want to stay here in this comfortable place once you're going to push yourself to that extreme place it's like a whole another Universe it's almost like like you're an astronaut and you've examined something like up and out of space no it's always been there but you had to be going through all the muck to examine it you realize why God through all this CRA there's a whole another whole Another Universe over here in my mind whole Another Universe you don't want to break open that callous that that scar in your mind you want to break no you have to break it open let that blood flow you have let blood flow in your brain you have to let all that stuff flow out all that toxic stuff that you have trapped in there has to start flowing out now so like you said you are doing this to yourself yes people may have helped you get there but it's now on you it's a painful truth painful truth like all those people in high school and everything else they don't know how you're going to end up so you got to make sure that you constantly are rewriting your book you have to constantly rewrite your book every day of your life these aren't just words I say this is how I have to live like these are conversations I have with myself and I say it everywhere I go the most important conversation one you have with yourself you live with it every single day but most of our conversations are not the right ones you're not the ones that are going to push us to the place we need to go they're the ones that are going to keep us sitting in that toxic environment that you've helped create and everybody else helped create and you just live in it you live in that muck and that conversation just plays in your head that becomes you 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 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 father you know some of the kids that bullied me my learn disabilities all these things I went through in life stuttering has so many different issues failing and failing and failing at overcome them 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 our jail free card is that they're the one percenters 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 there're special minds and the mind can be created on your own you can do that yourself so that's why I write the 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 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 the time you get to chapter 9 or 10 you already forgot chapter 1 2 and 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 B you're loving the book and you already forgot the first three chapters because your mind saying this is impossible it's already guiding you down that path of least resistance as you're reading the book that'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 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 cuz 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 for me is for Everlasting 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 is how am I going to get there we 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 B's headphones on and silence the noise out of this world and Def find it that sets you apart from everybody else and and that's what it's all about where it gets hard and the harder it is the more you start to push back and the more you push back and then 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 wanted to eat 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 to discipline your mind better we need to help people more than just saying it's okay it's okay that you're not willing to 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 have so many Gil 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 un jacked 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 the 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 mil a week what I used to do I do now is I got to a point I be running I was like okay man we can do 10 miles today I get I get to 10 miles back oh no that demon that I let out every morning that walks the streets at night he comes say no bit not today man there's somebody out there that you don't know have never met in your entire life that is dueing 12 13 14 going to do another one and when you meet him you ain't get ready so goggin kept on running 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'm ready so when Cam Pop the up and cam calls hey man I'm GNA 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 got call an audible 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 fa 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 and 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 cuz when you're going to try to do something 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 fail 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 paralyzed you 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 world 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 the Mind always has the Tactical advantage over you why is that it knows your fears it knows your insecurities it it knows where they're hiding you're alone you're alone you may have a strength you're going to you may have a best friend you're going to but 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 you're 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 but being mediocre I'm like [ __ ] that man the worst thing that happened to me is I lost myself I never had myself I never found myself I had no self-esteem so I knew through working out and through learning I it took a lot for me to learn also I started finding self-esteem once I found that that's when doors started open up 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 what you're supposed to be in life man [Music]

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