every day we’re seeing who we are as
people when I was growing up I I lied
for people to accept me because I didn’t
accept myself so I would make up stories
so then you would accept me into your
world I would uh everything I did was
for someone else to like me it wasn’t I
started reading my own book about how
pathetic I was as human being I could
blame my dad I can blame kids at school
I could blame having health issues ATD
my mom not being around great mom but
she was doing her thing
right I could blame a lot of people and
that’s the book I was reading and I put
it off on everybody else it wasn’t so I
said you know what for me to fix this I
get a read what the hell what the fuck
is wrong with David Goggin not not blame
anybody read my books okay I’m afraid of
my shadow how can I overcome that go in
and military get your ass kicked
do things you hate to do be
uncomfortable every fucking day of your
life Roger that I’m not the smartest kid
in the world okay it says somebody
saying oh no you’re smart no I don’t say
that to yourself I said to myself no I’m
a dumb motherfucker okay Roger that how
you get smarter educate yourself so the
things that we run from we run it from
the truth we’re running from the truth
man so the only way I became successful
was going towards the truth as painful
and as brutal as it is it changed me it
allowed me to become in my own right Who
am today my biggest advice to give
everybody in the world it’s like I say
we live in an external world everything
is is you got to see it touch its
external if you can for the rest of your
life live inside of yourself stop
listening to people who are calling you
fat gay transsexual nigger everything
that is makes no sense all these
insecure people putting their
insecurities on you you got to flush it
out you got to just be whoever the hell
God or whatever the hell you believe in
if you believe in
but yourself I don’t care what it is you
gotta take everything and throw it away
you have to believe in one thing and
that is yourself and and I’m not saying
don’t believe in God or what you believe
in but right now for you to find
greatness in yourself you’re not gonna
find it by looking in a book or by even
hearing me I may give you the spark but
you’ve got to go inside yourself to find
it and that means you gotta be quiet
shut the fuck up go on the 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
miss planet Earth why am I here if you
don’t know that you will live the rest
your life searching always asking the
question why it took a while to get to
that point where enough was enough
what happened I came home one night from
work
spraying for cockroaches and long story
short I turned on the Discovery Channel
I saw some guys going through Navy SEAL
training and they were going through
hell week and they were getting their
ass just beat you know in all the water
guys ringing the bell there was
suffering and I was waiting like 297
pounds and I had to make a change in my
life you know I was at all-time low and
I wasn’t going anywhere and I was
exactly what everybody said I was gonna
be which was nothing I came from a
horrible background I got called nigger
every day of my life growing up lived in
a small town the Klan headquarters at
that time was about 20 minutes from
where I lived the one of the high ups in
the KKK son sat behind me in two classes
so you called me nigga a long time got
my first car they spray print nigger
we’re gonna kill you on it so I was just
an insecure scared kid and the only way
I could find myself was the
put myself through the worst thing
possible one time this this person drew
a picture of me and you know I said
we’re going to kill you nigger on my
Spanish notebook and I took it to my
principal and my principal said they
spilled Niger Niger that was the best
advice he can give me so long story
short what I realized was no one was
here to help me and the feeling I had
every morning I started saving my heaven
on 16 years old and the feeling I had
every morning I looked in the mirror was
horrible and I don’t want to collect
anymore and how I felt was a a kid going
nowhere a kid that was scared and most
kids will accept that and look for help
but the best thing that happened to me
no one helped me no one felt sorry for
me no one looked at me and said like
this day and age they’ll take you in and
they’ll tell you bye stop picking on
this person back then they didn’t care I
had to figure out I wasn’t going to be a
punk kid all my life so the way I could
turn around was to suffer
I had to build calluses in my brain the
same way I built calluses on my hands so
I brought the Guinness Book of World
Records for puffs a long time ago but I
felt at it twice and I did 67,000
pull-ups and trying to break this record
so to do four thousand thirty pull-ups I
had to do 67 thousand for training for
that Wow
and so 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 blamed 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 and my goal when I
was sitting there not going to school
being bullied being and having no
self-esteem my goal was the only person
that’s gonna turn this person around
it’s me you know where I can turn around
is put myself through the worst things
possible a human being could ever endure
it and I’d be the only way that I can
build this brain to handle anything that
comes in front of him callus in my mind
through pain and suffering in the end
like what would your advice be to that
16 year old kid who’s staring in the
mirror
not like what he sees but is still
running from adversity well my biggest
advice to him is that first of all he
won’t like what I say to him but I’m
gonna say the exact opposite of what the
world today’s world is saying so we read
a bunch of books nowadays as humans we
we want to find out how to be someone
else what we don’t do is we don’t go
inside so literally turn yourself inside
out read the book that says like we’re
writing a book every day of our lives
but we never read that book so what I
would challenge this young man or young
women to do is you have to look inside
of yourself to see what you really want
what are you passionate about we use
these words and these little phrases of
only the strong survive and also the
crap they’re all just fucking words I
get so tired of hearing people just
talking like right now someone may think
Gaga is just talking you don’t know me
so when I speak I speak from passion I
speak from experience I speak from
suffering I want to tell this young man
and woman that the only way I believe
this is this my experience in life the
only way you’re ever going to get to the
other side of this journey is you have
got to suffer to grow to grow you must
suffer and some people get it and some
people won’t but they have to see what
their journey is to start their journey
several people live to be a hundred
years old and they have great lives and
they have great kids the kids go to
college long sort of stuff but somewhere
in their life there was a point where
they had a decision to make they can go
left or right on this path left was the
easy route right was a hard route a lot
of people take the easy route and they
had a good life that way but the better
life was going to the right side and you
may have twenty years of pain and
suffering to get past it but a lot of us
died never truly starting our journey
and I would tell this young person you
got to start your journey it may suck
but it will it will come out the other
side where you’re coasting I knew
nothing about ultra marathons I hadn’t
even run a marathon I knew nothing about
this world
so our Google that need all the top 10
hardest races in the world and what
comes up is about water 135 so her in 35
mile race through Death Valley in the
summertime I thought it was a stage race
I thought was a race where you run like
20 miles set up camp
you know barbecue outside and then go
run some more the next day so I called
the race director up at the race I said
hey Chris name is Chris Causton I want
to do your race so we had a long
conversation you know I was I was much
heavier than and I had to put running
shoes on over a year how heavy are you
at this point I’m around between 240 to
270 whoa I’m in there I’m in that
register I’ve my weight is buried a lot
through the SEAL Teams and I was so team
so I was a heavy guy but the long and
short of it all was I am put running
shoes on in over a year there happened
to be a race that Saturday so four days
later and he said if you qualify by
running a hundred miles or less in 24
hours I will consider you my race I’m
gonna cut to the chase I signed up for
this race it’s called the San Diego one
day where you want to run a one-mile
track for 24 hours to city miles you can
get my goal was 100 miles so I got 2
miles 70 and I cleared 70 miles in like
12 13 hours pretty quickly but I was
done my feet were broken
I was stretched fractured shin splints
muscles were tearing I was in bad shape
I was eating rich crackers and drinking
that’s all I had no water didn’t know
what the hell I was doing out there cut
on some tube socks it was just
ridiculous it was it was a clown show so
I sat down at Mile 70 and at this time I
was married and I look at my wife and I
was like I’m messed up bad so I
literally start to turn white I’m at
Mile 70 I got 30 fucking miles to go I’m
jacked up I got to go to the bathroom in
the bathrooms like 20 feet from me
support a party I can’t get all the
fucking chair so I’m peeing blood down
my leg whoa whooping up my fucking pack
and I got 30 miles to go and I’m I can’t
stand up to my my blood pressure’s all
messed up I’ve been in three whole weeks
Ranger school overcome so many obstacles
in my life this last 30 miles of this
race is when I realized a human being is
not so human anymore we have the ability
to go in such a space if you’re willing
to suffer and I mean suffer your brain
and your body once connected together
can do anything and this 30 miles was
the life-changing moment I was out of it
I was in the worst pain in my entire
life I was to me on the brink of death
and I was able to chunk this 30 damn
miles into small pieces I was so driven
and like I say motivated because
motivations crap motivation comes and
goes when you’re driven whatever’s in
front of you will get destroyed so I sat
in this chair and I was so driven to
succeed in this race and at this time
everyone’s rethinking about the guys
that died and I’m not gonna lie to you I
wasn’t this became a personal thing
this became me against this race me
against the kids that called me nigger
me against me it just became something
that I took so so violently personal and
I broke this thing down into small
pieces I said okay I got to get
nutrition I gotta be able to stand up
before I can get off this curb and off
this chair and be able to go 30 miles so
I went through all these small steps and
I was able to stand up and then from
standing up I was literally walking
around with my wife at the time and she
goes she’s not gonna make the time she
goes y’all mean you’re walking like 37
minute miles I got tomorrow 81 and the
second she said that I’m not gonna make
the time I ran the last 19 miles
non-stop and I can show you right now
when we get done with this smack I want
to show you right now this was years ago
and I had to put compression tape on my
old and I had so this was years ago
I had literally the size of half dollars
I had to get compression tape and I
taped up my ankles and i taked up my
feet and that’s how I got through that
race it was like a hematoma I mean what
are we well though it’s not what
happened was like my shins hurts so bad
I’m having stress fractures that’s the
only way I could continue on was I taped
it so I wasn’t doing the flexural notion
that that activates your shins
so I taped my ankles and my shins up and
I got that from because of my throat
hell week they were okay let me go back
to you no train anymore right so I
literally went through all the buds my
last SEAL training with stress fractures
and shin splints and how I did it was I
would take my ankles all the way up to
my calf every morning so for the first
hour the pain was excruciating but what
happened is my feet would go numb and I
did that every single day for six months
whoa that’s how I got through my third
hell because I was so broken from the
first two that the commander said hey to
CEO said this year last time I sent you
through so that’s how I got the idea to
do that so with the right and people may
listen to this and say this guy is
sadistic he’s crazy he’s know if you
know how I came up you realized I was
just a scared kid that found driving
passion to be something much better than
what he thought he was that’s all it is
cookie jar is something that I’ve made
up of all the failures of my life all
the things that I was I failed and I
went back I failed I went back and I
finally succeeded all the things that
kicked my ass I put them all in a cookie
jar because at times of hell even the
hardest men in times of suffering what
we do is we forget how hard we really
are because that’s what suffering is
suffering is a test it’s all this
suffering is the true test of life and
so that cookie jar travels in my brain
so whenever I get put in a situation
where I have poopy pants the rowers me
mentality of oh my god
life sucks I take a second I take the
one second decision I step out of my
life for one second going
a jar pull-up Oh motherfucker he went
you were in three homes and finished to
one of those topics a guy died incomes
were so bad oh you want her
motherfucking badass you are
I put it back in the cookie jar and I
remember who the fuck I really am I’m
not the kid that guy that was called
nigga I’m not the scared kid this is who
I am
it’s a reminder of who you truly are at
the core of yourself but what I was
saying to myself the whole time on that
track and it this is what I say to
myself self talk and visualization of
the two keys to my success I believed
for that last time 19 miles I was
indestructible because I took myself in
that chair crapping up my back peeing
blood in my leg shin splints stress
fractures I used all that for motivation
versus negativity I use it for motor
base I said to myself who on this
fucking earth would still be going right
now you are you are
you got to be the hardest motherfucker
on the planet is it true I don’t give a
fuck at that time it got me to the
finish line of that fucking race I
believed it I believed it today I
believed it enough to wear my body said
he’s not gonna stop and that’s I took
all the negative things I need to go to
the hospital this and that and I uses
all who the hell could even get on that
chair you who the hell would even think
about taping stretch patches up you
didn’t all those things are used for
motivation if you think that I’m some
unhappy guy you’re wrong
having lived a life I’ve lived in seeing
the other side not being afraid to
attack what was in front of me has made
me happy say that again and in fact let
me make sure I understood it getting to
the point where you’re not afraid to
face the thing on the other side of the
door that wants to attack you has made
you happy right right it’s really
powerful I hope people heard that what
the dark side is is we all have a cookie
jar and we all have a jar of fuck that’s
its official name it’s a jar of fuck man
we’re shit just it’s just ain’t going
right and in hell week what they do in
hell week okay this is where I really
went to the dark side what they’re doing
hell we cuz they designed hell week to
find your flaws and they do a really
good job of that it’s 130 hours of
continuous training you may get two
hours of sleep and they beat the shit
out of you and find everything wrong
with your mentality and then they start
hell week and that’s the beauty of it
and for me I’m not some not no nasty guy
giving guy you know I don’t have a great
bit of talent and anything so what got
me through horrible times was the dark
side whereas I created my name is David
Goggins I created Goggins
Goggins is the guy that can take
anything you put in front of him you
want to break my motherfucking legs so
be it
I have a way of going to a place I could
did in that race where all the pain and
suffering that they put on top of me
inhale weaken I will reverse that pain
and suffering and I will take your soul
so every instructor that put me through
buds my job what drove me was I wanted
you to go home that night after you beat
the living shit out of me and I smiled
in your face I wanted you to feel worse
than I did and you were going home to a
nice warm bed with your wife or your
kids and a nice meal and I was still out
there in the grip suffering for another
100 hours I want you to think about me
knowing but I’m comfortable being very
unfuckin comfortable and I want you to
think about when you went to fucking
hell week how uncomfortable you were how
bad you wanted to quit knowing I’m not
thinking that fucking 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
I used to hurt you’re trying to put on
me I flip it upside down and use it you
try use it for Kryptonite but now it’s
power pillars for me I’m using it for
strength I flipped negative into
positive Saudis people I said man you
cuss all the fucking time why well I
hate to say it the best way for me to
get how life Eagle acrost I can’t see
her and say you know what I went through
hell week and man it was it was really
hard know that motherfucker
takes your damn soul rips it inside out
and then they say now we’re going to
fucking start it it allows me to express
where I was at at a point of my life if
I won’t give you all of me why the hell
am I here why how will you learn from me
people take so much offense to me you
will never learn from people if we
always tap-dance around the truth
I love that we tap-dance around the
truth by finding the right words I don’t
hurt you because you have thin skin no
tighten up people it’s okay
trust me it’s okay you might be called
nigger one day it’s okay you might be
called some Jewish word or some faggot
or gay word it’s okay let them call you
that what are you going to do now they
don’t own your life how are you going to
control that now how are you gonna flip
it upside down and say Roger that now
I’m gonna harness this shit and you’ll
read about me years from now how that’s
the question how are you gonna do that
thicken your skin become more of a human
being don’t be afraid of the reflection
in the mirror because that’s all you can
be afraid of once you overcome the
reflection in the mirror you’ve done it
I love them and you once said that if
you were growing up in this generation
that you would have a field day because
you would take their souls what did you
mean by that the younger generation
quits not everybody so I got it I got
put that people get too butthurt so not
everybody most of this generation quits
the second they get talk to you you did
this wrong you did this wrong or they
get yelled at it’s so easy to be great
nowadays because everybody else is most
people are weak this this is a softened
generation so if you have any mental
toughness any of any ability you have
any fraction of self-discipline the
ability to not want to do it but still
do it people have a hard thing
understand I hate to run and what makes
me so crazy it doesn’t anymore
tickle why do you run if you hate it
what are you talking about I don’t want
to take showers and eat either I hate
that too that the whole that’s a life
man
that and it wasn’t until I changed that
mentality that I became somebody I hated
going to school so I guess when I was
dumb as shit that’s what will one plus
one is two but if you can get through to
do
things that you hate to do on the other
side is greatness that’s what people are
saying by me running I encounter sin my
mind I’m not training for a race I’m
training for life
I’m training for the time when I get
that two o’clock in the morning call
that my mom is dead or something happens
tragic in life I don’t fall apart I’m
training my mind in my body my spirit so
it’s all one so I can handle what life
is gonna throw at me because the life
I’ve lived it throws a whole bunch at
you and if you’re not physically
immensely prepared for that you’re just
gonna crumble and you’re good for nobody
talk to me about what it takes to be on
one side of a door in Iraq or anywhere
knowing on the other side of the door
people who are not afraid of you they’re
ready for you to come in and you still
have and they have guns and you still
have to breach that door that’s a great
question it that’s a very scary
situation when you are on one side of
the door and your mind is racing because
on the other side of that door it could
be no one it could be four guys with
four ak-47s that that door you’re about
to open can be trapped so once you open
it boom your legs are gone so there’s a
thousand things you think about when
you’re the first guy second guy third
guy getting ready going a room and
flooding and that’s what I talk about
the warrior mentality and that’s why so
many people are lost when I start
talking you have the right you’re lucky
that you don’t have to think like
warriors think you’re very privileged I
chose this world to be a warrior and I
would choose it again if I came back to
this world but the mentality of a
warrior is very different than normal
mentality you must be that person on
that door Oh get ready to open it
thinking to yourself if I die so be it
the only way you can go in that door is
know there’s a great chance you’re gonna
die it’s like being a seal you train
with live ammo you jump on air
everything you do you could die so to be
a warrior why people don’t understand me
I’m glad you don’t understand me
Merry Christmas good on you because
being a warrior takes a whole different
mindset a whole different mindset to
know that there’s a great chance I may
not beat him like I was in for 21 years
I’m lucky I’m very lucky that I’m alive
able to talk to you able to still run
but when you sign up on that dotted line
to be a set like a seal your mentality
changes I may not live
you got accept that and that’s the
mentality you have and that’s what makes
you a warrior if you’re scared to die
you’re a bad water a lot of people
either you like me or don’t even in the
SEAL Teams but when you get to that door
or you get on that mission or you
getting an OP all that’s just out the
door man you know you you do it honestly
I mean people say all the time of these
movies and shit you you really out there
fighting for that guy beside you and you
can’t be a coward because you know what
this I look at everything I do now in
life and this sums it up I hate it
jumping out of airplanes I hated
shooting guns I hate it the job as a
Navy SEAL but I did it because I wanted
to change myself everything I do I’m not
really comfortable doing but if you
choose to go that route to go be a Navy
SEAL you might as well go be the hardest
motherfucker in the world because if
you’re choosing to do something you have
two routes you can go there and be a
little a little weak person and get
through barely and that’s your
reputation or you can go through the
hardest guile you can possibly be nice
reputation so my whole thing is if
you’re gonna choose to open that fucking
door in Iraq or Afghanistan
open your motherfucker go in hard
because they’re gonna remember you by
slowly opening it and peeking in so if
you’re going to open it and you made
them on to open it don’t crack it open
open the fucking door go in that’s with
life if you choose to do if you choose
to do something attack it because
they’re gonna remember you as not
attacking it so I want to be
you can hate me but one thing you can’t
say about me I didn’t attack it so
that’s them attire you have if you’re
gonna do something you might as well
attack it because you do it anyway right
no matter what Avenue I choose I want to
be the very best and the very best may
not be I’m number one the very best is
did I leave everything inside of me out
there so attacking it’s not like I want
to win this or win that or be the best
the best is I’m running against myself
and everything I do and and that’s and
that’s what I attack I attacked myself
I’m always questioning myself I’m always
holding myself accountable talk to me
about the accountability mirror so the
accountability mirror is something that
I kind of came up with in high school
like I said I started shaving my head in
on 16 mm-hmm and I got caught up in
trying to impress so many people because
no one liked me so I developed so many
different identities let me sag my pants
you know let me okay let me pull my
pants up let me let me talk this way or
act this way or be this way or whatever
the hell it may be god daughter so many
different things I did try to fit in
with so many different groups that when
you look in the mirror that’s the one
person you can’t lie to you so every
morning I would shave my head thank God
I reflect back on some of the lies I may
have told somebody or some of the ways I
acted I ain’t feel comfortable doing and
I did it to impress other normal people
the key word there is normal everyday
people I was trying to make other people
like me how pathetic is that so I did
this mirror would always tell me my I
got my reflection to say God you are a
pathetic man how does that feel every
day to be this way so I would just start
having myself accountable huh how did I
attack today
how did I attack yesterday and if I
didn’t do something I was proud of I
write down a sticky note and I would fix
it so then my senior year in high school
it was a totally different David
guidance can you give an example was
something that you wrote down and fixed
all right there was a lunch table now
you know I wanted to sit the cool guy
you know you know everybody nigga on
time I wanted to try to act like
somebody I wasn’t so I could fit in and
I sold my soul to the devil you know
trying to act like no I’m David fucking
Goggins that’s who I am
and so I wrote down on a piece of paper
fuck the table sit by your fucking self
and that’s what I did and guess what
happened my table became a table people
started sitting in because a whole bunch
of people in that lunch room it’s not
exactly like I did as long as you list
of things I’ll just write down in this
fix so I’m right down to fix it it was
funny man one movie I walked all time
was Rocky great choice rocky one and I
related to Rocky a lot because of Connie
know one of the smart guy just try real
hard and the one scene that I related a
lot of my life to still to this day was
Rocky one round 14 and that’s where I
got taken souls from if you look at
round 14 of rocky one Apollo is beating
the shit out of rocky rocky falls down
in this corner Micky saying stay down
stay down
rocky didn’t hear a fucking soul Apollo
after you knocked him down turns around
hands in the air like I finally knocked
down this animal right Apollo doesn’t
know it but Rocky is getting up a power
turns around the second rocky gets up
and a Powell looks at Rocky any Apollo
looks at him with the look of like rocky
just took his soul he polish aches his
head and rocky has his good loves and
emotions towards Apollo come on
motherfucker I’m still here and this
song comes on that I played so I brought
the GIMP Ginsberg arose records it took
me 17 hours to do 4030 pull-ups I
listened to one song for 17 hours 2
minutes and 17 seconds the dentin
I listen to that song for 17 hours
non-stop on repeat so the image in my
mind of a man was not one that had
earrings sag his pants I had this image
in my head and I was going to fulfill
that and I didn’t do any trends I
stopped trending I stopped being this
guy who whatever was new fuck it that’s
not what I believe in
I’m doing this this is what I want to be
this what I’m gonna be I just retired
from the military in November of 2015
and I was going and going and going and
going and I never really I was a happy
guy
but I’m never in the moment of like
sitting back and I want to travel here
to have fun or do this is that I’ve
never been that person but the first
time I really got a chance to experience
true happiness and true peace was I was
like so what I did to myself to become
Who I am today
it takes a great toll on your body so I
believe God gave me time to rest and he
took me out of commission
not even the minds of Goggins but could
get me back up so I had about a good six
seven months I was out and when I was
out I had time to reflect on all I’d
accomplished and that was the first time
in my life where I sat back and said wow
because only I I may be telling you some
of the story I know the exact truth of
how brutal my life was and how I
shouldn’t be on this show today and how
the mind and how beautiful it is so what
brings me joy and happiness is knowing
how beautiful the mind is and I’m one of
the few people that didn’t read about it
then it experience it through some some
drug I got to experience the beauty of
true fucking willpower true fuck you I’m
gonna fail I’m gonna fucking fail I’m
gonna fucking fail I’m gonna fucking
fail
and I will succeed just me talking about
that gives me a feeling I know what I
did and I don’t need to travel somewhere
or to have this I have that I have it
all here in my mind the beauty is
remembering this young dumb what people
called nigger is now where I’m at today
and that is when you finally get to that
point for me it’s forever lasting peace
I’m doing it I could die right now on
this show and I’ll be happy man so
that’s that’s my happiness is my
reflection on the suffering of my
journey knowing I never quit nor was I
guided by anybody on this earth I was
guided by something much more powerful
and I listened and I chose the path of
most resistance talent not required um
so I stretched out every day for these
two hours I don’t drink I don’t go out
my regimen is I wake up have oatmeal run
come back hit the weights I’m a big
sports guy I don’t leave the house if at
all but do stuff like this and I stress
out at nighttime I find people that I
trust which is a very small group of
people people who are honest and true to
me people who will die for me and I’ll
died for them which is a fucking small
everybody else man you know do you and I
say to myself and I’ll let you do you I
don’t judge people I don’t criticize you
you want to be a douchebag and being
asked and I love this country
do you everyone do I don’t care man I
fought for this country for you to do
you and I am all about you doing you
because I’m gonna fucking do me and I’m
gonna do me until I’m fucking dead and I
believe I earned the right a lot of
people haven’t earned the right cuz you
live in this country man you earn the
right you got a you got to live for a
little bit live and then have something
to say or shut the fuck up you know so
if you had maybe impossible to answer
but if you had that same kid from early
he wants to take that first step you
want him to go experience some life what
one specific thing would you tell him to
go do I first asked a kid who are you at
the core of your soul and if he can
can’t answer that question our
conversations over I can’t say shit to
him right if you don’t know who you are
if you don’t know who you are I can’t
tell you who you are
honestly I’ve I’m blessed enough to have
survived the life I lived and to come
out the other side with a bunch of
knowledge so hopefully I can help people
that believe that they’re much less than
what they truly are help them find
greatness in themselves and greatness
isn’t running towards it miles at a time
or do 4,000 plus of being a seal
greatness is whatever the hell you’ve
dreamed of in your own mind you got to
first see it you got 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 gonna
get there now and that’s we’re not
coming to play but first you got to
create your own vision and then it’s not
external it’s the the busines created is
inside of you so until you create that
I’m nobody to you what is the impact
that you want to have on the world the
impact I wanna have in the world is it’s
a great question man and it’s a question
that I’ve been asked many times and have
a several answers for it but the biggest
one is we all we are all great no matter
if if you think you’re dumb and we think
you’re fat no matter you are fat or have
you been bullied or no matter if you got
back from Iraq or Afghanistan and you
have no legs or your arms or whatever
man we all have greatness it’s just you
got to find the courage you got to find
the courage to put your Bose headphones
on and silence the noise out of this
world and to find it in the final cut is
out there but it’s going to take hard
work courage self-discipline it’s going
to take all the non-cognitive skills
there are all the non-cognitive skills
to be great you know smart is good all
the stuff is good that’s all cognitive
if the non-cognitive skills that sets
you apart from everybody else and and
that’s what it’s all about yeah David
guys this is one of those times where as
I was researching him I literally felt
like I should be doing this in a bucket
of ice water or something and I’m
actually only mean that sort of
tongue-in-cheek
it I fasted through most of my prep
because it felt right to put myself in a
more difficult situation while I was
doing that it really makes me want to
find more ways to go through hardship
and that’s one of the things I really
hope you guys take away from him is how
you can totally create yourself and I
experienced him in Reverse so I saw all
of the amazing things that he had done
all of the races that he had won going
through how week three times the
succeeding in three different branches
of the military nobody ever doing that
before the pull up record all of it and
then found out that he had struggled
through everything and you realize how
insidiously and how quietly the idea
that somebody is just better than you
they’re more genetically gifted than you
slips into your mind as a way of letting
you off the hook not as a way of making
them more extraordinary but you make
them extraordinary as a way of letting
you off the hook and so hearing all the
things that he had to go through and one
thing that didn’t even come up in the
show he did most of the amazing
endurance stuff before he had his heart
fixed so his heart was literally
existing at 60% capacity he still did
all of that this is a man who peed blood
and got up and kept running for 30 more
miles if that kind of thing doesn’t
inspire you to look inward and to really
take control of your own story to
realize that you can sculpt yourself
into anything you want it doesn’t have
to be Goggins but to see in that the
power of both beauty and rage to see in
that the malleability of the human
spirit to see in that the power of the
human spirit to turn you into anyone
that you want to become that is this
man’s story and I hope that you guys
heard it there were so many incredible
things so many times that I got the
chills so many times that I saw another
tool that I could take and use in my own
life
and I hope you guys got that much out of
it as I did all right if you haven’t
already be sure to subscribe and until next time my friends
people when I was growing up I I lied
for people to accept me because I didn’t
accept myself so I would make up stories
so then you would accept me into your
world I would uh everything I did was
for someone else to like me it wasn’t I
started reading my own book about how
pathetic I was as human being I could
blame my dad I can blame kids at school
I could blame having health issues ATD
my mom not being around great mom but
she was doing her thing
right I could blame a lot of people and
that’s the book I was reading and I put
it off on everybody else it wasn’t so I
said you know what for me to fix this I
get a read what the hell what the fuck
is wrong with David Goggin not not blame
anybody read my books okay I’m afraid of
my shadow how can I overcome that go in
and military get your ass kicked
do things you hate to do be
uncomfortable every fucking day of your
life Roger that I’m not the smartest kid
in the world okay it says somebody
saying oh no you’re smart no I don’t say
that to yourself I said to myself no I’m
a dumb motherfucker okay Roger that how
you get smarter educate yourself so the
things that we run from we run it from
the truth we’re running from the truth
man so the only way I became successful
was going towards the truth as painful
and as brutal as it is it changed me it
allowed me to become in my own right Who
am today my biggest advice to give
everybody in the world it’s like I say
we live in an external world everything
is is you got to see it touch its
external if you can for the rest of your
life live inside of yourself stop
listening to people who are calling you
fat gay transsexual nigger everything
that is makes no sense all these
insecure people putting their
insecurities on you you got to flush it
out you got to just be whoever the hell
God or whatever the hell you believe in
if you believe in
but yourself I don’t care what it is you
gotta take everything and throw it away
you have to believe in one thing and
that is yourself and and I’m not saying
don’t believe in God or what you believe
in but right now for you to find
greatness in yourself you’re not gonna
find it by looking in a book or by even
hearing me I may give you the spark but
you’ve got to go inside yourself to find
it and that means you gotta be quiet
shut the fuck up go on the 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
miss planet Earth why am I here if you
don’t know that you will live the rest
your life searching always asking the
question why it took a while to get to
that point where enough was enough
what happened I came home one night from
work
spraying for cockroaches and long story
short I turned on the Discovery Channel
I saw some guys going through Navy SEAL
training and they were going through
hell week and they were getting their
ass just beat you know in all the water
guys ringing the bell there was
suffering and I was waiting like 297
pounds and I had to make a change in my
life you know I was at all-time low and
I wasn’t going anywhere and I was
exactly what everybody said I was gonna
be which was nothing I came from a
horrible background I got called nigger
every day of my life growing up lived in
a small town the Klan headquarters at
that time was about 20 minutes from
where I lived the one of the high ups in
the KKK son sat behind me in two classes
so you called me nigga a long time got
my first car they spray print nigger
we’re gonna kill you on it so I was just
an insecure scared kid and the only way
I could find myself was the
put myself through the worst thing
possible one time this this person drew
a picture of me and you know I said
we’re going to kill you nigger on my
Spanish notebook and I took it to my
principal and my principal said they
spilled Niger Niger that was the best
advice he can give me so long story
short what I realized was no one was
here to help me and the feeling I had
every morning I started saving my heaven
on 16 years old and the feeling I had
every morning I looked in the mirror was
horrible and I don’t want to collect
anymore and how I felt was a a kid going
nowhere a kid that was scared and most
kids will accept that and look for help
but the best thing that happened to me
no one helped me no one felt sorry for
me no one looked at me and said like
this day and age they’ll take you in and
they’ll tell you bye stop picking on
this person back then they didn’t care I
had to figure out I wasn’t going to be a
punk kid all my life so the way I could
turn around was to suffer
I had to build calluses in my brain the
same way I built calluses on my hands so
I brought the Guinness Book of World
Records for puffs a long time ago but I
felt at it twice and I did 67,000
pull-ups and trying to break this record
so to do four thousand thirty pull-ups I
had to do 67 thousand for training for
that Wow
and so 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 blamed 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 and my goal when I
was sitting there not going to school
being bullied being and having no
self-esteem my goal was the only person
that’s gonna turn this person around
it’s me you know where I can turn around
is put myself through the worst things
possible a human being could ever endure
it and I’d be the only way that I can
build this brain to handle anything that
comes in front of him callus in my mind
through pain and suffering in the end
like what would your advice be to that
16 year old kid who’s staring in the
mirror
not like what he sees but is still
running from adversity well my biggest
advice to him is that first of all he
won’t like what I say to him but I’m
gonna say the exact opposite of what the
world today’s world is saying so we read
a bunch of books nowadays as humans we
we want to find out how to be someone
else what we don’t do is we don’t go
inside so literally turn yourself inside
out read the book that says like we’re
writing a book every day of our lives
but we never read that book so what I
would challenge this young man or young
women to do is you have to look inside
of yourself to see what you really want
what are you passionate about we use
these words and these little phrases of
only the strong survive and also the
crap they’re all just fucking words I
get so tired of hearing people just
talking like right now someone may think
Gaga is just talking you don’t know me
so when I speak I speak from passion I
speak from experience I speak from
suffering I want to tell this young man
and woman that the only way I believe
this is this my experience in life the
only way you’re ever going to get to the
other side of this journey is you have
got to suffer to grow to grow you must
suffer and some people get it and some
people won’t but they have to see what
their journey is to start their journey
several people live to be a hundred
years old and they have great lives and
they have great kids the kids go to
college long sort of stuff but somewhere
in their life there was a point where
they had a decision to make they can go
left or right on this path left was the
easy route right was a hard route a lot
of people take the easy route and they
had a good life that way but the better
life was going to the right side and you
may have twenty years of pain and
suffering to get past it but a lot of us
died never truly starting our journey
and I would tell this young person you
got to start your journey it may suck
but it will it will come out the other
side where you’re coasting I knew
nothing about ultra marathons I hadn’t
even run a marathon I knew nothing about
this world
so our Google that need all the top 10
hardest races in the world and what
comes up is about water 135 so her in 35
mile race through Death Valley in the
summertime I thought it was a stage race
I thought was a race where you run like
20 miles set up camp
you know barbecue outside and then go
run some more the next day so I called
the race director up at the race I said
hey Chris name is Chris Causton I want
to do your race so we had a long
conversation you know I was I was much
heavier than and I had to put running
shoes on over a year how heavy are you
at this point I’m around between 240 to
270 whoa I’m in there I’m in that
register I’ve my weight is buried a lot
through the SEAL Teams and I was so team
so I was a heavy guy but the long and
short of it all was I am put running
shoes on in over a year there happened
to be a race that Saturday so four days
later and he said if you qualify by
running a hundred miles or less in 24
hours I will consider you my race I’m
gonna cut to the chase I signed up for
this race it’s called the San Diego one
day where you want to run a one-mile
track for 24 hours to city miles you can
get my goal was 100 miles so I got 2
miles 70 and I cleared 70 miles in like
12 13 hours pretty quickly but I was
done my feet were broken
I was stretched fractured shin splints
muscles were tearing I was in bad shape
I was eating rich crackers and drinking
that’s all I had no water didn’t know
what the hell I was doing out there cut
on some tube socks it was just
ridiculous it was it was a clown show so
I sat down at Mile 70 and at this time I
was married and I look at my wife and I
was like I’m messed up bad so I
literally start to turn white I’m at
Mile 70 I got 30 fucking miles to go I’m
jacked up I got to go to the bathroom in
the bathrooms like 20 feet from me
support a party I can’t get all the
fucking chair so I’m peeing blood down
my leg whoa whooping up my fucking pack
and I got 30 miles to go and I’m I can’t
stand up to my my blood pressure’s all
messed up I’ve been in three whole weeks
Ranger school overcome so many obstacles
in my life this last 30 miles of this
race is when I realized a human being is
not so human anymore we have the ability
to go in such a space if you’re willing
to suffer and I mean suffer your brain
and your body once connected together
can do anything and this 30 miles was
the life-changing moment I was out of it
I was in the worst pain in my entire
life I was to me on the brink of death
and I was able to chunk this 30 damn
miles into small pieces I was so driven
and like I say motivated because
motivations crap motivation comes and
goes when you’re driven whatever’s in
front of you will get destroyed so I sat
in this chair and I was so driven to
succeed in this race and at this time
everyone’s rethinking about the guys
that died and I’m not gonna lie to you I
wasn’t this became a personal thing
this became me against this race me
against the kids that called me nigger
me against me it just became something
that I took so so violently personal and
I broke this thing down into small
pieces I said okay I got to get
nutrition I gotta be able to stand up
before I can get off this curb and off
this chair and be able to go 30 miles so
I went through all these small steps and
I was able to stand up and then from
standing up I was literally walking
around with my wife at the time and she
goes she’s not gonna make the time she
goes y’all mean you’re walking like 37
minute miles I got tomorrow 81 and the
second she said that I’m not gonna make
the time I ran the last 19 miles
non-stop and I can show you right now
when we get done with this smack I want
to show you right now this was years ago
and I had to put compression tape on my
old and I had so this was years ago
I had literally the size of half dollars
I had to get compression tape and I
taped up my ankles and i taked up my
feet and that’s how I got through that
race it was like a hematoma I mean what
are we well though it’s not what
happened was like my shins hurts so bad
I’m having stress fractures that’s the
only way I could continue on was I taped
it so I wasn’t doing the flexural notion
that that activates your shins
so I taped my ankles and my shins up and
I got that from because of my throat
hell week they were okay let me go back
to you no train anymore right so I
literally went through all the buds my
last SEAL training with stress fractures
and shin splints and how I did it was I
would take my ankles all the way up to
my calf every morning so for the first
hour the pain was excruciating but what
happened is my feet would go numb and I
did that every single day for six months
whoa that’s how I got through my third
hell because I was so broken from the
first two that the commander said hey to
CEO said this year last time I sent you
through so that’s how I got the idea to
do that so with the right and people may
listen to this and say this guy is
sadistic he’s crazy he’s know if you
know how I came up you realized I was
just a scared kid that found driving
passion to be something much better than
what he thought he was that’s all it is
cookie jar is something that I’ve made
up of all the failures of my life all
the things that I was I failed and I
went back I failed I went back and I
finally succeeded all the things that
kicked my ass I put them all in a cookie
jar because at times of hell even the
hardest men in times of suffering what
we do is we forget how hard we really
are because that’s what suffering is
suffering is a test it’s all this
suffering is the true test of life and
so that cookie jar travels in my brain
so whenever I get put in a situation
where I have poopy pants the rowers me
mentality of oh my god
life sucks I take a second I take the
one second decision I step out of my
life for one second going
a jar pull-up Oh motherfucker he went
you were in three homes and finished to
one of those topics a guy died incomes
were so bad oh you want her
motherfucking badass you are
I put it back in the cookie jar and I
remember who the fuck I really am I’m
not the kid that guy that was called
nigga I’m not the scared kid this is who
I am
it’s a reminder of who you truly are at
the core of yourself but what I was
saying to myself the whole time on that
track and it this is what I say to
myself self talk and visualization of
the two keys to my success I believed
for that last time 19 miles I was
indestructible because I took myself in
that chair crapping up my back peeing
blood in my leg shin splints stress
fractures I used all that for motivation
versus negativity I use it for motor
base I said to myself who on this
fucking earth would still be going right
now you are you are
you got to be the hardest motherfucker
on the planet is it true I don’t give a
fuck at that time it got me to the
finish line of that fucking race I
believed it I believed it today I
believed it enough to wear my body said
he’s not gonna stop and that’s I took
all the negative things I need to go to
the hospital this and that and I uses
all who the hell could even get on that
chair you who the hell would even think
about taping stretch patches up you
didn’t all those things are used for
motivation if you think that I’m some
unhappy guy you’re wrong
having lived a life I’ve lived in seeing
the other side not being afraid to
attack what was in front of me has made
me happy say that again and in fact let
me make sure I understood it getting to
the point where you’re not afraid to
face the thing on the other side of the
door that wants to attack you has made
you happy right right it’s really
powerful I hope people heard that what
the dark side is is we all have a cookie
jar and we all have a jar of fuck that’s
its official name it’s a jar of fuck man
we’re shit just it’s just ain’t going
right and in hell week what they do in
hell week okay this is where I really
went to the dark side what they’re doing
hell we cuz they designed hell week to
find your flaws and they do a really
good job of that it’s 130 hours of
continuous training you may get two
hours of sleep and they beat the shit
out of you and find everything wrong
with your mentality and then they start
hell week and that’s the beauty of it
and for me I’m not some not no nasty guy
giving guy you know I don’t have a great
bit of talent and anything so what got
me through horrible times was the dark
side whereas I created my name is David
Goggins I created Goggins
Goggins is the guy that can take
anything you put in front of him you
want to break my motherfucking legs so
be it
I have a way of going to a place I could
did in that race where all the pain and
suffering that they put on top of me
inhale weaken I will reverse that pain
and suffering and I will take your soul
so every instructor that put me through
buds my job what drove me was I wanted
you to go home that night after you beat
the living shit out of me and I smiled
in your face I wanted you to feel worse
than I did and you were going home to a
nice warm bed with your wife or your
kids and a nice meal and I was still out
there in the grip suffering for another
100 hours I want you to think about me
knowing but I’m comfortable being very
unfuckin comfortable and I want you to
think about when you went to fucking
hell week how uncomfortable you were how
bad you wanted to quit knowing I’m not
thinking that fucking 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
I used to hurt you’re trying to put on
me I flip it upside down and use it you
try use it for Kryptonite but now it’s
power pillars for me I’m using it for
strength I flipped negative into
positive Saudis people I said man you
cuss all the fucking time why well I
hate to say it the best way for me to
get how life Eagle acrost I can’t see
her and say you know what I went through
hell week and man it was it was really
hard know that motherfucker
takes your damn soul rips it inside out
and then they say now we’re going to
fucking start it it allows me to express
where I was at at a point of my life if
I won’t give you all of me why the hell
am I here why how will you learn from me
people take so much offense to me you
will never learn from people if we
always tap-dance around the truth
I love that we tap-dance around the
truth by finding the right words I don’t
hurt you because you have thin skin no
tighten up people it’s okay
trust me it’s okay you might be called
nigger one day it’s okay you might be
called some Jewish word or some faggot
or gay word it’s okay let them call you
that what are you going to do now they
don’t own your life how are you going to
control that now how are you gonna flip
it upside down and say Roger that now
I’m gonna harness this shit and you’ll
read about me years from now how that’s
the question how are you gonna do that
thicken your skin become more of a human
being don’t be afraid of the reflection
in the mirror because that’s all you can
be afraid of once you overcome the
reflection in the mirror you’ve done it
I love them and you once said that if
you were growing up in this generation
that you would have a field day because
you would take their souls what did you
mean by that the younger generation
quits not everybody so I got it I got
put that people get too butthurt so not
everybody most of this generation quits
the second they get talk to you you did
this wrong you did this wrong or they
get yelled at it’s so easy to be great
nowadays because everybody else is most
people are weak this this is a softened
generation so if you have any mental
toughness any of any ability you have
any fraction of self-discipline the
ability to not want to do it but still
do it people have a hard thing
understand I hate to run and what makes
me so crazy it doesn’t anymore
tickle why do you run if you hate it
what are you talking about I don’t want
to take showers and eat either I hate
that too that the whole that’s a life
man
that and it wasn’t until I changed that
mentality that I became somebody I hated
going to school so I guess when I was
dumb as shit that’s what will one plus
one is two but if you can get through to
do
things that you hate to do on the other
side is greatness that’s what people are
saying by me running I encounter sin my
mind I’m not training for a race I’m
training for life
I’m training for the time when I get
that two o’clock in the morning call
that my mom is dead or something happens
tragic in life I don’t fall apart I’m
training my mind in my body my spirit so
it’s all one so I can handle what life
is gonna throw at me because the life
I’ve lived it throws a whole bunch at
you and if you’re not physically
immensely prepared for that you’re just
gonna crumble and you’re good for nobody
talk to me about what it takes to be on
one side of a door in Iraq or anywhere
knowing on the other side of the door
people who are not afraid of you they’re
ready for you to come in and you still
have and they have guns and you still
have to breach that door that’s a great
question it that’s a very scary
situation when you are on one side of
the door and your mind is racing because
on the other side of that door it could
be no one it could be four guys with
four ak-47s that that door you’re about
to open can be trapped so once you open
it boom your legs are gone so there’s a
thousand things you think about when
you’re the first guy second guy third
guy getting ready going a room and
flooding and that’s what I talk about
the warrior mentality and that’s why so
many people are lost when I start
talking you have the right you’re lucky
that you don’t have to think like
warriors think you’re very privileged I
chose this world to be a warrior and I
would choose it again if I came back to
this world but the mentality of a
warrior is very different than normal
mentality you must be that person on
that door Oh get ready to open it
thinking to yourself if I die so be it
the only way you can go in that door is
know there’s a great chance you’re gonna
die it’s like being a seal you train
with live ammo you jump on air
everything you do you could die so to be
a warrior why people don’t understand me
I’m glad you don’t understand me
Merry Christmas good on you because
being a warrior takes a whole different
mindset a whole different mindset to
know that there’s a great chance I may
not beat him like I was in for 21 years
I’m lucky I’m very lucky that I’m alive
able to talk to you able to still run
but when you sign up on that dotted line
to be a set like a seal your mentality
changes I may not live
you got accept that and that’s the
mentality you have and that’s what makes
you a warrior if you’re scared to die
you’re a bad water a lot of people
either you like me or don’t even in the
SEAL Teams but when you get to that door
or you get on that mission or you
getting an OP all that’s just out the
door man you know you you do it honestly
I mean people say all the time of these
movies and shit you you really out there
fighting for that guy beside you and you
can’t be a coward because you know what
this I look at everything I do now in
life and this sums it up I hate it
jumping out of airplanes I hated
shooting guns I hate it the job as a
Navy SEAL but I did it because I wanted
to change myself everything I do I’m not
really comfortable doing but if you
choose to go that route to go be a Navy
SEAL you might as well go be the hardest
motherfucker in the world because if
you’re choosing to do something you have
two routes you can go there and be a
little a little weak person and get
through barely and that’s your
reputation or you can go through the
hardest guile you can possibly be nice
reputation so my whole thing is if
you’re gonna choose to open that fucking
door in Iraq or Afghanistan
open your motherfucker go in hard
because they’re gonna remember you by
slowly opening it and peeking in so if
you’re going to open it and you made
them on to open it don’t crack it open
open the fucking door go in that’s with
life if you choose to do if you choose
to do something attack it because
they’re gonna remember you as not
attacking it so I want to be
you can hate me but one thing you can’t
say about me I didn’t attack it so
that’s them attire you have if you’re
gonna do something you might as well
attack it because you do it anyway right
no matter what Avenue I choose I want to
be the very best and the very best may
not be I’m number one the very best is
did I leave everything inside of me out
there so attacking it’s not like I want
to win this or win that or be the best
the best is I’m running against myself
and everything I do and and that’s and
that’s what I attack I attacked myself
I’m always questioning myself I’m always
holding myself accountable talk to me
about the accountability mirror so the
accountability mirror is something that
I kind of came up with in high school
like I said I started shaving my head in
on 16 mm-hmm and I got caught up in
trying to impress so many people because
no one liked me so I developed so many
different identities let me sag my pants
you know let me okay let me pull my
pants up let me let me talk this way or
act this way or be this way or whatever
the hell it may be god daughter so many
different things I did try to fit in
with so many different groups that when
you look in the mirror that’s the one
person you can’t lie to you so every
morning I would shave my head thank God
I reflect back on some of the lies I may
have told somebody or some of the ways I
acted I ain’t feel comfortable doing and
I did it to impress other normal people
the key word there is normal everyday
people I was trying to make other people
like me how pathetic is that so I did
this mirror would always tell me my I
got my reflection to say God you are a
pathetic man how does that feel every
day to be this way so I would just start
having myself accountable huh how did I
attack today
how did I attack yesterday and if I
didn’t do something I was proud of I
write down a sticky note and I would fix
it so then my senior year in high school
it was a totally different David
guidance can you give an example was
something that you wrote down and fixed
all right there was a lunch table now
you know I wanted to sit the cool guy
you know you know everybody nigga on
time I wanted to try to act like
somebody I wasn’t so I could fit in and
I sold my soul to the devil you know
trying to act like no I’m David fucking
Goggins that’s who I am
and so I wrote down on a piece of paper
fuck the table sit by your fucking self
and that’s what I did and guess what
happened my table became a table people
started sitting in because a whole bunch
of people in that lunch room it’s not
exactly like I did as long as you list
of things I’ll just write down in this
fix so I’m right down to fix it it was
funny man one movie I walked all time
was Rocky great choice rocky one and I
related to Rocky a lot because of Connie
know one of the smart guy just try real
hard and the one scene that I related a
lot of my life to still to this day was
Rocky one round 14 and that’s where I
got taken souls from if you look at
round 14 of rocky one Apollo is beating
the shit out of rocky rocky falls down
in this corner Micky saying stay down
stay down
rocky didn’t hear a fucking soul Apollo
after you knocked him down turns around
hands in the air like I finally knocked
down this animal right Apollo doesn’t
know it but Rocky is getting up a power
turns around the second rocky gets up
and a Powell looks at Rocky any Apollo
looks at him with the look of like rocky
just took his soul he polish aches his
head and rocky has his good loves and
emotions towards Apollo come on
motherfucker I’m still here and this
song comes on that I played so I brought
the GIMP Ginsberg arose records it took
me 17 hours to do 4030 pull-ups I
listened to one song for 17 hours 2
minutes and 17 seconds the dentin
I listen to that song for 17 hours
non-stop on repeat so the image in my
mind of a man was not one that had
earrings sag his pants I had this image
in my head and I was going to fulfill
that and I didn’t do any trends I
stopped trending I stopped being this
guy who whatever was new fuck it that’s
not what I believe in
I’m doing this this is what I want to be
this what I’m gonna be I just retired
from the military in November of 2015
and I was going and going and going and
going and I never really I was a happy
guy
but I’m never in the moment of like
sitting back and I want to travel here
to have fun or do this is that I’ve
never been that person but the first
time I really got a chance to experience
true happiness and true peace was I was
like so what I did to myself to become
Who I am today
it takes a great toll on your body so I
believe God gave me time to rest and he
took me out of commission
not even the minds of Goggins but could
get me back up so I had about a good six
seven months I was out and when I was
out I had time to reflect on all I’d
accomplished and that was the first time
in my life where I sat back and said wow
because only I I may be telling you some
of the story I know the exact truth of
how brutal my life was and how I
shouldn’t be on this show today and how
the mind and how beautiful it is so what
brings me joy and happiness is knowing
how beautiful the mind is and I’m one of
the few people that didn’t read about it
then it experience it through some some
drug I got to experience the beauty of
true fucking willpower true fuck you I’m
gonna fail I’m gonna fucking fail I’m
gonna fucking fail I’m gonna fucking
fail
and I will succeed just me talking about
that gives me a feeling I know what I
did and I don’t need to travel somewhere
or to have this I have that I have it
all here in my mind the beauty is
remembering this young dumb what people
called nigger is now where I’m at today
and that is when you finally get to that
point for me it’s forever lasting peace
I’m doing it I could die right now on
this show and I’ll be happy man so
that’s that’s my happiness is my
reflection on the suffering of my
journey knowing I never quit nor was I
guided by anybody on this earth I was
guided by something much more powerful
and I listened and I chose the path of
most resistance talent not required um
so I stretched out every day for these
two hours I don’t drink I don’t go out
my regimen is I wake up have oatmeal run
come back hit the weights I’m a big
sports guy I don’t leave the house if at
all but do stuff like this and I stress
out at nighttime I find people that I
trust which is a very small group of
people people who are honest and true to
me people who will die for me and I’ll
died for them which is a fucking small
everybody else man you know do you and I
say to myself and I’ll let you do you I
don’t judge people I don’t criticize you
you want to be a douchebag and being
asked and I love this country
do you everyone do I don’t care man I
fought for this country for you to do
you and I am all about you doing you
because I’m gonna fucking do me and I’m
gonna do me until I’m fucking dead and I
believe I earned the right a lot of
people haven’t earned the right cuz you
live in this country man you earn the
right you got a you got to live for a
little bit live and then have something
to say or shut the fuck up you know so
if you had maybe impossible to answer
but if you had that same kid from early
he wants to take that first step you
want him to go experience some life what
one specific thing would you tell him to
go do I first asked a kid who are you at
the core of your soul and if he can
can’t answer that question our
conversations over I can’t say shit to
him right if you don’t know who you are
if you don’t know who you are I can’t
tell you who you are
honestly I’ve I’m blessed enough to have
survived the life I lived and to come
out the other side with a bunch of
knowledge so hopefully I can help people
that believe that they’re much less than
what they truly are help them find
greatness in themselves and greatness
isn’t running towards it miles at a time
or do 4,000 plus of being a seal
greatness is whatever the hell you’ve
dreamed of in your own mind you got to
first see it you got 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 gonna
get there now and that’s we’re not
coming to play but first you got to
create your own vision and then it’s not
external it’s the the busines created is
inside of you so until you create that
I’m nobody to you what is the impact
that you want to have on the world the
impact I wanna have in the world is it’s
a great question man and it’s a question
that I’ve been asked many times and have
a several answers for it but the biggest
one is we all we are all great no matter
if if you think you’re dumb and we think
you’re fat no matter you are fat or have
you been bullied or no matter if you got
back from Iraq or Afghanistan and you
have no legs or your arms or whatever
man we all have greatness it’s just you
got to find the courage you got to find
the courage to put your Bose headphones
on and silence the noise out of this
world and to find it in the final cut is
out there but it’s going to take hard
work courage self-discipline it’s going
to take all the non-cognitive skills
there are all the non-cognitive skills
to be great you know smart is good all
the stuff is good that’s all cognitive
if the non-cognitive skills that sets
you apart from everybody else and and
that’s what it’s all about yeah David
guys this is one of those times where as
I was researching him I literally felt
like I should be doing this in a bucket
of ice water or something and I’m
actually only mean that sort of
tongue-in-cheek
it I fasted through most of my prep
because it felt right to put myself in a
more difficult situation while I was
doing that it really makes me want to
find more ways to go through hardship
and that’s one of the things I really
hope you guys take away from him is how
you can totally create yourself and I
experienced him in Reverse so I saw all
of the amazing things that he had done
all of the races that he had won going
through how week three times the
succeeding in three different branches
of the military nobody ever doing that
before the pull up record all of it and
then found out that he had struggled
through everything and you realize how
insidiously and how quietly the idea
that somebody is just better than you
they’re more genetically gifted than you
slips into your mind as a way of letting
you off the hook not as a way of making
them more extraordinary but you make
them extraordinary as a way of letting
you off the hook and so hearing all the
things that he had to go through and one
thing that didn’t even come up in the
show he did most of the amazing
endurance stuff before he had his heart
fixed so his heart was literally
existing at 60% capacity he still did
all of that this is a man who peed blood
and got up and kept running for 30 more
miles if that kind of thing doesn’t
inspire you to look inward and to really
take control of your own story to
realize that you can sculpt yourself
into anything you want it doesn’t have
to be Goggins but to see in that the
power of both beauty and rage to see in
that the malleability of the human
spirit to see in that the power of the
human spirit to turn you into anyone
that you want to become that is this
man’s story and I hope that you guys
heard it there were so many incredible
things so many times that I got the
chills so many times that I saw another
tool that I could take and use in my own
life
and I hope you guys got that much out of
it as I did all right if you haven’t
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