Joe Rogan - David Goggins Journey From 300 lbs to a Navy Seal

the Joe Rogan experience how'd you become that guy you know what I grew up not that guy yeah so a lot of people put a title on me they want to they see me now 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 and what got me to this point was I was just the opposite everybody the day I was that guy who ran away from absolutely everything that I got in front of me but not many people knew that I had two people had the like the real me was like this very scared insecure stuttering got beat up by his dad's kind of stuff and I bought this fake person that walked around like my [ __ ] didn't stink you know you know yeah so that was that's kind of how I did it and I do the process of time I realized that I was lying to myself and lying to people but that it's a fascinating journey though because you are that guy now I mean you genuinely are legit badass right at one point in time you were a legit terrified person yes so what was the process like how did how did you step forth well it's a it's a long process right um I my dad beat the [ __ ] on me was growing up we I was the first black baby born in this hospital called Millard Fillmore in Buffalo New York my dad owned the skating rinks he owned bars he ran prostitutes from Canada to Buffalo New York my dad was a big-time pimp big-time anything bad about a person big-time hustler he was American you know that I'm with them Denzel Washington he was that but not that bad right you know he wasn't that big but that's what it reminds me of he was that kind of guy and beat the [ __ ] out of me this year you know I love my mom there was an instant one time when my mom got knocked out on top of stairs he struggled down the stairs by her hair it has six years old I'll never forget this in my mind I was always afraid my whole life balls are for I had this [ __ ] voice this dis conscience that would always be battling me saying hey you got to get up and do something I didn't want to do [ __ ] you know I was just afraid but I would that that voice would forced me to get up and my dad you know I try to beat him up whatever at six and I get my ass kicked so this went on for several years and I have a big time learning disability can my dad didn't believe in us going to school so my dad it was about the business the skating rink in the bar so this game you open about seven o'clock at night and this is when time I was able to walk so about five you know four or five six years old eight nine and I go to the skating rink it's ten o'clock at night and I worked the skating rink until 10:00 at night and then we would scrape the gum off the floors and we cleaned the whole skating rink up and then my dad in the office and my brother and myself asleep in the office and my mama go upstairs and worked the bar until 3 o'clock in the morning and then they cleaned the bar up so after all that stuff was done with going to school really happened so when I went to school I was all kind of you know my learning disability I had social anxiety I was just a jacked up kid from living in this tortured home from the outside looking in we lived in the all-white neighborhood and then we would travel to the ghetto of Buffalo New York with the skating rink was that so we you know we worked around mostly blacks and I lived around mostly White's but no one knew what was going on the house on 201 Paradise Road you know it's crazy but um my mom got courage to finally leave him when I was by 8 years old we moved to a small town in Brazil Indiana and that's when the real war started for me and Brazilian is a small town great people a lot of great people and I say that because why people get offended and I'm gonna get to the point what they get offended there was about maybe 10 black families at about 10,000 people in town and in 1995 the KKK marched in the 4th of July parade so this was a not everybody was racist there's a lot of good people some the best people I knew was there but there's also a lot of racism there so me being one of the few black kids net you know in the area you know it kind of haunt you I had stuff on my notebook you know [ __ ] we're going to kill you on my Spanish notebook they had that on my car [ __ ] this is early 90s and so even though I sewed it didn't hurt me it was jacking me up so all the insecurities I have when I was a kid with my father I moved into this area here and it just got worse and worse and worse and it [ __ ] haunted me and that voice that I talked about it kept talking louder and louder and louder I was doing nothing about it and I decide to make moves and I cheated all through school and it's kind of humbling the top of my story sometimes in this um it's also embarrassing but it's real it's who the [ __ ] I am is what I am is what created me and copy from the fourth grade to the to my junior year in high school on every assignment and I want to get in the military I'm gonna join the airforce and the guy gave me an as vapp test as I could wander down SAT and I couldn't copy on it because the guy beside me how to test a test be they got am i right had test see so I've looked the copy on this test and I couldn't copy honest I got like a 20 and I wanted to be an Air Force pararescueman it's guys that jump out of airplanes and save downed pilots it's a it's a special operator in the Air Force and my score was so horribly low that is we take it again and he said hey I got an 18 the second time even worse I need to get a 50 out of a 99 and so my mom and I for a while we lived in the government subsidized apartments $7 a month and also food stamps and we slowly moved up to a $230 a month place but at the time you know we you know pretty poor but um my mom afforded enough money for me to go to see a tutor one one hour a week so for four hours a month it had six months to study for our last test I was gonna take the a service to know the answer to test three times and I studied my ass off and passed it and I got in the Air Force and realized there was more things in front of me I was afraid of water purify the water and I learned how to swim but what gets everybody in this training in all special off training is the water confidence when they try to pretty much drowned your ass you know all of our lives we've been breathing and they take that from you if they want to see how comfortable the water and there's a 1% african-americans in Special Operations and I didn't know anything about African a lot of them are negative buoyant which I am because the bone density I struggled but I'm six weeks in the program there was about 25 guys left of about 150 I was there and I was never I didn't gonna sleep for six weeks of the program and I wanted to quit so badly but I quit everything in my life I copied through school I want to prove people wrong and so here I am in this Air Force program starting to get a lot more confidence but this water was kicking my ass and six weeks in the program the doctor gave me a blood test it was I have sickle cell sickle cell trait not the anemia but I still killed people but so they put me out training for a week and when you go from being very uncomfortable in that water situation and then now you're comfortable and I'm sitting back watching the guys drown I'm not you know I'm not part of the activities anymore for this week I don't want to get back in that damn water again so the fear overcame in all my insecurities for my dad from this small town from everything and started coming back and even though no one knew how [ __ ] up I was kind of create this other person who was tough I live with this [ __ ] all time so mean I wouldn't go back in that water the doctor called me a backup I thought to get like a like a medical kick out of the military so no quitting for me they're kicking me out so I can had some pride the doctor said no I'm kidding you know we could put you back in the training and I was like [ __ ] but after a week I'm like you know what I missed one week there's only three weeks left there's a good chance you know I could tough this [ __ ] out and go on but I went back to the CEO and the commanding officer of the program and the sergeant said hey you gotta start from day one because you missed you know that that week of training and I broke I broke I I couldn't imagine going back through that again so I made up a lie and I said man there's sickle-cell things really scaring me it was the [ __ ] water it wasn't sickle cell and and I pretty much quit even though they gave me a medical and I quit so from the age of 19 the age of 22 I went into the job called tack pee where you control fast movers behind enemy lines cool but there's no water I was afraid the water so I avoided it and I gained 125 pounds in that time frame I went from 175 to almost 300 to 297 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 just trying to avoid that conscience I said I wanted to be left alone from that conscience and it wouldn't leave me alone so I got out of the Air Force and I started working for a job called ecolab respray for cockroaches at 24 and spraying at different staking sheiks Red Lobster whatever from 11 o'clock at night at 7 o'clock in the morning and what changed I came home and watch this Discovery Channel show I'm class 224 I came home from Steak N Shake I sprayed it down last get a big ol large 42 ounce shake walk across the street and get a box of mini doughnuts from 7-eleven now I Drive home for 45 minutes this big old fat guy who yeah I worked out but I was fat I didn't run didn't PT I hit the gym so I'm driving home turn the TV on and what comes on just cover each other so and that's where everything changed for me I was taking a shower I walked out heard these guys and I watched the show and it made me reflect big-time long the piece of [ __ ] that I am and I'm exactly what people said I was going to be so so what was on this show that really struck home it was um I saw these guys going into water so I was terrified of it I can't even express have you ever had a big fear and I know a lot of fighters have fears and stuff like that but they get over them but all of us have these fears that you just don't want to [ __ ] face and I have a lot of them I had a lot of them and that's what created the person who's in front of today and we'll get into that but I'm just a scared [ __ ] is what I was and but I was watching these guys going through hell week class to 24 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 are staying who are 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 when I was 14 years old my my mama's gonna get remarried to this great guy he got murdered and then I moved back to a small town in Brazil and and I everybody was a blame my learned disability my my skin color you know me being everything and so I sat there for a while and I was like man I gotta [ __ ] I got it no one's gonna [ __ ] come to help me no one's gonna [ __ ] come to help me he's [ __ ] me against me period and I'm so I had to man up and I said first thing I started doing is facing every [ __ ] fear I have no matter what the [ __ ] it is man and I these things would keep me up and not no one people who are here in this [ __ ] day they will never really understand and grasp when you face these things and so many things how they keep you up and haunts you at night I think there's a lot of people out there that know what you're talking about I mean you know I'm so that's what it did and I had two options to either be that 300-pound guy who spray for cockroaches have made a thousand dollars a month and at 24 years old knowing without 50 [ __ ] years old I can reflect on this and think about what God never became or I can totally just sack it up and fail and fail and fail and try and succeed so I started calling recruiters up I someone gonna be a [ __ ] Navy SEAL and every recruiter so there's a weight and height there so they weigh weight and height limit to get in the military and I was 6 foot 1 and to 97 and I had prior service which was a big deal so I called all these recruiters up and all of them said hey how tall are you blah blah they got into conversation and see if I he's even qualified and by the time I got to my weight phone we were hanging up pretty much like hey you know what call somebody else and I'll try to get in the reserves so I tried to get in the reserves yeah I call this guy named Steven salad your recruiter up and he said hey come on in he saw me put me through the weight standard all the sort of 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 I'm going back to work man this is my life so in this job you look you know you're looking for cockroach she's looking for rodents and stuff like that and this next morning or this next night I went to work and I hit the on like cockroaches too much I hit the mother lode of cockroaches and this restaurant got full of cockroaches and rodents and everything else and I sat there and said this is my life I said this is my life you are exactly who the [ __ ] this is it and I said this ain't gonna be it for me so in that restaurant I quit my job left my canister in that restaurant my spray canister got back in my ecolab truck and I went home and I started working out like somebody I was I became the most obsessed person on the planet Earth now I was basically 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 be called [ __ ] be called whatever the [ __ ] in the world and be understand the [ __ ] room and say go [ __ ] yourself and it built the 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 feeling the first instinct is don't go out there and do [ __ ] 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 started callous in my mind at this point in my life and I lost the weight I lost the weight and I went back to recruiter I got into that class and I went through three Navy sohail weeks in one year only God ever be in three hell weeks in one year if to my knowledge the first one I didn't make it through the next two I did and that I just didn't I didn't stop any more from there and I started realizing through this through this process that the [ __ ] mind is what you created and I started opening different doors that I didn't think we're even there that anything even existed and the more doors are opening up the more I start realizing the my potential is damn near endless and it changed my whole mindset so I'm went from David Goggins and I created Goggins and that journey is a priceless journey that is hard for me to explain to people because it sounds so quick and easy that guys lost this weight and I went through three hell beast I went to Ranger school went to Delta Force Lexton whatever it is it was brutal it's a brutal journey every [ __ ] day and if ever less what are you happy if anybody knows my life story and I try to give you a just a snippet of it where I'm at two days in front of Joe Rogan telling you my life to get through what I became to get to where I'm at now there's nothing but pride I have for myself that I can't really I can't really show people because I have this face and this face that they see like are you happy what's wrong with you I'm driven I'm obsessed and that's what you see that's it people need to hear this story this is a this is an exciting story for people because there's a lot of people out there to feel trapped and they feel stuck and they feel like they can't do anything this is who they are you're a guy who felt that exact same way but figured out how to not be that person and be a person and you would admire how did you what were the first steps like you had some slips before right because you you quit because of the water thing right but then when you went back the second time and you decide you're gonna lose all that weight and you quit that job did did you was it just straight forward from there or where there's some days where you just failed and then you picked it back up again so my first run when I decided to lose the weight I was like I said 297 I was about 32 percent body fat and I went 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 miss my mom's house who was about forty about maybe twenty minutes down the road and cried and getting her couch saying I can't [ __ ] do this I don't know what I would do I just got somebody pregnant my life was this [ __ ] I was making $1000 a month my rent was 810 a month and my mind just kept [ __ ] with me and kept [ __ ] you're not good enough man this isn't for you man guys the best [ __ ] on the planet North you not that and um what it was it's kind of funny I was obsessed with rocky rocky one in particular and when I was a kid I come every day and I watched his [ __ ] show Rocky and I was fast forward with the little VHS tapes to round fourteen round fourteen [ __ ] me up like nobody's business why this song came on right so when I bought the pull-up record I listened to the song for 17 hours it's 2 minutes and 13 seconds and I'm able to visualize and dream like nobody's business and I know that I can create a vision that many people can't and I work for so the vision I had was when Apollo Creed beat the [ __ ] [ __ ] out of Rocky beat the [ __ ] out of him he's kept fighting he was a dumb fighter couldn't read couldn't [ __ ] Azmi couldn't read couldn't write just punchy everything about him and rocky beaches are probably [ __ ] using that corner everybody was saying stay the [ __ ] 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 bought him getting the [ __ ] up Apollo Creed was his champ he is best rocky had taken his soul had literally taken his soul he's his head goes down he looks at my cool what the [ __ ] are you I wanted to be that not Rocky I want to be the guy that people looked at I don't if you like 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 so that is I kept picturing me falling down and getting up and every [ __ ] that called me [ __ ] I was dumb even myself even myself I wanted to feel something besides too I wanted to just go to distance and that going to distance pushed me to a point of where now I go way past the distance so you go the first day you run a quarter-mile and you walk back home and you're you're upset how do you how do you move forward so basically I did was I came home and I had a talking milkshake i sat down and i gave up i said saying go [ __ ] happen Maggie lose 160 pounds and I came and go a quarter a [ __ ] mile I started being able to take negative [ __ ] and be happy and this whole I say what if a lot it sounds corny and it sounds weak but it's true one of the recruiters said there's not many black Navy SEALs in fact I was at 36 African American seal in history is in over 60 years because the [ __ ] water you know I mean people get mad at me it's [ __ ] true just get over it and so I was like man what story would it be if my [ __ ] fat dumb lying to be friends with people insecure ass can overcome this [ __ ] and that would if mentality like that that dreamer mentality just would always fuel me it was a few it man what if I can be but if I can be a seal man what if I can go from wearing a quarter of [ __ ] mile now I run 205 miles what if I can go but just what if I can go in and what if how would that feel if I'm graduating kind of get at that graduation thing I was talking about 224th like the video I sat down I watched this command officer stood up and he said to the graduation guys your graduating buds like eighteen of them he said we live in a society where mediocrity is often rewarded and he went on to say something about these men detest mediocrity and I wanted to be a man that the test mediocrity you know it got me a lot of trouble in the SEAL Teams and going forward in my life because I just I started looking down on people for not going hardest [ __ ] [ __ ] and I started to create different things but that's for a different day but I just believe that you know my whole mind changed [Applause]

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Length: 22min 25sec (1345 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 19 2018