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Break Free from Your Old Self: David Goggins’ Secrets to Personal Growth · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Once you put away your phones and your computers and
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  Speaker 1: all that we have nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, we're up to date, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But your brain is the only thing you have when
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  Speaker 1: you're going through depression, when you're going through hard times,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going through.
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  Speaker 2: Death real life. You can't google that. Man, you're alone.
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  Speaker 2: You're alone.
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  Speaker 1: You may have a shrink you're going to, you may
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  Speaker 1: have a best friend you're going to, but there's twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours in the day where you're alone in this brain,
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  Speaker 1: and your brain is talking to you in all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of ways, and it wants to control you and pull
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  Speaker 1: you in these different pockets. If you can't control your
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  Speaker 1: own brain and your brain controls you, you got to
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  Speaker 1: tell your brain where you want to go and how
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  Speaker 1: you want to go and how you want to get there.
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  Speaker 2: You got to control it. If not, it's over.
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  Speaker 1: What existed for me was okay, man, how am I
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  Speaker 1: going to make this work? And all I knew back
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  Speaker 1: then was hard work. The only way anything gets accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I heard back in those days. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: work hard, you gotta work hard. I'm not getting how
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  Speaker 1: to I can't get this paragraph. I can't remember what
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  Speaker 1: the fixing this paragraph, to pass this test.
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  Speaker 2: To get in the military.
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  Speaker 1: Read again, still not getting it, read again, But if
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  Speaker 1: not getting it, write it out.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how I started learning. Okay, well I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta write out everything I do and then write
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  Speaker 1: it out again and right out again.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what happened. I got it. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't swim. I'm negative boying. Go back again. I
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  Speaker 1: can't swim. Go back again, go back again, go back again.
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I realized if I keep going back and going back
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  Speaker 1: and going back.
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  Speaker 2: Until the just becomes your mind was safe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna figure it out because he is not
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  Speaker 1: going to stop.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like I wanna try one more time.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's just like long clock goes off, boom, We're
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  Speaker 1: going back.
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  Speaker 2: I can't read right, We're going back.
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  Speaker 1: I gave myself no way out, and my mind realized
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  Speaker 1: that they said, okay, we're gonna adapt and overcome.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the human body is 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 the 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 on 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.
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  Speaker 2: Rocket beyond one hundred and thirty miles per hour. It's
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  Speaker 2: a subtler 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.
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  Speaker 2: It knows what and who we love and hate.
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  Speaker 1: It's read our whole life story and forms the way
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  Speaker 1: we see ourselves and how we'd like to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: It's the software that delivers personalized feedback in the form
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  Speaker 1: of pain and exhaustion, but also fear and insecurity, and
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  Speaker 1: it uses all of that to encourage us to stop before.
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  Speaker 2: We risk it all. But here's the thing. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have absolute control.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike the governor in an engine, ours can't stop us
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  Speaker 1: unless we buy into its bullshit and agree to quit. Sadly,
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  Speaker 1: most of us give up when we've only given around
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  Speaker 1: forty percent of our maximum effort.
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  Speaker 2: Even when we.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like we've reached our absolute limit, we still have
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  Speaker 1: 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: eye identity and all your self limiting stories, so you
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  Speaker 1: can get to sixty percent, then eighty percent and beyond
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  Speaker 1: without giving up. I call this the forty percent rule.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason it's so powerful is that if you
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  Speaker 1: follow it, you will unlock your mind to new levels
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  Speaker 1: of performance and excellence in sports and in life, and
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  Speaker 1: your rewards will run far deeper than mere material success.
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  Speaker 1: It's a practice that you have to it's a habit.
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  Speaker 1: So if you know that at forty percent, I'm feeling pain.
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  Speaker 1: At forty percent, I'm feeling pain, that's where the forty
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  Speaker 1: percent will kicks in. Now it starts, okay, I'm feeling pain.
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  Speaker 1: My mind's saying all this shit to me, is saying
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  Speaker 1: get out of here, run, flee. The fight or flight
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  Speaker 1: kicks in. Okay, we're done, We're not good enough. It
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  Speaker 1: starts telling you all these things. You start to believe
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  Speaker 1: it because the mind controls all. This is the time
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  Speaker 1: where you have to gain control back of your mind.
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  Speaker 2: It say okay, let me see if I can go
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  Speaker 2: forty five percent.
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  Speaker 1: And then once you start giving yourself more and more
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  Speaker 1: hope and start realizing okay, the mind starts to be okay,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing.
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  Speaker 2: We're supposed to be going right and you're going left.
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  Speaker 1: You start then controlling your mind, start finding more in you,
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  Speaker 1: in yourself, and then it goes from forty percent a
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  Speaker 1: lot further than that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the start of it. Though.
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  Speaker 1: Get to get to the spot where your mind is
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  Speaker 1: saying stop whatever that is. Get there first, and then
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  Speaker 1: that's when that shit starts to work for you.
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  Speaker 2: You got to control yourself in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine you're a boxer and on your first day in
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  Speaker 1: the ring you take one on your chin.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna hurt like fucking hell. But at year ten
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  Speaker 2: of being a boxer, you won't be stopped by one punch.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be able to absorb twelve rounds of getting beat
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  Speaker 1: the fuck down and come back the very next day
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  Speaker 1: and fight again. It's not that the punch has lost power.
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  Speaker 1: Your opponents will be even stronger. The change has happened
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  Speaker 1: within your brain. You've calloused your mind over a period
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  Speaker 1: of time, your tolerance for mental and physical suffering will
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  Speaker 1: have expanded because your software will have learned that you
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  Speaker 1: can take a hell of a lot more than one punch.
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  Speaker 1: And if you stay with any task that is trying
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  Speaker 1: to beat you down, you will reap rewards.
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  Speaker 2: Not a fighter.
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  Speaker 1: Say you like to run, but have a broken pinky toe,
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet if you continue running on it, pretty soon
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  Speaker 1: you'll be able to run on broken legs. Sounds impossible, right,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's true because I've run on broken legs
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  Speaker 1: and that knowledge helped me endure all manner of agonies
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  Speaker 1: on the ultra circuit, which has revealed a clear spring
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  Speaker 1: of self confidence that I drink from whenever my tank
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  Speaker 1: is dry. But nobody taps their reserve sixty percent right
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  Speaker 1: away or all at once. The first step is to
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  Speaker 1: remember that your initial blast of pain and fatigue is
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  Speaker 1: your governor talking. Once you do that, you are in
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  Speaker 1: control of the dialogue in your mind, and you can
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  Speaker 1: remind yourself that you are not as strained as you think,
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  Speaker 1: that you haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Given it, You're all not even close.
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  Speaker 1: Buying into that will keep you in the fight, and
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  Speaker 1: that's worth an extra five percent. Of course, that's easier
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  Speaker 1: read than done. It wasn't easy to begin the fourth
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  Speaker 1: lap of the Hurt one hundred, because I knew how
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  Speaker 1: much it would hurt, And when you are feeling dead
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  Speaker 1: and buried, dehydrated, wrung out, and torn the fuck up
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  Speaker 1: at forty percent, finding that extra sixty percent feels impossible.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want my suffering to continue. Nobody does. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the line fatigue makes cowards of us. All is
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  Speaker 1: true as shit. Mind you, I didn't know anything about
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  Speaker 1: the forty percent rule that day. The Hurt one hundred
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  Speaker 1: is when I first started to contemplate it. But I
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  Speaker 1: had hit the wall many times before, and I had
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  Speaker 1: learned to stay present and open minded enough to recalibrate
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  Speaker 1: my goals even at my lowest. I knew that staying
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  Speaker 1: in the fight is always the hardest and most rewarding
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  Speaker 1: first step. Of course, it's easy to be open minded
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  Speaker 1: when you leave yoga class and are taking a stroll
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  Speaker 1: by the beach, But when you're suffering, keeping an open
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  Speaker 1: mind is hard work. The same is true if you
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  Speaker 1: are facing a daunting challenge on the job or at school.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you are tackling one hundred question tests and know
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  Speaker 1: that you've bricked the first fifty. At that point, it's
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  Speaker 1: extremely difficult to maintain the necessary discipline to force yourself
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  Speaker 1: to keep taking the test seriously. It's also imperative that
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  Speaker 1: you find it because in every failure there is something
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  Speaker 1: to be gained, even if it's only practice for the
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  Speaker 1: next test you'll have to take, because that next test
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  Speaker 1: is coming, that's a guarantee. Well, that's what I realized
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  Speaker 1: for myself was I wanted that comfort zone that everybody
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  Speaker 1: looks for, that pat on the back. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear all the bad shit. They want everything that
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  Speaker 1: to do and right. And I realized that's what kept
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  Speaker 1: me in this world. That's what kept me in this
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  Speaker 1: world of not accomplishing anything. So what I did was
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  Speaker 1: I became that big, bad, nasty motherfucker that you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to walk into at nighttime. I became the roughest
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  Speaker 1: critic in the world on myself, and that's what changed me.
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  Speaker 2: I literally saw myself in the mirror.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the truth versus saying, you know, my dad
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  Speaker 1: did this to me from you know, from beating me
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  Speaker 1: kids in school, from calling me nigger.
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  Speaker 2: Did this to me.
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  Speaker 1: My life did this to me, My fucked up, broken
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  Speaker 1: foundation did this to me. I took that and said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Well, some people may help this happen,
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  Speaker 1: but now I have to own this. No one's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back to save me. No one's gonna come back
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  Speaker 1: on this fucking couch and say, hey, it's okay, You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 2: No I'm not. I'm not gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 1: I I had to realize I had to take a
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  Speaker 1: stay and I hadn't make a real stand.
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  Speaker 2: And it was.
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  Speaker 1: Painful to look at who I like, who I was,
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  Speaker 1: what the world and myself created.
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  Speaker 2: It created a.
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  Speaker 1: Very lonely, depressed, insecure man that would do anything just
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  Speaker 1: to have a friend. And I saw that as very pathetic.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the truth, it becomes very ugly
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  Speaker 1: and pathetic. A lot of people can live with themselves,
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  Speaker 1: look in the mirror and say I'm okay with being afraid.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay with going on this easy highway over here.
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  Speaker 2: The easy highway has all.
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  Speaker 1: These fucking signs and shit directions how to get somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to first be uncomfortable with how you
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  Speaker 1: feel about yourself, with that voice that a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of us like to run away from. We all
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  Speaker 2: have it.
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  Speaker 1: We all have that voice to say, hey, man, you
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  Speaker 1: know you're you're kind of wimping out right now.
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  Speaker 2: You're kind of being a little punk right now. But
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  Speaker 2: Albius say, Okay, that's okay. It's okay to tell these
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  Speaker 2: little white lives to ourselves. So we first have to
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  Speaker 2: face the real you. The real me is David Goggins.
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  Speaker 1: The real me is a guy looking at you right
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  Speaker 1: now saying I don't want to fucking be on this
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  Speaker 1: show right now because I used to stutter as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm afraid of that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid that you're.
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  Speaker 1: In a second, I'm gonna start fucking stammering and stutter,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole world's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Know that I have all these issues.
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  Speaker 1: But that's when I see, right now, okay, Goggins, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta go on this fucking show.
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  Speaker 2: That's Goggins.
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  Speaker 1: Goggins is saying, Okay, David Goggins, you're a punk. Life
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  Speaker 1: made you this way. We can't live like this. We
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  Speaker 1: can't live in fear, we can't live in judgment. We
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  Speaker 1: can't be afraid of what the fuck people right now
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  Speaker 1: are looking at me saying about me.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot be afraid of that. That's Goggins.
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  Speaker 1: Godin's saying fuck all of you who don't like me,
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  Speaker 1: who don't want to and that person then comes in.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to be David Goggins and say, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid of this, I'm fucked up here.
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  Speaker 2: Life made me this way.
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  Speaker 1: Here, I stutter, I have these issues with the reading
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  Speaker 1: and writing, and I'm fat and I'm insecure. You have
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  Speaker 1: to face that in that dark room. In that dark
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  Speaker 1: room is who you are. But in that dark room
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  Speaker 1: is where you have to create another human being that
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  Speaker 1: walks out of that dark room to face who you are.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only way you're gonna get over all those things.
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  Speaker 1: You have to create someone else. Not that you have
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  Speaker 1: two different personalities. It is you, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: find strength. And that visualization of almost me cracking out
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  Speaker 1: Goggans like almost like that Superman case, like I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: out a different person, a person that doesn't give a
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  Speaker 1: fuck about anything, who doesn't care about being judged.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows I'm weak, who knows.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid, who says whatever you think about me, take
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  Speaker 1: it whatever I'm here, that's goddance. In the dark room,
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  Speaker 1: you face yourself, you realize you want to be better.
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  Speaker 2: You realize you don't want to be this weak, insecure
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  Speaker 2: person in the world has all these problems that we
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  Speaker 2: all have. We all have. Social medi is a great
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  Speaker 2: platform to tell you who we want to be, not
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  Speaker 2: who we are. So that's where that dark room is.
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  Speaker 1: I crave discipline because I had a sense it might
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  Speaker 1: save me.
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  Speaker 2: That's the beauty of discipline. It trumps everything.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of us are born with minimal talent, unhappy
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  Speaker 1: in our own skin and.
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  Speaker 2: With the genetic makeup with which we were born.
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  Speaker 1: We have fucked up parents, grow up bullied and abused,
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  Speaker 1: or are diagnosed with learning disabilities. We hate our hometown,
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  Speaker 1: our teachers, our families, and damn near everything about ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We wish we could be born again as some other
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  Speaker 1: motherfucker in some other time and place.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I am proof that.
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  Speaker 1: Rebirth is possible through discipline, which is the only thing
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  Speaker 1: capable of altering your DNA. It is the skeleton key
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  Speaker 1: that can get you past all the gatekeepers and into
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  Speaker 1: each and every room you wish to enter, even the
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  Speaker 1: ones built to keep.
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  Speaker 2: You the fuck out.
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  Speaker 1: It's so easy to be great nowadays because so many
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  Speaker 1: people are focused on efficiency, getting the most for themselves
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  Speaker 1: with the least amount of time and effort.
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  Speaker 2: Let all of them leave the gym early skips, take
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  Speaker 2: sick days.
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  Speaker 1: Commit to becoming the motherfucker with a never ending task list.
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  Speaker 1: This is where you make up the difference in potential.
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  Speaker 1: By learning to maximize what you do have, you will
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  Speaker 1: not only level the playing field, but also surpass those
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  Speaker 1: born with more natural ability and advantages than you. Let
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  Speaker 1: your hours become days, then weeks, then years of effort.
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  Speaker 1: Allow discipline to seep into your cells, until work becomes
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  Speaker 1: a reflex as automatic as breathing. With discipline as your medium,
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  Speaker 1: your life will become a.
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  Speaker 2: Work of art.
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  Speaker 1: Discipline builds mental endurance because when effort is your main priority,
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  Speaker 1: you stop looking for everything.
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  Speaker 2: To be enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: Our phones and social media have turned too many of
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  Speaker 1: us inside out with envy and greed.
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  Speaker 2: As we get inundated with.
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  Speaker 1: Other people's success, their new cars and houses, big contracts,
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  Speaker 1: rezort vacations.
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  Speaker 2: And romantic getaways.
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  Speaker 1: We see how much fun everyone else is having and
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  Speaker 1: feel like the world is passing us by, so we
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  Speaker 1: bitch about it and then wonder why we are not
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  Speaker 1: where we want to be. When you become disciplined, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have time for that bullshit. Your insecurities become alarm bells,
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  Speaker 1: reminding you that doing your chores or homework to the
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  Speaker 1: utmost of your ability, and putting in extra time on
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  Speaker 1: the job or in the gym are requirements for a
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  Speaker 1: life well lived. A drive for self optimization and daily
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  Speaker 1: repetition will build your capacity for work and give you confidence.
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  Speaker 2: That you can take on more.
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  Speaker 1: With discipline as your engine, your workload and output will double,
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  Speaker 1: then triple. What you won't see, at least not at first,
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that your own personal evolution has begun
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  Speaker 1: to bear fruit. You won't see it because you'll be
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  Speaker 1: too busy taking action. Discipline does not have a belief system.
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  Speaker 1: It transcends class, color, and gender. It cuts through all
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  Speaker 1: the noise and strife if you think that you are
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  Speaker 1: behind the eight ball for whatever reason. Discipline is the
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  Speaker 1: great equalizer. It erases all disadvantages. Nowadays, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: where you are from or who you are. If you
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  Speaker 1: are disciplined, there will be no stopping you.