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Change Your Life in 2025: David Goggins' Transformative Motivational Speech · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When I wake up, I know the journey that takes
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  Speaker 1: for me to find my greatness.
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  Speaker 2: And it's hard. Nothing is easy, nothing just like oh
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  Speaker 2: I wake up and I just do this or I
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  Speaker 2: do that, or it just you know.
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  Speaker 1: I watch people every day go through life, and it's
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  Speaker 1: so easy for me to be where I'm at today.
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  Speaker 2: It takes every bit of me.
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  Speaker 1: So when I speak about it, and as I get
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  Speaker 1: going here, you'll start seeing me. The temple will rise,
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  Speaker 1: the passion will come out because I'm back there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing what I do every day to become a
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  Speaker 2: human being. And so nothing is easy. Like running is running.
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  Speaker 1: It sucks, but you have a choice to make. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to sit down and go back to that
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  Speaker 1: guy you once were? No?
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  Speaker 2: So this is what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: This is what it takes, that misunderstanding of people, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll never get it because they've even never David Gods.
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  Speaker 2: So that is what it takes for me to do
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  Speaker 2: what I do. It may take you something differently.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, everything has to be in the study
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  Speaker 1: and everything has to be into this. Everything has to
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  Speaker 1: be everywhere I am, has to be there me focus
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  Speaker 1: where I am. That's why you're my second podcast I've
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  Speaker 1: done since Rogue and says the book came out, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have time for that shit, because if I want
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  Speaker 1: to be great, I'm not trying to maximize money or
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  Speaker 1: maximize people knowing me. I do these things because maybe
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  Speaker 1: someone out there will understand me and.
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  Speaker 2: Get it and say I can grow from this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be the guy that people looked at,
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  Speaker 1: whether they liked me or not, and said, this guy
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  Speaker 1: is never going to stop.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't care if I won. I just wanted to be.
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  Speaker 1: The person who kept getting back up no matter how
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  Speaker 1: many times life knocked me down. I wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: the distance, and that mindset drove me beyond what I
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  Speaker 1: thought was possible. I have the ability to see the
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  Speaker 1: end before the beginning even begins. And what that means
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  Speaker 1: is I know that to get to the very end,
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  Speaker 1: I can see it right now. So before I went
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  Speaker 1: to Buds and I was losing all waiting shit, I
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  Speaker 1: saw myself walking across.
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  Speaker 2: The stage at one hundred and ninety one pounds. That's
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  Speaker 2: why I had to get to get into the door.
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  Speaker 1: I saw myself six months a year later, whatever it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna take me to do, I saw myself walking across
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  Speaker 1: that stays, getting that certificate of graduation from buds and
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  Speaker 1: I was able to be there at three hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 1: and that feeling that I was nowhere near that fucking feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I was able to put myself there a million times
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  Speaker 1: every day. And that feeling of like, my God, that
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  Speaker 1: is going to feel amazing, That's what made me suffer.
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  Speaker 1: That's what allowed the pain to be real and say
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  Speaker 1: this is worth it. I want to feel for this
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  Speaker 1: connect eighteen months. It took me eighteen months to find
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  Speaker 1: become a navy To just get through butts eighteen months.
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  Speaker 1: Six months took me eighteen That's what woke me up
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  Speaker 1: every morning was I'm gonna put myself through this much
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  Speaker 1: fucking pain and suffering for a few seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Saw this a few seconds of joy, and it's so
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  Speaker 2: fucking worth it, man, I said.
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  Speaker 1: People don't get so I'm able to put myself at
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  Speaker 1: the finish line, even though I have no finish line,
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  Speaker 1: but at the finish line of an event before I
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  Speaker 1: even start them. Mother ferd to say, how are you
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  Speaker 1: going to fill it? The end of this, I was
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  Speaker 1: a scared, insecure kid. My whole life. I ran away
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  Speaker 1: from challenges, but that voice inside me never let me
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  Speaker 1: give up completely. I realized I had to create a
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  Speaker 1: version of myself that didn't exist yet, someone who could
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  Speaker 1: endure pain, suffering, and the judgment of others. I had
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  Speaker 1: to build a callous mind, and I did it through
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  Speaker 1: relentless effort. I stopped making excuses, rain, pain, exhaustion. None
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  Speaker 1: of it mattered anymore. I faced every fear, every weakness,
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  Speaker 1: and made the decision that nothing was going to stop
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  Speaker 1: me from becoming who I needed to be. Man, You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to suffer to go from this fat, insecure
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  Speaker 1: motherfucker to one of the best guys on the planet Earth.
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  Speaker 1: This journey is gonna take something that is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: incomprehensible to most people. And these different visualizations how I
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  Speaker 1: visualize in myself talk. It became so nasty and dirty
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  Speaker 1: that I almost liked the fact that I went point
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. So it be came from being defeated to like, man,
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  Speaker 1: all right, motherfucker. May you know maybe the Marvin Gude
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  Speaker 1: point seventy five.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it just.
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  Speaker 1: Became this different mindset. I turned negatives into positives so
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  Speaker 1: I would I would take it like who would even
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  Speaker 1: think about doing this. So I would sit in my
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  Speaker 1: couch saying, who at two ninety seven, who can't can
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  Speaker 1: swim that great?
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  Speaker 2: Who's scared of the water? We have from balls? Fill
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  Speaker 2: the balls to man up, quit a job and go
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  Speaker 2: and just.
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  Speaker 1: Put everything on himself. So it's how I started talking
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  Speaker 1: to myself and putting myself in a whole different category.
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  Speaker 1: And that would fuel me the next day. And I
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  Speaker 1: just kept using that as fuel and fuel.
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  Speaker 2: No one would do this, No one would do this.
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  Speaker 2: Bass mofucker around your bass mofk ever lived.
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  Speaker 1: And I had to just kept fueling me with the
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  Speaker 1: with the right kind of message that I needed to
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  Speaker 1: hear that I was never telling myself, and through time
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  Speaker 1: it became reality to myself. I can't live several lifetimes.
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  Speaker 1: I can't because the knowledge I need to gain for
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  Speaker 1: this life I live in today, I need two or
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  Speaker 1: three or four lifetimes to be where I want to go.
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  Speaker 1: Ultra gives it to me in high definition, real fast.
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  Speaker 2: Sixty two hours.
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  Speaker 1: You go out there, can suffer, you come back. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that was sixty two hours. I gained seven years of knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: the ups and downs, the pain to suffering, the you
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  Speaker 1: you learn how to chunk this dawn, Like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I'm at my one hundred?
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  Speaker 2: Am I gonna get to my one eighteen? Everything becomes you.
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  Speaker 1: You start to learn life out there, and you learn
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  Speaker 1: so much in such a condensed period of time, and
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the world can do it like pushing yourself
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  Speaker 1: to the absolute limit.
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  Speaker 2: I call it.
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  Speaker 1: Like, so, people have talent, People have a lot of talent,
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  Speaker 1: and this is going beyond your talent.
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  Speaker 2: So when talent, when there's no more talent, what happens
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  Speaker 2: to you? Most people quit.
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  Speaker 1: People only go to their talent level. And once your
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  Speaker 1: talent level is gone, it becomes a mental game that
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  Speaker 1: the whole mental game sets in then and most people
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  Speaker 1: can only perform to their talent and they realize, Man,
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  Speaker 1: why am I always messing up right here? Why is
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  Speaker 1: this like big my big hurdle. It's because you're performing
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  Speaker 1: to your talent and then after that your mind has
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  Speaker 1: nothing for you, nothing for you.
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  Speaker 2: I see fighters, I see runners.
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  Speaker 1: I see people who they're great, but they get to
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  Speaker 1: the edge of their talent.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, man, what's what's up?
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  Speaker 1: Because you're now at the point now or you're telling
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  Speaker 1: him to do fool you?
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  Speaker 2: My friend.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's the mental game, and that's where people get
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  Speaker 1: lost in life, get lost in that next level. And
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  Speaker 1: that next level was found for me and the things
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  Speaker 1: that I do. Let's misunderstood.
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  Speaker 2: That's how scary the mind is.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how I started realizing through this journey, is
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  Speaker 1: that once I got a taste of wow, man, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't even cracked. I haven't even begun to crack what
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  Speaker 1: the mind is capable of. And when I started realizing
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  Speaker 1: is on the other end of suffering. That's the real
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  Speaker 1: growth of life, because you realize how the mind processes.
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  Speaker 1: And I talk about another thing called theory and practice.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are theorists. They these smart guys
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  Speaker 1: that read these books and man, and they sit down
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  Speaker 1: they tell you what the mind is supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of us listen to that. It becomes like,
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  Speaker 1: this is it, man, this old man who has been
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  Speaker 1: studying the mind forever, this is the cap that we have.
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  Speaker 1: By being a practitioner, I went out and realized a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these guys are so wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Man. The mind has capabilities that are so unknown. And
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  Speaker 2: I found that through suffering.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a whole nother world on the other end
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  Speaker 1: of that. I called that my forty percent rule. Where
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  Speaker 1: like a car has a governor on it, it can
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  Speaker 1: go one thirty, you know, the government's on the gologal
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  Speaker 1: ninety one. And the whole thing about that, it's a
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  Speaker 1: truth statement, you know, like what you said, our mind
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  Speaker 1: wants to protect us.
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  Speaker 2: The mind is like, honestly, it has a tactical advantage
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  Speaker 2: over us.
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  Speaker 1: It knows our deepest, darkest fears or insecurities. It knows
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  Speaker 1: where we start to feel, we start getting that doubt
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  Speaker 1: creeping and says, hey, man, you know.
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  Speaker 2: What, man, maybe this isn't good. Let's go back home
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  Speaker 2: to the wife. Let's go back home to the kids.
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  Speaker 2: This is not comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: And that moment the mind directs us. It's a protective mechanism.
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  Speaker 1: It saves us for doing bodily harm or or it
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  Speaker 1: really saves us from discovering that. The mind is like,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be in charge of you. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to be in charge of me. So it
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  Speaker 1: tells you, let's just stop right here. But once you
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  Speaker 1: start breaking through that barrier and start breaking down that governor,
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  Speaker 1: the governor that you've put in your mind, because we forget.
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  Speaker 2: We are in control of our mind.
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  Speaker 1: We believe this is the other way around. No, we
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  Speaker 1: put in our minds what we should do, but we
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  Speaker 1: believe our mind is telling us give us all this feedback.
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  Speaker 1: We have to reprogram it and tell us no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're good, We're Goodgod, this sucks, but it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: You have to learn to cap success.
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  Speaker 1: So what I do is like right now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like doing podcasts. There's a lot of things I don't
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  Speaker 1: do that have to do now to get the message
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  Speaker 1: out there, to help people out. And what I mean
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  Speaker 1: by capping success. I believe everybody should live their life.
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  Speaker 1: So everything that someone says in life, take it with
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  Speaker 1: a grain of salt. Take what they give, and don't
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh, David Gogin said this, or whoever said this.
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  Speaker 2: No, do not take what I say and.
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  Speaker 1: Do exactly what I say.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, what makes me who I am?
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  Speaker 1: Because my mission is very different than yours or anybody else's.
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  Speaker 1: I have to go into a situation or Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a guy who wants to make people better. For people
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  Speaker 1: to get better, I have to continuously get better myself.
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  Speaker 1: For me to do that, I can't just say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have this resume. The resume is there forever I'm good,
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  Speaker 1: I have to cap my success because for me to
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  Speaker 1: help people out, I can't just say I did.
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  Speaker 2: It once and I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I have to continue to reinvent the will of the mind.
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  Speaker 2: Figure out more and more ways for you to pull.
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  Speaker 1: Because if I have a cookie cutter message, it may
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  Speaker 1: hit five people out of twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: You just failed.
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  Speaker 1: My message needs to be in a way where I
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  Speaker 1: can hit all twenty five people.
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  Speaker 2: It needs to be broad enough to.
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  Speaker 1: Where all twenty five people may not like the message,
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  Speaker 1: but they're getting something from it, and that is evolution.
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  Speaker 2: You must continue to evolve, and you don't evolve for
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  Speaker 2: me in my job unless I cap myself somewhere and say.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you made this much money, get back to can work.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk,
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  Speaker 1: get off the podcast, don't be on social media too much,
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  Speaker 1: cut out all the noise. Get back to the mental
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  Speaker 1: lab because that's where the knowledge came from.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, I must cap myself so I can.
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  Speaker 1: Come back with better, more unique knowledge versus the all
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  Speaker 1: that cookie cutter knowledge that's out there. That's why people
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  Speaker 1: buy the books I have because it's not cookie cutter,
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  Speaker 1: it's not your hours,