How To Force Your Brain To Do Hard Things | David Goggins

[Music] so how did you get to where you are I became feelingless and what that means is I'm not saying turn off your feelings towards your family your wife your husband I'm not saying that turn your feelings off when it comes down to you wanting to be better who's going to carry the what that means is when that alarm clock goes off your feelings got to go away it's raining outside it's cold outside when you don't want to put those long hours in at work that's what I'm talking about your feelings must go away when

you know everybody's gone home to their families but you know you want to be the top sales person in the world or you want to be the best lawyer in the world who the it is when everybody leaves to go home and there's only one light on in a building a 15 story building and only one office every office is dark there's one office with one light on and as those [ __ ] go from the club they look up every day 2:00 in the morning they see that lights always on that's the motherucker right

there you got to be you can't have feelings about when everybody leaves oh man I wish I was going home to my beautiful family that is true but you got to learn to shut your feelings off if you want to achieve greatness hope ain't going to get you [ __ ] because it's not in your hands hope is not in your hands you can't control hope man you can't it's just some hopefully this thing happens but when you get belief when you start to create belief and belief isn't like an after school special most people

think oh man like you need to believe in yourself you know Sesame Street when I was growing up and [ __ ] you know you need to believe in yourself that's not the belief I'm talking about it's the belief that you harness through hard work and dedication and it's something that you know what you are capable of because you've gone there several times in those dark times so my belief why I kept on going back to Navy SEAL training and going back to all these different things not because I hoped training would get easier it's

because I believed I could make it through the training I put myself through I just wasn't doing and executing as I should and I knew that it was all on me so then when I put that belief into work and that hard work came to fluish everything happened for me we always fall back on what's comfortable to us what's comfortable for me was if it's easy for me you know I'm going to do it and so when I was going through P Rescue Training I ran up against an obstacle that I didn't think I was

going to run up and it was the water I hated the water and but I tried hard to get over that and I would go to the pool and I would try and I would try but my mind wasn't strong enough David gogin even with all the discipline I didn't have that next level when you're truly committed to something not like were you like you know I want to be a doctor but when I run into this roadblock I don't want to be a doctor no I'm going to be a doctor come hell in high

water I needed that kind of commitment and David gaggin didn't know about that commitment I knew how to wash a car I knew how to clean a house I knew how to you know do all these manual labor jobs but when it came came down to True suffering to the highest of suffering I didn't have that next level of all right mother we have this next level David Goggins wasn't enough so I went into my mental lab and realized but I want to be great but I don't have greatness in me so I had to

create a mother that was great and in my mind I'm really big on visualization and people might think it's all kind of [ __ ] believe what the you want I don't give a [ __ ] this is a true [ __ ] right here man I went in my mind I said Okay I want to look like this I want to feel like this and I want to have a mind that is cast iron steal that is never dull that is always sh that was the biggest thing I wanted I wanted to hit obstacles

that most people up including myself but I didn't waver I didn't fear I didn't run away I just stayed and marinated in the fear in the suffering and through that building gaggin I will become goggin when necessary and I started to do these things on my own I have my own training ground I built a training ground I wasn't Navy Seals if you go to Navy Seals training not prepared you're going to quit so I built this training ground on my own and I started doing these horrific things that David goggin couldn't handle but gogin

started slowly coming up I started putting that visualization of the guy I wanted to create and in that water when things got hard when I was training on my own goggin would appear goggin would appear when David goggin would come up goggin would snack him the down they say no [ __ ] we're going to drag you through this and that's kind of how it happened over a period of time this man evolved gogin became the guy that can withstand all kind of torture and pain and keep coming after you and that's where that next

step with Evolution became well I put this way man a lot of people say don't be like him like me and I get it and you say was it worth it it was worth it I'm going to challenge these people who say that's a little too too much it is which is why most of my message is for everybody when it comes down to the uncommon amongst the uncommon it is only for [Music] .1% and these are the people who are want to be the uncommon amongst the UNC talking about Grover Michael Jordan is in

that category it's those people who realize what they want and beyond all things I'm going to achieve it so if you don't want to be like me I get it but is it so bad that a person has millions of dollars in the bank is it so bad that a person has two of the top books in the world top of the list of all time is it bad that a person has broke all kind of Records is it bad that a person's been the Navy SEAL Army Ranger or going to Delta Force going through

Air Force smoke jumper is is that bad is that bad that by 47 years old you're trying to find what to do next is that so bad because you've done everything in the world because the second you thought about it you did it if that's bad I don't want to see what good is so why it's bad to most people because it looks exhausting and it is exhausting and that's why it's bad to most people most things that are bad to people is because they can project what the it takes to get there and as

they're projecting that [ __ ] they're like oh man dude you're destroying your life your health you have no family you're unbalanced I can make up a million things but what the real thing is you projected what the that [ __ ] looks like and it looks like hell it looks like hard work it looks like suffering it looks like Dedication that people don't understand and it is that but that at the end of all that [ __ ] my friend I front loaded my life front loaded everything I wanted to do I did the

second I thought about it not 47 I am 100% retired and I still live like I'm not by choice at the end day I asked myself one question can I take one more step and usually the answer is yes so if you can answer that question and not take another step that is real failure that is real quitting so a lot of people can take one more step but they choose not to I don't know if you can take two steps you got to answer that question after you take the first step but I can

always take one more step so if I choose not to that's on me and I got to live with that most people think I'm just some Grand animal who runs and yells and just says mother all the time and that's nowhere near the truth that's maybe what they see in a one minute video and that's what people believe but there's a lot of thought behind a person being a born loser becoming who I am today you'll just wake up and just Rocky you got to wake up and think about you know there's a process to

getting better for me like I built Goggins from the ground up I was born David Goggins David gogins wasn't good enough he was a scared bullied abused kid that kid whenever something got tough no matter how hard I trained no matter how ready I was whenever something got tough for me David goggin the real David goggin would come out and he would quit so I realized this over a period of time so I had to build goggin and in that process I have to go back to that mental lab and that mental lab is at

scratch that mental lab isn't that trained humility and so that's where I get better I get better when I'm digging holes in the ground when I'm waking up early knowing I don't have to do these things that's where I get better what do you think most people get wrong about motivation they think it's a permanent fix they think it's something that that is a constant they think that maybe once I get it I'm going to hold on to it nothing is permanent nothing is permanent and a lot of times you have to learn to perform

without motivation you have to learn to perform without purpose you have to learn to perform a lot of different things and that's what people think they think I need to have this motiv to work out to study to be better so if they don't have it they just don't do it and that's where you fail you have to learn to train your mind well beyond motivation if you have motivation that's great that's some kindling to the fire all it takes is a little bit of spark you can burn a whole Forest up but motivation you

have to learn to exist without it you have to be your best self and your least motivated and that's the tricky part about all that motivation is just a word you have to have these different things in your mind on where you want to go and know that motivation is not going to get me there cuz I'm not going to always be motivated learn to pick yourself up on your own you got to be your own coach I'm trying to build people up I'm trying to armor their mind I'm trying to get them the belief

because this world we live in is tough it's tough it will beat you down the world and the life that we live in is the ultimate competitor it will find your weakness and it will just Hammer you so if I can help you build belief build confidence to the point where nothing can hurt you because you know exactly who you are being asham is one of the biggest things that kill people nowadays in their minds kill them from moving forward I'm ashamed of myself don't ever be ashamed of anything you've done in your life face

it fix it make it better you have to build a person that can withstand the pressures of whatever they're going to be dealing with in life I'm not trying to send a message of run 200 miles be the bad mother in the world but be tough you better have a part about you that's tough a part about you that can break down situations and get better 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 unchosen suffering is going to happen right so the only thing that you can do is have some chosen suffering to prepare for it it's the only thing you can do that's the only thing you can practice for the unchosen suffering is have chosen suffering do something that sucks every day 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 gain 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 become very very powerful when you overcome yourself 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

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 and if you have no PR PR of 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 now talking about bad Pride 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 have 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 and which they want to live by and every morning you

wake up you hold yourself accountable to that Miss not a compan 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'll always just be sitting down you'll never stand for anything your mind takes control of you you have to say you I run this mother and that's what that's all about the things I don't enjoy that I still

do that's where growth is at and that's for me the only place growth is at is in that uncomfortable zone so you want to be normal so you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world not knowing the power that's in them being fine with being mediocre you want to go back to who you were huh David don't like that man I want my mind to know who's in charge so for the better part of 26 years my my mind was in charge of me which is why I made all these horrible

decisions once you take control of your mind you start making decisions for yourself versus your mind making decisions for you so basically a lot of us aren't prepared for life we get up willy-nilly in it's hope life is going to happen it is going to happen but it's going to happen with a prepared mind or unprepared mind most people attack life with an unprepared mind what I do is I try to account for all things that could happen might happen probably will happen and then the unknowns so basically I can't account for everything but I

do know there are going to be some things that come up in life that you need to be ready for I know for a fact I'm not going to run a work out tomorrow therefore I'm preparing my mind for that I don't want to do that I know tomorrow come with some difficult decisions to make it may come with getting a phone call saying someone died this happened when that happen I'm always preparing myself not in a morbid way but just like look man be ready for life don't let life just start attacking you left

and right make sure that you start to build a mental armor so then you're ready for life and that comes with a very physical way in the physical helps out to mental I realized at a young age how to change myself was through discipline and the military didn't teach me that it was something I realiz I had zero discipline zero self-discipline and I realized I have to start developing this and I started really cuz I was horrible at reading and I was horrible at writing I have so many learning disabilities not even funny so I

just sit down at the table and spend so much time in this reading and writing and and learning and that kind of translated over to my self-discipline with working out so that's where it started I started when I was about 16 years old and said well I'm a fourth grade reading level you know let me go ahead now and start really uh focusing because I'm not going to get in the military cuz I got to pass the test so that's where it started for me it's more important to to own your weaknesses you got to

really triple down on those man because why you want to become a full human being we like to run away from weaknesses like for instance if you're good at running all you want to do is run if you're great at reading you have several books but we don't do those things that we're not good at so for me I realized man like I keep on running away from these things I'm not good at I have to dive into these things I have to become one with these things and that's what happened and so I I

I own them both and I talk very openly about them both I see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are now I'm talking about Talent like some god-given ability talent that sometimes you have to hone you have to work on you have to harness yourself and they just walk around just on their phones just clueless to how powerful they are the biggest thing you have to do is shut off technology you have to go dark and what I mean about that is 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 up so you got to go to the truth first who are you get really accountable and say okay who am I what's the 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 and then from there okay I have my purpose it may take a long time no one knows their purpose because it's too loud find your purpose from there all right you got to start planning people love the planning phase cuz it's very comfortable then from the planning phase you got to go to execution so the execution phase where we all hate because that's where the real work begins and that's when the failure happens and the failure and the failure but you know that's that that's kind

of how you have to do it CU every day is a battle every day is a battle cuz your mind wants to choose the path of least resistance every day but you don't become better by by ever doing that you become normal and I don't want to be normal so it may not be a life for everybody but I found a lot of Peace in not being normal in my life so if you could define happiness for you what would that be it's overcoming yourself at all costs whatever that takes to be at the point

of your life where you don't care about being judged you can be in a room of a million people and they all hate you and you walk in and you go like this because not because you're angry at them because you know yourself inside and out and you know that youve put yourself to hell to be where you're at today you've walked to walk you've talked to talk and youve walked to walk and that's to me what it's all about it's all about putting those boots on the ground and getting after it every day and

once you do that you have a feeling about yourself that no one can ever take away or even understand life is always giving you a test trying to give you a way out trying to give the excuse not to show up you got to have the mentality to show up every [ __ ] day of your life no matter what life throws at you it's our responsibility to show to the Coliseum of life life beat me the up bad I mean I was uh knocked out in the 12th round of a of a 15 round

you know heavyweight bout I was knocked out but what happened was in the 12th round when the Challenger turned his back on me I was getting up and I got up and won the next three rounds and knocked that mother out in the 15th round so that's my mind about can't hurt me I was hurt man like literally I had to overcome so much those first 26 years of my life and I still do every day today you know it's not over but the mentality of can't hurt me is just that no matter what's in

front of you man you have to face you have to confront you have to overcome and move forward so my father you know some of the kids that bullied me my learning disabilities all these things I went through in life stuttering you know had so many different issues failing and failing and failing had overcome them or they would have overcame me I was able to look at my childhood and how I grew up as the ultimate training ground for my life someone there has to be some people in this planet Earth who have my mentality

as gross as it is to some people and as far off as it is not understood there has to be some people like me on this planet earth has to be some Warriors out there that are able to take this mindset and do something with it so that right there once you are able to look at your life and realize that all these bad things are actually the ultimate training ground for what you're going to you know encounter in life you start looking at your past very differently I'm still examining human potential how far can

the mind go how far can we go as human [Music] beings but it's amazing that once you get control of that thing how far you can go you have to make the decision whether you want to be a badass or whether you just want to be mediocre and everything's okay but being a badass hurts real bad life isn't fair at all at all so what are you going to do about it it shouldn't be fair it's a trial ground it's a testing ground it's built to make us harder it's built to make us as strong

as we can to test us to drive us so mentality is the only thing that gets us through life I was an underdog I knew that no one was coming back to help me no one was going Miracle me to be somebody special everybody that called me n my dad my mom all my situations were on me now and solely on me so I had to start developing an indestructible mental toolbox the most powerful weapon in the world we walk around with it it's our [Music] mind you have to believe that you are here for

a reason that there's some reason me getting beat up me getting tortured me being bullied me being r no Foundation me having to figure all this [ __ ] out of my own figureing out this indestructible mental toolbox had to be for a reason and my reason I believe now I know for a fact was to unlock the code human potential and for me to share that with people I'm amazed at what a human being can actually do I literally made this human being out of this like a whole bunch of scraps and I started

putting this scrap M together and after a while I started learning more and more and more through pain and suffering through all the failure I went through trying to build this person who's gogging 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 being a look some my I 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 I'm insecure here this isn't the real me I lied to you about that I wanted your acceptance in life life created this person me life life created me to be this up person I was back in the day and I had to realize man that's okay man it's not my fault now I got to go back and fix this [ __ ] 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 the started wherever that place is for everybody and had the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you one thing I'm most scared of in the world is is uh losing touch with the best thing in the world is your mind your mindset how you can picture yourself how you can focus how you can drive how you can put yourself in so many situations get out of it because those headphones we listen to those those phones that that we Google to to find information there's so many situations

in my life where that shit's not going to help me it's not going to help me cuz I know what has helped me none of that stuff has ever helped me none of that stuff's ever helped me what has helped me has been me alone getting my sh together and being accountable for who I'm not and who I want to be so help me we all live in this world where our brains are keeping us in this box outside that box on the other edge of suffering is a world that's endless of opportunity but we

are afraid to go outside that box because in that box is comfortable that's where all of our nice stuff you know that's where the nice four-lane highways at I'm I know where the restrooms are at I know where the gas stations are at outside that box man God gives you a shovel and says Man start digging that's not fun but when you dig you dig your own path to all kind of stuff that's unknown and that's why I started realizing man like on the other end of this is some beautiful stuff so I got outside

my box andiz man 300 lb now look at me I'm 185 lbs and on the other side of the box was all this stuff and I didn't know it was over there until I climbed the wall and saw it I really started to enjoy the fact of seeing what the human mind was capable of and seeing that what is so horrendous there's so much joy and glory in this [ __ ] taking Souls it's about finding energy and strength when you have none there's energy all around us but we think that we have to have

it has to come externally a lot of times we have like a TV in front of us watch somebody listen to a podcast listen to a great music a lot of times in life is [ __ ] quiet and those are the times when you want to run and hide you got to be able to find energy you got to make up games make up tricks make up whatever you can to get to the next evolution of life when you're running you run for hours days the thing that makes me so pissed off in this

world man is that so many people die with untapped potential because they think that someone else is better than them and they were born you know not with the greatest tools you don't need sh you need the ability to grind your ass into a fine powder and when you're not fine powder find a way to build that motherucker back up repeatedly you have to always be willing to work and a lot of people now are talking I hear so much talk I don't hear a lot of work I hear a lot of people telling you

what you should be doing how you should be doing it how you should be living and I look at him and you're fat you're out of shape you look like [ __ ] but you tell a mother how to live the well is me mentality it's too hard life isn't fair these things in life are are are not easy for me you you you look to your left you look to your right and you start to judge yourself off other people everything starts to corrupt your mind you start to look around too much at other

people and what they're doing and that starts to corrupt your own dialogue we are judging ourselves against too many [ __ ] people you have to judge yourself against yourself this race against David goggin and David goggin alone and once you can silence all that [ __ ] all the outside interference and things that are attracting your mind to everything you can then start to grow we want to skip forward to peace let's skip all this pain and suffering and misery of real life let's cover it over nice big blanket and let's find peace no

sorry it's not possible got to go into that [ __ ] hell hole of life that you have that F you up and fix it and that's what I'm here to do you must go to war with yourself before you find peace I'm trying to give you tools on how to do that and I'm not considering a smile and be happy about it it's a hard journey it's a real journey it's a it's a journey that's going to take you way outside of being comfortable you be very very uncomfortable I'm not a theorist people there's

a bunch of people who are theorists who go to the library study the mind they study it in a book I study it by being a practitioner I put my mind in hell and I realized how it was thinking and I figured out tools and tactics on how to get through it by being in it not by studying it by being in it I did 67,000 pull-ups in 9 months and it calloused my hands it calloused my hands real good to protect my hands against the bar I started learning how to callous my mind to

callous over my victim's mentality and that's what I did and so they sent me to John Hopkins everybody studied my body they studied everything and one guy say you know what we can't find anything on how you did all this how are you able to do all this a head guy came in from MIT any see know how he did it so mentality is the only thing that gets us through life and the can't hurt me mentality is no matter where you come from the sewer or wherever you think you're from when I got out

of the sewer I got to the road and looked around and said can't hurt me nothing should be able to hurt you if you believe that it starts to become true I wanted to live my life in a way that when I died I was proud of myself I know what Pride felt like and if it took pushing myself to death I was willing to do that but I want to look in that mirror not impress anybody not money not fame not nothing I wanted to impress the guy in the Dagon mirror and I worked

endlessly and tirelessly to do that and it happened I actually sat back when I was fat nasty out of shape miserable and created a human being in my mind that didn't even exist and said that's what I want to be I want to be that guy I want to be a guy that's capable of doing exactly what I'm doing today if you weren't born that guy that mentally strong guy he can't be made but in making that person you have to be who the you are every day of your life and never care about anybody

who gets in your way that said you're not doing something the proper way when you get beat as bad as I did I lied all the time I wanted to be accepted and loved and all that that I created about 50 people whatever you like I like just be my friend and that's where we get lost in life you start to create a whole bunch of people that aren't even yourself you you never figure out who you are you you never live up to your dreams your ambition you live up to what whoever is around

you that you like so much that you want to emulate and be like so much you live their dreams you lose your power you lose your power the ultimate power is owning yourself when that alarm clock goes off at 4:00 or 5: in the morning your mind says no you just say this is what we do it's what we do now because to get to where you want to go the amount of pain involved the amount of mental pain of how many times you're going to have to do something that you don't want to do

to get to where you want to go there's going to be more times you do something that you don't want to do than you are going to want to do it and that's your new Norm why is the truth so important you know what because first of all it does set you free mentally and it gives you a starting point you have to have the truth to have a starting point if I'm lying to you about who I am or I'm lying to you about whatever there's no starting point there's a false reality 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 face 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 so it's the starting point the truth is the starting point and most people are surrounded by people that don't tell them the truth no because it's too painful it is especially nowadays in this Society we like to surround ourselves it makes us feel so good those people who say it's okay it's okay it's not okay it isn't okay man and I get it society's changing

and we love to feel wanted and loved trust me that's all important it is but you have to have the truth from people hey you're not working your butt off hard enough you're not trying hard enough we all think we're trying hard but what are you gauging that off of I talked to this one kid the other day college is kicking my ass I said what are you gazing that off of I go are you trying he goes yeah I'm trying my ass off I'm studying hard I go what are you gaug and trying hard

off of well in high school I didn't have to try it all and I made great grades in college I'm trying hard you're trying hard compared to what you did in High School which was it came easy to you so your reality is something that you created off of something easy so you trying hard is two hours of studying I'm going to tell you a difference in trying hard and trying hard trying hard is something in your mind just doesn't stop where you know 2 hours isn't enough so it's all about you know reality in

which you're basing things off of when I was 297 lbs and I was fat as hell trying to be a Navy SEAL the scariest thing thing in the world to me even to this day was that that could have been the rest of my life I thought then I was trying hard that's the scariest thing in the world I thought then 297b working for eolab spraying for cockroaches making $1,000 a month I thought that was me at my 100% potential coming to find out I wasn't anywhere near that 106 lbs less graduate Navy SE training

went on to do all these other things looking back on that that was me trying hard that's why people got to understand what is in us we have no idea until we start trying hard and I mean really trying hard where you're obsessed with hey this is my new Norm my new Norm is that wow this isn't always fun it's not always meant to be fun and that's when you know you're trying hard we all have two people 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 the voice saying things to you that aren't nice that it's in our head saying you know what man dude you're not you're not doing [ __ ] and and it's not putting yourself down people take this the wrong way in this new Society I'm not saying to put yourself down I'm saying listen to the truth and the truth isn't in the 20% the truth is in this other part of your brain saying look man you're

wasting a bunch of percentage here we have 80 more per that we're not tapping into because in this other 80% is suffering pain failure failure failure self-doubt darkness and then a whole bunch of light but to get to this light you got to go through all of this [ __ ] so a lot of us know that we know we know deep down yeah I can get over here but over here man this is much better because I got to go through this journey that is not fun this from 20 to 100% this [ __

] in between is not fun so we decide to live over here so everybody goes how do you do that you know exactly how to do that it's not a magic trick it's all backed down to a very primitive mindset of we just have to do it's like breathing breathing becomes normal like we don't know that we're doing it that's how you have to live your life when that alarm clock goes off at 4:00 or 5 in the morning your mind says no you just say it's just what we do it's what we do now

because to get to where you want to go the amount of pain involved the amount of mental pain of how many times you're going to have to do something that you don't want to do to get to where you want to go there's going to be more times you do something that you don't want to do than you are going to want to do it and that's your new Norm that's your new Norm so then it's like breathing and then once you do this over and over and over again it becomes like breathing I don't

want to live this lifestyle but to get to the other side of this I have to if you really want it you realize what trying is and what trying is not once again I have to say it very loud and clear I'm not about being a masochist but what I found when I was 297 lbs so I'm not a guy that read a book and said oh they're the answers all this came from here it came from me putting myself on the hot seat and then saying okay wow okay 297 this is where my mind

was at to get to 187 this is where my mind went to to go through three hell weeks to run 205 miles to do 430 pull-ups and I'm a natural born fat guy even though I was born 175 I gained 125 lbs I was lazy that's who I am I'm a guy likes to sit back watch TV and eat pizza like everybody like everybody all I crave is that Mama voice please love David Love David that voice got me to 297 lbs M fact she for you to she to cook for when I got a

military and I started gting this weight a lot my standard breakfast was eight cinnamon rolls 6 to eight scrambled eggs half a pound of bacon Fruity Pebbles that was my standard breakfast whatever I wanted I did and that's where I started seeing myself get further and further away from my true self and your true self is found honestly in that very uncomfortable Zone I have this haunting voice in the back of my head a lot of us have it yeah 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 I knew I could but I I was afraid of the work because I wasn't gifted 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 but yet you did it because it

haunted me the voice in my head say you know what man you're going to die never even trying to reach your full potential and how how's that going to feel so I'm I'm going to live even while I'm dead I'm going to be cuz I believe in a higher power whatever it may be I don't know what it is I believe that your mind lives forever some Spirit some something lives forever I'm going to be haunted by the mere fact that I literally just that's what I was so whatever heaven or hell is you're at

Hell the rest of your life the rest of your life and there is a God what a hope the God there is knowing what I put myself through now whatever memories I have if there's any at all I'll be a happy man but I knew that I was going to paid for this while I was living or while I was dead I was going to paid for this cuz basically to me it was a huge sin I'm basically just going to sit here and just be a comfortable man wasting your life is a sin right

a sin let's say you're in the hospital bed and you're getting ready to die and somebody walks in the room and you have one copy of your book and it's sitting right there on the table and you're taking your last breath and you're talking to this person you say to them I want you to read this book as you're dying think about this that book that you just wrote Would it changed your life forever and if it's not changing your life forever you have to rewrite your book you have to start rewriting it right now

I wanted to live my life in a way that when I died I was proud of myself I know what Pride felt like and if it took pushing myself to death I I was willing to do that but I want to look in that mirror not impress anybody not money not fame not nothing I wanted to impress the guy in the Dagon mirror and I worked endlessly and tirelessly to do that and it happened I see what is not the norm what's impossible with all the theorists say you shouldn't be doing this that's the wrong

way to go and I'm like H let me see if I can pull this [ __ ] off it's so easy to be great nowadays my friend cuz most people are weak most people don't want to go to that extra mile most people don't want to find that extra cuz it sucks it's miserable it's lonely I really started to enjoy seeing what the human mind was capable of and seeing that what is so horrendous there's so much joy and glory in this [ __ ] the most important conversation 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 act on it sometimes you act on it good sometimes bad you got to change the internal dialogue that person in your head that's talking that [ __ ] to you until you change the internal dialogue in your head until you callous over the victim's mentality that the world is out to get you because of you are the only you got to change that [ __ ] man I get that mentality 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 I've saw myself as the weakest human being on the planet and I wanted to transform that into the hardest man God ever created your mind takes control of you you have to say you I run this mother you have to be your best self and your least motivated you have to have these different things in your mind on where you want to go and know that motivation is not going to get me

there the only thing that changes your DNA is discipline if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do on the other side is greatness you have to be willing to fail a 100 times to succeed once and if you're not willing to do that man you're not going to even get a fraction of what you're looking for there's a new bar that you must always set in your life and once you become complacent and you become civilized you've arrived you're no good for anybody everybody's journey is different everybody's journey is different

I was on a journey to see who David Goggins was and that Journey took me in some of the hardest areas a human being can even imagine and right now I'm the happiest person on the planet because you know I had to climb onever several times just to look down on my life to see where hell I came from and that's what kept me going through all this stuff like I I envisioned myself going through like when I was a young kid and they called me n all time I got my dad beat the hell

out of me and I was had no self-esteem I had this vision of if I can make it to where I want to go imagine when I look back on my damn life how proud I will be and now I'm here I'm able to look back on this life I lived that many people will never understand because why when you're passionate they think you're crazy and you can't even explain to people why you're doing or why you did what you did because you found your purpose and once you find your purpose you can't really explain

it to normal people because they don't understand passion because they live everyday life that's going not really finding their purpose so I become a foreign language to people that think so they put me the category if you're just crazy no no no no no I'm passionate I found my purpose in this life if you want to be great you want to be bad mother ever at what you do you could be misunderstood by everybody because you're going to be so obsessed and so driven to get there that's what it takes the first step you have

to do is face yourself and be accountable for what you're not so then you can be what you want to be I called myself fat cuz 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 raw with who the you are nothing's going to change and 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 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 the fact if you lose three or 4 lbs that's a huge accomplishment I started realizing man just by going to war with myself every day and putting these challenges and these goals and these obstacles these insurmountable obstacles so it was about losing 106 lbs me losing 5 lb was an accomplishment

me losing 10 lb and then 50 lb the more I did this the more I gained confidence I was just working I was just sacrificing and then through that all these different tools started coming up but I would have never found these tools if I didn't put myself in a very uncomfortable place we all look for toughness we all want it but we look for it in a comfortable environment you will not find toughness in a comfortable environment those of you who are listening to this who ever hear this you will not find it I

was trying to look for it everywhere the only way you find it is to drown yourself in a position where you're just out of sorts where you can't swim and you're drowning you're drowning you're drowning in life but you say you know what ma'am I'm going to figure out how to backstroke or something 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 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 is

it does this it says he's not leaving so we got to expand we got to grow we got to figure this thing out we're only 1% away from True greatness there's a big difference between 99% and 100 I always thought thought that I was given 100% I wasn't but I was only 1% from making that money from being where I want to be from having everything in life that I've ever dreamed of but it's that 1% that we sleep on it's that 1% that we wake up in that morning we like you know what not

today maybe tomorrow well guess what that's why it's so easy to be great nowadays cuz most [ __ ] are weak and if all you do is when you are trying to hit that [ __ ] snooze button on life not in the morning on life just know this all the it takes is thinking about all those weak mother who are taking a day off and trust me you will come up real fast like I say it's easy to Great nowadays cuz mother is just weak very soft [Music] well I believe that you have to

build belief belief is like there's an after school special belief where the mom says believe in yourself and that's all great but there's also a built belief and the built belief is one where you are constantly like for me I came from a bad place How I build belief is through the daunting tasks put myself through so that's proof positive that I can so it correlates and that's how this piece of sh kid I once thought I was built belief by saying hm I was in three hell weeks I went to Ranger school I tried

out for adta selection undeniable stack of proof that is proof mother so whenever you think whenever you think you can't confidence comes from the thing that you built you must build belief you must build confidence it can't be like hey I'm going to go knock that [ __ ] out you got to look over here and say I can knock that [ __ ] out it's belief and it's built on what you put in to yourself and one thing I was able to do was to dream 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 what do you mean don't make dreams your master 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 is a mother 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 pounds in less than three months the dream was the one thing I thought about and the dream was now gone now what 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 we are all great no matter if if

you think you're dumb no matter if you think you're fat no matter if you are fat no matter if you've been bullied we all have greatness it just you got to find the courage you got to find the courage to put your B's headphones on and silence the noise out of this world and to find it you have to get in a quiet place in your brain we all live on earth phones we all live on Google we all live in in this whole social media world that I really hate I absolutely hate it why

you can't find purpose because in your head there's a bunch of noise when I was younger growing up they call me this they call me that I had all that noise in there the second I put on the kind of quote unquote Bose headphones and silence the noise I listen to my internal voice half of us live our whole lives and never even listen to what the hell we want to do get off the podcast don't be on social media too much cut out all the noise get back to the mental lab you don't know

what you want to be because you haven't spent time Real Time with yourself spend time with yourself trust me and once you find that passion and that purpose your goals your purpose everything will just start lining up and then you'll find the courage to start that Journey you have to believe that you are here on this Earth for a reason and if you don't believe that you're here for a reason your life will seriously hurt and I start looking at my life and all the [ __ ] I went through as God put me some

God every believe in put me here to go through this and now I see all the hundreds of thousands of lives I'm changing by the hell I went through there's a lot of power in that so my purpose as I started going through this journey instead of looking like wo is me God man why why the man why why I started looking as it's the perfect training ground you knew exactly what you were doing you knew exactly what the you were doing obviously you put me in every situation possible to tell a story that needed

to be told the reason why my story resonates with people because I don't hide I'll tell you exact the I am I will admit to it people are great at hiding so they want to just find peace no you got you got to take your [ __ ] fix whatever's up in you don't just sh it under a rug fix it and then you'll find some peace later how the is a 297 lb cockroach guy who quit on everything is now considered one of the bass man of the planet how is that possible it means

I had to change one thing my mindset I had to believe and make that belief work and through hard work I did that I also believe that we're going to end up one day meeting a maker and I believe that maker knows everything about you everything about you knows El going to be here and talking to you knows everything and the one thing that scares me to death in my life is getting to heaven and not being what I was supposed to be and I believe that God has a chart and he looks at the

chart and he puts it in front of you when you get to heaven he says hey this is what you're supposed to be and one of my biggest fears in life was to see that chart and not have every block checked off you know I want to make sure that I'm constantly pursuing whatever it is I'm pursuing just constantly grinding myself into a fine powder that's my purpose now to continue to push myself so others can see what is possible let's say you're in the hospital bed and you're getting ready to die and somebody walks

in the room and you have one copy of your book and it's sitting right there on the table and you're taking your life last breath and you're talking to this person you say to them I want you to read this book as you're dying think about this that book that you just wrote Would it changed your life forever and if it's not changing your life forever you have to rewrite your book you got to start rewriting it right [Music] now dude I'm not a masochist I'm not crazy I'm not this and that people try to

title me and label me when I was growing up I saw my mom getting beat and I got beat and I was some stuttering little black kid in all white school and I used to go home and cry like my God man I'm [ __ ] up I'm alled up so I had to train one fing thing you better train your mind because my talents could run out way early when [ __ ] got hard for me back in the day bro I'm done I'm out see you okay I got to invent a motherucker that

can so I invented goggin I invented a motherucker that realiz ized we're not good enough but gogin realizes we're mentally strong as and we're going to out strength these [ __ ] in the mind you need to work harder you need to discipline your mind better we need to help people more than just saying it's okay it's okay that you're not willing to help yourself out that's not okay it's not okay it's not acceptable I came with this thing called perform without purpose and so many people they need to have a 5k a 10K I

need to have a a a course in front of me I need to have something in front of me for me get my ass up and do some [ __ ] and that used to be me and nowadays you know [ __ ] for past 20 some years I don't need F purpose and people miss out on this man the purpose we're all looking for this golden purpose is it this is it that is it making money it is is it my family mother the purpose is you we forget that every I wake up and

I don't want to do some [ __ ] I'm like okay man do you want to be a [ __ ] today do you want to feel like a little [ __ ] do you want to walk around all day knowing that you could but you didn't so it's performed without purpose you have to learn how to get up and do [ __ ] when you ain't got no 5K no 10K nothing nothing exists your life sucks you're in the dungeon but guess what mother I'm still going to get it because when that time comes

cuz the time is going to come when that purpose is there you'll be ready but most of us aren't ready because we don't know how to do without having the golden carrot in front of us and so we all every step you take in that Journey as you're like for me run I run every day hate it but every step I take I'm like all right motherucker you're beating the demon again I made the decision and my decision was to be the best person I could and I basically a lot of mornings I wake up

and say your feelings and that doesn't mean like you know don't take it literally your feelings but sometimes you have to go beyond what you're feeling and my knees were [ __ ] but guess what I wanted to run and I knew that okay you can get knee Replacements this and that wasn't because of I Ran too much people always want to say oh man you ran so much so you f up your body you know you don't want to be like David Goggins I hear all the time you won't be like David Goggins I

gave everything I gave everything to who I am I gave everything and when you give everything man you have no regret people didn't understand me people don't understand me now I don't give a I know exactly what I was doing I'm not a masochist I'm not crazy I'm not this and that people try to title me and label me no I had something to do the way I describe it to people when people ask me like why does he do all these things like what is what is the motivation here I go he's on a

mental Journey that very few people have ever been on because people don't understand you they or they misunderstand you or they purposely misinterpret the way you're living your life you're trying to understand your mind in a way that very very few human beings ever get to understand their mind because you're taking your mind into these terrible Dark Places all the time and you're trying to pull things out of that you're trying to learn things about yourself and about your potential from that that's exactly it and that's what people don't understand I studied the darkness you

you find no [ __ ] answers in the light none it's too happy it's too nice we don't need to be taught how to live in happiness we that that just comes naturally to us happy moment but the dark times man and you can't get there unless you put yourself there life will take you there but when you get into those dark moments that's what people that's why people how are you able man I couldn't read and write to I was a junior in high school how are you able to write like this man motherucker

I go to such places in my mind and I study the darkness like it's not just physical when I was growing up and I saw my mom getting beat and I got beat and I was some stuttering little black kid in all white school and I'm on stage and I got I say one line oneing line in front of 15 people and I walk off stage come with stutter all those insecurities and all those things man I used to go home and cry like my God man I'm up I'm so up I hang on man

as I got older we got to study this [ __ ] man the only way we're going to get through this if we study it so every time I'm in a dark moment and life's up around me whether it be physical or just life I get in it man with the pen and paper I'm like okay this sucks I can feel like I'm losing my [ __ ] let's study this let's come out of this mother genius I study the the black matter of the Mind the dark matter you know like Steph Hawkins that's if

that's his name I said it right that [ __ ] studied the space and [ __ ] that's where I consider myself man and so many people get it wrong and I don't give a man you can't for me I cannot help people there's a lot of cookie cutter [ __ ] out here in this world oh discipline wake up early take coach shower this that whatever it's all [ __ ] [ __ ] it's not but what they don't teach you within the cookie cutter is like our minds are like a garage and the

garage if you open a garage and it's all cluttered up it's all up you can't put your car in there you got boats and you got kids toys and [ __ ] everywhere but if you organize that garage and you put everything in this rightful spot you can pull that car in there you can put two cars in there you can put bikes in there and that's like with the Mind people talk about discipline and determination and repetitions and all this [ __ ] consistency why people fall off the wagon so often is because their

mind is full of [ __ ] 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 cluttered garage comes in and then it's like a circuit breaker man a circuit breaker just overloads and it Sparks and our minds that's that's our mind man it's like a circuit breaker that has so much [ __ ] in it you keep unloading it you can't put any more into it so i' I talk about 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 because they they they do mean something but we don't get to that dark matter that is keeping you from clearing out that mental garage that's a good way to put it cuz that is the mind of most people is filled with stuff that they have to move around to get what they want and it's constantly piling up and [ __ ] unorganized and organized mind man you're looking at I got to take care of the kids the kids

schedule's all up my husband my my wife I'm going by McDonald's to get this and I'm rushing my schedule everything's just I wish I was doing this but I'm doing that and that and this I want a raise but I can't get one my boss the [ __ ] where's greatness in that man you can't you you can't fit discipline into that you can't fit structure you can't fit consistency can't fit the grind and then when you try it gets overrun by the clutter in your mental garage every time I'm in a bad situation like

you know I I study it and that's the only reason I do have to should I do is I'm studying this [ __ ] cuz I know that I never thought I was going to be writing books and trying to help people get better but 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 snapshots man like you know you you see something on your phone like

oh man I'm going to take a snapshot of that or how you do the little picture [ __ ] so you can save it on your phone I do that in my mind so when I get in these moments I'm like okay wow that's some 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

the mountains and the [ __ ] and all this [ __ ] no I don't like my body hurts I'm hurting how do we get through this it's a lab it's my mental lab and so when I come home I'm not forgetting it every day I get done running or every day I get through working every day I get through studying whatever it is that brings me to that place of knowledge so I come home from running and I write everything out people have talent and this is going beyond your talent when there's no more

Talent what happens to you most people quit people only go to their talent level and once their talent level is gone it becomes a mental gra that that whole mental game sets in then and most people can only perform to their talent and they realize man why am I always messing up right here why why why is this my big hurdle is because you're performing to your talent and then after that your mind has nothing for you I see Fighters I see Runners I see people who they're great but they get to the edge of

their talent it's like man what what's what's up because you're now at the point now where you're talented could do [ __ ] for you my friend friend now it's the mental game and that's where people get lost in life get lost in that next level and that next level is found for me in the things that I do first of all I didn't have much talent so I had to train one thing you better train your mind because my talent's going to run out way early when [ __ ] got hard for me back

in the day bro I'm done I'm out see you okay I got to invent a motherucker that can so I invented gogin I invented a mother that that realized we're not good enough but gogin realizes we're mentally strong as and we're going to outstrength these mother in the mind and so many people just wanted the easy way it I'm sorry man it's not so what they start to do is they build this Narrative of it's okay when the narrative should be you need to work harder you need to discipline your mind better we need to

help people more than just saying it's okay it's okay that you're not willing to help yourself out that's not okay that's not okay it's not acceptable even though it's your life if that's if if that's acceptable that's unacceptable and there's a lot of people in this world me included that if I accepted that I wouldn't be anywhere so yeah a lot of people just they they start creating a narrative about themselves that make it okay the ultimate get out jail free card and now the world is set up to have so many get out jail

free cards everything is okay and you can't say a mother thing about it man man why are you always yelling guys you this how I talk [ __ ] cuz I'm proud [ __ ] you know what I'm saying I'm a proud motherucker man it's not proud like look at me it's like mother I know where iing came from [ __ ] I shouldn't be here right now talking to you shouldn't be talking to you [ __ ] I shouldn't be here I a fat sloppy [ __ ] I'm proud so I'm able to tell

you I was up many people can it's not even real all those mornings that you want to get up and and I look at it as like a like a rock and you find this rock and that rock is you and every day you fight not wanting to get up and you do anyway you chip another piece off that rock and every day you eat the right foods and every day you go to train you train harder and harder and harder and harder and you get up earlier and all these things you do to start

forming yourself you're chipping another piece of that rock up before you know it you have this beautiful piece of of artwork that that you built and then once you get there you see it and it becomes real like oh my goding did this [ __ ] and so like the the journey becomes so real then but so many people aren't willing to chip away at that stone that is them to start chipping off those rough edges that's the fear the fear is never Reaching Your Potential that's it that always falling short always quitting before you're

done always procrastinating always not doing the right thing and then one day you're an old man yep and you look back and go God I could have been great yep it could have been great I never forget one time I was running by a graveyard when I was [ __ ] this TR trying to become I was fat and I ran by a graveyard and I looked out there and I have all these epiphanies man I have all these moments of like of it's crazy man of of this thought CU I'm always by myself I'm

always in deep in thought about how to be better I look out there I'm like man I wonder how many of you mother in there are so upset with how you lived your life anding just regret how you lived it and I'm running at 300 lb man thinking man don't fing die like this bro don't di like this so people wonder where this [ __ ] comes from from me it comes from such deep thought of trying to see what this is all about what is this life all about what am I all about why

am I here you know I had to I had to find purpose and my suffering it had a purpose it had a purpose many people build confidence in different ways and they build belief in different ways coming from where I came from I didn't have any belief in myself so some people can go read a book and get belief some people can go take a yoga class have good parents so where I came from was so far down underneath soil that I had to build belief by truly ingraining it in my brain so the things

I do I'm always every day building belief and my belief had to be where it is cuz I was so far down so it made may take a 200 mile run for me it may take a 100 mile run it may take late nights in the gym but without belief you have nothing and I realized that when I was a young kid I have no belief I have to build it and a f mile run didn't do it I had to push myself to such extremes cuz I came from people judge me by not knowing

where I came from so unless you're me and you came from where I came from I guarantee you would have made it out guarantee it and I knew that so my belief comes from going I had to build it that's how I build it man I build it by the things I do I never cared about myself never never ever which makes what I do now for people I understand because I care about people even though I'm an introvert I'm an introvert cuz my [ __ ] life sucked but what I do for people I

really do that's why I want to make sure that [ __ ] book and things I do that's why I don't like why don't you sell [ __ ] why don't you always you know why aren you like promoting this and that and no man no I care that you understand that I want to see youing kill [ __ ] I want to see you better [Music]