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Discipline Your Mind for Inner Peace: David Goggins' Life-Changing Speech · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I start running, and I get to about mile forty,
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  Speaker 1: mile fifty, and I'm feeling pretty good. I get to
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  Speaker 1: mile seventy and it was the worst pain in my life.
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  Speaker 1: And so I sat there and pete blood down my
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  Speaker 1: leg and started crapping up my back. And with thirty
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  Speaker 1: miles to go, I and my feet were broken. I
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  Speaker 1: was just in the worst shake at mile seventy. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it was torturous, And with blood down my leg and
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  Speaker 1: thirty miles to go, I started reaching the cookie jars. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I started pulling off all kind of stuff I reached
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  Speaker 1: in my mind and a lot of us when we
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  Speaker 1: had bad times in life, even the hardest person, where
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  Speaker 1: we forget how badass we are during that hard time.
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  Speaker 1: I have a thing where I take a couple of
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  Speaker 1: seconds to reflect on a hang on, man, you've been
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  Speaker 1: to been through this, You've been through that, you overcame this,
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  Speaker 1: overcame that. I don't ever close my mind to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that this can be done.
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  Speaker 2: And I knew I had to get up.
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  Speaker 1: I need nutrition, I needed hydration, I need to get
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  Speaker 1: stop being dizzy. So that's the first thing I did.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't panic on I had thirty more miles to
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  Speaker 1: go to get a hundred.
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  Speaker 2: I started about the process, but surely I was able
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  Speaker 2: to stand up.
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  Speaker 1: And I was literally hobbling around this track with just walking,
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  Speaker 1: no running at all. I couldn't run. My feet were
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  Speaker 1: in the worst pain. It's the worst pain I've been
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  Speaker 1: in my entire life. Nothing in any training is even
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  Speaker 1: comparable to this last thirty miles. And what happened was
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  Speaker 1: my ex wife looked at me and she's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: we agreed, I'm not gonna make the time.
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  Speaker 2: I was going way too slow.
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  Speaker 1: And at that time, at my eighty one, something clicked
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  Speaker 1: that I'll never probably be able to do again. Where
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  Speaker 1: my mind, body, spirit, soul, everything that's connected, and my
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  Speaker 1: mind knew I wasn't going to around anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It knew I wasn't going to quit.
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  Speaker 1: It knew that guy was dead and buried and gone,
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  Speaker 1: and I was going to die out here on this
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  Speaker 1: one out For whatever reason why I was going to
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  Speaker 1: get through this motherfucker, I didn't give a damn. It
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  Speaker 1: made no There was no fucking crowds, There was no
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  Speaker 1: trophy at the end. There was I wasn't even in
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  Speaker 1: a race. In my mind, there was it was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't about nothing. There was no nothing. It was
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people didn't know who the I was,
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  Speaker 1: and it was me against me, and I used all
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  Speaker 1: these different dark places to start bringing out light and
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  Speaker 1: just going deeper and deeper and up running the next
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  Speaker 1: twenty miles. I ran one hundred one miles, and I
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  Speaker 1: ran the next twenty miles, ran at about a ten
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  Speaker 1: to thirty pace. And I did one hundred and one
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  Speaker 1: miles and eighteen hours and fifty six minutes. Sat back
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  Speaker 1: down in that blue porter potty now my chair that
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  Speaker 1: got from Walmart, and that's when the body realized I
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  Speaker 1: was done, and this great feeling came over me, but
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  Speaker 1: also the worst pain in my life. That's when I
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  Speaker 1: took a humongous shit on myself, literally like I like,
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  Speaker 1: I fucking log up my fucking back, pised so much
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  Speaker 1: blood down and my wife was she was a nurse
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  Speaker 1: and she was freaked out. I couldn't get up, I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stand up. She backed this camera on the knoll
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  Speaker 1: of the grassy area. I was that and we were
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  Speaker 1: both lifters at the time, so she was decently strong.
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  Speaker 1: I put my arms around her neck. She got into
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  Speaker 1: the back seat of the car, let the windows down,
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  Speaker 1: smelled like horrible shit, and I had this poncho line
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  Speaker 1: it because it's November in San Diego. So I'm sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: Jack came in the back of his car and she
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  Speaker 1: was terrified. I need to get the doctor. I need
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  Speaker 1: to get the doctor.
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  Speaker 2: So I said it take me home.
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  Speaker 1: So we lived in the second story, or the second
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  Speaker 1: deck of this apartment complex in San Diego. I got
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  Speaker 1: to the first deck, so I gat a car and
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  Speaker 1: I could stand up, but with my arms around her neck.
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  Speaker 2: So I just leaning down because I was gonna pass out.
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  Speaker 1: Got to the second or I got to the first deck,
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  Speaker 1: went down, just couldn't stand up anymore. Got around her neck,
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  Speaker 1: worked up my way up the railing, got you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, gotmars round her neck again. Walked to the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen area, which was right in the front door. I
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  Speaker 1: was laying on the poncho liner. Crap was everywhere. I managed.
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  Speaker 1: She helped me manage to get into the into the
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  Speaker 1: tub and it was like dirt was coming out of
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  Speaker 1: my penis. This looked horrible, just the grossest thing in
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  Speaker 1: the world. It's the worst pain I can ever ever
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  Speaker 1: ever be in in my life and the craziest thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you a story because it's right now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not statistic, I'm not crazy. People may think that they
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  Speaker 1: want they may want to put a title on me
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  Speaker 1: after hearing me because it makes them feel better, because
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  Speaker 1: he thinks, Wow, this guy must be some special or
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  Speaker 1: just step crazy dude. No, I'm a guy that came
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  Speaker 1: from nothing. Anybody's capable of doing shit like this.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And I sat in that tub, she put the water
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  Speaker 1: on me. She called my mom up, and my mom
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  Speaker 1: was dating a doctor at the time. The doctor said,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get him to a hospital now.
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  Speaker 2: She came back in. All I want to do is.
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  Speaker 1: Called Chris Costs me on the phone, the racetrector of
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  Speaker 1: bad waters. I facing did it, so she said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking to the doctor. I said, no, let me sit
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  Speaker 1: here and enjoy this pain.
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  Speaker 2: She said, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, I go I need to go
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  Speaker 1: to a doctor. I realize that, but I never thought
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  Speaker 1: it was humanly possible to do what I did. I
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  Speaker 1: went seventy miles and at seventy miles I was dead.
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  Speaker 1: I was at one hundred percent what I thought. What
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  Speaker 1: I thought was one hundred percent. I went thirty. I
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  Speaker 1: went thirty one more miles after being in the worst
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  Speaker 1: physical shape.
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  Speaker 2: I've ever been in my life.
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  Speaker 1: And all that pain and suffering and thing was going
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  Speaker 1: through my fucking body as I sat in that tub
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  Speaker 1: and the waters hit me, and it was the most
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  Speaker 1: amazing feeling of accomplishment. And I want to be numb.
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  Speaker 1: I want people to get me drugs in the numbness
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  Speaker 1: and pain. I wanted to I did this. As crazy
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  Speaker 1: as it sounds, it was the most amazing moment of
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  Speaker 1: my entire life.
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  Speaker 3: That's the fear. The fear is never reaching your potential.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: That always fallen short, always quitting before you're done, always procrastinating,
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  Speaker 3: always not doing the right thing. And then one day
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  Speaker 3: you're an old man, yep, and you look back and go, God,
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  Speaker 3: I could have been great, Yep, I could have been great.
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  Speaker 1: I never forget one time I was running by a
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  Speaker 1: graveyard when I was fucking just trying to become I
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  Speaker 1: was fat, and I ran by a graveyard and I
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  Speaker 1: looked out there and I have all these epiphanies, man,
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  Speaker 1: I have all these fucking moments of like, it's crazy, man,
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  Speaker 1: of this.
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  Speaker 2: Thought come always by myself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always in deeping thought about how to be better,
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  Speaker 1: and I look out there, I'm like, man, I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how many of you motherfuckers in there can just are
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  Speaker 1: so upset with how you lived your life. You can
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  Speaker 1: just regret how you lived it. And I'm running at
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  Speaker 1: three hundred pounds man, thinking, Man, don't fucking die like this, bro,
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  Speaker 1: don't die like this. So people wonder where this shit
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  Speaker 1: comes from from me? It comes from such deep thought
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  Speaker 1: of trying to see what this is all about?
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  Speaker 2: What is this life all about? What am I all about?
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  Speaker 2: Why am I here? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I had to I had to find purpose, and my
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  Speaker 1: suffering it had a purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Do you talk to other people that like you and
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  Speaker 3: try to understand if they're going through the same thing
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  Speaker 3: or they're trying to gather knowledge as well? Are they
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  Speaker 3: just doing it because they're addicted to runners high? Are
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  Speaker 3: they doing it because they enjoy the challenge? How many
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  Speaker 3: people do you talk to that are like you.
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  Speaker 1: I've never talked to anyone that, And most people don't
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  Speaker 1: even believe when I say have time that I do
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  Speaker 1: it to fucking gain knowledge and all that shit. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't met one that goes out there. People really enjoy
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  Speaker 1: a lot of shit that they do. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: many people who go out and run two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty miles at one time. If you don't enjoy it,
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  Speaker 1: if you just don't really enjoy it. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I had many people build confidence different ways, and they
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  Speaker 1: build belief in different ways. Coming from where I came from,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any belief in myself. So some people
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  Speaker 1: can go read a book and get belief. Some people
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  Speaker 1: can go take a yoga class, have good parents.
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  Speaker 2: I had to put myself so where I.
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  Speaker 1: Came from was so far down underneath like soil, that
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  Speaker 1: I had to build belief by truly ingraining it in
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  Speaker 1: my brain. So the thing is I do. I'm always
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  Speaker 1: every day building belief. And my belief had to be
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  Speaker 1: where it is because I was so far down. So
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  Speaker 1: it may take a two hundred mile run for me,
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  Speaker 1: it may take a hundred mile run, it may.
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  Speaker 2: Take late nights in the gym.
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  Speaker 1: But without belief, you have nothing. And I realized that
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  Speaker 1: when I was a young kid, I have no belief.
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  Speaker 1: I have to build it in a.
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  Speaker 2: Five mile run. Did to do it? I had to
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  Speaker 2: push myself to such.
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  Speaker 1: Extremes because I came from people judge me by not
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  Speaker 1: knowing where I came from. So unless you're me and
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  Speaker 1: you came from where I came from, I guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: when it made it, that guarantee it, and I knew that.
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  Speaker 1: So my belief comes from going I had to build it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how I build it, man, I build it
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  Speaker 1: by the thing I do. It's a choice that people
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  Speaker 1: have to make in life. But what's so funny about
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  Speaker 1: it is even the richest of rich, who have everything,
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  Speaker 1: they always ask me this question. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: missing something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like I'm missing shit. I don't have
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  Speaker 2: what you won't have.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll never in my life hear me tell you
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  Speaker 1: I'm missing something. And everybody is to missing this feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I found it a long time ago. I found it
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  Speaker 1: right there, and that will power thing. When you're nothing
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  Speaker 1: nothing and.
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  Speaker 2: Change yourself into something like me.
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  Speaker 1: You call it happiness, peace, whether you want to call it.
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  Speaker 1: People are missing exactly what went on with David Gotgins.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you smile? I do?
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  Speaker 1: I do, but I figure something out. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: am never you never hear me say I'm missing something
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  Speaker 1: I found it years ago. You find it in the suck.
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  Speaker 1: You find it in the suck, and you find it
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly in the suck, to the point where you know
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  Speaker 1: exactly who you are. Most people are missing something because
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  Speaker 1: they don't know who they are. They never examine themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They've never done this experiment on themselves. The labrat. We're
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  Speaker 1: all labrats, but you're also the scientist. You create your
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  Speaker 1: own self. Most people are missing something because there's so
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  Speaker 1: much trapped in there. I don't want to say potential.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where use out too much too. There's
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  Speaker 1: so much in you that God or wherever the hell
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  Speaker 1: you believe in or if you're atheist, in you that
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  Speaker 1: you have not unlocked. That you walk around with this
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  Speaker 1: gorgeous wife or a great husband and all this money.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, God, I like I'm missing something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's about seventy five of you. It is
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  Speaker 1: still fucking in there, still chained up, because you just
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to find your willpower, didn't want to find
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  Speaker 1: your soul, your will, your heart, your determination, your guts,
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  Speaker 1: your courage, and what that looks like.
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  Speaker 2: It looks scary, like.
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  Speaker 1: Your little scary lab I went in scary to wake
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  Speaker 1: up every day and say I'm stupid, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to figure out a way to be smarter, versus saying, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just can't do that. So you limit this box,
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  Speaker 1: so your box becomes so small.
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  Speaker 2: Of things you can do. My box wasn't even a box.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little like little pinhole.
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  Speaker 1: And then through examining myself, getting some willpower, some courage,
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  Speaker 1: it became bigger than this table.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what we all do.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I wanted to come here today and talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about real shit.
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  Speaker 2: Not no looking like hacks. There's no hacks, bro.
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  Speaker 1: It's you against you, you against you, And if you
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  Speaker 1: misunderstand that at given, real problem, real problem, I can understand.
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  Speaker 1: You misunderstand me running on the street short off.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah I can. I can get it. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: If you misunderstand I'm saying right now today the problem
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  Speaker 1: is you and you don't want to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's done, and now it's going back to
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  Speaker 2: the lab.
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  Speaker 1: So now I go back, go back to firefighting, go
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  Speaker 1: back to finding another level of David Goggins, And that's
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  Speaker 1: done in quiet areas and finding more of myself, finding
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  Speaker 1: these these spaces, haven't you know, discoverag yet in my mind?
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  Speaker 1: And I really love that about life. I love mastering self.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. There's nothing more because
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  Speaker 1: I know where I came from, and it's amazing that
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  Speaker 1: where I came from, that person could have died, that
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  Speaker 1: very fat, lazy, unfulfilled person, and with inside that person
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  Speaker 1: was this person talking to you. Is very freaky to
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  Speaker 1: me and a lot of us have these two people
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  Speaker 1: that you have greatness way over here, but you decide
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  Speaker 1: to live in this space over here because between greatness
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  Speaker 1: or between this space here and greatness.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of fucking work.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much space to fill in with work, and
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  Speaker 1: we just say, get I'll just stay over here in
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  Speaker 1: this space. So I like to examine all these spaces
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  Speaker 1: and there's still more.
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  Speaker 2: There's still more, still a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: Are you aiming to find peace at any point?
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  Speaker 2: Think about this. I love that question. I'm glad you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you asked it. You know a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about me.
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  Speaker 1: When you've come from that place I talk about to
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  Speaker 1: the place I am. Now, it's not the piece you find,
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  Speaker 1: it's the piece I find, And I find so much
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  Speaker 1: peace in looking back at that young David at eight
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  Speaker 1: years old with white splosters on his face and stuttering
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  Speaker 1: and hair patches falling out, and I look at him
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  Speaker 1: and like, man, there's so much peace and knowing what
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  Speaker 1: I've accomplished and what I've done, so my piece may
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  Speaker 1: be different for others. That's why I never critique or
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  Speaker 1: never judge anyone, because I don't know your story where
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  Speaker 1: you come from. I found piece years ago, years ago
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  Speaker 1: in the battle. In the battle, you find peace.
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  Speaker 2: When you go to war with yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You find a lot of peace because you know exactly
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  Speaker 1: who you are. And that is where the piece is
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  Speaker 1: really found for me,