How David Goggins Became "That Guy"

you are a guide that for a lot of people you sort of embody the idea of hardening your mind and figuring out a way to do things that most people think are impossible you've sort of become that guy how'd you become that guy you know what I grew up not that guy they see me now as the guy that with his shirt off who can do 4030 pull-ups in 17 hours you can run tours in five miles in 39 hours who can do all this crazy [ __ ] but what they don't understand is they don't understand the journey that it took me to get to this point in my mind I was always afraid my whole life I was afraid I had this voice this dis conscience that would always be battling me said hey you got to get up and do something I didn't want to do [ __ ] and I have a big time learning disability can my daddy that believe in us going to school so when I went to school my learning disability I had social anxiety I was just a jacked up kid from living in this tortured home so all the insecurities I have when I was a kid with my father it just got worse and worse and worse and it haunted me and that voice that talked about it kept talking louder and louder and louder I was doing nothing about it from the age of 19 to 22 I gained 125 pounds I went from 175 to almost 300 to 97 was my heaviest and I started finding things that was comfortable and the more things I found comfortable the more uncomfortable my mind was because that voice I was telling you about it always was there I was trying to avoid that conscience I wanted to be left alone from that conscious and it wouldn't leave me alone what changed I lost this Discovery Channel show class to 24 plus 2 to 4 and you really gotta find it within yourself to say you know I know I can do it I know I can finish it I know I can do anything they throw at me that's where it builds character if you find out if you got in yourself I watch the show and it made me reflect big-time on the piece of [ __ ] that I am and I'm exactly what people said I was going to be I was watch these guys going through hell week hell week the most dreaded week of bugs it's the ultimate test of one's physical and mental motivation around-the-clock regimen of intensive physical training and harassment with as little as four hours of sleep during the entire life and these guys ringing the bell quitting dropping their helmet down rolling out a lot of guys just leaving and it made me reflect on my fears my insecurities and I saw real men when I thought were real men who were staying who were overcoming adversity who were overcoming all these different things that I had blamed so many [ __ ] people in my life my dad my mom for not being there I learned disability my my skin color [Music] and so I sat there for a while and I was like no one's gonna [ __ ] come to help me no one's gonna [ __ ] come to help me he's [ __ ] me against me period I had to man up and I said of course the guy started doing his face in every [ __ ] fear I have [Music] so I started calling recruiters up I sent one go be a [ __ ] Navy SEAL there's a weight and height limit to get in the military and I was six foot one and two ninety seven and I caught this guy named Steven Sal recruiter up and he said hey come on in he saw me put me through the weight standard all this other stuff and to get into the class I had to get into how to lose 106 pounds in less than three months so I was like [ __ ] that I can't do that I grabbed my chocolate milkshake and went back to equal a tree spray for cockroaches I'm going back to work man this is my life [Music] I don't like cockroaches too much I hit the mother lode of cockroaches and I sat there and said this is my life this ain't gonna be it for me so I quit my job got back in my Ecolab truck and I went home so my first run when I decided to lose the weight I was like I said 297 I was about 32 percent body fat my idea was to run four miles for my first run I didn't know how bad it's gonna [ __ ] hurt me I used to run before I was fat and I was like [ __ ] it I can do this I ran a quarter-mile and walked home I walked home and sat on my couch and cried I said I can't [ __ ] do this I don't know what I'm gonna do and my mind just kept [ __ ] with me he kept [ __ ] you're not good enough man this isn't for you man these guys the best [ __ ] on the planet Earth you not that how do you move forward what it was and it's kind of funny I was obsessed with rocky and I was fast forward with the little VHS tapes to round fourteen round fourteen [ __ ] me up like nobody's business [Music] what is keeping him up when Apollo Creed beat the [ __ ] [ __ ] out of Rocky beat the [ __ ] out of he's kept firing me he was a dumb fighter couldn't read couldn't write that was me he was in the corner but I was saying stay the [ __ ] down down and him getting up him getting up Apollo Creed raised his arms up in the [ __ ] air turn around thought he won the fight he turns around and sees this guy getting up and it was the face of Apollo Creed that changed my life the face of Apollo Creed it was like just by that [ __ ] getting up not winning just by him getting the [ __ ] up rocky had taken his soul had literally taken his soul he's his head goes down he looks at my food what the [ __ ] are you I want it to be that I want to be the guy that people looked at I don't keep you liked me or didn't like I don't care but said this [ __ ] gonna keep coming after whatever the [ __ ] is in front of them I wanted that I wanted that I wanted that worse than anything in the world I kept picturing me falling down and getting up I wanted to feel something besides defeat I wanted to this go to distance I say what if a lot it sounds corny and it sounds weak but it's true my story would it be my [ __ ] fat dumb insecure ass can overcome this [ __ ] but if I can be a seal man how would that feel to go from this fat insecure [ __ ] to one of the best guys on the planet Earth this journey could take something that is gonna be incomprehensible to most people so I would sit my couch saying go back to 97 who can't [ __ ] swim that Greg who scary the [ __ ] water we have the [ __ ] balls they the balls to [ __ ] man up quit a job and they put everything on himself so it's how I started talking to myself and put myself in a whole different category and that was fueled me the next day and I just kept using that as fuel in fuel no one would do this [ __ ] nor do this [ __ ] you're the best [ __ ] around you're the best [ __ ] ever live I just kept fueling me with the with the right kind of message that I needed to hear that was never telling myself [Music] so it became from being defeated to like man all right [ __ ] maybe you know maybe the Marvin go 2.75 but I started realizing I can't run that far so what I did was I became damn near professional cyclist with the miles I put it on the bike I rode a bike a lot to it to lose the first initial kind of weight cuz it took my bones were just hurting so bad my body which is broken and then the bike got easier I was able to run more I went from like one mile well mile is a great accomplishment two miles and then from two to three was a bigger then I went from three to six they have a warning order that they give people to get ready for buds and the whole thing was running six miles five days a week and that was my goal I failed I go back to scratch I'll use some positive motivation I have like one day when I'd like [ __ ] defeated but I started realizing this is part of the process this departed journey versus just saying like I used to I'm just not good enough we always say that [ __ ] and that's not good enough and let me try something else I'm gonna [ __ ] make myself good enough and that became my mentality I had to invent a guy that didn't exist I had to invent a guy that can take any pain any suffering any kind of judgment I had to build this callous mind and I built it to suffering I built it to downright [ __ ] just crushing myself if it was raining outside three o'clock in the [ __ ] morning for snowing my instinct was we gotta [ __ ] go out there anything that was [ __ ] horrible in my life that I would normally say no that was inhumane and most people I had to go do it and I lost the weight I went back to recruiter I got into that class and I went through three maybe two weeks in one year only God ever be in three hell breaks in one year to my knowledge the first and I didn't make it through the next two I did I didn't stop anymore from there and I started realizing through this through this process that the [ __ ] mind is what you created and I started opening at different doors that I didn't think we're even there that anything even existed and the more doors open up the more I start realizing that my potential is damn there endless if anybody knows my life story I'll try to give you a buck just a snippet of it to get to where I'm at now there's nothing but prior to have for myself that I can't really I can't really show people cuz I have this face and its face that they see like are you happy what's wrong with you you're missing a story man am i happy what the [ __ ] do you think don't misunderstand the past in wish I speak for not being intensely happy but I'm not done no I have a lot more [ __ ] to do a lot more [ __ ] to do [Music] you

Channel: JRE Films

Views: 1,570,920

Rating: 4.9659081 out of 5

Keywords: Joe Rogan Experience, JRE clips, short film, documentary, doc, David Goggins, Motivation, navy seal, inspiration, class 224, buds, rocky, round 14, seal training, fitness, weight loss, goggins motivation, jre films, powerful jre, david goggins interview, running, interview, mindset, me vs me, joe rogan, podcast, uncommon, david goggins motivation, david goggins navy seal, david goggins story, motivational video

Id: 50XxKdBQHqY

Length: 11min 59sec (719 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 01 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ivorjawa]

Then he became That Guy again.

[u/Get--some]

He worked for a friend of mine while in the Teams. No good things to say about him or his work ethic. Dude just needed to get out of the community.

[u/trevlambo13]

Read his book, or get it on audiobook. Cant Hurt Me. Really good. The Audiobook is better, because the guy narrorating stops once and a while and him and Goggins talk, so its almost like getting a book and a Podcast at the same time.

[u/Samsaraaaa]

Inspirational 👍

[u/effectivepull]

Callous mind!