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Control Your Brain, Discipline Your Mind, and Own Your Life · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: For you to constantly win, win, win, when this voice
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  Speaker 1: over here, the real you, that is saying, get the
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  Speaker 1: fuck out of here, go, you're nobody.
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  Speaker 2: You've always been nobody, and it's true. People don't hear that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a true voice.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real reality of David Goggins at twenty four
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  Speaker 1: years old.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a false reality. And then you had to
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  Speaker 2: create another.
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  Speaker 1: Voice over here that are saying you're better than that
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  Speaker 1: other voice.
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  Speaker 2: And you're in the freezing cold water that both voices
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  Speaker 2: don't want to fill me in.
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  Speaker 1: But you win, and goes from the water to the studying,
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  Speaker 1: to the running, to losing weight, to how you eat,
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  Speaker 1: to how you function as a man every day of
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: You're winning these battles.
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  Speaker 1: And then I have normal people who only have one voice,
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  Speaker 1: never created the second voice. The winning voice is a
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  Speaker 1: second voice. They have a one voice and that's just
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  Speaker 1: I'm a piece of sh and that's all they hear.
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  Speaker 1: And then they judge people like me who are out
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  Speaker 1: here trying to be better. It's something that I can
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  Speaker 1: never really.
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  Speaker 2: It's a frustrating thing for me because I know the
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  Speaker 2: majority of people.
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  Speaker 1: I know what goes on and the bring because I
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  Speaker 1: studied the mind more than almost.
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  Speaker 2: More than you, because I wasn't. I'm a practitioner.
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  Speaker 1: So for you to be a piece of shit and
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  Speaker 1: come out of that, you want just come out of it.
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  Speaker 1: You spend decades studying your mind, in the human mind,
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  Speaker 1: on how it functions in good environments, bad environments, stressful environments.
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  Speaker 2: Patient environment.
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  Speaker 1: You studied all because you have to put all this
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  Speaker 1: together to create the.
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  Speaker 2: Mind to become successful. So I had to God bless
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  Speaker 2: me with this brain.
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  Speaker 1: I had to create a mind, and so in doing so,
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  Speaker 1: I figured out every piece of human being in the world,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what I was going off for myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I know why you go on Instagram. I know
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  Speaker 2: why you because you just have the time.
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  Speaker 1: You have the time because you don't want to put
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  Speaker 1: that time into bettering oneself. So I know why I misunderstood.
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  Speaker 1: I'm misunderstood by people who have plenty of time on
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  Speaker 1: their hands to misunderstand me because they are exactly where
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  Speaker 1: I once was, which is a low life, lazy piece
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  Speaker 1: of sh.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the harsh reality of people who trow you,
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  Speaker 2: who go after you, they have nothing better to do
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  Speaker 2: with your lives.
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  Speaker 1: It's not some after school special. It's the truth. By
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  Speaker 1: once was that way, I.
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  Speaker 2: Know where it all comes from.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's frustrating me now, because I'm not so
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  Speaker 1: frustrated to the fact that I'm being trolled. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: firstight by the fact that you don't have the courage,
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  Speaker 1: the courage to try to be somebody better than which
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  Speaker 1: you're not.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the frustrating part.
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  Speaker 1: Most people live their whole lives without ever contemplating what
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  Speaker 1: it means to be great.
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  Speaker 2: They put all the greats on.
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  Speaker 1: A pedestal, but think of themselves as mere mortals, and
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly why greatness eludes them. They turn it into
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  Speaker 1: some untouchable plane, impossible for almost anybody to reach, and
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  Speaker 1: it never even crosses their mind to aim for it.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what I'm doing or which arena I'm engaging in,
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  Speaker 1: I will always aim for greatness because I know that
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  Speaker 1: we are all mere mortals, and greatness as possible for
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  Speaker 1: anyone and everyone if they are willing to seek it
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  Speaker 1: out in their own soul.
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  Speaker 2: In gogless terms, greatness is a.
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  Speaker 1: State of letting go of all your faults and imperfections,
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  Speaker 1: sca every last bit of strength and energy and putting
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  Speaker 1: it to use to excel at whatever you set your
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  Speaker 1: mind to, even if some mother were out there told
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  Speaker 1: you is impossible. It is a feeling pursued by those
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  Speaker 1: rare souls willing to extend themselves beyond reason and pay
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  Speaker 1: the cost. In the late nineteen fifties, Captain Joseph Kiddinger
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  Speaker 1: was a pilot in the Air Force, tapped for experimental
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  Speaker 1: aviation and skydiving.
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  Speaker 2: Duty in New Mexico. He wasn't a household name.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, hardly anybody knew the first thing about him
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  Speaker 1: until August sixteen, nineteen sixty, when he donned a red
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  Speaker 1: duct tape pressure suit and boarded an open sided gondola
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  Speaker 1: tethered to an onion shaped helium balloon.
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  Speaker 2: He flew that rig.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly twenty miles high until he reached the thin atmospheric
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  Speaker 1: line where everything goes from blue to black. He traveled
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  Speaker 1: to a place where the horizon did not exist. He
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  Speaker 1: was above and beyond all previously known limitations. Suspended at
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  Speaker 1: one hundred twenty eight hundred feet, he unclipped his harness
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  Speaker 1: stepped into space. His free fall lasted nearly five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: His maximum velocity was six hundred and fourteen miles per hour.
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  Speaker 1: He plummeted over eighty thousand vertical feet before his primary
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  Speaker 1: chute open. This was no Red Bull sponsored party. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a television show. Kiddinger wasn't an entertainer. He was
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  Speaker 1: an explorer, a seeker of a new realm for the world.
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  Speaker 1: His flight and his jump helped make man's spaceflight possible,
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  Speaker 1: and also for himself. I don't jump to Earth from
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  Speaker 1: outer space, but I know that atmospheric line between blue
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  Speaker 1: and black. It is the glimmer of greatness that runs
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  Speaker 1: right through the human soul. We all have it. Most
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  Speaker 1: of us will never see it because to get there
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  Speaker 1: requires a willingness to extend yourself to the life limit
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  Speaker 1: without any guarantee of success. Then again, success is just
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  Speaker 1: another mile marker on the journey. Landing the jump and
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  Speaker 1: walking away while lighting a cigarette as if it were
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  Speaker 1: a typical day on the job made kidding or look cool,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't make him great. His willingness to do
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  Speaker 1: it in the first place, knowing that the chances of
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  Speaker 1: failure were high and everything it cost him, made him great.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a stunt to garner fame or publicity. It
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  Speaker 1: was merely an attempt to see what was humanly possible.
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  Speaker 1: Just as words can be redefined, never doubt that we
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  Speaker 1: can redefine ourselves. It can feel impossible at times, because
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  Speaker 1: we live in a world filled with arbitrary boundaries and
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  Speaker 1: fixed social lines that are as thick as the walls
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  Speaker 1: around a fortress. Worse, we allow those walls to limit
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  Speaker 1: us in too many ways. The brainwashing starts early, and
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  Speaker 1: it starts at home, the people we grow up with
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  Speaker 1: and the environments we grew up in to find who
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  Speaker 1: we think we are and what we think life is
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  Speaker 1: all about.
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  Speaker 2: When you're young, you can only.
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  Speaker 1: Know what you see, and if all you are ever
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  Speaker 1: exposed to are lazy people content with mediocrity, or who
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  Speaker 1: convince you of your own worthlessness, greatness will remain a fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: If you live in the ghetto, or in a dying
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  Speaker 1: industrial or a farming town where buildings are boarded up,
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  Speaker 1: addiction runs rampant, and the schools are a mess that
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  Speaker 1: will factor into the possibilities of others envision for you,
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  Speaker 1: and you envision for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But even privileged people can feel.
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  Speaker 1: Shackled by their circumstances. The vast majority of parents don't
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  Speaker 1: know what greatness looks like, so they are ill equipped
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  Speaker 1: and afraid to encourage big dreams. They want their children
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  Speaker 1: to have security and don't want them to experience failure.
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  Speaker 1: That's how limited horizons get passed down from generation to generation.
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  Speaker 1: Should we really be surprised that almost everybody has a
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  Speaker 1: knack for twisting their story to work against themselves.
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  Speaker 2: I hear it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Privileged kids say I have too much, so I cannot
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  Speaker 1: develop the skills that you have. The kid that came
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  Speaker 1: from nothing will tell me I don't have enough, therefore
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  Speaker 1: I cannot develop the skills that you have. No matter
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  Speaker 1: where someone is in life, they never fail to confess
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  Speaker 1: why they can't get where they need to go.
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  Speaker 2: The minute they open their mouths.
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  Speaker 1: I see how limited their horizons are, and their sob
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  Speaker 1: stories come with the expectation that I will deliver and
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  Speaker 1: become great package to their front door. But that's not
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  Speaker 1: how it works to this day. It is for me
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  Speaker 1: to become better mentally.
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  Speaker 2: How I look has just become.
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  Speaker 1: Like I have thousands, thousands, hundreds of thousands of miles
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  Speaker 1: on this body, running pull ups, push up, swimming, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to call it.
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  Speaker 2: This body is what it is now. It's from repetition,
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  Speaker 2: it's not from studying. You know, hey, if you hold
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  Speaker 2: a plank for this, call that book. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about it. I just do it for my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I want to continue to harden because that's the only
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  Speaker 1: thing I want.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want. I want to have that mind
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  Speaker 2: ready for life.
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  Speaker 1: Identity is a trap that will keep you in blinders
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  Speaker 1: if you let it. Sometimes identity is what we are
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  Speaker 1: saddled with by society.
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  Speaker 2: Other times as a category we claim.
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  Speaker 1: It can be empowering to associate yourself with a particular culture, group, job,
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  Speaker 1: or lifestyle, but it can also be limiting. If you
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  Speaker 1: stick with your own too closely, you will be susceptible
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  Speaker 1: to group think and you may never learn who you
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  Speaker 1: really are or what you can accomplish. I know people
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  Speaker 1: who are so obsessed with landing a specific job that
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  Speaker 1: once they settled into that role, they clipped their own wings.
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  Speaker 2: They never moved on or attempted to.
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  Speaker 1: Try anything new, and that blocked them from evolving and
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  Speaker 1: developing new skills. Sometimes we are misled by others who
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  Speaker 1: categorize us based on what they perceive as our identity.
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  Speaker 1: When I met with Navy recruiters, several tried to steer
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  Speaker 1: me away from seal training and into a different opportunity
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't fit the mold. I was overweight, my
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  Speaker 1: ASVAP scores were low, and there was my skin color.
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  Speaker 1: Remember I was only the thirty six black Navy seal.
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  Speaker 1: The recruiters weren't trying to hurt me, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe they were racist. They honestly thought they were helping
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  Speaker 1: me by presenting more realistic options.
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  Speaker 2: Usually, however, we mislead ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Those of us who are struggling with our self worth
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  Speaker 1: like I was as a child, often build identities around
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  Speaker 1: the very things that haunt us the most, not because
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  Speaker 1: we want to, but because subconsciously we are convinced that is.
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  Speaker 2: How everyone else sees us.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot allow what someone else may or may not
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  Speaker 1: think about you, or the issues you're dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: To stop your progress.
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  Speaker 1: My environment in my history made me over anxious and
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  Speaker 1: stressed out. The color of my skin made me a mark.
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  Speaker 1: I was prejudged and vulnerable at almost every turn, and
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  Speaker 1: it was my job to defy all of that, no.
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  Speaker 2: Matter how troubled or hopeless. Or sheltered your environment is.
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  Speaker 1: It is your job, your obligation, your duty, and your
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  Speaker 1: responsibility to yourself to find the blue to black line
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  Speaker 1: that glimmer buried in your soul and seek greatness. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: can show you that glimmer. You must do the work
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  Speaker 1: to discover it on your own. There are no prerequisites
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  Speaker 1: to becoming great. You could be raised by a pack
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  Speaker 1: of wolves. You could be homeless and illiterate at thirty
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  Speaker 1: years old and graduate from Harvard at forty.
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  Speaker 2: You could be one.
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  Speaker 1: Of the most accomplished mother in the country and still
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  Speaker 1: be hungrier and work harder than everybody, hoody else you
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  Speaker 1: know as you attempt to conquer a new field, and
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  Speaker 1: it all starts with a commitment to looking beyond your
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  Speaker 1: known world, beyond your street, town, state, or nationality, beyond
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  Speaker 1: culture and identity. Only then can true self exploration begin.
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  Speaker 1: After that comes to real work. Fighting those demons every
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  Speaker 1: morning and all day long is maddening because they only
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  Speaker 1: ever want to break you down. They don't encourage you
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  Speaker 1: or make you feel good about yourself or your long odds.
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  Speaker 1: As you fight through all the toxic mold and crust
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  Speaker 1: that is self hate, doubt, and loneliness. They want to
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  Speaker 1: limit you. They want you to surrender and retreat back
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  Speaker 1: to what you know. They want you to quit before
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  Speaker 1: you get to pliability, where the sacrifice, hard work, and
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  Speaker 1: isolation that felt so heavy for so.
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  Speaker 2: Long become your haven.
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  Speaker 1: Where after struggling to visualize greatness for years, it is
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  Speaker 1: effort us. That's when momentum will gather like an updraft
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  Speaker 1: and send you airborne in spiraling towards the outer limits
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  Speaker 1: of your known world. It's time to level up and
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  Speaker 1: seek out that blue to black line, the line that
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  Speaker 1: separates good from great.
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  Speaker 2: It is within each one of us. You have to
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  Speaker 2: remind yourself. We all have a story.
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  Speaker 1: We'll all of us have gone through very hard times.
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  Speaker 1: But we were in a hard time. Our mind has
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  Speaker 1: a way of forgetting what all we've overcome. I have
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  Speaker 1: a way of taking one second when I want to
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  Speaker 1: quit and say, okay, you endure this. So I look
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  Speaker 1: at my life and how I came up as the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate training ground versus most people look at it as
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  Speaker 1: why woe is me?
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  Speaker 2: God?
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  Speaker 1: Why why I had to flip this upside down and say,
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  Speaker 1: hang on a second. God was training me to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the baddest men on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: That's how this was my.
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  Speaker 1: Journey, because those things beat me, but it didn't kill me,
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  Speaker 1: and I was able to work around him and figure
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  Speaker 1: out ways through it. So when I was in the
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  Speaker 1: worst time in my life in hell week, I looked
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  Speaker 1: at everybody and said, I'm the most trained person here.
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  Speaker 1: I've gone through more mental torture than any of yok
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  Speaker 1: even fathom. So I'm looking at the baddest people on
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  Speaker 1: the planet. I'm looking at him like this, you guys
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  Speaker 1: can't hold a stick. So I started looking at versus
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  Speaker 1: like I don't belong here, versus like I might be
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  Speaker 1: the best person ever come here, who could have pulled
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  Speaker 1: this off, who could have been given a sewer to
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  Speaker 1: live in in their mind, and say, Okay, at birth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you in the worst place on the
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  Speaker 1: planet Earth, and let me see if you can go
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  Speaker 1: to the top of the mountain with nothing but just
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  Speaker 1: hard work, grit and figuring it out and not putting
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  Speaker 1: yourself back in the dungeon every time something got hard.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what became my daily voice was you really
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  Speaker 1: are the baddest person on the planet.