do the hard things.

you're going to lose sleep you'll doubt whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you won't finish your to-do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for yours this is what hard feels like and that's okay everything worth doing is hard and the more worth doing it is the harder it is the greater the payoff the greater the hardship if it's hard good it means no one else will do it more for you my biggest fear honestly was let's say this let's say uh I don't care

if you believe in God or not I don't care so this let's just play a game with me let's say let's say you're God and we have a big long line of people and I made to heaven I'm 75 years old I'm 300 lb I made to Heaven I worked for eolab my entire life spraying for cockroaches that's what I did but I'm dead I'm in heaven now and you are at you're you're judging us all now so we're in line we're all sitting there in line you have Adam Brown he has a big board

up and you're talking to Adam Brown about his life and you rip it down I'm next in line David Goggins I see my name and I see all this and God goes hey you say read this man and I'm reading this list and I'm seeing 182 lbs Navy SEAL Ranger school motivational spe SE changing lives okay man pullup record all this and I'm like that's not me man and God looks at me and says that's who you were supposed to be hard work actually works and with virtually everything it might not make you the best

at whatever it is you're pursuing but it will certainly make you better than you are we're built to walk uphill and when you reach the Pinnacle of the Hill you want to stop and appreciate the vision but the next thing you want is a higher Hill in the distance because it's the uphill climb that it's it's from the uphill climb that we derve our value and I mean this technically so almost all the positive emotion we feel especially the the the the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm and that's to be filled with the spirit

of God by the way because that's what enthusiasm means that's experienced in relationship to a goal you're lazy you know exactly what to do do exactly what to do cuz even me in my state of I can't read and write I knew exactly what to do it just sucks doing it it sucks to do it I think a hopeful message that anyone can think about who's about who's in that hard period or in that start period is that it won't get harder like this is the hardest part and so if you can just make it

through this everything else is downhill it's not that the things that you're the dragons are going to slay aren't going to get bigger they are but you become so much more equipped to slay them back so when I was growing up for like 3 years so so from time I was 8 to time I was like 12 we live in a $7 a month place and what I call it is I'm always paying rent in that $7 a month home every day of my life I go back and revisit that place that place made me

this G animal that place made me this hard man and then from that place so that that that place is hard work that place is going back to the fundamentals of Life the fundamentals of what made David gagas David gagas going back in there going back to the going back to the library of David gogins studying even more than what I know taking that out going back to where I'm at now and then moving forward difficult things make regular life less difficult because regular life can be confusing and little things that go wrong and little

problems that arise are exacerbated by the fact that you're not accustomed to dealing with hardship and it ain't going to come overnight you're going to take a be you're going to take this you're going to get knocked down you're going to get up and you're going to see if you got the right thing but you got to work hard I think PE any person any human realizes that if you want some kind of a good outcome you're going to have to work hard for it and if you and if you don't work hard for something

you're not going to get an outcome that's really worth much there's things that you can control there's things you can't control now I will tell you that human beings can control a lot more than they think they can can and often times people say that's not my fault there's nothing I can do about that and more often than people think there is something you can do about it you play the game zero sleep zero sleep zero sleep it's like you know um kids you know Natalia had a certain you know Health situation or what have

you and you staying up all night and then uh you got to go out and perform because fans don't know you teammates don't know nor do they care nor should they that you've been up all night you got to perform right and so um you just got just got to go to work [Music] man you got to leave by example if you want your kids to do whatever it is they want to accomplish in life you have to show them M you can't you got to show them and that's what I tried to do those

early days that little trench winning in the weeds of often times gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else and so rather than lament them and hate the fact that you're going through it remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you're going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons I find that consistency consistency is the key yeah and consistency doesn't always guarantee success but if you're inconsistent if you don't take those steps you'll never be successful this world we live in

is tough it's tough it will beat you down the world in the life that we live in is the ultimate competitor it will try to take you out it will it will find your weakness and it will just Hammer you the advice I would give to my 20-year-old self would be to work work harder you know even when it feels like the work isn't mattering it will matter you know delay made does not mean denied motivation is a feeling that comes and goes and it doesn't matter whether it's there or not discipline is infinitely more

important so no matter how you feel get up and do what you're supposed to do that's it and that's discipline it's not motivation if you only did what you were supposed to do when you were motivated to do it that's leaving it to chance but if you're disciplined you go to what you're supposed to do that's the way it works what's more beneficial in fact can serve as a tremendous amplifier on all Endeavors that you engage in especially hard Endeavors is to a not start layering in other sources of dopamine in order to get to

the starting line not layering in other sources of dopamine in order to be able to continue but rather to subjectively start to attach the feeling of friction and effort to an internally generated reward system and this is not meant to be vague this is a system that exists in your mind that exists in the minds of humans for hundreds of thousands of years you're here to live not to not to sleep and the problem with the vision of my Ties on the beach is that well first of all that's an invis that's a vision of

of drug induced unconsciousness second it's only going to work for about a week third you're going to be a laughing stalk in a month and depressed and aimless and and goalless it's no that's not it's it's you want a horizon of ever expanding possibility when you can learn to do things when you don't want to when you don't feel like it when you're tired when you can learn to push yourself to do them that's when the world opens up to you that's when success knocks at your door but if you can't you'll never succeed because

I guarantee you there is some guy out there who's working when he's tired y who's working when he doesn't feel like it who's working when he doesn't want to and he's going to outwork you no matter how much you improve no matter how much you change who you are it's not permanent you'll just wake up and say oh my God man you're you're David gogins you break records you do this you do that people want to know how are you how are you able to just be so hard cuz I never turn the thing off

cuz once it turns off I go right back to the David goggin that is and that's the guy that I'm constantly fighting every day m [Music]