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Never Lose Motivation Again: Find Your Fire and Keep It Lit · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It's funny, man, people want to know how I'm always motivated.
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  Speaker 1: It's the unseen work, Like I'm out running at two
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, one o'clock in the morning, in the.
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  Speaker 2: Gym, long sessions by myself. You that's real.
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to just extract dopamine, the good dopamin whenever
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  Speaker 1: I want. Man, I've trained ninety nine percent.
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  Speaker 2: Of my life alone. No one pat me on the back.
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  Speaker 1: I did all of the work alone. And while I'm
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  Speaker 1: still hard on myself, I know what I did.
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  Speaker 2: So whenever times get bad for people, all this who's
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  Speaker 2: look carry of the boats and look, that's real.
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  Speaker 1: I hate that people know me for that guy, because
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  Speaker 1: that guy is not everything.
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  Speaker 2: Day Like when they see me, they want that energy
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  Speaker 2: that's not me every day. I can extract it immediately
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  Speaker 2: when I need you.
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  Speaker 1: Because when you train alone, and I lived alone for
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  Speaker 1: so many years in this misery, and you're able to
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  Speaker 1: get out of it by yourself, I can take myself to
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  Speaker 1: such a level of real, real passion and purpose and like,
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  Speaker 1: the feeling I get is something I can't even explain
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  Speaker 1: by myself. I don't need anyone.
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  Speaker 2: That's why.
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  Speaker 1: That's why people come to me to motivate them. No
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  Speaker 1: one can motivate me. I have a resume full of
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  Speaker 1: the motivation that whenever I'm down, like, oh, hang on
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  Speaker 1: with the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know, you know the truth.
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  Speaker 1: You know that, you you know the darkness of the
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  Speaker 1: con dungeons and the fucking demons that flight, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then from there it's like, Okay, you were there,
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  Speaker 1: you know this.
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  Speaker 2: There was no one there.
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  Speaker 1: To pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat,
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  Speaker 1: to pick up the log, to go on that.
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  Speaker 2: It was you. It was you.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't no pattern back at three hundred, at two
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  Speaker 1: seventy five, at two fifty, at two twenty, No, that
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  Speaker 1: was you. So those things that come out of me,
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  Speaker 1: that extract from me in the darkness, people are looking
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  Speaker 1: for that panel back where is it? Oh? I don't
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  Speaker 1: need it, because what I've done is in the fucking
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  Speaker 1: unseen work.
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  Speaker 2: I built Frankenstein.
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  Speaker 1: So whenever shit gets nasty, David Gagins goes.
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  Speaker 2: You had nobody anyway, motherfucker. So see what I'm talking myself?
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  Speaker 2: Or now that's me that fires me the fuck up, that.
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  Speaker 1: Makes me freaking nuts.
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  Speaker 2: You had nobody anyway, motherfucker. Look around you. There was
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  Speaker 2: no fucking team. It was you.
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  Speaker 1: There was no weight loss programmer, Mom and dad waking
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  Speaker 1: you up, saying you can do it, you can be better,
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  Speaker 1: trying to build belief. You built belief when you had
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  Speaker 1: nothing rock bottom.
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  Speaker 2: You did that.
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  Speaker 1: So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out,
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  Speaker 1: and my truth.
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  Speaker 2: As powerful as a fuck. It's real, it's tangible.
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  Speaker 1: I feel it, it comes out of my brain as
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  Speaker 1: I speak about it. I'm reliving every single dark moment
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  Speaker 1: of my life to be here.
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  Speaker 2: So that is what people don't get. That is what
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  Speaker 2: motivates David Goggins is the unseen work.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody needs that pat on the back, They need that
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  Speaker 1: training part, they need that accountability coach.
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  Speaker 2: My is and need to do they but it's what
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  Speaker 2: we've trained ourselves to believe that we need.
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  Speaker 1: Some criticize my level of passion, But I'm not down
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  Speaker 1: with the prevailing mentalities that tend to dominate American society
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  Speaker 1: these days, the ones that tell us to go with
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  Speaker 1: the flow or invite us to learn how to get
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  Speaker 1: more with.
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  Speaker 2: Less effort, that shortcut bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I embrace my own obsessions and demand and
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  Speaker 1: desire more of myself is because I've learned that it's
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  Speaker 1: only when I push beyond pain and suffering past my
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  Speaker 1: perceived limitations that I'm capable of accomplishing more physically and
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  Speaker 1: mentally in endurance races, but also in life as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: that I believe.
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  Speaker 2: The same is true for you. The human body is
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  Speaker 2: like a stock car.
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  Speaker 1: We may look different on the outside, but under the hood,
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  Speaker 1: we all have huge reservoirs of potential and a governor
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  Speaker 1: impeding us from reaching our maximum velocity. In a car,
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  Speaker 1: the governor limits the flow of fuel and air so
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't burn too hot, which places a ceiling our performance.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hardware issue. The governor can easily be removed,
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  Speaker 1: and if you disable yours, watch your car rocket beyond
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty miles per hour.
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  Speaker 2: It's a souther process.
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  Speaker 1: In the human animal, our governor is buried deep in
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  Speaker 1: our minds, intertwined with our very identity. It knows what
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  Speaker 1: and who we love and hate. It's read our whole
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  Speaker 1: life story and forms the way we see ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: how we'd like to be seen.
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  Speaker 2: It's the saf that.
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  Speaker 1: Delivers personalized feedback in the form of pain and exhaustion,
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  Speaker 1: but also fear and insecurity, and it uses all of
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  Speaker 1: that to encourage us to stop before we risk it all.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. It doesn't have absolute control. Unlike
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  Speaker 1: the governor and an engine, ours can't stop us unless
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  Speaker 1: we buy into its bullet and agree to quit.
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  Speaker 2: Sadly, most of us give up.
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  Speaker 1: We've only given around forty percent of our maximum effort.
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  Speaker 1: Even when we feel like we've reached our absolute limit,
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  Speaker 1: we still have sixty percent more to give.
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  Speaker 2: That's the governor in action.
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  Speaker 1: Once you know that to be true, it's simply a
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  Speaker 1: matter of stretching your pain tolerance, letting go of your
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  Speaker 1: identity and all your self limiting stories, so you can
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  Speaker 1: get to sixty percent, then eighty percent and beyond without
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  Speaker 1: giving up. I call this the forty rule, and the
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  Speaker 1: reason it's so powerful is that if you follow it,
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  Speaker 1: you will unlock your mind to new levels of performance
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  Speaker 1: and excellence in sports and in life, and your rewards
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  Speaker 1: will run far deeper than mere material success. The forty
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  Speaker 1: rule can be applied to everything we do, because in
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  Speaker 1: life almost nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Will turn out exactly as we hope.
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  Speaker 1: There are always challenges, and whether we are at work
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  Speaker 1: or school, or feeling tested within our most intimate or
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  Speaker 1: important relationships. We will all be at tempted to walk
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  Speaker 1: away from commitments, give up on our goals and dreams,
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  Speaker 1: and sell our own happiness short at some point, because
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  Speaker 1: we will feel empty, like we have no more to give,
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  Speaker 1: when we haven't tapped even half of the treasure buried
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  Speaker 1: deep in our minds, hearts, and souls.
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  Speaker 2: We have a theorist, we have a practitioner. The theorist
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  Speaker 2: is a person that's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Sit back and read books from a library that someone
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  Speaker 1: else wrote.
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  Speaker 2: They become real smart about what someone else wrote. A practitioner,
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  Speaker 2: as a man, is me.
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  Speaker 1: I put myself in hell, lived in it for a
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  Speaker 1: long time and figured out how the human mind works
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  Speaker 1: while being, while suffering, while in pain, while misery, And
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  Speaker 1: that's how I wrote my book. I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you exactly what your mind is thinking. Most of us
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  Speaker 1: don't stay in hell long enough to write the book.
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  Speaker 1: I stayed in long enough to write it and finish
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  Speaker 1: the book. The road to success is rarely a straight
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  Speaker 1: line for me. It's always been more like a maze.
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  Speaker 2: Many times, when I thought I'd finally.
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  Speaker 1: Cracked the code, had it all figured out and found
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  Speaker 1: the straight past a certain victory. I hit a wall
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  Speaker 1: or got spun into a turnaround. When that happens, we
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  Speaker 1: have two choices. We can stay stuck or regroup, back
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  Speaker 1: up and try again. That's where evolution begins. Hitting those
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  Speaker 1: walls time and again will harden and streamline you having
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  Speaker 1: to back up up and formulate a new plan without
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  Speaker 1: any assurances it will ever pan out. Will tune your
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  Speaker 1: say up and develop.
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  Speaker 2: Your problem solving skills and your endurance. It will force
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  Speaker 2: you to adapt.
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  Speaker 1: When that happens hundreds of times over the course of
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  Speaker 1: many years, it is physically exhausting and mentally draining, and
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  Speaker 1: it becomes damn near impossible to believe in yourself or
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  Speaker 1: your future.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people abandon belief at that point.
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  Speaker 1: They swirl in the eddies of comfort or regret, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: claim their victimhood and stop looking for their way out
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  Speaker 1: of the maze. Others keep believing and find a way out,
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  Speaker 1: but hope to never slip into a trap like that
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  Speaker 1: ever again, and those skills they'd hone and developed with
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  Speaker 1: her they lose their edge. I am always on the
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  Speaker 1: hunt for another twisted pretzel of a maze, to get
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  Speaker 1: lost in because that's where I find myself. The smooth
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  Speaker 1: road to success is of no use to savages like me.
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  Speaker 1: That may sound ideal, but it won't test us. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't demand belief, so it will never make us great.
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  Speaker 1: We all build belief in different ways. I clock countless
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  Speaker 1: hours in the gym, where I log thousands of reps
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  Speaker 1: and run and ride my bike ob scene distances to
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  Speaker 1: cultivate belief.
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  Speaker 2: Despite what you may think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't consider myself an ultra athlete because those races
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  Speaker 1: are not who I am.
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  Speaker 2: There are tools.
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  Speaker 1: Each one provides me a stockpile of faith. So when
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  Speaker 1: I get stuck in the maze of life like a
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  Speaker 1: broke down savage, I still believe I'm capable of achieving
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  Speaker 1: my unreasonable goals, such as becoming a smoke jumper at
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  Speaker 1: forty seven years old, no matter what society or the
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  Speaker 1: good doctor says. I don't mean to suggest that you
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  Speaker 1: must run one hundred or two hundred miles to believe.
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  Speaker 2: You have what it takes to get where you want
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I had to do based on the depth
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  Speaker 1: of the darkness I came from in the scale of
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  Speaker 1: my ambitions. But if you've lost it, you do need
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  Speaker 1: to find your way back to belief. Whatever it takes
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  Speaker 1: for you to believe that you're better than good enough
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  Speaker 1: to achieve your dreams is what you must do. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: your greatness is not tied to any outcome. It is
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  Speaker 1: found in the valiance of the attempt.
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  Speaker 2: It's more important to own your weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: You have to really triple down on those, man because
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  Speaker 1: why you want to become a full human being. We
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  Speaker 1: like to run away from weaknesses, like, for instance, if
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  Speaker 1: you're good at running, all you want to do is run.
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  Speaker 2: If you're great at reading, you have several books.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't do those things that we're not good at.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, I realized, I keep on running away
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  Speaker 1: from these things I'm not good at.
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  Speaker 2: I have to dive into these things. I have to
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  Speaker 2: become one with these things. And that's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And so I own them both and I talk very
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  Speaker 1: open both. Our culture has become hooked on the quick fix,
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  Speaker 1: the life hack efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for
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  Speaker 1: that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the
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  Speaker 1: least amount of effort. There's no denying this attitude may
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  Speaker 1: get you some of the trappings of success if you're lucky,
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  Speaker 1: but it will not lead to a callous mind or
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  Speaker 1: self mastery. If you want to master the mind and
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  Speaker 1: remove your governor, you'll have to become addicted to hard
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  Speaker 1: work because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful
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  Speaker 1: tools if you have the work ethic to back them up.
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  Speaker 1: My work ethic is the single most important factor in
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  Speaker 1: all of my accomplishments. Everything else is secondary. And when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to hard work, whether in the gym or
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  Speaker 1: on the job, the forty rule applies to me.
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  Speaker 2: A forty hour work week is a forty percent effort.
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  Speaker 1: It may be satisfactory, but that's another word for medioc
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  Speaker 1: don't settle for a forty hour work week. There are
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight hours in a week. That
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  Speaker 1: means you have the hours to put in that extra
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  Speaker 1: time at work without skipping on your exercise. It means
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  Speaker 1: streamlining your nutrition, spending quality time with your wife and kids.
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  Speaker 1: It means scheduling your life like you're on a twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hour mission every single day. The number one excuse
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  Speaker 1: I hear from people as to why they don't work
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  Speaker 1: out as much as they want to is that they
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  Speaker 1: don't have time.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we all have work obligations.
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  Speaker 1: None of us want to lose sleep, and you'll need
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  Speaker 1: time with the family or they'll trip the out.
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  Speaker 2: I get it, and if that's your situation, you must win.
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  Speaker 2: The morning.
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  Speaker 1: When I was full time with the Seals, I maximize
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  Speaker 1: the dark hours before dawn, when my wife was sleeping,
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  Speaker 1: I would bang out a six to ten mile run.
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  Speaker 2: My gear was all laid out the night before, my
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  Speaker 2: lunch was.
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  Speaker 1: Passed, and my work clothes were in my locker at
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  Speaker 1: work where I shower before my.
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  Speaker 2: Day started at seven thirty am. On a typical day,
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  Speaker 2: i'd be out the door.
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  Speaker 1: For my run just after four am and back by
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  Speaker 1: five fifteen am. Since that wasn't enough for me, and
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  Speaker 1: because we only owned one car, I rode my bike.
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  Speaker 1: I finally got my own twenty five miles to work.
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  Speaker 1: I'd work from seven to thirty am to noon and
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  Speaker 1: eat at my desk before or after my lunch break.
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  Speaker 1: During the lunch hour, i'd hit the gym or do
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  Speaker 1: a four to six mile beach run. Work the afternoon shift,
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  Speaker 1: and hop on my bike for the twenty five mile
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  Speaker 1: ride home. By the time I was home at seven pm,
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  Speaker 1: i'd have run about fifteen miles, rock fifty miles on
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  Speaker 1: the bike, and put in a full day at the office.
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  Speaker 1: I was always home for dinner and in bed by
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  Speaker 1: ten pm, so I could do it all over again
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  Speaker 1: the next day. On Saturdays, I'd sleep in until seven
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  Speaker 1: am at a three hour workout, and spend the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend with Kate. If I didn't have a race,
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  Speaker 1: Sundays were my active recovery days.
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  Speaker 2: I do an easy ride at a low heart.
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  Speaker 1: Rate, keeping my pulse below one hundred and ten beats
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  Speaker 1: per minute to stimulate healthy blood flow. Maybe you think
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  Speaker 1: I'm a special case or an obsessive maniac. Fine, I
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  Speaker 1: won't argue with you. But what about my friend Mike.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big time financial advisor in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: His job is high pressure and his workday is a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a lot longer than eight hours. He has
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  Speaker 1: a wife and two kids, and he's an ultra runner.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how he does it. He wakes up at four
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  Speaker 1: am every weekday, runs sixty to ninety minutes each morning
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  Speaker 1: while his family is still snoozing, rides a bike to
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  Speaker 1: working back, and does a quick thirty minute treadmill run
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  Speaker 1: after he gets home. He goes out for longer runs
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  Speaker 1: on weekends, but he minimizes its impact on his family obligation.
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  Speaker 1: He's high powered, wealthy as and could easily maintain his
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  Speaker 1: status quo with less effort and enjoy the sweet fruits
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  Speaker 1: of his labors. But he finds a way to stay
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  Speaker 1: hard because his labors are his sweetest fruits, and he
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  Speaker 1: makes time to get it all in by minimizing the
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  Speaker 1: amount of bullsh clogging his schedule. His priorities are clear
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  Speaker 1: and he remains dedicated to his priorities. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about general priorities here either. Each hour of his week
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  Speaker 1: is dedicated to a particular task, and when that hour
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  Speaker 1: shows up in real time, he focuses one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: on that task. That's how I do it too, because
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  Speaker 1: that is the only way to minimize wasted hours. Evaluate
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  Speaker 1: your life and his totality. We all waste so much
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  Speaker 1: time doing meaningless bull We burn hours on social media
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  Speaker 1: and watching television, which by the end of the year
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  Speaker 1: would add up to entire days and weeks. If you
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  Speaker 1: tabulated time like you do your taxes, you should because
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  Speaker 1: if you knew the truth, you deactivate your Facebook accounts.
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  Speaker 1: That and cut your cable when you find yourself having
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  Speaker 1: frivolous conversations or becoming ensnared in activities that don't better
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  Speaker 1: you in any way.
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  Speaker 2: Move the go