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I Did It Alone. I Keep Going. – David Goggins' Most Powerful Speeches · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: People think I became this guy from running. No, I
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  Speaker 1: became this guy from fucking studying. I had to study
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  Speaker 1: for hours. What might take you an hour to learn
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  Speaker 1: take me two days. So that's where in this at
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  Speaker 1: the table, at the table, and my best friend Johnny
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  Speaker 1: remembers me, like, God, you're like you just change. Something happened.
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  Speaker 1: I got assessed. So I take the test, I score high.
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  Speaker 1: I get in the Air Force, and that's when I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a pair of rescue men. And this
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  Speaker 1: is when I realized, Man, I teach myself how to swim.
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  Speaker 1: I taught myself how to swim. And this when I realized, man,
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  Speaker 1: that I'm negative, buoyant as hell, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. The wickest people in special operations is the water.
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  Speaker 1: Not swimming, but the water confidence. When they're like taking
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  Speaker 1: your air from you and you're underwater. Panic. I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was very uncomfortable. So long story short, I was
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  Speaker 1: there for six weeks. I was moving on pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: second in my class, and I was getting through all
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  Speaker 1: the water confidence but barely. But I wanted to quit.
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  Speaker 1: Every night. I didn't go to sleep every night, just
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  Speaker 1: paranoid to the next day of getting back in that pool.
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  Speaker 1: So six months go by, we had this medical examination
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  Speaker 1: and they drop my blood and they say, you have
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  Speaker 1: sickle cell. Sickle cell, a blood disease that some African
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  Speaker 1: Americans have. Basically, you know, if something happens in the
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  Speaker 1: stressful situations, stroke, heart attack, sudden death. This happened to
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  Speaker 1: a few African Americans in the military. So they pulled
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  Speaker 1: me from training, saying, you can't do this job. And
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  Speaker 1: when you live a very stressed out life like I
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  Speaker 1: was living, that's your norm. So not sleeping, being scared,
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  Speaker 1: that was my norm. I want to go quit. But
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  Speaker 1: when they pull you out of training, and now I'm comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm seeing my class of twenty four guys.
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  Speaker 1: It was like one hundred and fifty. Now it's twenty
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  Speaker 1: four guys and they're in the pool and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the side of the pool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in the water. Now I'm seeing without doing
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  Speaker 1: this guys struggling panicking in the water, like wanting to quit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like that, I'm not going So now I'm comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and I'm able to see. Now I'm not going back.
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  Speaker 1: So now my big dream of being a pair of rescuemen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm now seeing that do this. I'm like, I want
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  Speaker 1: to get out of the Air Force. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to be in the military. So this is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I'm hoping now that this sickle cell
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  Speaker 1: thing is gonna get me kicked out of the military
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  Speaker 1: because I'm like, okay, I won't go back in. I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not getting happy because now I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: won't quit. They're gonna medically drop me from the course.
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  Speaker 2: This is great.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't keep my head up. I learned how to read,
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  Speaker 1: I learned how to write, I passed the as Baptist.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm fixing everything on the surface. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: into the con dungeon. So the doc calls up. I
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  Speaker 1: go back to the doctor's I'm like skipping down there,
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  Speaker 1: thinking I'm getting out of here. Man medically discharged. He goes, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you were doing good in your class,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't really know. We don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: got this far with this whatever, So guess what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna put you back in the training.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, so, but I'm thinking now I only have
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  Speaker 1: about a couple you know, two and a half weeks
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  Speaker 1: left the training. I missed the week, a week and
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  Speaker 1: some change. I'm going, you know what, great, man, I
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  Speaker 1: have to suck this up. Man, I can do this.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to motivate myself all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to my CEO, my command officer, Sartain Lumberg. I get
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  Speaker 1: a certain lumber. Sartain Lumber looks at me and says,
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  Speaker 1: God is Man's great, You're back in the training. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta start from day one because I'm at critical part
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  Speaker 1: of training. I can't miss that many days. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: but I was a great liar, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: look at a hardcore man and tell him that I
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  Speaker 1: just quit. So I looked at him and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, sorry, man, this this sickle cell thing. Man,
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  Speaker 1: the doc was talking about sudden deaths droke, heart attack.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't give about sickle cell, but god, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about it. I knew I was struggling. I
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  Speaker 1: knew I had some health issues, but I just thought
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  Speaker 1: because I was killing myself and what I was doing,
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  Speaker 1: I say, you know what, You're right man. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: want to do that either. So he gave me a
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  Speaker 1: medical out of the pair rescue and he said, when
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  Speaker 1: we figure this out more, or have you come back?
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  Speaker 1: I won't ever going back, like I never I'm never
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  Speaker 1: getting back in the water again. But I was able
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  Speaker 1: to leave on a medical but I quit. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you admit it? Why do you? Why do you tell this?
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  Speaker 1: I have to because everybody thinks I'm the world's toughest mother,
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  Speaker 1: and I might be somewhere about that now, but that's
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  Speaker 1: where I was. And I tell the story because if
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  Speaker 1: I just talk about I broke the pull up record,
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  Speaker 1: I did all these races, I went through Silcha, I
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  Speaker 1: went through I was in three hell weeks ranger school.
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  Speaker 1: If I talk about all the badassery, like like doing
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  Speaker 1: social media, and I don't tell you that I was
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  Speaker 1: atuf kid and I was scared of shit and I
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  Speaker 1: was depressed and insecure and in all this, what good
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  Speaker 1: am I for anybody? I'm a superhero. If I'm a liar,
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  Speaker 1: I'm that now. But I wasn't born that. I had
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  Speaker 1: to make myself into this ship.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what you were talking about earlier too. It's
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  Speaker 2: like that the mind has these reserves. You can trick
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  Speaker 2: it and pull them out. Yes, these inspirational reserves like
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  Speaker 2: you did when when you when you guys were going
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  Speaker 2: through buds. Yes, we just found that trigger and then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden you're throwing that boat in the air.
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  Speaker 1: The mind always has the tactical advantage over you. Why
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  Speaker 1: is it? It knows your fears and knows insecurious it
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  Speaker 1: knows where they're height.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hide.
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  Speaker 1: You can't hide for that motherfucker man has the tactical
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  Speaker 1: advantage on your son. It's gonna get you, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's a beast that might be your best lesson right
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  Speaker 2: that your mind, your mind knows everything. You cannot hide
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  Speaker 2: from it. So don't ever try, don't try.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and beat that mother gotta keep going at it.
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  Speaker 2: That's also what you did in this book. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: try to like paint yourself in a glamorous or flattering
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  Speaker 2: way at any point in time. You are honest at
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  Speaker 2: every step of the way, which I think is just
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  Speaker 2: gigantic for people too, because you can tell when someone's
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  Speaker 2: stroking themselves or bullshing themselves and the messages won't come through, right,
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  Speaker 2: But this your you come through in this book. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like you, who you are and what you became and
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  Speaker 2: how you became who you are and who you used
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  Speaker 2: to be and why you were the way you used
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  Speaker 2: to be. All that comes through. It's like there's no filter.
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  Speaker 2: This is just your your thoughts. Like you, what you
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  Speaker 2: remember about your life and what you think about right
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  Speaker 2: now just all comes out onto the pages.
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  Speaker 1: Hardest thing I've done my entire life, I'm imagining I
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  Speaker 1: have faking. I don't know how people about this book.
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  Speaker 1: Then then I walk up to people. People walk up
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  Speaker 1: to me. I'm like, what are you thinking about? Thinking
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  Speaker 1: about me peeing in the bed? Nothing? What are you
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  Speaker 1: thinking about?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's hilarious, I know right, like you like, are
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  Speaker 2: you thinking about you? Open it up?
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  Speaker 1: All you know all about me? Hey, how about you? Mother?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me something about you.
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  Speaker 2: That's what people love, right when they know some But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you don't know nothing about them, about nobody. That's anonymous.
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  Speaker 1: Trolls, that's it, man, And they get at me. They come.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of those, but they're all doing that
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  Speaker 2: to themselves. They don't even understand. When you do that,
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  Speaker 2: you're doing it to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: If you are attacking someone because you know that they
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  Speaker 2: have a weakness, but you're pretending you don't have one.
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  Speaker 2: You are attacking yourself. You are chipping away at your
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  Speaker 2: own personal sovereignty, shipping away your own respect. So true, man,
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  Speaker 2: you can't respect yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That's what happened though, Joe to me. I
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  Speaker 1: start looking at people realizing I know something about you
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  Speaker 1: because they don't want to talk about it. I already
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  Speaker 1: know it. Yeah, if you're talking about me, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: know you. That's why all these cats that come out
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  Speaker 1: right now who don't like me whatever. I'm like, really,
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  Speaker 1: man's from thirty years ago, fifteen years ago, you're still
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  Speaker 1: you're still that Oh man, I know something about you. Brother. See,
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  Speaker 1: I get over everything. I'm good. It's water under the bridge.
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  Speaker 2: Grind.
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  Speaker 1: The grind does that. That's it. You're not grinding hard
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  Speaker 1: if you're worried about something that someone did to you
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  Speaker 1: years ago. You're being a push to yourself, man, not
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  Speaker 1: getting out there and squeezing that console out every day.
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  Speaker 1: If you grind hard, man, I got time to worry
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  Speaker 1: about your monkey ass. I got time to worry about you, man,
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  Speaker 1: because tomorrow I gotta go back to the grind. And
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow I go back to the grind again and again
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  Speaker 1: and again and again. I don't have time to put
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  Speaker 1: you into the hate bank. There's no hate, so I'll
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  Speaker 1: filtered out man, through the grind. You don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's great joy in the grind, the great joy
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  Speaker 1: to suffer it totally cleanses your body out. Man, If
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  Speaker 1: any kind of hate makes you grow up, well, think
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  Speaker 1: about when you build no power, and think about how
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  Speaker 1: much I've built. Now that you know about this, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know about this, But think about how much I've built.
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  Speaker 1: Everything I've ever done in my life. I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do everything. Every day. I'm a lazy piece of shit,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm one of the hardest working people that ever
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  Speaker 1: step from us planet Earth. And I'm saying that very
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  Speaker 1: proudly because I know what I do. Not cocky. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you I'm stupid, and I also tell you the
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  Speaker 1: exact opposite of what I've done. It's the truth. It
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  Speaker 1: is the truth. So imagine how much I've developed in
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  Speaker 1: that timeframe. But it's the scary thing. Why most people
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do that build that will power is
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  Speaker 1: because it's scary. It unlocks a whole bunch of things
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  Speaker 1: about who you are and who you're not. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to go down that journey
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  Speaker 1: to discover who they are and who they're not because
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  Speaker 1: it's not a pretty journey. I mean, I've gone down it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I went down at once. I go
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  Speaker 1: down it all the time. And when you unlock that
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  Speaker 1: and you can't just turn it off, like people say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how come you haven't retired yet? I build all this willpower?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's gonna let me just retire? Because
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  Speaker 1: my niece hurt? It's telling me every morning I wake
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  Speaker 1: up like, man, I don't My knees hurt, my legs hurt,
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  Speaker 1: my body hurts, but you can still run, So why
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  Speaker 1: aren't you running? If you can still run, there will
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  Speaker 1: be a time when you can't lace them up anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but you can still run. So I still run. When
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  Speaker 1: the time comes I can't run, the body will say
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  Speaker 1: you just can't run. But if I can still do
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  Speaker 1: something that will power that I have created, it makes
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  Speaker 1: me do it every sing day. And that's what they
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  Speaker 1: don't get. What builds a human being is you start
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  Speaker 1: with the small building blocks and before you know it, man,
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  Speaker 1: you become something that you It doesn't even make sense
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  Speaker 1: to most people because it's just who you are. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I can still run at fifty. You were
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  Speaker 1: broke with a fortnite. We broke down knees and broke
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  Speaker 1: down body. Because my body knows you still can't. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: I do. Second you stop, the real power is gone.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one second you just summarize it right there,
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  Speaker 1: and most people fail those one seconds, and then that
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  Speaker 1: one second leads to twenty years, thirty years, forty years.
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  Speaker 1: If I have people who have been through training with me,
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  Speaker 1: range your school, steal training, air Force training, and I
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  Speaker 1: get calls from them today and they have great lives,
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  Speaker 1: and all they talk about is how they failed in
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  Speaker 1: that one moment and they can't even they can't even
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  Speaker 1: enjoy their life now because they're now warm. They're now warm,
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  Speaker 1: there's no more suffering. There's no more suffering for me either,
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  Speaker 1: and we're in the same boat now, but you're suffering,
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  Speaker 1: so we're not suffering. But you're thinking about what you
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  Speaker 1: could have been. I am exactly what I should have been.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where people start to lose it because now
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  Speaker 1: I realized that in that one second, I go through
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  Speaker 1: all that I know how it's gonna feel because I
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  Speaker 1: failed so many times before. Failure is the ultimate thing, man,
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  Speaker 1: I feel so many times before, and that's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at failure anymore as failure. I look as my first, second,
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  Speaker 1: and third attempt. So that's what that's all about, man,