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Nothing Will Stop Me: Unstoppable Motivation for Success · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Do you like suffering or do you just deal with suffering?
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  Speaker 1: Real answer, real answer, Yeah, real answer. I like to
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  Speaker 1: get a bunch of men together, Okay, men that are
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  Speaker 1: the hardest of the hard and I want to be
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  Speaker 1: with these men and I want to see them suffer,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm suffering right along with you. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to see me get through it. I want to see
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  Speaker 1: what you're made of. I want to see almost like
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  Speaker 1: the Colosseum in Rome. Let's go to the Colosseum. And
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  Speaker 1: the only way to see who the badest there is
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  Speaker 1: is to suffer. You can't do it by writing a paper.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go. Because why what I found out through
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  Speaker 1: my life was I thought of myself as some weak
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  Speaker 1: little kid. And when I found out and the only
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  Speaker 1: message I want to get across the people is once
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  Speaker 1: you change one thing your mindset, you can attack everything.
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  Speaker 1: And I find it fascinating. I'm fascinated because I'll be
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  Speaker 1: in these moments. I put these guys on some pedestal,
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  Speaker 1: which people do with you, they do with me and
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't. And I was this guy who was people
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  Speaker 1: looking at this, My god, how are you guys? It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But once I worked my way up there. I said,
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  Speaker 1: my god, man, we can all compete. Let's go. So
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  Speaker 1: do I like suffering. I like suffering in the way
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  Speaker 1: that is competitive, that brings out the absolute best in
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  Speaker 1: me and in everybody else. So like I want to
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  Speaker 1: see a man be defeated, I want to see a
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  Speaker 1: man get broken. I love these men, these men I love,
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  Speaker 1: but there's very few of them. There's very few of them,
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  Speaker 1: and there's very few that are willing to go there.
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  Speaker 1: More than once, everything was going well in my life.
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  Speaker 1: My career was fit, shine and gleaming. I made a
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  Speaker 1: name for myself in the sports world, and I had
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  Speaker 1: plans to get back onto the battlefield like a Navy
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  Speaker 1: seal should. But sometimes even when you are doing everything
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  Speaker 1: right in life, it storms appear and multiply. Chaos can
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  Speaker 1: and will descend without warning, and when not if that happens,
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  Speaker 1: there won't be anything you can do to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're fortunate, the issues or injuries are relatively minor,
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  Speaker 1: and when those incidents crop up, it's on you to
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  Speaker 1: adjust and stay after it. If you get injured or
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  Speaker 1: other complications arise that prevent you from working on your
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  Speaker 1: primary passion, refocus your energy elsewhere. The activities we pursue
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  Speaker 1: tend to be our strengths because it's fun to do
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  Speaker 1: what we're great at. Very few people enjoy working on
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  Speaker 1: their weaknesses. So if you're a terrific runner with a
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  Speaker 1: knee injury that will prevent you from running for twelve weeks,
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  Speaker 1: that is a great time to get into yoga, increasing
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  Speaker 1: your flexibility and your overall strength, which will make you
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  Speaker 1: a better and less injury pro athlete. If you're a
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  Speaker 1: guitar player with a broken hand, sit down at the
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  Speaker 1: keys and use your one good hand to become a
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  Speaker 1: more versatile musician. The point is not to allow a
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  Speaker 1: setback to shatter our focus or our detours to dictate
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  Speaker 1: our mindset. Always be ready to adjust, recalibrate, and stay
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  Speaker 1: after it to become better somehow. The sole reason I
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  Speaker 1: work out like I do isn't to prepare for and
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  Speaker 1: win ultra races. I don't have an athletic motive at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's to prepare my mind for life itself. Life will
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  Speaker 1: always be the most grueling endurance sport, and when you
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  Speaker 1: train hard, get uncomfortable and callous your mind, you will
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  Speaker 1: become a more versatile competitor. Train to find a way
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  Speaker 1: forward no matter what, because there will be times when
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  Speaker 1: life comes at you like a sledgehammer. Sometimes life hits
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  Speaker 1: you dead in the fucking heart. No matter who you are,
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  Speaker 1: life will present you similar opportunities where you can prove
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  Speaker 1: to be uncommon. There are people in all walks of
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  Speaker 1: life who relish those moments, and when I see them,
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  Speaker 1: I recognize them immediately because they're usually that motherer who's
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  Speaker 1: all by himself. It's the suit who's still at the
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  Speaker 1: office at midnight while everyone else is at the bar,
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  Speaker 1: or the badass who hits the gym directly after coming
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  Speaker 1: off a forty eight hour up. She's the wild and
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  Speaker 1: firefighter who instead of hitting her bedroll, sharp as or
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  Speaker 1: chainsaw after working a fire for twenty four hours. That
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  Speaker 1: mentality is there for all of us, man, woman, straight, gay, black,
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  Speaker 1: white or purple frecking polka dot. All of us can
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  Speaker 1: be the person who flies all day and night only
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  Speaker 1: to arrive home to a filthy house and, instead of
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  Speaker 1: blaming family or roommates, cleans it up right then because
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  Speaker 1: they refused to ignore duties undone. All over the world,
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  Speaker 1: amazing human beings like that exist. It doesn't take we're
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  Speaker 1: in a uniform. It's not about all the hard schools
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  Speaker 1: that graduated from all their patches and medals. It's about
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  Speaker 1: wanting it light. There's no tomorrow, because there might not be.
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  Speaker 1: It's about thinking of everybody else before yourself and developing
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  Speaker 1: your own code of ethics that sets you apart from others.
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  Speaker 1: One of those ethics is to drive, to turn every
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  Speaker 1: negative into a positive, and then when shit starts flying,
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  Speaker 1: being prepared to lead from the front. For several years,
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  Speaker 1: I gave myself away out when you were it was
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  Speaker 1: three hundred pounds and I was all upto. I was
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  Speaker 1: twenty four years old. I would climb them ounta and
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  Speaker 1: I fall back down. I started climbing, I fall back down.
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  Speaker 1: For the first twenty four years in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: went to my first Hell Week, my second Hell Week,
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  Speaker 1: and then my third Hell Week came and seal training
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  Speaker 1: and the CEO, Captain Bowen, looked at me. I'm on crutches,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all jacked up. He says, hey, this is your
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  Speaker 1: last time you're gonna go through budds Zick. I had
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  Speaker 1: several stress fractures. I had doubled them on you. I
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  Speaker 1: was jacked up, and he gave me a few months
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  Speaker 1: to heal, and he said, this is your last time
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  Speaker 1: going through. I shouldn't even let you go back through. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I started to be steal training with stress fractures, stress fractures,
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  Speaker 1: Twittish stress fractures, starting the hardest training argum training the
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  Speaker 1: world with stress fractures. And this is when I started
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  Speaker 1: to not put a cap on the body if the
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  Speaker 1: mind is there. Every morning, I would wake up at
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  Speaker 1: three thirty morning, four o'clock in the morning, go to
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  Speaker 1: my dive cage, go in there before anybody saw me.
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  Speaker 1: I get duct tape and I would tape from my
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  Speaker 1: fore foot all the way up to the middle of
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  Speaker 1: my calf, and I would put two black socks on
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  Speaker 1: and so I ran, not using the pivot, and I
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  Speaker 1: ran my inflexures. So for the first forty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: to an hour, that was an absolute, excruciating pain. But
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  Speaker 1: what motivated me through that whole process was the fact
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  Speaker 1: that this kid came from that. I'm in the hardest
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  Speaker 1: train in the world, in the worst shape of my
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  Speaker 1: entire life. What if I can graduate amongst these stuts. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: all these guys around me are stunts. They're stallions, they're gladiators.
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  Speaker 1: In my class, they're all healthy, most of them. They're
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  Speaker 1: not broken like this. They may have some you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's sick going down training. But if I can graduate,
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  Speaker 1: it would change everything for me. If I can start
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  Speaker 1: the hardest train in the world broken and graduate. So
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  Speaker 1: my mind fed off of that. You are now from
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  Speaker 1: the weakest man, you're to have the hardest man to
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  Speaker 1: ever live. If you can do this. If you can
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  Speaker 1: do this, life is one big mind game, and you're
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  Speaker 1: playing with yourself. Is it true? I don't care. It
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  Speaker 1: got me through the hardest training, starting out broken, where
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  Speaker 1: most people quit. I had just started. Wow. And when
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  Speaker 1: you take that mindset and you learn to flip that around,
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  Speaker 1: that's what made me powerful. And my body followed, and
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  Speaker 1: three months later my stress fractures were healed by running
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  Speaker 1: on them. I realized that prejudice is everywhere. There is
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  Speaker 1: a piece of it in every person, in each and
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  Speaker 1: every organization. And if you are the only in any
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  Speaker 1: given situation, it's on you decide how you're going to
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  Speaker 1: handle it, because you can't make it go away. For years,
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  Speaker 1: I used it to fuel me because there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of power in being the only it forces you to
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  Speaker 1: juice your own resources and to believe in yourself in
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  Speaker 1: the face of unfair scrutiny. It increases the degree of difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: which makes every success that much sweeter. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: continually put myself in situations where I knew I would
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  Speaker 1: encounter it. I fed off being the only one in
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  Speaker 1: a room. I brought the war to people and washed
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  Speaker 1: my excellence explode small minds. I didn't sit back and
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  Speaker 1: cry about being the only I took action, said go
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  Speaker 1: yourself and used all the prejudice I felt as dynamite
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  Speaker 1: to blow up those walls. But that kind of raw
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  Speaker 1: material will only get you so far in life. I
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  Speaker 1: was so confrontational I created needless enemies along the way,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe that's what limited my access to the
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  Speaker 1: top seal teams. With my career at a crossroads, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have time to dwell on those mistakes. I had
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  Speaker 1: to find higher ground and turn the negative I created
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  Speaker 1: into another positive. I didn't just accept land warfare duty.
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  Speaker 1: I was the best instructor I could pop possibly be,
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  Speaker 1: and on my own time, I created new opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: myself by launching my ultra quest which revived my stalled career.
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  Speaker 1: Those scars are real. Those scars are proof that you
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  Speaker 1: know your past is real, so they're never going to
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  Speaker 1: go away. I own them. But I'm I'm I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: of my childhood. I'm proud because without all of these
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  Speaker 1: lessons in life, and everybody says this, I mean it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it because I was able to look at
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  Speaker 1: my childhood and how I grew up as the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: training ground for my life. Someone there has to be
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  Speaker 1: some people in this on this planet Earth who have
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  Speaker 1: my mentality. As gross as it is to some people
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  Speaker 1: and as far off as it is and not understood,
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  Speaker 1: there has to be some people like me on this
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  Speaker 1: planet Earth. There has to be some warriors out there
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  Speaker 1: that are able to take this mindset and do something
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  Speaker 1: with it so that right there, once you are able
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  Speaker 1: to look at your life and realize that all these
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  Speaker 1: bad things are actually the ultimate training ground for what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to encounter in life, you start looking at
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  Speaker 1: your past very differently. This challenge for the unusual motherfuckers
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  Speaker 1: in this world. A lot of people think that once
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  Speaker 1: they reach a certain level of status, respect, or success,
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  Speaker 1: that they've made it in life. I'm here to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that you always have to find more. Greatness is
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  Speaker 1: not something that if you meet it once, it stays
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  Speaker 1: with you forever. That evaporates like a flash of oil
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  Speaker 1: in a hot pan. If you truly want to become
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  Speaker 1: uncommon amongst the uncommon, it will require sustaining greatness for
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  Speaker 1: a long period of time. It requires staying in constant
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  Speaker 1: pursuit and putting out unending effort. This may sound a peening,
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  Speaker 1: but will require everything you have to give and then
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  Speaker 1: some believe me this. This is not for everyone because
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  Speaker 1: it will demand singular focus and may upset the balance
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  Speaker 1: in your life. That's what it takes to become a
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  Speaker 1: true overachiever. And if you are already surrounded by people
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  Speaker 1: who are at the top of their game, what are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do differently to stand out. It's easy
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  Speaker 1: to stand out amongst everyday people and be a big
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  Speaker 1: fish in a small pond. It is a much more
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  Speaker 1: difficult task when you are a wolf surrounded by wolves.
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  Speaker 1: This means not only getting into Wharton Business School, but
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  Speaker 1: being ranked number one in your class. It means not
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  Speaker 1: just graduating Buzz, but become an enlisted honorman and Army
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  Speaker 1: Ranger School, then going out and finishing bad warter porch.
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  Speaker 1: The complacency you feel gathering around you your coworkers and
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  Speaker 1: teammates in that rare air. Continue to put obstacles in
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  Speaker 1: front of yourself, because that's where you'll find the friction
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  Speaker 1: that will help you grow even stronger. Before you know it,
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  Speaker 1: you will stand alone