This Habit Is Ruining Men! - How To Unlock Your Inner Beast & Become Powerful | David Goggins

my mom is this way my stepdad got murdered my dad beat the [ __ ] out of me i can't read and write to say my [ __ ] soul i've lied about it to everybody i've cheated on all these tests and then you put a goal in your mind how are you gonna feel man when you accomplish this goal coming from that [ __ ] coming from the [ __ ] hell you came from this might be exactly what i need the darkness is exactly what i need it's how you look at your situation

what am i going to do today to change what i see in this mirror [Music] today's guest is widely considered to be the toughest man on the planet and one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time but if you're tempted to dismiss him as the product of amazing genetics great parenting or even performance-enhancing drugs think again you know me son get it 19. yeah if you're not real and wrong with who the [ __ ] you are nothing's going to change and that's why i talk about the warrior mentality and that's why so many

people are lost i chose this world to be a warrior and i would choose it again if i came back to this world [Music] you must be that person on that door get ready to open it thinking to yourself if i die so be it are you accountable for what you're doing are you accountable and i mean to the t for what you're saying i am and that's where it started it started with that total total accountability of let's not lie today i'm even shaking right now being on this show i'm a big time introvert

how you address it is you face it this is a race that you run completely alone i said to myself no i'm a dumb [ __ ] okay roger that how you get smarter educate yourself buy this book i read it it is extraordinary it is one of the most amazing manuals for how to change your life ever and the very best may not be i'm number one the very best is did i leave everything inside of me out there that's the goal in life to put your life on a billboard on the busiest road

in the busiest highway in the world and say this is how [ __ ] up i used to be take it or leave one more carry the boats help me in welcoming the man who once ran an ultra marathon with pneumonia the king of no [Music] excuses i'm david [ __ ] goggins that's who i am we have the ability to go in such a space if you're willing to suffer and i mean suffer your brain and your body once connected together can do anything and this 30 miles was the life-changing moment i was out

of it i was in the worst pain in my entire life i was to me on the brink of death and i was able to chunk this 30 damn miles into small pieces i was so driven and i'm not going to say motivated because motivation is crap motivation comes and goes when you're driven whatever's in front of you will get destroyed so i sat in this chair and i was so driven to succeed in this race and at this time everybody goes were you thinking about the guys that died and i'm not gonna lie to

you i wasn't this became a personal thing this became me against this race me against the kids that called me [ __ ] me against me it it it just became something that i took so so violently personal and i broke this thing down into small pieces i said okay i got to get nutrition i got to be able to stand up before i can get off this curb and get off this chair and be able to go 30 miles so i went through all these small steps and i was able to stand up and

then from staying up i was literally walking around with my wife at the time and she goes you're not going to make the time she goes you're running you're walking like 30 some minute miles i got to my 81 and the second she said that i'm not gonna make the time i ran the last 19 miles non-stop and i can show you right now when we get done with this matter of fact i'm going to show you right now this was years ago and i had to put compression tape on my ankle and i had

so this was years ago i had literally the size of half dollars i had to get compression tape and i taped up my ankles and i taped up my feet and that's how i got through that race was it like a hematoma i mean what do we know see what happened was like my shins hurt so bad from having stretch fractures that the only way i can continue on was i taped it so i wasn't doing the flexor motion that that activates your your shins so i taped my ankles and my shins up and i

got that from because in my third hell week they won't let me go back through you know train anymore right so i literally went through all the buds my last seal training with stretch fractures and shin splints and how i did it was i would take my ankles all the way up to my calf every morning so for the first hour the pain was excruciating but what happened is my feet would go numb and i did that every single day for six months whoa and that's how i got through my third heli because i was

so broken from the first two that the commander said hey the ceo said this your last time we're sending you through so that's how i got the idea to do that so with the right and people may listen to this and say this guy is sadistic he's crazy he's no if you know how i came up you realize i was just a scared kid that found drive and passion to be something much better than what he thought he was and that's why i talk about the warrior mentality and that's why so many people are lost

when i start talking you have the right you're lucky that you don't have to think like warriors think you're very privileged i chose this world to be a warrior and i would choose it again if i came back to this world but the mentality of a warrior is very different than normal mentality you must be that person on that door oh get ready to open it thinking to yourself if i die so be it the only way you can go in that door is knowing there's a great chance you're gonna die it's like being a

seal you train with live ammo you jump on an airplane every ev everything you do you could die so to be a warrior why people don't understand me i'm glad you don't understand me merry christmas good on you because being a warrior takes a whole different mindset a whole different mindset to know that there's a great chance i may not beat him like i was in for 21 years i'm lucky i'm very lucky that i'm alive able to talk to you able to still run but when you sign up on that dialogue to be a

like a seal your mentality changes i may not live you gotta accept that and that's the mentality you have look at yourself man look at yourself and it was that day in a couple of days after that i just got real with myself and every day i came home i called the accountability mirror what am i going to do today to change what i see in this mirror what am i gonna do today and a lot of it was i stopped sitting with the cool guys i actually tucked my shirt in went to school looking

like hey man this is how i'm gonna look if you don't like it so be it i had to really wear this this this layer of skin i had to develop a really callous skin on me to take whatever you're going to call me you're going to call me whatever i'm going to be you know i want a geek but whoever i am you're going to see me you're going to see me for who i am because i need to change who i'm not and that accountability just became raw and i became fat over the

years i fell back in a hole i called myself fat because i was fat and people don't want to do that they want to say oh don't call yourself fat don't call yourself dumb if you're not real and wrong with who the [ __ ] you are nothing's going to change in this nice new world that we live in we want to hear you're just a little big no man you might be fat and it's okay to hear that from yourself and from your belly so that's where it started at and it's raw it gets

ugly sometimes with me in that mirror but i'm also proud of myself to be able to tell myself that and then fix what's in that mirror that that's what hits me and that's what i really want people to hear is that you can say those things a because they're true and be because you can fix them right and your whole life has been about addressing those things so walk us through how in the book do you help people start addressing it because that's what i think so powerful about your book so the first thing about

it is once you realize it and you have to realize it you got to call yourself out addressing it is very small it's like it doesn't go from like one morning um this way next one i wake up and presto you know five steps to greatness no it ain't that brother you read my book this is hard work it's every day like right now i had to be honest with you man i'm even shaking right now being on this show i'm a big time introvert how you address it is you face it you face it

every day you face it every single day of your life where you say okay like if you're fat you need to lose weight it's patience it's patience in this fact of accepting who you are right now i'm fat i don't like myself except in fact if you lose three or four pounds that's a huge accomplishment you have to live in your own [ __ ] world you cannot judge yourself that's why social media all these things are horrible you can't judge yourself off of the so-called competition that we have made up in our mind the

things that how people look how people like how smart someone is this is a race that you run completely alone and you're all by yourself i had tons of sticky notes all over my mirror it wasn't like be better than john or be as fast as whoever okay david yesterday you did this today our next goal for the week is this so i had a year goal weekly goals daily goals hourly goals and the big goals i lied a lot growing up i wanted to be accepted one goal was let's go one day without lying

let's go one day and then when i would lie to somebody i would say hey man now go i had to go back now and apologize hey man i lied to you you know hard it is to go back to somebody say i lied to you hey man you know what back there i lied to you dude i was really jacked up so i figured out these ways of total total accountability like right now i had to run this morning before i talk to you because why that's what i'm about i'm about mind mad body

fitness a lot of folks talk so much [ __ ] about hey i'm going to change your life i'm going to do someone do that are you accountable for what you're doing are you accountable and i mean to the t for what you're saying i am and that's where it started it started with that total total accountability of let's not lie today let's tell people the truth about who you are and when you can get on and tell someone like i'm doing right now exactly how [ __ ] up you are that's the goal in

life to put your life on a billboard on the busiest road in the busiest highway in the world and say this is how [ __ ] up i used to be take it or leave it each thing that is wrong with you has to be a focal point you can't look at this gigantic list and say i gotta 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 can't retain [ __ ] i had to now get that one thing and then strategize in that one problem how can i do this i'm not gonna learn like you i'm not gonna learn like anybody else how am i gonna figure this out so i then figured out okay where are my strengths here where my weaknesses in learning all right man how am i gonna do this and i figured out a way to do it but it's 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 from the daggone store and each page i have to write each page out maybe 10 times so there was a thousand page dive manual that i got 18 months before i went to dive school most people i'm not smart i'm gonna 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 had written that question so many times down in that in on you know on paper that i can 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 a lot of us mediocrity is everywhere right now and we're all trying to find an easy way out and we're judging ourselves let's say there's 10 people in this room and we're all mediocre but i'm the best of the mediocre people i now think i'm great i'm great we surround ourselves around people that make us feel great they tell us what we want to hear the second

we put ourselves amongst the uncommon people we don't like that feeling that challenge and feeling that of of that person's breakup at 3 30 in the morning hey push your [ __ ] on we're going for a run we don't like that challenge we like that person who says hey you know what man i don't feel good today man and they say oh it's okay brother we'll take a day off maybe get a pizza and [ __ ] watch the game we like that we we love that feeling why because you understand man we're good

bro we don't want that [ __ ] like this hey man no bro get your [ __ ] [ __ ] on man stop being a punk we don't want that in our lives we don't want that person who's constantly challenging our weaknesses we want that process constantly you know making us feel nice and good and secure nurse that's the mediocrity of life 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 lost my edge what's going on because 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 gotta build a [ __ ] 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 they hit a one-time deal they busted it open got

a lot of money but they're good you're mediocre now man what are you [ __ ] doing today tomorrow the next [ __ ] day that's why i'm listening to theorists i don't listen all that [ __ ] i listen to a [ __ ] who's like this man what's wrong man i'm [ __ ] tired dude why are you tired because tomorrow i gotta do the [ __ ] [ __ ] again man whatever the [ __ ] is that made me [ __ ] nauseous and sick to my stomach it made me hurt

there's no ending and that's the person i listen to that's the person who's gained knowledge you gain knowledge through suffering and on the other end of suffering is a world that very few very few have ever seen it's a beautiful world because that's where you find yourself you don't find yourself in over here you find yourself on the other end like the 100 mile race i was on i ran it for 24 hours i found myself on the other end of that [ __ ] race that 19 hours i found wow there's a whole nother

[ __ ] world out here that never even saw the world is in your mind and that's what all that mediocrity is about mediocrity is contagious everything i did was for someone else to like me it wasn't until i started reading my own book about how pathetic i was as a human being i can blame my dad i can blame kids at school i can blame having health issues a.d my mom not being around great mom but she was doing her thing right i could blame a lot of people and that's the book i was

reading and i put it off on everybody else it wasn't until i said you know what for me to fix this i gotta read what the hell what the [ __ ] is wrong with david goggins not not blame anybody read my books okay i'm afraid of my shadow how can i overcome that go in the military get your ass kicked do things you hate to do be uncomfortable every [ __ ] day of your life roger that i'm not the smartest kid in the world okay he said somebody's saying oh no you're smart no

no don't say that to yourself i said to myself no i'm a dumb [ __ ] okay roger that how you get smarter educate yourself so the things that we run from we're running from the truth we're running from the truth man so the only way i became successful was going towards the truth as painful and as brutal as it is it changed me it allowed me to become in my own right who i am today i hated jumping out of airplanes i hated shooting guns i hated the job as a navy seal but i

did it because i wanted to change myself everything i do i'm not really comfortable doing but if you choose to go that route to go be a navy seal you might as well go be the hardest [ __ ] in the world because if you're choosing to do something you have two routes you can go there and be a little a little weak person and get through barely and that's your reputation or you can go through the hardest guy you can possibly be that's your reputation so my whole thing is if you're gonna choose to

open that [ __ ] door in iraq or afghanistan open the [ __ ] and go in hard because they're gonna remember you by slowly opening it and peeking in so if you're gonna open it and you made the mind open it don't crack it open open the [ __ ] door go in that's with life if you choose if you're choosing to do something attack it because they're gonna remember you as not attacking it so i want to be remembered you can hate me there's one thing you can't say about me i didn't attack

it and the very best may not be i'm number one the very best is did i leave everything inside of me out there so attacking is not like oh i want to win this or win that or be the best the best is i'm i'm running against myself in everything i do and and that's and that's what i attack i attack myself i'm always questioning myself i'm always holding myself accountable talk to me about the accountability mirror so the accountability mirror is something that i kind of came up with in high school like i said

i started shaving my head when i was 16 and i got caught up in trying to impress so many people because no one liked me so i developed so many different identities let me sag my pants you know let me okay let me pull my pants up let me let me talk this way or act this way or be this way or whatever the hell it may be god dawg so many different things i did to try to fit in with so many different groups that when you look in the mirror that's the one person

you can't lie to so every morning i would shave my head thinking god i reflect back on some of the lies i may have told somebody or some of the ways i acted i didn't feel comfortable doing and i did it to impress other normal people the key were there is normal everyday people i was trying to make other people like me how pathetic is that so i i that this mirror would always tell me my like my reflection would say god you are a pathetic man how does that feel every day to be this

way so i would just start having myself accountable how how did i attack today how did i attack yesterday and if i didn't do something i was proud of i'd write down a sticky note and i would fix it so then my senior year in high school it was a totally different david goggins can you give an example with something that you wrote down and fixed all right there was a lunch table that i you know i wanted to sit the cool guy lunch table man i wouldn't i know even everybody's calling me a [

__ ] all the time i wanted to to try to act like somebody i wasn't so i could fit in and i sold my soul to the devil you know trying to act like no i'm i'm david [ __ ] goggins that's who i am and so i wrote down on a piece of paper [ __ ] the table sit by your [ __ ] self and that's what i did and guess what happened my table became a table people started sitting at because a whole bunch of people in that lunchroom felt exactly like i

did some people have been bullied some people are just stressed out some people are insecure some people are fat and overweight and the world puts a lot of this [ __ ] in your mind it's not just you yeah you help it and my whole thing is about i had to develop a mindset a mindset that was indestructible i had to armor plate my mind and it's 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 you know i would say to myself and that's just kind of where it comes from what i find so interesting is your concept of the governor that basically of the chills that an expert is somebody who's going to tell you what your limits are rather than the person that's out there practicing getting you beyond the limit so what is the governor and how do we strip it out of our lives i believe that most human beings are only living

at about 40 percent of their capability so the mine has a governor like a car if you're driving a car and the car has a governor on it the car may say 130 miles an hour but the governor set for 91. once that governor sets in you get to 91 that car starts doing this the car wants to go the car wants to go but that [ __ ] factory said uh-uh we're not going past 91 we have a factory a nice governor in our brain and it's a survival mechanism it protects us from pain

and suffering the second we feel that [ __ ] our mind says oh no this isn't fun we should back off we should sit down find something more comfortable and there's something about the mind the mind has the tactical advantage over you at all times at all times of your life the mind has a tactical advantage over you why is that it knows what you're afraid of it knows your insecurities it knows your deep dark lies and it starts to push you away from that [ __ ] it pushes you in a direction that is

comfortable the mind controls everything so what i realized was that when i was growing up and i was 300 pounds and i got all fat and i got all insecure i realized that my mind kept taking me in this direction when things got uncomfortable for me when i was facing my insecurities i was facing my fears my mind said oh no we have the tactical advantage we need to get you separate you from this feeling this feeling over your life's all about feelings we want the happy feeling we don't want that feeling of this sucks

why am i here and you don't have any so so you can't answer those questions so you leave i started realizing that if in that moment you can answer those [ __ ] up questions and you are now in charge of your brain versus your brain ruling you that's where all that stuff comes from so so the 40 rule is all of that you get to 40 your brain says we're done let's roll man this is starting to get painful this is uncomfortable so you sit down you have to figure out ways and everybody's different

that's how the book kind of talks about like we all have these things about you know five steps to this and four steps to this it's a lot more than that that's all [ __ ] it's it's a practice that you have to it's a habit so if you know that at 40 i'm still you know i'm feeling pain at 40 i'm feeling pain that's where the 40 rule kicks in now it starts okay i'm feeling pain my mind's saying all this [ __ ] to me it's saying get out of here run flee the

fight or flight kicks in okay we're done we're not good enough it starts telling you all these things you start to believe it because the mind controls all this is the time where you have to gain control back of your mind it's okay let me see if i can go 45 and once you start giving yourself more and more hope and start realizing okay the mind starts to be okay what are you doing we're supposed to be going right and you're going left you start then controlling your mind start finding more in you know in

yourself and it goes from 40 to a lot further than that but that's the start of it though get to get to the spot where your mind is saying stop wherever that is get there first and then that's when that [ __ ] starts to work for you you got to control yourself in that moment that's that's my happiness is is my reflection on the suffering of my journey knowing i never quit nor was i guided by anybody on this earth i was guided by something much more powerful and i listened and i chose the

path of most resistance talent not required i love that you've said that you lived the life of a monk what is what does that mean what does that look like why do you do that um so i stretch out every day for these two hours i don't drink i don't go out my regimen is i wake up have oatmeal run come back hit the weights um i'm a big sports guy i don't leave the house if at all but do stuff like this and i stress that at nighttime i find people that i trust which

is a very small group of people people who are honest and true to me people who will die for me and i'll die for them which is a [ __ ] small sure and everybody else man you know do you and i stay to myself and i let you do you i don't judge people i don't criticize you you want to be a douche bag and be an ass and not love this country do you ever want to do i don't care man i fought for this country for you to do you and i am

all about you doing you because i'm gonna [ __ ] do me and i'm gonna do me until i'm [ __ ] dead and i believe i i earned the right a lot of people haven't earned the right just because you live in this country i mean you earn the right you gotta you gotta live a little bit live and then have something to say or shut the [ __ ] up i'm okay with going on this easy highway over here the easy highway has all these [ __ ] signs and [ __ ] directions

how to get somewhere and you have to first be uncomfortable with how you feel about yourself with that voice that a lot of us like to run away from we all have it we all have that voice to say hey man you know you're you're kind of wimping out right now you're kind of being a little punk right now but a lot of us say okay that's okay it's okay to tell these little white lies to ourselves so we first have to face the real you the real me is david goggins the real me is

a guy looking at you right now saying i don't want to [ __ ] be on this show right now because i used to stutter as a kid and i'm afraid of that i'm afraid that here in a second i'm going to start [ __ ] stammering and stuttering the whole world is going to know that have all these issues but that's when i see right now okay goggins you gotta go on this [ __ ] show that's goggins goggins is saying okay david goggins you're a punk life made you this way we can't live

like this we can't live in fear we can't live in judgment we can't be afraid of what the [ __ ] people right now are looking at me saying about me we cannot be afraid of that that's goggins god is saying [ __ ] all of you who don't like me who don't want to and that person then comes in but you have to be david goggins to say man i'm afraid of this i'm [ __ ] up here life made me this way here i stutter i i have these issues with with reading and

writing and and i'm i'm fat and i'm insecure you have to face that in that dark room in that dark room is who you are but in that dark room is where you have to create another human being that walks out of that dark room to face who you are that's the only way you're 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 goggins like almost like that superman

cape 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 guidance in the dark room you face yourself you realize you want to be better you realize you don't want to be this weak insecure person in the world he has all these problems that we all have we all have social media is a great platform to tell you who we want to

be not who we are i'm deep in the cookie jar the cookie jar is something that i've made up of all the failures of my life all the things that i was i failed and i went back i failed and i went back and i finally succeeded all the things that kicked my ass i put them on the cookie jar because at times of hell even the hardest men 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 it's all it is

suffering is the true test of life and so that cookie jar travels in my brain so whenever i get put in a situation where i have poopy pants the woe is me mentality of oh my god life sucks i take a second i take the one second decision i step out of my life for one second go in the cookie jar pull up oh [ __ ] you went you were in three hell weeks and finished two one of those whole weeks a guy died and because it was so bad oh you are [ __

] badass you are i put it back in the cookie jar and i remember who the [ __ ] i really am i'm not the kid that got that that was called i'm not the scared kid this is who i am it's a reminder of who you truly are at the core of yourself but what i was saying to myself the whole time on that track and it and this is what i say to myself self-talk and visualization are the two keys to my success i believed for that last time 19 miles i was indestructible

because i took myself in that chair crapping up my back peeing blood on my leg shin splint stretch fractures i use all that for motivation versus negativity i use it for motivation i i said to myself who on this [ __ ] earth would still be going right now you are you are you gotta be the hardest [ __ ] on the planet is it true i don't give a [ __ ] at that time right it got me to the finish line of that [ __ ] race i believed it i believe it today

i believed it enough to where my body said he's not going to stop and that's i took all the negative things i need to go to the hospital this and that and i use uh who the hell could even get on that chair you did who the hell would even think about taping stress fractures up you did all those things i used for motivation when you really sit back at your life and you are in that dark room and you're looking at where you started from and you tell yourself god dawg man my mom is

this way my stepdad got murdered my dad beat the [ __ ] out of me i can't read and write to say my [ __ ] soul i've lied about it to everybody i've cheated on all these tests my god man and then you put a goal in your mind how are you gonna feel man when you accomplish this goal coming from that [ __ ] coming from the [ __ ] hell you came from a lot of people start from a good starting point they have a good foundation what if you can surpass all

these [ __ ] we have everybody who was [ __ ] way up here started up here and you had you started with no legs you had to grow [ __ ] legs to even start walking and then crawling and then running and then you start passing people and all that's given to them i had to use all this negative [ __ ] that was making me weak and horrible as a person i had to use this as the power that now fueled me had to flip it on his head and say hold up this

might be exactly what i need the darkness is exactly what i need it's how you look at your situation and i was looking at it all [ __ ] up having lived the life i've lived and seeing the other side not being afraid to attack what was in front of me has made me happy say that again in fact let me make sure i understood it getting to the point where you're not afraid to face the thing on the other side of the door that wants to attack you has made you happy right right it's

really powerful i hope people heard that right that made me very happy so basically i just don't walk around with a dad going to smile my face all day in time so you know merry christmas but um but basically what the dark side is is we all have a cookie jar and we all have a jar of [ __ ] that's its official name it's a jar of [ __ ] man where [ __ ] just it just ain't going right and in hell week what they do in hell week because this is where i

really went to the dark side what they do in hell week is they design hell week to find your flaws and they do a really good job of that it's 130 hours of continuous training you may get two hours of sleep and they beat the [ __ ] out of you and find everything wrong with your mentality and then they start hell week and that's the beauty of it and for me i'm not some not you know naturally god-given guy you know i don't have a great bit of talent in anything so what got me

through horrible times was the dark side was i created my name is david goggins i created goggins goggins is the guy that can take anything you put in front of them you want to break my [ __ ] legs so be it i have a way of going to a place like i did in that race where all the pain and suffering that they put on top of me in hell week i will reverse that pain and suffering and i will take your soul so every instructor that put me through budge my job what drove

me was i wanted you to go home that night after you beat the living [ __ ] out of me and i smiled in your face i wanted you to feel worse than i did and you were going home to a nice warm bed with your wife or your kids in a nice meal and i was still out there in the grip suffering for another 100 hours i wanted you to think about me knowing that i'm comfortable being very unfucking comfortable and i want you to think about when you went through [ __ ] hell

week how uncomfortable you were and how bad you wanted to quit knowing i'm not thinking that [ __ ] way so the dark side is something that i've designed it's the evil place i can go that very few things can hurt me i use the hurt you're trying to put on me i flip it upside down and use it you try to use it for kryptonite no it's power pillars for me i'm using it for strength i just flipped negative into positive so it is what do people come up to you and ask you the

most how do i do it how am i able to do what i do on a daily basis you know how do i fight the demons because they hear me speak and i'm very raw and real how do you fight my insecurities all these things and uh they're there every day the day every day like you said i'm in a search for a feeling i'm not in the search for a trophy i'm not in search for love not so much for more followers on instagram or social media when i started this journey years ago and

i realized that i'm going to be somebody and i'm searching for a feeling a feeling of true victory for myself and only myself the second i shut out the whole world and realize that one thing that i am in this world alone i'm fighting in this race by myself yeah i'm all about people i'm all about team i'm all about that [ __ ] but i'm really all about right now and in my life just like you said no one knows the real truth about me how hard i really go i don't care if anybody

knows i don't want anybody to know i'm an introvert i live an introverted life and i love that about me it that right there is my fuel is i know that there's really no one out there grinding like me and if they are so be it if i know about you i'll make sure that up my gang that's what the mentality is all about my whole thing is a mentality thing like i told you the last time i was on the show i viewed myself as the weakest person on the planet earth my goal in

life was to in my mind believe i'm the hardest man alive and that's why the whole thing is can't hurt me that's what it's about it's about whatever you think you are you have to make that dream a reality but that's where the hard part is is making that dream reality that's where the hard work comes that's where people know how do you keep grinding every day you have to make those insecurities those fears like when i was 300 pounds i didn't have any drive i'm going to be a navy seal what kind of stupid

[ __ ] is that 300 pounds there wasn't like a drive to go be a navy seal i was an insecure lying kid afraid i had to look in my insecurities and in my fear and find drive in that we're all looking for passion passions all around you you have a whole sh a whole [ __ ] stack of it all around you it's your insecurities all that [ __ ] you gotta dive deep in that [ __ ] all this it's all in there all the energy and fuel you need is right in yourself

it's all there you got a lot of stuff to do to overcome and you know that's where i found it i found it right there among insecurities i found drive in my own insecurities and that's that's the most powerful thing in the world when you can find drive in your own doubt fear insecurities you become very unstoppable you may have just changed me at a deep and fundamental level i've never thought about it like that so the number one question i get asked is how do i find my passion to which the answer is very

rudimentary and maybe ultimately not as true and powerful as what you just said which is there's another thing i need to tie this to that you talk about in the book which is people have lost touch with their bodies and you always tell people if you want to change go do something physically [ __ ] demanding like go find yourself in the suffering and in the pain of doing something with your body yes it is utterly fascinating to me and it's just hitting me now i'd never heard you say that before so i i'll reserve

final judgment for round three when we come back together but the thought of you feel lost you feel insecure you don't have a passion you don't know what to do you're reaching out to somebody you need that help you know you could do more be more and the answer is you in the last interview we did you called it the bag of [ __ ] if i remember right yes you reach in to the bag of [ __ ] and start changing those one by one that may be the most extraordinary piece of advice i've

ever heard in fact i will say the way it's hitting me right now that's the single most extraordinary piece of advice for self-transformation i've ever heard it's the truth who is sitting here right now today this is the real me obviously but um i'm gonna go kind of i'm a very philosophical person and i'm gonna go there with you real quick i believe in a higher power don't know the name don't know where it's coming from don't anything like that but i believe that this power and visualizing real quick let's say it's a man up

there or a woman whatever and they have a chart and when you're born they say david goggins born february 17 1975 at 6 00 am they write the chart down because they can see everything they know exactly what you're so [ __ ] supposed to be they know what you're supposed to be you die you go to so-called heaven you arrive at heaven i'm 300 pounds i retired as an eco-lab guy which is okay just a job whatever i go up there and god looks at me and he shows me my chart and my chart

on there says you were supposed to be a navy seal you're supposed to weigh 185 pounds you're supposed to be one of the smartest people on the planet this this all this you see this and now you're in heaven you made it to heaven but you're like god i was supposed to live that life i was supposed to live that life and then you find out that the reason why because we all think that if we pray on it if we do this if we do that whatever if we don't work we just whatever it

could magically happen for us no i believe that when i'm all said and done with my whole job is to outwork the chart whatever the [ __ ] chart says about me the all-knowing power up there i want to get up there and say him look at me and say i know everything i didn't [ __ ] see this i didn't [ __ ] see this i want to feel that i want to get to the other end of this [ __ ] world and however i'm being judged whoever's judging me to look at me

and say i did not [ __ ] know i had you at 185 how'd you get this but all this other [ __ ] i was riding as you were living it i want to i want to find more all i can and in that [ __ ] sack of [ __ ] you have to dive in that to find more because if you're not willing to go in there and face yourself you're not gonna find anything you're gonna live right here on surface man right here on surface so there is an ending to this

world and there is somewhere to go and there's a judgment you're going to get there and you might see a chart and that chart may tell you who the [ __ ] you should have been and now you get to rest your life to think about that man i could have lived a much better life if i just would have just suffered a little bit more if i just would have went in that [ __ ] and realized i had so much more but fear in the 40 and living here versus living here being afraid

stop me so that's i i'm a big guy in visualizing i'm a big guy in making a world it may not exist to me it does to me it does and i'm overpowering myself every day and you gotta find tools to do that that's the tool that i use the most important conversation you will ever have in your [ __ ] life is the one you have with yourself you wake up with it you walk around with it you go to bed with it eventually you're going to act on it whether you're good or bad

you have to that's why the whole thing about this book i have it's about you it is about you it's strictly about you finding who you are so many people die live 100 years never [ __ ] know who they are never know who they are you have to look in that mirror and know this there's so much more in here man because i can literally right now be a 300 pound guy spraying for cockroaches still to this day if i did not look in that mirror and say there has to be more to this

this can't be it is something where people um it's a it's a comfortable world a lot of us say you know like for instance i see these athletes right now who retire you know i'm 38 you know i'm 39 i did 20 years at the top of my game and i'm chilling out now you see him a year later and how they look what the hell just happened to you dude what the hell you're one of the greatest athletes of all time kids looked up to you women men of all ages looked up to you

and they hit the pinnacle where it's time to retire and their mind says i'm civilized the worst thing that could ever happen to any human being is they become civilized it's that total accountability like even when you retire there's a [ __ ] looking at me and judging me right now man i'm i was the baddest person to ever live it doesn't go away man you gotta wake up even though you retired you're never retired you're setting the example every single day of your life and being civilized feels so good i'm sorry man once you

get to the top you may retire but you ain't never coming back home man because now you're judged people see you falling off you want to be that guy who knows i may be retired from the sport or forever i did but i'd be damned if you ever see me looking like [ __ ] feeling like [ __ ] not arriving people i've arrived i've arrived mentality you're always setting the example civilization feels so good these comfortable feelings are what people want they want retirement they want that they need that they it's a it's a

yearning feeling i want it too people love putting a label on me about my god man you're just wired different not [ __ ] wired different dude i'm thinking right now after i got past my stuttering thing now i'm on a roll i'm good now you know what i'm thinking about right now i gotta [ __ ] wake up tomorrow and do the same [ __ ] again i gotta leave this [ __ ] interview and go stretch out for two and a half hours i hate that [ __ ] how do you find and

cultivate that drive like there is a kid right now watching this man and they feel like you felt they feel lost alone broken stupid lazy like they're never going to amount to anything and what you're talking about is the closest thing to a [ __ ] superpower that this kid has ever heard and right now he is on the edge of his seat how does he how does he like force himself to take that first step i'm very fortunate that i grew up at a time when there was no phones and there was no social

media and i suggest yes i'm on social media on a very limited basis because i have a story to tell and it's a great platform use it as a platform don't use it as your life my biggest advice to give everybody in the world is like i say we live in an external world everything is is you got to see it touch it it's external if you can for the rest of your life live inside of yourself stop listening to people who are calling you fat gay transsexual [ __ ] everything that is makes no

sense all these insecure people putting their insecurities on you you got to flush it out you got to just be whoever the hell god or whatever the hell you believe in if you believe in nothing but yourself i don't care what it is you got to take everything and throw it away you have to believe in one thing and that is yourself and and i'm not saying don't believe in god or what you believe in but right now for you to find greatness in yourself you're not going to find it by looking in a book

or by even hearing me i may give you the spark but you've got to go inside yourself to find it and that means you got to be quiet shut the [ __ ] up go in a room stop talking search your soul search your mind search your abilities and you'll find it but if you're not looking for it you won't find it so you got to go start your journey and the journey starts with you finding why the hell am i here on this planet earth why am i here and if you don't know that

you will live the rest of your life searching always asking the question why if you don't know who you are if you don't know who you are i can't tell you who you are what's the next phase of your life look like i i you can't imagine how intrigued i am to watch you over the next five to ten years well honestly i've i'm blessed enough to have survived the life i lived and to come out the other side with a bunch of knowledge so hopefully i can help people that believe that they're much less

than what they truly are help them find greatness in themselves and greatness isn't running 200 miles at a time or doing 4 000 pull-ups 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 and that's when i come into play but first you got to create your own vision and it's

not external it's the the vision created is inside of you most of this generation quits the second they get talked to you did this wrong you did this wrong or or they get yelled at it's so easy to you know to be great nowadays because everybody else is most people are weak this this is a softened generation so if you have any mental toughness any any ability if you have any fraction of self-discipline the ability to not want to do it but still do it people have a hard thing to understand i hate to run

and and what makes me so crazy it doesn't need more is people well why do you run if you hate it what are you talking about i don't want to take showers and eat either i hate that too the whole that's a life man that and and it wasn't until i changed that mentality that i became somebody i hated going to school so guess what i was dumb as [ __ ] that's what one plus one is two but if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do on the other side

is greatness that's what people understand by me running i am callous in my mind i'm not training for a race i'm training for life i'm training for the time when i get that two o'clock in the morning call that my mom is dead or something happens tragic in life i don't fall apart i'm training my mind and my body my spirit so it's all one so i can handle what life is gonna throw at me because the life i've lived it throws a whole bunch at you and if you're not physically immensely prepared for that

you're just gonna crumble and you're good for nobody you said i can be me the second you said i can cuss and be me and cussing people i said man you cost all the [ __ ] time why well i hate to say it the best way for me to get how i feel across i can't sit here and say you know what yeah i went through hell weekend man it was it was really hard no that [ __ ] takes your damn soul rips it inside out and then they say now we're going to

[ __ ] start it it allows me to express where i was at at a point of my life 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 oh god i love that we tap dance around the truth by finding the right word so i don't hurt you because you have thin skin no tighten up people it's okay trust me it's okay you might

be called [ __ ] one day it's okay you might be called some jewish word or some [ __ ] or gay word it's okay let them call you that 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 this [ __ ] and you'll read about me years from now how that's the question how are you gonna do that thicken your skin become more of a human being

don't be afraid of the reflection in the mirror because that's all you can be afraid of once you overcome the reflection in the mirror you've done it so the image in my mind of a man was not one that had earrings sagged his pants i i had this image in my head and i was going to fulfill that and i i didn't do any trends i stopped trending i stopped being this guy who whatever was new [ __ ] it that's not what i believe in i'm doing this this is what i want to be

this is what i'm going to be so it's incredible um how do you experience beauty and joy in your life what situations do you put yourself in what makes you laugh what uh what's the fun stuff for you it's funny you say that um i i just retired from the military in november 2015 and i was going and going and going and going and i never really i was a a happy guy but i'm never in the moment of like sitting back and i want to travel here to have fun or do this or that

i've never been that person but the first time i really got a chance to experience true happiness and true peace was i was like so what i did to myself to become who i am today it takes a great toll on your body so i believe god gave me time to rest and he took me out of commission not even the mind of goggins or could get me back up so i had about a good six seven months where i was out and when i was out i had time to reflect on all that accomplished

and that was the first time in my life where i sat back and said wow because only i i may be telling you some of the story i know the exact truth of how brutal my life was and how i shouldn't be on this show today and how the mind and how beautiful it is so what brings me joy and happiness is knowing how beautiful the mind is and i'm one of the few people that didn't read about it didn't experience it through some some drug i got to experience the beauty of true [ __

] willpower true [ __ ] you i'm gonna fail i'm gonna [ __ ] fail i'm gonna [ __ ] fail i'm gonna [ __ ] fail and i will succeed just me talking about that gives me a feeling i know what i did and i don't need to travel somewhere or to have this or have that i have it all here in my mind the beauty is remembering this young dumb what people called [ __ ] is now where i'm at today and that is when you finally get to that point for me it's

forever lasting peace i do need i could die right now on this show and i'll be happy ma'am we're all we are all great no matter if if you think you're dumb no maybe 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 bose headphones on and silence the

noise out of this world and to find it and to find it because it's out there but it's gonna take hard work courage self-discipline it's gonna take all the non-cognitive skills the all the non-cognitive skills to be great you know smart is good all this stuff is good that's all cognitive it's the non-cognitive skills that sets you apart from everybody else and and that's what it's all about i had a moment in front of all these great american heroes where i had a chance it was like so fast it went through me like like lightning

of i can't believe i'm here i can't believe i'm getting an award like this that that kid who was in the fetal position the majority of his life and so much the fact that my body and my hip flexors are tight to this day that even though i was standing erect my mind was in the fetal position and when i looked out amongst all those people it was a sense of pride that i can't even i can't even explain it's the moments of three hell weeks it's the moments of in that room by myself studying

for hours and hours and i was trying to catch up with all the kids who are above me it's just those moments like the real raw moments of life that was like boom hit me and we're gone but i was like i did that i overcame that [ __ ] you know it's like this is power behind all that [ __ ] and that's the feeling i was looking for in my life i found it wasn't money it wasn't fame it wasn't awards it was that feeling i have right now to feel i'm about to

break down but it's not of like oh my god i'm upset it's like i worked myself so hard that i turned a person this [ __ ] up into this [ __ ] right here not off of reading a [ __ ] book off a theorist off of going to work on myself and saying i don't know how to do this but i know that to get over there that [ __ ] side i gotta grind myself into a [ __ ] fine powder and i did it i did it all for sure will and

very few people will know how that feels very few i want you to realize that this world life is one big head game and once you learn to play the [ __ ] head game it's no longer a game anymore at all you can start living your life david thank you so much [Applause] buy this book i read it it is extraordinary it is one of the most amazing manuals for how to change your life ever and just this interview i think could be transformative for some people and the book goes into so much more

detail and really reaches into you and shows you how to do it in your own life he helps you find that 3.14 for you so that you can go out and do the things that you need to do but the things that i hope that you take away from him be honest with yourself be raw but understand that you can fix it stop tolerating mediocrity you have to detest mediocrity in your life and you have to understand the only way you're going to meet yourself is through pain and suffering and if you can become a

master of suffering the things that you can do with your life are truly unlimited you can truly break free of all of the limiting beliefs that you've put on yourself your circumstances put on you your family has put on you experts have put on you whoever it is you can get rid of all of that and completely blow your own mind with what you're capable of and one day you will have a shirt that instead of saying what would goggins do you'll be asking what would i do because you're the right person to ask and

when you get to that point nothing will ever be the same get the book all right guys if you haven't already be sure to subscribe and until next time my friends be legendary take care david [ __ ] hey everybody thank you so much for watching and being a part of this community if you haven't already be sure to subscribe you're going to get weekly videos on building a growth mindset cultivating grit and unlocking your full potential