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Going Through Tough Times – Building Resilience for Life's Challenges · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: People hear my story and think this God is statistic.
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  Speaker 1: I realize how the brain works. I figured out how
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  Speaker 1: the brain works. I'm a scared kid, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: gives me so much power. I had no foundation, and
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  Speaker 1: I built this off of just.
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  Speaker 2: Researching the mind.
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  Speaker 1: The feeling you get is basically invincibility. You realize that
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  Speaker 1: you can't do it all the time when you need
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  Speaker 1: to do it, I know I can go to a
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  Speaker 1: place that I can live in. And when you know that,
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  Speaker 1: you can run on broken legs, and you can do
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  Speaker 1: certain things that a lot of people can do but
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  Speaker 1: they're not willing to do. This power, this sympathetic nervous
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  Speaker 1: system of fight or flight, and you're fighting. It gives
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  Speaker 1: you this charge of energy of when you're sitting there
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  Speaker 1: at three.
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  Speaker 2: Point thirty four o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: And you're duck taping your feet up because you're broken,
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  Speaker 1: and you're doing it by yourself, and you're going through.
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  Speaker 2: Arguably one of the hardest training in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And these guys, most of them are healthy, and you're
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  Speaker 1: going through it broken and you already at a disadvantage,
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  Speaker 1: but you're still there.
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  Speaker 2: You can feed into that and tap into that for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of power.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look at it, well, I'm broken, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make it. But if you look at
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  Speaker 1: it as man, I'm broken and I'm still here and
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  Speaker 1: I'm fighting and I'm gonna find a way to get
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  Speaker 1: through this because I have no other place to go,
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  Speaker 1: it gives you a lot of power. When things start
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  Speaker 1: to suck really really bad. My brain and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people's brain dop. They don't go to your dad
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  Speaker 1: beating you up. Your brain says, we had to go
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  Speaker 1: out of here. This is miserable. So anger goes away
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times when you're suffering because your brain
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  Speaker 1: that says we gotta run, we gotta go, So that
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  Speaker 1: anger is not popping up saying, oh, I want to
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  Speaker 1: show them, I want to show those people.
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  Speaker 2: No, there has to be a much deeper. If I
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  Speaker 2: say deeper, it has to be.
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  Speaker 1: Down to mineral, mineral soil. It has to be down
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  Speaker 1: to that nice mineral soil where nothing can burn.
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  Speaker 2: You can't burn dirt. So it has to be down
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  Speaker 2: that low.
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  Speaker 1: That literally is something menu that's at the core of
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  Speaker 1: your soul and but you but you don't find it
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  Speaker 1: unless you spend a lot of time with what you
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  Speaker 1: want to be in life. I can't get that to you.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get it to somebody. When when you find
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  Speaker 1: your true passion in life and my passion for me,
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  Speaker 1: when like, oh, I want to be now and givet Navy.
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  Speaker 2: Seals, I mean aroun I'm giving.
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  Speaker 1: I want to serve my country I cared about. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be someone that I'm proud of. I want
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  Speaker 1: to look at myself in the mirror because I'm so
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  Speaker 1: disappointed that accountability mare I talk about.
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  Speaker 2: I was so disappointed in what I saw every day.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted everybody to love David Goggins, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people did. I didn't love myself, but I knew
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us want to find peace first. So
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  Speaker 1: people say, may you always talk about this suffering and painish.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at peace right now because I went through that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't find peace first. If you do, Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: More power to you, More power to you. I found
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  Speaker 1: peace on the opposite end of finding myself, and no
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  Speaker 1: one really finds himself without going through trials, tribulations, suffering,
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  Speaker 1: accountability and accountability. It's suffering being accountable every day for
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  Speaker 1: doing right for yourself, for the people next to you.
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  Speaker 2: It's miserable. It's hard. So you know, even the smallest details.
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  Speaker 2: I study the darkness. You find no faking answers in
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  Speaker 2: the light. None.
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  Speaker 1: It's too happy, it's too nice. We don't need to
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  Speaker 1: be taught how to live in happiness. Well that that
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  Speaker 1: just comes naturally to us.
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  Speaker 2: Happy moments.
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  Speaker 1: But the dark times, man, and you can't get there
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  Speaker 1: unless you put yourself there.
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  Speaker 2: Life will take you there.
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  Speaker 1: But when you get into those dark moments, that's what people.
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  Speaker 2: How are you able? Man? I couldn't. I was a
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  Speaker 2: junior in high school. How are you able to write
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  Speaker 2: like this?
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  Speaker 1: Man? I go to such places in my mind and
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  Speaker 1: I study the darkness like it's not just physical. When
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  Speaker 1: I was growing up and I saw my mom getting beat,
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  Speaker 1: and I got beat, and I was some stuttering little
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  Speaker 1: black kid in all white school and I'm on stage
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  Speaker 1: and I got to say one line, one fucking line,
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  Speaker 1: one fucking life in line in front of fifteen people,
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  Speaker 1: and I walk off stage, come with a stutter. All
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  Speaker 1: those insecurities and all those things. Man, I used to
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  Speaker 1: go home and cry. I'm like, my god, man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: offked up. As I got older, we got to study
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  Speaker 1: this shit, man. The only way we're gonna get through
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  Speaker 1: this if.
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  Speaker 2: We study it.
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  Speaker 1: So every time I'm in a dark moment and life's
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  Speaker 1: up around me, whether it be physical or just life,
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  Speaker 1: I get in it, man, with a pen and paper.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, this sucks. I can feel like I'm
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  Speaker 2: losing my ship. Let's come out of this. Mother of genius.
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  Speaker 1: I studied the black matter of the mind, the dark matter,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like fucking Stephen Hawkin.
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  Speaker 2: I said it right, that motherfucker. Study the space.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I consider myself. Man, And so many people
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  Speaker 1: get it wrong, and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Give a fuck. Man, you can't for me. I cannot
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  Speaker 2: help people.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of cookie cutter shit out here in
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  Speaker 1: this world. Discipline, wake up early, take a coal shower,
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  Speaker 1: this that, whatever, it's all bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: What they don't teach.
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  Speaker 1: You within the cookie cutter is like our minds are
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  Speaker 1: like a garage and the garage. If you open a garage,
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  Speaker 1: it's all cluttered up, it's off.
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  Speaker 2: You can't put your car in there.
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  Speaker 1: You got boats, and you got kids, toys and shit everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But if you organize that garage and you put everything
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  Speaker 1: as rightful spot you can pull that car in there,
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  Speaker 1: you can put two cars in there, put bikes in there.
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  Speaker 2: And that's like with the mind.
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  Speaker 1: People talk about discipline, determination, repetitions and all this consistency.
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  Speaker 1: Why people fall off the wagon so often is because their.
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  Speaker 2: Mind is full of shit.
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  Speaker 1: There's no room in that mind for discipline, there's no
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  Speaker 1: room for consistency. They may do it once or twice,
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  Speaker 1: but then the mind takes over and that cluttered garage
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  Speaker 1: comes in and then it's like a circuit breaker, man.
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  Speaker 1: A circuit breaker just overloads sparks in our minds.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's our mind.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's like a circuit breaker. That's so much shn't it?
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  Speaker 1: You keep onloading it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't put any more into it.
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  Speaker 1: So I've I talked about in there, man, so much
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  Speaker 1: about clearing space in your So then you have room
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  Speaker 1: for all those discipline, waking up early, taking those because
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  Speaker 1: they they they do mean something. But we don't get
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  Speaker 1: to that dark matter that's keeping you from clearing out
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  Speaker 1: that mental garage. Let me teach you the real life
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  Speaker 1: how it really it is the reason why you're a loser,
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  Speaker 1: and the reason why you're not making it, and the
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  Speaker 1: reason why you're trying to go through all these I
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  Speaker 1: go to all these conventions, speak all the time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at an audience, and these people sign up, sign up,
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  Speaker 1: sign up every year to go to convention thinking they're
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  Speaker 1: going to learn something different.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're lazy. You know exactly what to do, exactly
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  Speaker 2: what to do.
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  Speaker 1: Because even me, in my state of I can't read
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  Speaker 1: or write, I knew exactly what to do.
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  Speaker 2: It just sucks doing it. It sucks to do it.
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  Speaker 2: It sucks to wake.
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  Speaker 1: Up every morning of your life and say, God, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm not smart.
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  Speaker 2: So guess what I gotta do. I gotta I gotta study.
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  Speaker 1: The same shit that I got one of the highest scores.
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  Speaker 2: In the nation on and do it again, Do it again,
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  Speaker 2: dude again. It's not just there. It's not just there
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  Speaker 2: permanently for me. So yeah, it's all stick. It's all stick.
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  Speaker 2: The only care that you have is like.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, because whenever I take these tests that are
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  Speaker 1: real hard, in the back of my brain is like,
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  Speaker 1: the good chance you're not gonna make it.
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  Speaker 2: God, this ain't you, bro, This ain't you. You weren't
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  Speaker 2: born like this. This ain't you. The real you, bro?
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  Speaker 2: Study all you want to.
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  Speaker 1: But the second that computer comes on, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty questions this ain't you man.
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  Speaker 2: And somehow comes back.
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  Speaker 1: I passed, passed again, passed again, But that ruled me
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  Speaker 1: back here every time it's saying.
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  Speaker 2: That ain't you, bro, that ain't you?
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  Speaker 1: And I have to outwork that voice. When I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: that test and I get to a question I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the answer, I'm like fuck man, and then says
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  Speaker 1: I told you, man, that ain't you you?
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  Speaker 2: Three hundred pounds man? You sit at homeie, figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to do your hair. That's what you do.
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  Speaker 1: How to come to school with the reverse baldness when
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  Speaker 1: you're sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's you. So there is no get out of
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  Speaker 2: jail free card.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I say stay hard, because when you
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  Speaker 1: weren't given the gifts, the only thing you can do
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  Speaker 1: in life is stay hard. And I know people cannot
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  Speaker 1: stand me, they can't stand this talk.
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  Speaker 2: This is all you can do. There's no magic pill
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  Speaker 2: or a magic potion.
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  Speaker 1: All you can do is out work the man that
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  Speaker 1: God created or woman in you.
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  Speaker 2: And what that looks like is unfun.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I said, do not do a documentary on me,
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  Speaker 1: because people will not.
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  Speaker 2: See the truth. They will see what they want to
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  Speaker 2: see is I don't want to live like that.
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  Speaker 1: Good good, and you will live exactly the way you
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  Speaker 1: live now, questioning who you are, wondering what it's possible,
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  Speaker 1: wondering what you are capable of doing. That's how that
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  Speaker 1: looks every time I'm in a bad situation, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: And that's the only reason I do half the shit
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  Speaker 1: I do is I'm studying this because I know that.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought I was going to be writing books
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  Speaker 1: and trying to help people get better.
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  Speaker 2: But I was always trying to do it because I
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  Speaker 2: knew I saw.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you know you're trying to get somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know that you you believe.
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  Speaker 2: That you're a born loser.
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  Speaker 1: You are taking snapshots, man, Like you know you you
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  Speaker 1: see something on your phone, like, oh man, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to take a snapshot of that, or how we do
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  Speaker 1: the little picture so you can save it on your phone.
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  Speaker 2: I do that in my mind. So when I get
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  Speaker 2: in these moments, I'm like, Okay, wow, that's some good
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  Speaker 2: knowledge right there. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I snapshot it because I know that I can use
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  Speaker 1: that later. I can use this because I'm not out.
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  Speaker 2: There, just I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Most people they go out and they run, and they
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  Speaker 1: go out and they do and they're.
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  Speaker 2: Like, oh, this is beautiful, look.
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  Speaker 1: At the mountains and the shit and all this bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't like it. My body hurts. I'm hurting.
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  Speaker 2: How do we get through this?
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  Speaker 1: It's a lab, It's my mental lab. And so when
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  Speaker 1: I come home, I'm not forgetting it. Every day I
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  Speaker 1: get done running, or every.
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  Speaker 2: Day I get to work.
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  Speaker 1: Every day I get through studying whatever it is that
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  Speaker 1: brings to that.
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  Speaker 2: Place of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: So I come home from running and I write everything out.
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  Speaker 1: People have talent, and this is going beyond your talent.
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  Speaker 1: When there's no more talent, what happens to you?
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  Speaker 2: Most people quit. People only go to their talent level.
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  Speaker 1: And once your talent level is gone, it becomes a
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  Speaker 1: mental game. That the whole mental game sets in then,
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  Speaker 1: and most people can only perform to their talent. And
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  Speaker 1: they realize, man, why am I always messing up right here?
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  Speaker 2: Why? Why is this my big hurdle?
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  Speaker 1: It's because you're performing to your talent, and then after
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  Speaker 1: that your mind has nothing for you. I see fighters,
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  Speaker 1: I see runners, I see people who they're great, but
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  Speaker 1: they get to the edge of their talent. It's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: what's up, because you're now at the point now where
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  Speaker 1: your talent ain't gonna do for you, my friend. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's the mental game, and that's where people get lost
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  Speaker 1: in life, get lost in that next level. And that
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  Speaker 1: next level is found for me in the things that
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  Speaker 1: I do. First of all, I didn't have much talent,
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  Speaker 1: so I had to train one thing. You better train
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  Speaker 1: your mind because my talents can run out way early.
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  Speaker 1: When got hard for me back in the day, Bro,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done, I'm out see you, Okay. I got to
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  Speaker 1: invent a motherfucker for that can So I invented Goggins.
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  Speaker 2: I invented a mother.
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  Speaker 1: For that that realized we're not good enough. But Goggins
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  Speaker 1: realizes we're mentally strong ass, and we're going to outstrength
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  Speaker 1: these motherfuckers in the mind.
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  Speaker 2: Many people just want it the easy way. I'm sorry, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's not so.
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  Speaker 1: What they start to do is they build this narrative
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  Speaker 1: of it's okay, when the narrative should be you need
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  Speaker 1: to work harder, you need to discipline your mind better.