How To Get Up Early Every Day & Win - David Goggins

you talk about performance without a purpose what's that so like for instance let's say you have no races let's say you have no classes no nothing you have there's no purpose in your life you know people need to have purpose to get up they need purpose to perform you need to get to a point in your life where there's nothing on the docket there is no 5K there's no there's no I'm going to get into school to be this or that and still perform to the highest level because what people don't get is one day

that thing's gonna come up and if you're not constantly performing without purpose you're not going to be ready when the time comes it's this magical thing purpose that we're all looking for but what's funny about it all is that we need these things to perform but we don't take a second to realize the purpose is always there the purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you you are always the purpose there may be another purpose like being a seal or going to college or whatever but the main purpose in life is you so

if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something you don't care enough about yourself and that's what you need to really research is man why am I not doing this for myself because that is that is the number one purpose in life is to better oneself so that's the only purpose I [ __ ] need so the reason I give up every day even though there's no race or there's no school there's nothing in front of me is because I have pride in myself but where do you go to you

wake up on a morning it's cold it's wet it's dark you've got no cartilage in your knee you've got shitty shots whatever it is that's the issue today keep talking you've got these problems right I need you to keep talking about what you were just saying it's warm on the couch your message says stay stay in bed it's comfy it's cozy you've got work later on you had an argument last night you're slightly hungover because I know every [ __ ] ain't gonna do what I'm gonna do so this is how you level up that's

how you level up I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there that fires me up that makes me [ __ ] happy what you just said that brings joy to my life right there why because I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch refuse to study a few more hours refuse to go deeper to go further and that's where I gained the advantage it's so easy to be great nowadays my friend because most people are weak most people don't want to go

to that extra mile most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks it's miserable it's lonely you talk about that you were kind of you know Lonely by yourself I was the same way And That Used To Hurt Me growing up now I [ __ ] thrive in that [ __ ] that's the only place to be well that was one of the things that is so surprising about growing up through difficulty you know so loneliness is one example right drawing up as a lonely kid what you realize is a lot of the

things that you feared or hated or embarrassed about as a child end up being the Genesis of the things that you're most proud about as an adult so the fact that you can work and thrive in solitude gives you the opportunity to be able to move to America and start a podcast or decide to do uh hell week three times in a row or it doesn't matter how long or dark the courses you're just gonna stay the fact that you were uh forced to be vigilant and to assess people to work out what's going on

when you became an adult allows you to detect the vibe and the energy of whoever it is that you're speaking with and know that this person's someone that I want to hang with and this person somebody that I don't right all of the things in fact I would go as far as to say there's not one thing in my life that I see as a pure advantage that doesn't have a dark side to it that came about at some other point as well right so one of the reasons that I spent so much time as

a kid in my bedroom listening to audio tapes because I didn't have anyone to play with right only child a little bit sort of unpopular so I'd be in my bedroom listening to audio tapes we go to the library every two weeks and we take the tapes back and we get new tapes and I bring them and listen to them again right but you roll the clock forward 20 years and what's the 2023 version of an audio tape it's a podcast broadcast a lot of the things that you love and value in yourself in adulthood

are the light side of something that you were ashamed fearful disgusted by when you were younger yeah I mean I think that comes from overcoming a lot of people you know wonder how did you become this how do you become so vulnerable how do you how are you doing a podcast now and you were this kid you overcame things you fought them and now this is what happens this is on the other side of overcoming it becomes you become very very powerful when you overcome yourself all those things you once covered from you're afraid of

when you face him eye to eye every day you know I become a person who has a great podcast let's say that someone listening who resonates with what you're talking about you know they've been through trauma they've been through hard times but they keep breaking promises to themselves and they're struggling to get off the couch and they're having a pity party how can they stop feeling sorry for themselves that's a difficult one because you have to want it you have to want to be better and it starts off with you have to have pride in

yourself you you have to have pride in yourself you have to have there's something about you whether it's your last name whether it's just the smallest thing you have to be proud of yourself if you have no prior to yourself I can't give it to you because you're always going to compromise you're always going to fold always I'm very proud of myself that's why when people said you know where you can do better than can't hurt me Roger that we'll [ __ ] see it's that Pride that wakes you up now that's about bad Pride

I I'm a the attention to detail for the human being I want to do I call this thing like I want to be the standard I want to be that guy like every place I went in the military there was this ethos about how this place is how we're going to live how we're going to represent ourselves and I walked around and I saw that most people didn't live up to that ethos like if you go to whatever whatever company they they had this mission statement on how we want to run our company I made

one for myself on how I want to be and that is why if people can make up a mission statement in ethos in which they want to live by and every morning you wake up you hold yourself accountable to that mission not a company is your own make up your own mission statement what do you want to be in life and once you do that now you can work with somebody to get better you can work with yourself to get better but until you know what you want to stand for you will always just be

sitting down you'll never stand for anything what's that quote if you don't stand for uh something you'll fall for everything that's it it's a true statement in the book you talk about uh Roger that there being two types of Roger that I absolutely adore the second type uh received orders given expect results that's it so cool above and beyond more than was expected that's right to the ladder that's Roger that that is for me what Roger that means received orders given yep expect results expect results that's right so [ __ ] dope that is it

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