F**K ATTENTION & Work Harder - 1 Hour of David Goggins

I had the ultimate blueprint by watching my family I was the youngest kid so the youngest kid has the total Advantage you know you may get picked on you may get bullied with everybody but you sit back and exactly what you said I sat back and watched my dad definitely don't want to do that my mom my brother whoever it may be I sat back and I paid attention to everything around me and it was the ultimate blueprint to how to live life how not to live life is I watched people do I said uh

I don't want to be like that I know where you are I know where CU I've been there that's why I helped so many people out I've I've never been above you I've always pretty much been beneath you and that's where my knowledge came from so I know how to reach those people who are in the dungeon because I've been there so many times uh I call it part-time Savage I started kind of going through this I started getting you know a little bit in injuries a little bit this a little bit things that back

in the day never slowed me down when I got my head out of my ass and realized that hey we have more left we can still push harder we're not there yet I realized talking to a guy named Cameron Haynes who this race 240 mile race and um is this a new level is this a new push so when I decided to do that race it was in the back of my mind like man I've really become an expert at running 100 mile races so so for me this was the new level the 200 plus

mile race and what was so amazing about that as you probably read in the book I had a hard time the first time doing it I came back and did better but what's amazing about the human mind is that it becomes your new Norm like to to to think that I can run 200 miles 240 miles and that becomes like running 50 I never thought that was possible this is why I'm I'm always pushing that limit because I know that within pushing these limits there's always more so I end up doing like almost like backtack

200 mile runs when the 200 mile race 240 mile race was hard at once it became something that was very easy after I figured it out all those miles I've run on this thing it's it's uh it's been a lot of uh it's been a lot of gut checks because when you get to 70 miles of a race and you felt the way I did it's to me it was humanly impossible to even think about going 30 more miles in that shape and once you do it what what came over me when that shower hit

me in the reality hit that I went 101 miles and that last 31 miles was something that I can't even describe to people and she's like we got to get you to the hospital so at the time my mom was seeing this doctor and he was like you know so so she's describing to my mom what I'm going through he's like you got to get in the hospital now and I just said just just shut up and let me enjoy this pain I don't want anything to numb it I don't want anything right now because

what I had done was I just in my mind and people would take this wrong and take as wrong as you want to I don't really care I had just climbed a mental wall that was amazing and I didn't want anybody to take that pain away from me at that point cuz I was that was all confirmation I never went to feeli again I never want to feel again but what it did was it showed me what is possible and that's what set the new stage for me that's when I realized oh man I've really

been underachieving my entire life I'm not saying that you have to go to that place that place is a dangerous dangerous place that you don't want to go there but it taught me what is possible so from that 19-hour lesson one of the best biggest lesson I had my life it taught me like okay I got it check as you get bigger as you get more successful you open the door for people to critique every thing you do and most of the people who are critiquing you usually aren't where you are and all their critiquing

comes from people who are really at a low level of life which is sad but what we do people who are on the upper level hearing the haters at the lower level like I said you'll never meet a hater doing better than you true statement I started having fun with it so I'll go through the comments while while most people don't go through comments I go through and intentionally look for the bad ones and while I'll block and delete you because the people on my page don't need that negative energy I'll block and delete you

but I take a snapshot on my phone and I put it in the archive so what happens is there's days where I'm like you know what I really don't want to do this today I'm like oh hang on so I started making these mixtapes with all of these hate messages about people talking and it became such a source of fuel that it was amazing because I know why you hate me you hate me because you're probably in the bed right now you're probably an underachiever you're probably somebody who doesn't want to do anything with your

life so I make you question everything about yourself so I'm going to continue making you question yourself by coming out here and being even more successful so I listen to that while I run I sometimes played in the house and it sometimes gets on Jennifer's nerves I'm sitting and listening to somebody talk match on the Loop about me and she's like why do you do this it's half comical and it's half um it's half inspiring I'm actually inspired by it people don't understand this wasn't like a part-time job man when you've done without like Kobe

Bryant when K retired at last game he like 60 points walked off the court he didn't cry he oh my God I'm going to miss the sport he walked off he gave he gave everything he could man when you give what I've given I've given everything people make oh you you ran off up knees you taped your feet up you blah blah you had two heart Sur you kept on going which makes me who I am David Goggins is an introverted soft kid that got beat up growing up and had to lie to create friends

to get friends to be accepted my life has really been about two people I had to invent a whole another human being to get outside of my comfort zone and that human being became goggin it took a while to get to that point where enough was enough and I had to make a change in my life you know I was at alltime low and I wasn't going anywhere and I was exactly what everybody said I was going to be which was nothing so I had to make a change gogin is like the guy that walks

out of the phone booth he's like that Superman that walks out of the phone booth it's kind of strange how sometimes I have a conversation between David goggin and Goggins and Goggins would tell David Goggins about this he's done and David gu's like what the hell man why are you doing that that's nuts it's kind of this battle between trying to find more of yourself knowing that the real you is afraid likes Comfort likes living in a world that likes to patch you on the back give you the things that you want to hear not

the things that you have to hear to get better that's where all the this kind of started From and when people hear this podcast they're going to definitely want to put a title on me to make themselves feel better basically what you're doing is you're giving yourself a get out jail free card so all you're doing saying this guy was some super freak he found some super thing in his brain that was locked up he Unleashed it and became this guy cuz every day I wake up I dread the day I dread the day of

what I'm going to bring on myself to get better it happened when I could never get over the hump I kept on feeling like I was getting over the hump and then one little Windstorm small little Windstorm would come by and pushed me back for Scratch like why why am I not you know I'm learning how to read now you know I was a junior in high school and couldn't read that well a fourth grade reading level because I would cheap on everything and I learned how to read I learned how to write I taught

myself all these things all these disciplines but whenever your first real big challenge would come that little Windstorm will push me back in the hole and I realize man I'm fixing stuff on a surface level I'm All Surface man I'm not going deep into the cellar of my mind and fixing the foundation of my soul my soul is broken but you know I knew I could fix it but I was afraid to go back I was afraid to face the Demons of my life cuz you start lying you w anybody KN this about you so

so you start lying about who you're not and start creating a person about who you want to be that's not who you are so that's when I started realizing man I'm never going to get over the hurdle I'm always going to live on a surface level until I go deep deep into the sewer of my mind to figure out and face all of these different demons that's hard it's hard we all like social media we all like everybody to see us for who we want to be that's why you post beautiful things about us that's

not that's not going to fix you the most important conversation you'll ever have is the one you have with yourself you wake up with it you walk around with it eventually you act on it and my selft talk was most disgusting selft talk of all time so the sewer of my mind like I said you have to go back in there and fix things a lot of us are afraid like right now 20 years ago you wouldn't find me on this show I was too embarrassed to tell you I stuttered I lied all these different

things getting beat up getting bullied whatever happened but that's where the true transformation starts to happen when you can look at people anybody thousands of people one person and say hey this is who I am and this is where I have to fix myself and this is where it really happened you know people call me dumb people my dad called me so many things and not even funny being Beat Just stripped me of all self-esteem this is when I realized I was alone on this Earth I have God Alone on this Earth and I have

to to fix everything so this is where I started to develop an indestructible mental toolbox I looked in this one guy's eyes who was ringing the bill to quit to put his helmet down out of Navy s training and I saw myself and I saw what everybody said I was going to be which was nothing what I said I was going to be that conversation you have that's who I was so that's why I lied to people to tell them a different version of the truth I had to make all those lies reality I had

to make them real I had had to become a real person so that's when I put in my mind that I'm going to go to the toughest military training on the plane where it has the most water the thing I was scared of the most so a lot of us run away from our fears and we box oursel in to a lifestyle of this is all we can do cuz I'm afraid of everything outside this box so I'm comfortable inside this box I jump the box everything I didn't want to do do is what got

me to where I'm at today 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 can't hurt me I have this haunting voice in the back in my head a lot of us have it we just ignore it and it was there for years so I knew in the back of my mind that I could pull off this whatever whatever I wanted knew I could I knew that but I I was afraid of the work

because I wasn't gifted with brains I wasn't gifted with god-given Talent as far as like athleticism so I knew to get to where I had to go to be in the same playing field as these men to even try out for this program I knew the work was going to be something that I didn't want to even even attack so I was just put it off it haunted me that's what I realized for myself myself was I wanted that comfort zone that everybody looks for that pad on the back they don't want to hear all

the bad they want to hear everything that they're doing right and I realized that's what kept me in this world that's what kept me in this world of not accomplishing anything what I did was I became that big bad NASKA that you don't want to walk into at night time I became the roughest critic in the world on myself and that's what changed me I stopped caring about people that what they thought being judged wow if I say this if I started right now are you going to make fun of me I'll stop caring about

that and that's my life started really changing for me slowly but surely or situations that have wronged me because once you've come to a place where you are really happy with who you are in life no one with you anymore even though they're [ __ ] with you it doesn't with it doesn't with you what do you want in your life we have so much influence coming at us that we are so lost we don't know what we want to do cuz we don't spend enough time with ourselves greatness is whatever the hell you've dreamed

of in your own mind you got to first see it you got to First create this Vision in your mind once you create this Vision in your mind it's how am I going to get there 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 if you don't know that you will live the rest of your life searching always asking the question why I'm waking up and I'm giving myself all this armor so when I come out in the world now look at that phone I'm ready I'm not waking up late I'm not rushing around I'm not disorganized because I know I'm going to get hit in the mouth there's a there's an art to getting hit in the mouth and that is why these

things are important you have to wake up and you have to give yourself belief you have to give yourself confidence so that it starts with that run anywhere from about an hour 30 to two hours I run every day so that's so you fasted on the morning straight out straight out 90 minutes to two hours of running back eat eat and I'm in the gym so and then after that um to whatever's on the plan for the day that's how that works every day that's your day there's no there's there is no room for anything

else yeah there is a lot of room so there's 24 hours and I and I use it all pretty pretty well that's why I got a cap success because I can't put that in and that's my growth factor so you know that's that's my human growth factor and some of these motivational people out here it's It's the funniest thing in the world to me they'll go and say when you wake up in the morning pound your chest look at your yourself in the mirror and do all this [ __ ] I hope it works what

works for me is that everyday resume the things I know of accomplish the things I know I've done real hard work the real calluses on my mind the real calluses on my hands that's that's it that you don't need to pound your chest in the mirror anymore if you have that a lot of it is limit to Horizons limited Horizons are like I use me as an example always I came from from a small town in Indiana where there was a handful of black families and a lot of people in that town when you come

from a town of 8,000 people it's like we had a local plant Great Dane you're like you know what I want to work at Great Dane and get a house next to my mom that's what you know so many of us come from these small places in our mind that we're not willing to think outside of only what we've seen our mind works in such a small compartment and one thing I was able to do was to dream many people but don't make dreams your master but I was able to dream outside those four walls

of that small town and until you're able to really put yourself into that dream but don't make dreams your Master that's where you truly become what you're destined to become a lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure or dream about being a seal or dream about being an astronaut and all it is a dream they don't put the work behind the dream that dream has become their Master when you become the master of your dream is when you say I want to go be a Navy SEAL and you say

okay I'm going to lose 106 p pounds in less than 3 months the dream was the one thing I thought about and the dream was now gone now it comes in the dream goes away and the laundry list of details and tasks come up got to do this got to do this got to do this got to do this that's when you become the master of your dream so a lot of people out there dreaming but guess what happens alarm clock goes off at 4:00 a.m. to train we count on people too much to get

us through sh and we look to our right we look to our left we're looking for help and if you can build that self you can build that total accountability in oneself and it's not about being selfish I'm trying to create a better me so hopefully people who are hearing this are taking it the right way can say I can run a mile ain't about running 205 miles it doesn't matter I want you to see how far you can go the biggest trophy I own now is that book the biggest trophy I on now is

not the book itself it's what's in the book it's what like I don't give a if that sells one copy honest to God man what I did and that's what I hope people understand your life and the journey you put yourself through there's no there's nothing more than that and that's all I want people to do is realize that you have to struggle you have to struggle the bigger the struggle the bigger the peace the bigger the Suffering The more peace so I all of this isn't your fault why you do some things you do

while you feel the way you feel but no one's coming back to save your ass you have to go back to where the started wherever that place is for everybody it has the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you and that's and that's why I was like hey I'm up I'm going go back and fix this and I know how to self motivate a lot of mother don't know how to self motivate man like we like to put the headphones on like like before the big game and listen to the music

what the do you do when the headphones come off bro that's you and your own mind M I know how to do that that's that's the hard part man you ever listen to music when you run never I wanted you to go home that night after you 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 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 uning comfortable and I want you to think about when you went through I'm afraid of this I'm the here life made me this way here I stutter I I have these issues with with the reading and writing and I'm I'm fat and I'm insecure 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 people right now are looking at me saying about me we cannot be afraid of that my reading my learning my my workouts my

my my diet you start neglecting all of that you neglect one of them you can you can neglect all of them a long time it's going to haunt you when you start seeing that my God I haven't eaten right in long time haven't been sleep right in long time it can only be one of those things to take you off I'm very aware of my eating my sleeping my disciplines of life if I start to get too far away from them it's a hard stop and the one thing that only thing gets me mad nowadays

is that so many people die with untapped potential because they think that someone else is better than them and they were born not with the greatest tools you need the ability to grind your ass into a fine powder and when you're not find powder find a way to build that [ __ ] back up repeatedly that's possible I'm I was always trying to do it cuz I knew I sucked and so when you know you're trying to get somewhere you know you suck you know that you you believe that you're a born loser you are

taking snap shots man like you know you you see something on your phone like oh man I'm going to take snapshot of that I do that in my mind so I get in these moments I'm like okay wow that's good knowledge right there man I snapshot it cuz I know that I can use that later I can use this cuz I'm not out there just I'm not most people they go out and they run and they go out and they do and they're like oh this is beautiful look at mountains and no I don't like

it my body hurts I'm hurting how do we get through this it's a lab it's my mental lab and I and so when I come home I'm not forgetting it and the second I every day I get done running every day I get through working every day I get through studying whatever it is that brings me to that place of knowledge I come home and that book was mostly written on scratched piece of paper in hand so I come on from from running and I write everything out I write everything out all those things and

as I'm running I'm talking about it so all these things that pop my head as I continue to run I'm I'm going through it I'm starting to layer it down I'm starting to break it down into okay that happened okay now now let's layer this cuz that's just not how it happened it just didn't happen that way what led up to this and so it becomes Me by myself in school I'm literally going to school right now and I'm learning so when I come home I write it out and then I'm able to write out

and I'm able to think about it say okay oh this is good this will help me later on and then it becomes what it is now I did a lot outside the military I've made money I've I've done almost every race out there hard race in the world I've broken pullup record I've done a lot of so when these bad times come and also not only that like work your ass off so so you can enjoy yeah yeah you taking a shot you know you you may not live to be old but what if you

do and you worked your ass off when you were able and you were able to get up early able to grind if you front loaded properly the back half of youring life is money and that's what I did so basically I don't take any days off as far as working out first thing in the morning time is you have to build your confidence and every day you're constantly gaining and losing confidence you're never staying the same so how you build your confidence is if you like what you see in that mirror that's how you start

your day off if you wake up and you and you look fat you look out of shape you're not feel good which is you know or you don't feel good inside so my whole big thing is get up and work out shed some calories get the adrenals going get the mine going get all that going every day I run every day I work out a lot of people what they do is they have these these Finish Lines and I have a saying that says I don't stop when I'm tired I stop when I'm done when

I was uh younger I didn't have any goals it's not really so much about goals it's just to-do list a to-do list and as a human being if you don't have a to-do list you're going to sit back and it's fade away your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world if you can't control your own brain you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there you got to control it if not it's over a good human being a fulfilled

human being doesn't need to break anyone down all they do is want to build you up so anybody you meet that calls you out of your name that bullies you that messes you up that that makes you feel not lifted they are dealing with something Dee rooted when you quit your mind says we're done so it doesn't expand there's no expansion when you quit when you say uh-uh this sucks I'm drowning I'm miserable I'm suffering I'm broken but I'm not going anywhere what happens to your mind it says he's not leaving so we got to

expand we got to grow we got to figure this thing out so then these compartments in your brain they have to work and then you start to engage parts of your mind that you never engaged before when you're in suffer mode and you say I'm not going to quit you're forcing your brain now to operate on a level it's not used to but then it becomes used to it the only way anything gets accomplish you got to work hard I can't remember what's in this paragraph to pass this test to get in the military read

again still not getting it read again but if you're not getting it write it out and guess what happened I got it I can't swim I'm negative buoyant go back again I can't swim go back again go back again go back again I got it I realize if I keep going back and going back and going back your mind will say okay we're going to figure it out because he is not going to stop the mind always has the Tactical advantage over you why is that it knows your fears it knows your insecurities it it

knows where they're hiding we count on people too much to get us through [ __ ] and we look to our right we look to our left we're looking for help and if you can build that self you can build that total accountability in on self and it's not about being selfish I'm trying to create a better me so hopefully people who are hearing this are taking it the right way can say I can run a mile ain't about running 205 miles it doesn't matter I want you to see how far you can go the

biggest trophy I own now is that book the biggest trophy I own now is not the book itself it's what's in the book it's what like I don't give a [ __ ] if that sells one copy honest to God man what I did and that's what I hope people understand your life in the journey you put yourself through there's no there's nothing more than that and that's all I want people to do is realize that you have to struggle you have to struggle the bigger the struggle the bigger the peace the bigger the Suffering

The more peace so a lot of this isn't your fault why you do some things you do why you feel the way you feel but no one's coming back to save your ass you have to go back to where the started wherever that place is for everybody and have the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you and that's and that's why I was like hey I'm up I'm going go back and fix this and I know how to self motivate a lot of them don't know how to self motivate man like

we like to put the headphones on like before the big game and listen to the music what the did you do when the headphones come off bro it's you in your own mind I know how to do that that's that's the hard part man do you ever listen to music when you run never I wanted you to go home that night after you Del 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 and

I was still out there in the grip suffering from for another 100 hours I want you to think about me knowing that I'm comfortable being very uning comfortable and I want you to think about when you went through I'm afraid of this I'm up here life made me this way here I stutter I I have these issues with with the reading and writing and I'm I'm fat and I'm insecure 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 people right now are looking at

me saying about me we cannot be afraid of that by reading my learning my my workouts my my my diet you start neglecting all of that you neglect one of them you can you can neglect all of them a long time it's going to haunt you when you start seeing that my God I haven't eaten right in a long time haven't been sleep right in long time it can only be one of those things that take you off I'm very aware of my eating my sleeping my disciplines of life and I started to get too

far away from them it's a hard stop and the one thing that only thing gets me mad nowadays is that so many people die with untapped potential because they think that someone else has from better than them and they were born not with the greatest tools you need to abild you to grind your ass into a fine powder and when you're that fine powder find a way to build that [ __ ] back up repeatedly and that's possible the one thing that made me who I am today is being vulnerable is breaking myself down to

the absolute rock bottom and being able to tell people who I am and that's how I fixed it literally you know look somebody in the eye and say you know what man I have a whole bunch of character problems character flaws I've lied about this I've cheated here I'm insecure here this isn't the real me I lied to you about that I wanted your acceptance in life all those things happen but the thing about it is that we get judged so quickly by Who We Are we don't know we don't go to the to where

it happened life created this person me and I had to realize man that's okay man it's not my fault now I got to go back and fixed it though so a lot of this isn't your fault why you do some things you do why you feel the way you feel but no one's coming back to save your ass you have to go back to where they started wherever that place is for everybody and have the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you it's not addictive at all cuz um you don't want

to live there but it's definitely a place that makes you look at people very differently cuz once you see if I was born with a silver spoon and everything was given to me and life came easy but knowing where I came from and where I'm at now just because I was able to crack open a few more doors that's what's disappointing for me for other people you know so it's not that I want to live there I know I can go there and once again I know other people can go there so I guess that's

the thing with me is is I know I have the ability now to go to a place that's very very hyperfocused that I can accomplish some pretty amazing feats not because I'm amazing because I allowed my mind to be open-minded for the possibilities of what can I achieve takes to growth in your mental aspect in your spiritual Everything grows cuz you start feeling better about yourself not many things on the planet make you feel good about yourself like getting after it doing something that challenges you mentally and physically every day you cannot live in that

normal mindset you must be your best on your worst day and how you do that is you cannot think of a normal mindset cannot have a normal mindset my big takeaway of life is if you're constantly taking the easy way out you never go C mind I was a chameleon living in life who could barely get by so I know that they were taking the normal mindset of people they weren't talking about the 1centers the people who want it like there's no tomorrow you're alone you're alone you may have a shrink you're going to you

may have a best friend you're going to but there's 24 hours in the day where you're alone in this brain and your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways and it wants to control you and pull you in these different pockets if you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you you're you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there you got to control it if not it's over but guess what happens that alarm clock goes

off at 4:00 a.m. it's train I don't want to be a seal today or I don't want to be whatever today I'll start tomorrow and that's the usual pattern of people's lives that's why I talk about clearing out the mind until you really want to do something you're always going to be a talker you always going to run so I had a hard time learning growing up but I was very smart when it came to human beings a genius because I lived in such hell I was always studying people who can I trust who can

I not trust energy I I got really good with energy can I is this person's energy good is it bad so I became a genius on human beings so I studied people all the time studied all the time it was the only way for me to move forward so like a lot of times if your back is hurting it may not be your back it may be something else in your bias making your back hurt for me I'm like man why can't I get past this hurdle so like I said I'm always examining myself every

day what is it what is it well there's only one thing you haven't examined yet and it's going back to the Beast going back to the demon so when I went back to him I realized that that was the unsolved mystery was I had to look that man the eye one more time like how I studied the that Navy SEAL talking [ __ ] and lion I got it from this part right here in the book I went and I didn't see him anymore as this Beast I started doing re resarch on him found out

that his dad used to beat him really bad his dad would have put him in front of a furnace open the furnace up with the Flames coming out and put him right in front of it have him bare butt naked and he would whip the out of them and the whole idea of that is if you move you're going to get burned so stay right here and take beating so what happened with him the those demons from his father went to my father and he tried to transfer him over to me I had to understand

who my father was understand where he came from understand why were you so brutal to us I got my answers took those answers and made myself better from the answers about him and so that's why it was necessary for me go back not I was looking for an apology so then maybe I could just go be a loser and understand that you me up why would the apology make you a loser it would make no it would make me feel Vindicated Justified yes like man you you did this to me I can go be a

loser now my failings are okay this okay cuz you did this so I was looking for that and when I went there I realized cuz his voice on him was saying it's not your dad's fault I'm like no man cuz his voice over here always said it's your dad's fault this other voice started tuning in was loud started getting louder the more I drove to Buffalo was saying you get the face a lot young man you got a long journey ahead of you because you're going to find out that while your dad did a lot

of to you you're going to have to make it on your own and the voice got louder and louder and louder and by time I got to that door and by time I was leaving that house instead of me feeling sorry for myself I started to doing live autopsy a lot of people when you die they figure out why you die they figure out how you die in the autopsy but we never do live autopsy to figure out why we're dying while we are alive and I was dying I was living every day but I

was really dead and so I figured it out and once I figured it out I was able to reborn I was able to be reborn and break down situations very quickly within some trauma in your life some Devastation in your life cuz it's going to come the devastation the trauma is going to come and you can't allow that to become a jersey barrier it can't be a jersey barrier it has to be something that you can maneuver through very quickly and move forward that takes a lot of toughness you don't find yourself in over here

you find yourself on the other end like like the 100 mile race I was arm I ran it for 24 hours I found myself on the other end I'm the hardest working guy that that doesn't talk about so basically I don't take any days off as far as working out first thing in the morning time is you have to build your confidence and every day you're constantly gaining and losing confidence you never staying the same so how you build your confidence is if you like what you see in that mirror that's how you start your

day off if you wake up and you and you look fat you look out of shape you're not feel good which is you know or you don't feel good inside so my whole big thing is get up and work out shed some calories get the adrenals going get the mind going get all that going every day I run every day I work out a lot of people what they do is they have these these Finish Lines and I have a saying that says I don't stop when I'm tired I stop when I'm done when I

was uh younger I didn't have any goals it's not really so much about goals it's just to-do list a to-do list and as a human being if you don't have a to-do list you're going to sit back and just fade away your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world if you can't control your own brain you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there you got to control it if not it's over a good human being a fulfilled human

being doesn't need to break anyone down all they do is want to build you up so anybody you meet that calls you out of your name that bullies you that messes you up that that makes you feel not lifted they are dealing with something deep rooted when you quit your mind says we're done so it doesn't expand there's no expansion when you quit when you say uh-uh this sucks I'm drowning I'm miserable I'm suffering I'm broken but I'm not going anywhere what happens to your mind it says he's not leaving so we got to expand

we got to grow we got to figure this thing out so then these compartments in your brain they have to work and then you start to engage parts of your mind that you never engaged before when you're in suffer mode and you say I'm not going to quit you're forcing your brain now to operate on a level it's not used to but then it becomes used to the only way anything gets accomplished you got to work hard I can't remember what's in this paragraph to pass this test to get in the military read again still

not getting it read again but if you're not getting it write it out and guess what happened I got it I can't swim I'm negative buoyant go back again I can't swim go back again go back again go back again I got it I realize if I keep going back and going back and going back your mind was sayfe okay we're going to figure it out because he is not going to stop I always equated working out to struggle I struggled my whole life but I ran from it so I started realizing man I got

to start facing the struggle and I got to be mentally strong for the struggle I'm training for Life mentally I'm training for life I'm not training for like to to live 400 lbs and I found out on my own pretty much is that through this through through discipline through self-discipline through repetition through tons of repetition the same thing that you don't want to do you develop mental armor for your mind start to armor your mind your mind's like okay we suffer we suffer every day we do stuff that sucks every day so then when the

suck stuff comes you're ready for it I had two options to either be that 300 lb guy who's prayed for cockroaches and made $1,000 a month or I can totally just fail and fail and fail and TI succeed so I started calling recruiters up I said I'm going to go be in Navy SEAL there's a weight and height limit to get in the military and I was 6'1 and 297 he saw me put me through the weight standard all this other stuff and to get into the class I had to get into I had to

lose 106 lbs in less than 3 months I was like can't do that I grabbed my chocolate milkshake and went back to eolab and I said this ain't going to be it for me there's a lot of quiet time I shut out a lot of noise I only have people in my life that that need to be there if you don't need to be in my life I'm not about acquiring more friends I'm not about noise I'm about okay are you trying to go somewhere you can you can jump on board if not I don't

want to hear all your problems you have a solution for your problem that's what I'm all about right now so I'm not about whining complaining I'm about okay we need to go this way I'm big into visualization and also selft talk but also like where do I want to be in life where do I see myself and then I start making these plans and how I'm going to get there and I don't deviate from that plan because I realized once I was talking to myself the right way and all this wasn't in my mind wow

I went from this kid who thought he was dumb not successful insecure who stuttered when I first saw somebody to a person who can now do all these things just because I now control my own mind and I don't care a lot of people say they don't care when you get to the point when you really don't care you become very very dangerous I'm not saying don't care like I don't care if I do that no when you don't care about other people and how they view you about how you walk how you talk how

you dress where you want to go with your life you know growing up I didn't want to tell anybody I want to be in the military cuz why some of my black friends I was afraid of what they think you know why you want to join the military man I was afraid of what other people thought about me so now when not going to the military I didn't know you want to the military y a't tell you cuz afraid what you thought once again man you're allowing other people to Shackle your mind it's the worst

thing in the world and what's funny about they often say it on the other side of that extreme place that I call suffering there's a whole another world that people have not even examined but you have to go to that extreme place to examine it you want to stay here in this comfortable place once you're going to push yourself to that extreme place it's like a whole another Universe it's almost like like you're an astronaut and you've examined something like up and outer space no it's always been there but you had to be going through

all the muck to examine it you realize why God through all this crap there's a whole another whole Another Universe over here in my mind From Another Universe I'm training my mind and my body and my spirit so it's all one so I can handle what life is going to throw at me because the life I've lived it throws a whole bunch at you and if you're not physically and mentally prepared for that you're just going to crumble and you're good for nobody 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 that's all it is suffering is the true test of life is now where I'm at today and that is when you finally get to that point for me it's for Everlasting peace greatness isn't running 200 miles at a time or doing 4,000 PS 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 we're all we are all great no matter if if you think you're dumb no matter you 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 B headphones on and silence the noise out of this world

and Def find it that sets you apart from everybody else and and that's what it's all [Music] about but what motivated me this kid came from that I'm in the hardest train in the world in the worst shape of my entire life what if I can graduate amongst these studs all these guys around me they're stallion they're Gladiators they're all healthy they're not broken like this if I can start the hardest train in the world broken and graduate you are now now from the weakest man you're now the hardest man to ever live if if

you can do this only those people who have been there a million times in their minds and have lived in that water and have suffered a million times and realized my legs may break my knee may break my bones will hurt I will be the coldest I've been in my life I will be miserable and accept that because what happens is in 3 months later my stress fractures were healed by running on them when the mind and the body connect and you don't give yourself a way out the only way out for me at that

time was death I'm going to be a Navy SEAL or I'm going to die try period and my body said Roger that we're going to get you through this the only way out for me at that time was death if I die so be it everything I do I'm not really comfortable doing but if you choose 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 and that's your reputation if you Cho to do if you're choosing to do something attack it because they're going to remember you is not attacking it so I want to be remembered you can hate me but one thing you can't say about me I didn't attack it we all have two people we all have two people and I'm not saying you're crazy we have the Easy Voice which is that 20% telling yourself that you're I'm easy at 90% of my full potential maybe 100% at that 20% that's that voice that we all love

that's that very comfortable voice that that's that mommy holding you saying it's going to be okay doesn't care how good you are just loves you just loves you no matter how messed up you are in life that's where you want to be at so that's that one voice this other voice that we walk very far away from is a voice saying hey man you ain't doing so we tried to get this voice out of our head completely and we live over here in this land so what you have to do first is turn up this

voice over here so I came up with this thing called the 40% rule it's like a car you put a governor on a car they's say the car can go 130 that Governor stops the car at 91 and you're driving thinking man I want to Florida but I can't go I can't go any faster we do that to our brain we put a govern on our brain it's second we feel pain discomfort suffering all those words that we hate to say because we in this happy peaceful world we live in now we stop we slow

down and if you can get through these different barriers and gain 5% 2% 3% that 40% becomes 60 that 60% becomes 70 and 80 and 90 and then you hopefully one day near 100 I don't I don't know many people probably at 100 we I mean we think we're there but there's so much more we all like to take this four-lane highway the easy Highway has has signs it has restaurants we all love that four lane Highway we always step over the shovel and all I did was I picked up that shovel and that shovel

I made my own path and you may have big boulders and sh they may be getting 200 miles up the road faster than you but going through this path of life this journey over here that you make yourself that's incredibly difficult when it comes out to the other end of that mother there's some glorious that you can't even explain to people you have to create the real reality so that's what I call my accountability mirror in my book that's the real reality where the am I going to start from so for me I was lying

to this lying about that so I had no starting point once you come faith to face with who you are you have a starting point all right I'm not real smart I have no courage I have no self-esteem I have no nothing nothing that's my starting point now we can move from there but if I tell myself I'm strong I have courage I'm smart and all these are lies you continuously push that starting point backwards so that starting point is the truth the no [ __ ] truth that only you can tell yourself it gives

you a lot of power when you're able to go on a podcast this big and say hey tell me I'll tell you anything you want to know CU I no longer care there's a lot of power in that to be able to put your life on a billboard for the whole world to see and say judge it man judge it like just me talking about it makes me feel good and that's and that's another thing about it when you are willing to talk about how jacked up you are the strength that big rock that you

carry it just starts to come off you it just starts to come off that's why I do it so often I'm like hey man I'll tell you you didn't want to know I'm tired of being afraid I'm tired of not telling you tired of lying about how good I'm not I learned how to control my adrenals if you know how you know how you get that fight ORF flight response when you get to move real quick yeah and you know I I started learning the mind a lot how to get myself jacked extremely fast like

in a horrible environment when everybody's miserable I learn how to really find strength in the misery when everybody's suffering everybody's all poopy pant and their mentality is down and everything I started just like my God this is where I shine and I started using all that misery for tons and tons of tons of drive and motivation to to to then lead people further cuz you can get a lot of power through misery and once people see that my God goggin is going then everybody says Roger that let me get my gotoo I started realizing that

if you can just find strength just a little bit longer you will have a crew of people fallowing you along the way the second you look at your phone the second you turn the TV on you're in a battle I want to win the war in the morning if you do something you don't want to do every morning you're already giving yourself the proper selft talk to attack the people that don't like you to attack your insecurities to attack what the world's going to give you I once had that mentality that no one understands what

the I'm going through and if you keep that mentality you're going to stay in the same exact spot that you're in everybody's going through so when people get this mentality of like you don't understand me you can throw a rock to someone that can understand you if they're willing to break themselves down and stop hiding a lot of people understand you but you got to stop hiding and then this guy was in my mind we suffer we suffer every day it's what we do we do stuff that sucks every day so then when the suck

stuff comes you're ready for it and that's how I started coming up you know I just started being very uncomfortable and now I'm it's like a just a way of life what I realized is for me to become the man I wanted to become I saw myself as the weakest person God ever created but I never blame God for anything he did to me so I wanted to change that to be the hardest man ever created am I that I don't know but you had to have a goal I want to be forever proud of

who I was as a man and change who I used to be the liar the insecure guy I want to be proud and if I di now I want to look at myself and say proud of myself it's okay to be unhappy sometimes man it's okay to say you know what man I'm I'm up so you got go to the truth first who are you get really accountable and say okay who am I what's the truth truth about me get to that dark place in your mind figure out it may take months may take years

figure out your purpose figure out what you want to be in life thing I'm trying to find more of myself and the only way I can find more is to silence the world out as much as I can because it's it's getting busier every day it's getting faster and the faster it gets the more you are missing who the you are you have to go dark you have to be quiet in your mind get away from people we love being around people we love talking we love we love parties we love all that it's okay

to be alone it's also okay to be unhappy it's okay to be unhappy sometimes man it's okay to say you know what man I'm I'm up so you got to go to the truth first who are you get get really accountable and say okay who am I what's the truth about me but you have to go into those dark chambers that we often shut off and you got to open them up you got to open up and fight that demon get get in there talk to that mother say what's up get to that dark place

in your mind figure out it may take months may take years figure out your purpose figure out what you want to be in life and then from there okay I have my purpose it's easier to accept the fact that I'm just not good enough I wasn't made to do that and yeah some of us can't be lebroning James but I tell you right now man we can do a lot when it comes to this pureon guts and willpower and getting through we have a lot more a lot more than we think we have we like

that person who says hey you know man I don't feel good today man and they say oh it's okay brother take a day off man we get a pizza and watch the game we like that boy my whole life that's why my friends hate my ass boy cuz I'm hard on me if I'm hard on me I don't give a about you every morning starts with a run and that's because that's the one thing I hate to do more than anything in the world so that's like my cup of coffee and I'm all about armoring

yourself so the second you leave your house and the second you open your phone the second you do any of that you are now letting in poison in cancer so I make sure a lot of things you can't avoid so as I get up I start to armor plate my mind and body and discipline is good too but without a clear head space there's no discipline what you mean so let's say we have a circuit breaker okay and I'm loading everything up to one circuit just load it up it's going to blow once that thing

blows man the circuits areed up you got to have each thing plugged into the right spot like a crowded garage you can't put anything in it once your brain is crowded discipline is great motivation is great but if you can't fit in your brain bra because it's all clutter there's no discipline you may have it sometimes when it fits in that crowded garage of your mind but you don't have the consistency that you need to have with that discipline and people don't get that your mind has to always be clear that's why that's why I

meditate two hours every single night because I refresh I reorganize the garage which is my mind every night so then disciplines in there organization everything is in this right spot so when I wake up I'm ready to go so we we live in a world that we want to be as comfortable as we can and we wonder why we have no growth we we wonder why when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult we wonder why we cower and we run away because our whole life is set set up in in the path of

least resistance there's no room in that mind for discipline there's no room for consistency they may do it once or twice but then the mind takes over and that garage comes in and then it's like a circuit breaker man a circuit breaker just overloads and Sparks and our minds that's that's our mind man it's like a circuit break that so much [ __ ] in it you keep on loading it you can't put any more into it I talk about it in there man so much about clearing space in your mind so then you have

room for all those discipline waking up early taking those they do mean something but we don't get to that dark matter that is keeping you from clearing out that mental [Music] garage people with a talent problem who are so talented they're hard to train they hard to push if you're their coach and you trying to get them to see that we got to get you past this Talent problem we got to get you to the point where you're into that mental Zone okay we got to get you way past your talent and it's it's hard

for coaches to take these Fighters or whoever past their talent and on the other side is that is where they gain true true levels the levels Beyond Talent that's where it really is cuz if you're able to take a [ __ ] down to Deep End while [ __ ] just putting his toe in fueling the water and [ __ ] if the mother in the deep end he would take you down there and he's mentally strong it's over it's over man they because they because they live in the deep end they live in it

man they thrive in it when you quit your mind does this when you quit your mind says we're done so it doesn't expand there's no expansion when you quit when you say you uhuh this sucks I'm drowning I'm miserable I'm suffering I'm broken but I'm not going anywhere what happens to your mind is it does this it says he's not leaving so we got to expand we got to grow we got to figure this fing thing out and then you start to engage parts of your mind that you never engaged before you're forcing your brain

now to operate on a level it's not used to but then it becomes used to you and there's no more Talent what happens to you most people quit man why am I always messing up right here it's because you're performing to your talent and then after that you're mind has nothing for you I I said to myself who on this [ __ ] Earth would still be going right now you are you got to be the hardest mother 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 put my phone away I put it away and I go dark I go dark a lot and it's because I I have to find out I'm on a journey of life and we all have a different journey and I want to be in my pine box and I believe your spirit lives forever has to it's too powerful no way in hell that thing just dies when you die I want to be able to look back on my life when I'm all dead

and be so proud of myself forever this is all temporary to me and break down situations very quickly within some trauma in your life some Devastation in your life because it's going to come the devastation the trauma is going to come and you can't allow that to become a jersey barrier it can't be a jersey barrier has to be something that you can maneuver through very quickly and move forward that takes a lot of toughness we count on people too much to get us through sh and we look to our right we look to our

left we're looking for help and if you can build that self you can build that total accountability in oneself and it's not about being selfish I'm trying to create a better me so hopefully people who are hearing this are taking it the right way can say I can run a mile a about running 205 miles it doesn't matter I want you to see how far you can go biggest trophy I own now is that book the biggest trophy I own now is not the book itself it's what's in the book it's what like I don't

give a [ __ ] if that sells one copy honest to God man like like my what I did and that's where I hope understand your life in the journey you put yourself through there's no there there's nothing more than that and that's all I want people to do is realize that you have to struggle you have to struggle the bigger the struggle the bigger the peace the bigger the Suffering The more peace so a lot of this isn't your fault why you do some things you do why you feel the way you feel but

no one's coming back to save your ass you have to go back to where the started wherever that place is for everybody and have the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you and that's and that's why I was like hey I'm fued up I'm go back and fix this and I know how to self motivate a lot of my don't know how to self motivate man like we like to put the headphones on like before the big game and listen to the music yeah what the did you do when the headphones

come off bro it's you in your own mind right I know how to do that that's that's the hard part man do you ever listen to music when you run never I wanted you to go home that night after you 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 and I was still out there in the grip suffering from another 100 hours I want you to think about me knowing that I'm comfortable

being very uning comfortable and I want you to think about when you went throughing hell week how uncomfortable you were and how bad you wanted to quit knowing I'm not thinking that fcking way so the dark side is something that I've designed it's an evil place I can go that very few things can hurt and your brain is the most powerful weapon I talk about that in one of these chapters your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world once you put away your phones and your computers and all that we have nowadays yeah

it's great we're up to date we you know you but your brain is the only thing you have when you're going through depression when when you're going through hard times you're going through death real life you can't Google that you're alone you're alone you may have a shrink you're going to you may have a best friend you're going to but there's 24 hours in the day where you're alone in this brain and your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways and it wants to control you and pull you in these different Pockets

if you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you you're you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there you got to control it if not it's over I'm trying to find more of myself and the only way I can find more is to silence the world out as much as I can because it's it's getting busier every day it's getting faster and the faster it gets the more you are missing who the you are so I trap my

own mind a lot and say look man I put my phone away I put away and I go dark I go dark a lot and it's because I have to find out I'm on a journey of life and we all have a different journey I learned how to really find strength in the misery when everybody's suffering everybody's all poopy pant and their mentality is down and everything I started just like my God this is where I shine I'm insecure here this isn't the real me I lied to you about that I wanted your acceptance in

life all those things happen but the thing about it is that we get judged so quickly by who we are we don't know we don't go to the to where it happened life created this person me and I had to realize man that's okay man man it's not my fault now I got to go back and fixed it though so a lot of this isn't your fault why you do some things you do why you feel the way you feel but no one's coming back to save your ass you have to go back to where

they started wherever that place is for everybody and have the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you 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 mil was the lifechanging 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 I'm not going to say motivated cuz motivation is crap motivation comes and goes when you're driven whatever's in front of you will get destroyed I sat in this chair and I was so driven to succeed in this race this became a personal thing this became me against this race me against me it just became something that I took 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 so I went through all these small

steps and I 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 I got to mile 81 and the second she said that I'm not going to make the time I ran the last 19 miles nonstop 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 I have to become someone in this world or I'm no good for anybody it comes from a disgusting place of not being fulfilled in your life of afraid of dying having never accomplished anything that's a fear that some people run away from that people don't want to face when you have a real fear of dying and being just another person that I live to pay the bills I mean ,000 a month this is my life I spray for cockroaches man if that makes you feel good that's great it

didn't make me feel good I wanted to the first time in my life after 26 years as 24 25 wherever I was I wanted to feel good about myself 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 once you create this Vision in your mind it's how am I going to get there but you've got to go inside yourself to find it 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 I'm just planet Earth why am I here if you don't know that you will live the rest of your life searching always asking the question why everything I didn't want to do is what got me to where I'm at today 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 can't hurt me I have this haunting voice in the back of my head a lot of this have it we just ignore it and it was there for years so I knew in the back of my mind that I could pull off this whatever