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Focus on Yourself, Grind Every Single Day, and Rise Above · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: How do I do it? How am I able to
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  Speaker 1: do what I do on a daily basis?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: How do I fight the demons? Because they hear me
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  Speaker 1: speak and I'm very raw and real. How do you
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  Speaker 1: fight my insecurities? All these things and there every day,
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  Speaker 1: every day, I'm in search for a feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not in search for a trophy. I'm not in
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  Speaker 2: search for love.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in sourch for more followers on Instagram or
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  Speaker 1: social media. When I started this journey years ago and
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  Speaker 1: I realized that I'm going to be somebody, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: searching for a feeling, a feeling of true victory for
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  Speaker 1: myself and only myself. The second I shut out the
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  Speaker 1: whole world and realize that one thing that I am
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  Speaker 1: in this world alone, I'm fighting in.
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  Speaker 2: This race by myself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all about people, I'm all about team, I'm
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  Speaker 1: all about that shit, But I'm really all about right
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  Speaker 1: now and in my life, no one knows the real
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  Speaker 1: truth about me, how hard I really go. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if anybody knows. I want anybody to know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: an introvert. I live an introverted life, and I love
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  Speaker 1: that about me. That right there as My fuel is
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  Speaker 1: I know that there's really no one out there grinding
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  Speaker 1: like me, and if they are, so be it. If
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  Speaker 1: I know about you, I'll make sure that my gang.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the mentality is all about. My whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is a mentality thing. I view myself as the weakest
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  Speaker 1: person on the planet Earth. I would just an insecure,
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  Speaker 1: scared kid, and the only way I could find myself
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  Speaker 1: was to put myself through the worst thing possible. My
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  Speaker 1: goal in life was to, in my mind believe I'm
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  Speaker 1: the hardest man alive. And that's why the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is can't hurt me. That's what it's about. It's about
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  Speaker 1: whatever you think you are. You have to make that
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  Speaker 1: dream of reality. But that's where where the hard part
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  Speaker 1: is is making that gene reality. That's where the hard
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  Speaker 1: work come is. That's where people know, how do you
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  Speaker 1: keep grinding every day? You have to make those insecurities,
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  Speaker 1: those fears. Like when I was three undred pounds, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any drive I'm gonna go be a Navy seal.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of stupid shit is that three hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 1: There weren't like a drive to go be a Navy seal.
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  Speaker 1: I was an insecure, lying kid afraid. I had to
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  Speaker 1: look at my insecurities and in my fear and find
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  Speaker 1: drive in that. We're all looking for passion, passions all
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  Speaker 1: around you. You have a whole sack of it all
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  Speaker 1: around you. It's your insecurities, all that You got to
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  Speaker 1: dive deep in that shit. It's all in there.
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  Speaker 2: All the energy and fuel you need is.
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  Speaker 1: Right in yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It's all there.
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  Speaker 1: You got a lot of stuff to do to overcome.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's where I found it. I found
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  Speaker 1: it right there in my own insecurities. I found drive
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  Speaker 1: in my own insecurities. And that's the most powerful thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world. When you can find drive in your
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  Speaker 1: own doubt, fear, insecurities, you become very unstoppable. The biggest
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  Speaker 1: misunderstanding about David Goggins of all time is profound. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: whether you believe in God or not, I do. He
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  Speaker 1: put this lab rat which is me, on this planet
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  Speaker 1: to let me see what a beat up, abused kid
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  Speaker 1: who can barely learn and has a twisted body with
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  Speaker 1: messed up genetics, sickle cell and other issues can endure.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me everything that pretty much disqualifies you from
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  Speaker 1: the military, but back then it wasn't as stress, So
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  Speaker 1: let's put him in this and see what comes out
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  Speaker 1: of it. To do that, friction is essential. You don't
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  Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and head to the coffee maker.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, sometimes I don't even sleep. What it requires
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  Speaker 1: is intense focus. For example, at two o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: when my brain is thinking about a drug, I have
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  Speaker 1: to get up and look in my book to see
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  Speaker 1: if that drug is how I remember it. And this
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  Speaker 1: is every day in my life. That's why when I
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  Speaker 1: train a fighter or anyone, I tell them you have
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  Speaker 1: no idea how great you really are, because they're using
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  Speaker 1: such a minimal portion of what they have. If people
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  Speaker 1: can learn to focus, they can see what's possible, while
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  Speaker 1: it may not be pretty. People have wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: documentaries on me. I refuse because I don't want normal
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  Speaker 1: every day people picking apart my life.
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  Speaker 2: Saying it's miserable. Who wants to live like that?
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  Speaker 1: They look at me and think it's crazy, almost like
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  Speaker 1: I'm sick or psychotic. The most frustrating thing in the
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  Speaker 1: world for me is when normal people judge a man
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  Speaker 1: like myself on what it really takes to extract greatness
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  Speaker 1: from nothing. It takes every bit of who you are
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  Speaker 1: if you choose that route. If you don't choose it,
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, do what you gotta do. But all these things,
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  Speaker 1: like I told you, I'm going to keep it real.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't come here to talk about performing without purpose
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  Speaker 1: because when I write these books, I go through and
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  Speaker 1: try to dumb down David Goggins.
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  Speaker 2: How can I give normal people?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm normal, But I found something most don't want
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  Speaker 1: to find. Something from this crazy psychotic brain that I've developed.
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  Speaker 2: How can I do that?
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  Speaker 1: So I sit down with Jennifer for years and write
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  Speaker 1: down things like perform without purpose, callous your mind, armor
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  Speaker 1: your mind, the cookie jar, the accountability mirror, stuff that
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  Speaker 1: people can actually use in their lives.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad it helps you.
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  Speaker 1: But the barbaric life that I live, that you must live,
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  Speaker 1: the almost obsession you must have to be great. You
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  Speaker 1: can't put that in a book. You can't write about it.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be experienced, And even after you experience it,
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  Speaker 1: it's difficult to encapsulate it in a book.
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  Speaker 2: It would seem like he needs to be locked up.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense for a guy that everything every
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  Speaker 1: second of the day he is trying to extract more
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  Speaker 1: from something, constantly think, he's constantly disciplined, never going off
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  Speaker 1: the path. Whatever is injured on him, he figures away.
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  Speaker 1: It's a conqueror's mindset, and very few people, if any,
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  Speaker 1: can really understand what that is. Like, Oh, I'm almost
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  Speaker 1: fifty and I've been this way for almost thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: Like what do you do for fun? These questions? I
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't get them. I don't understand them. People
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  Speaker 2: love to lie about who they're not.
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  Speaker 1: They love to lie about who they're not, dude, And
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  Speaker 1: that's for me, the reason why I'm so vulnerable and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so real and honest. Find somebody, come out, tell
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  Speaker 1: me I'm lying about my life and for me to
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  Speaker 1: come where I came from and how the resume I
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  Speaker 1: have now you know the confidence you get, how I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't care who you're gonna you gotta judge me.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna judge me, what have you done in your life?
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  Speaker 1: So me being so honest and so upfront and so
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  Speaker 1: truthful that came with me finally figuring out who I was,
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  Speaker 1: but also conquering David Goggins. The Demons of David Goggins Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: now you're just an open book. You look at somebody
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  Speaker 1: looking right now, eye telling exactly who you are, you
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  Speaker 1: walk away. I'm good, bro, I know exactly what this
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  Speaker 1: journey took to get here.
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  Speaker 2: And that gives you a fire and a passion that
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  Speaker 2: people are gonna call you near. They can call you.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a lesbian or gay or by second, Kyrie,
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  Speaker 1: if you want. If you put yourself in the fire
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  Speaker 1: and you come out every fucking day like this, frush
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  Speaker 1: it off, not scared to go back.
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  Speaker 2: In there again. Come on, man, your truth is real.
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  Speaker 2: You come out every.
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  Speaker 1: Day man with a way of talking to people that
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  Speaker 1: people don't have because there's no truth behind them. And
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  Speaker 1: the truth is the starting line. When you sit in
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  Speaker 1: the ugly mirror and say I'm this, this, and this,
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  Speaker 1: you finally started your life. Maybe forty years old, maybe
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  Speaker 1: forty years old, five six kids, wife it second, look
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  Speaker 1: at that mirror and you say.
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  Speaker 2: I'm this, I'm this, I'm this, I'm this, I'm this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, basically, I'm not this, I'm not this, I'm not this.
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  Speaker 2: I can't this, i can't do this, I'm all these insecurities.
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  Speaker 1: Your life finally started. And once you start that life. Man,
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  Speaker 1: the truth comes out big time. You don't don't care.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the problem. Most people just don't want to
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  Speaker 1: have that conversation to the point where they can go
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  Speaker 1: on stage with a million people and say.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all of this and have a good day. See you.
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  Speaker 2: It's empowering. It's very empowered.
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  Speaker 1: Belief is something special. It's not as simple as just
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  Speaker 1: telling someone, oh, believe in yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bunch of crap.
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  Speaker 1: Belief for me came from enduring hell weeks, taping up
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  Speaker 1: my legs, getting up early in the morning by myself
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  Speaker 1: with no coach, and motivating myself every single day when
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  Speaker 1: I'm out there on two hundred and forty mile runs,
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  Speaker 1: not wanting to be there with one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: miles to go and no one is there to cheer.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, David, I am forming belief. People develop belief
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  Speaker 1: in many different ways, but this is how I do it,
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  Speaker 1: so when hard times hit, I know exactly how to
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  Speaker 1: get through them. When I first self published my book,
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  Speaker 1: can't hurt me. No one believed in me, but I
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  Speaker 1: believed in myself. It's sold five million copies. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people come up here and talk about motivation and
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  Speaker 1: pushing yourself, but they're not actually doing it. They wake
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  Speaker 1: up every day with a canned speech telling you what
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  Speaker 1: to do and how to do it. Make your bed,
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  Speaker 1: take a cold shower, all that crap. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: right now, you have to be the person that leads
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  Speaker 1: from the front. Many of you out here are in
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  Speaker 1: leadership positions, and many of our leading from the front.
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  Speaker 1: They're leading from the rear. Yet they're telling you how
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  Speaker 1: to do it. They wake up late and don't practice
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  Speaker 1: what they preach. In life, it's crucial to what you
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  Speaker 1: say because that's where.
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  Speaker 2: True knowledge comes from.
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  Speaker 1: During my time training with the Navy Seals, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to quit every single day, but I told myself not
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  Speaker 1: to give in because many dreams die while suffering, and
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  Speaker 1: many of us have suffered not just physically, but also
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  Speaker 1: emotionally and spiritually. It could be in a relationship where
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  Speaker 1: during suffering you give up.
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  Speaker 2: On the things you wanted the most.
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  Speaker 1: When I was training for pair Rescue, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a pair of rescue man so badly, but the
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  Speaker 1: water haunted me. When the suffering became too much, my
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  Speaker 1: dream died along with it. If I hadn't found the
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  Speaker 1: Navy seals and gotten past that hump, or coming and
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  Speaker 1: facing my demons every day, I wouldn't be here today.
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  Speaker 1: You can't outrun your demons. They'll always know where you're hiding.
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  Speaker 1: Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done.
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  Speaker 2: Discomfort yields progress. Discomfort is a teacher, a.
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  Speaker 1: Litmus test for activities we should be doing. So when
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  Speaker 1: you think about success, think about the discomfort discomfort will
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  Speaker 1: become how you prioritize everything and organize your effort to
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  Speaker 1: achieve what will genuinely make you grow. It's easy to say,
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  Speaker 1: chase discomfort, and if that was all there was to it,
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  Speaker 1: I could end up here. You could go after things
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  Speaker 1: that make you feel uncomfortable and see results. There is
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  Speaker 1: some truth to this, but in the real world it's
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  Speaker 1: a bit more complicated. The challenge is that you need
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  Speaker 1: to find discomfort in the right areas and the right amounts.
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  Speaker 1: You will need to prioritize your discomfort. Daily, unfocused and
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  Speaker 1: occasional discomfort will result in some progress. However, the growth
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  Speaker 1: you see with this type of effort will result in
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  Speaker 1: a linear progression, and what we are chasing are geometric results.
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  Speaker 1: You don't only need to do something that makes you
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable today. You need to put a focus on your
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  Speaker 1: discomfort compounded in the same areas over decades. You may
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  Speaker 1: have to start small, but one area of discomfort will
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  Speaker 1: build on the next area, and as this happens, you
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  Speaker 1: will see more and more success. When you see a
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  Speaker 1: successful person in any domain, there is no doubt they
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  Speaker 1: have been pursuing.
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  Speaker 2: Discomfort for a very long time.
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  Speaker 1: They sucked once they got uncomfortable, kept at it, and
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  Speaker 1: then they started to suck a little bit less. Over time,
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  Speaker 1: they went from sucking to decent. After they were decent,
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  Speaker 1: they became good. They then went from good to great
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  Speaker 1: and finally to world class. The key is daily, over
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  Speaker 1: decades pursuit build success. Continuous daily pursuit is very uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: We all have the same building blocks. We all have
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours in a day to shape our future
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  Speaker 1: and build who we want to become. However, some succeed
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  Speaker 1: at a high level and others coast into mediocrity or worse.
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  Speaker 1: Today you can have anything you want whenever you want.
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  Speaker 1: Technological advances are inspiring and impressive, but are we leading
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  Speaker 1: it or are these advances leading us to.
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  Speaker 2: A life of slothful ease.
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  Speaker 1: You need to concentrate your efforts and limit distraction, embrace
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  Speaker 1: the suck, and get comfortable handling challenges alone.
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  Speaker 2: But where do you start?
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  Speaker 1: What areas of discomfort will produce results of all the
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  Speaker 1: things you could be doing? What should you be doing?
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  Speaker 1: Comfort is like a baby lion. You take it on
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  Speaker 1: as an adorable little pet, and in the beginning, loving
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  Speaker 1: and nurturing it is no problem. However, as the lion
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  Speaker 1: starts to grow, you have to feed.
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  Speaker 2: It more and more.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually you realize this beast was never meant to be
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  Speaker 1: your pet.
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  Speaker 2: That cute face that lured you in.
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  Speaker 1: Now has sharp fangs and pause the size of your head. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: the lion will destroy you, because that's what lions do.
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  Speaker 1: Embracing comfort is an insidious process that can shorten your
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  Speaker 1: life and decrease that's your enjoyment of it. In order
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  Speaker 1: to make the most meaningful impact, we have to clear.
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  Speaker 2: The weeds on comfort.
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  Speaker 1: Once we clear up all the sneaky ways comfort is
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  Speaker 1: creeping into your life and slowing you down, then we
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  Speaker 1: can tackle what killing comfort looks like and set you
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  Speaker 1: on the path towards a better life,