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David Goggins on How to Break Your Mind’s Chains and Defy the Odds · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Dude, I'm not a masochist. I'm not crazy. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: this and that. People try to tidle me and label me.
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  Speaker 1: When I was growing up, I saw my mom getting
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  Speaker 1: beat and I got beat and I was some stuttering
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  Speaker 1: little black kid in all white school, and I used
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  Speaker 1: to go home and cry. By my god, man, fuck'slfed up.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to train one content. You better train
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  Speaker 1: your mind because my talents can run out way early.
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  Speaker 1: When shit got hard for me back in the day. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: I'm darn, I'm out see you, Okay. I gotta invented
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  Speaker 1: mother for that can. So I invented Goggins. I invented
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  Speaker 1: a mother. Realized we're not good enough, but Goggins realizes
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  Speaker 1: we're mentally strongest, and we're gonna outstrength these mothers. In
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  Speaker 1: the mind. You need to work harder. You need to
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  Speaker 1: discipline your mind better. We need to help people more
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  Speaker 1: than just saying it's okay, it's okay that you're not
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  Speaker 1: willing to help yourself out. That's not okay, it's not okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's not acceptable. I can't really think called perform without purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and so many people they need to have a five K,
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  Speaker 1: a ten K, I need to have a course in
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  Speaker 1: front of me. I need to have something in front
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  Speaker 1: of me for me getting my ass up and do
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  Speaker 1: some shit. And that used to be me and nowadays,
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  Speaker 1: you know shit for the past twenty some years, I
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  Speaker 1: don't need purpose and people miss out on this. Man,
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  Speaker 1: the purpose, But we're all looking for this golden purpose?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: This? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Dad? Isn't making money? Is it? My family? Mother? The
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  Speaker 1: purpose is you? We forget that every day I wake
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  Speaker 1: up and I don't want to do something. Shit. I'm like, okay, man,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to be a bitch today? Do you
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  Speaker 1: want to feel like a little bitch? Do you want
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  Speaker 1: to walk around all day knowing that you could but
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  Speaker 1: you didn't. So it's performed without purpose. You have to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to get up and do shit. When you
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  Speaker 1: ain't got no five K, no ten K, nothing, nothing exists.
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  Speaker 1: Your life sucks. You're in the dungeon. But guess what, mother,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still going to get it because when that time comes,
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  Speaker 1: because the time is gonna come, when that purpose is there,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be ready. But most of us are not ready
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  Speaker 1: because we don't know how to do without having the
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  Speaker 1: golden carrot in front of us, and so you're off
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  Speaker 1: every step you take in that journey as you're like,
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  Speaker 1: for me, run I run every day, hate it, but
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  Speaker 1: every step I take, I'm like, all right, motherfucker, you're
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  Speaker 1: beating the demon again. I made the decision, and my
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  Speaker 1: decision was to be the best person I could, and
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  Speaker 1: I basically a lot more things. I wake up and say,
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  Speaker 1: your feelings, and that doesn't mean, like you know, don't
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  Speaker 1: take it literally your feelings, but sometimes you have to
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  Speaker 1: go beyond what your feeling. And my knees were, but
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  Speaker 1: guess what. I wanted to run and I knew that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you can get knee replacements this and that wasn't because
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  Speaker 1: I ran too much. People always want to say, man,
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  Speaker 1: you ran so much, so up your body. You know
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to be like David Goggins. I hear
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. You won't be like David Goggins.
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  Speaker 1: I gave everything. I give everything to who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I gave everything. And when you get everything, man, you
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  Speaker 1: have no regret. People didn't understand me. People'tund I don't
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  Speaker 1: give a I know exactly what I was doing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a masochist, I'm not crazy. I'm not this and
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  Speaker 1: that people try to title me and label me. No,
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  Speaker 1: I had something to do.
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  Speaker 2: The way I describe it to people. When people ask
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  Speaker 2: him like why does he doing these things? Like what
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  Speaker 2: is the motivation here? I go. He's on a mental
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  Speaker 2: journey that very few people have ever been on, because
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  Speaker 2: people don't understand you, or they misunderstand you, or they
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  Speaker 2: purposely misinterpret the way you're living your life. You're trying
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  Speaker 2: to understand your mind in a way that very few
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  Speaker 2: human beings ever get to understand their mind, because you're
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  Speaker 2: taking your mind into these terrible dark places all the time,
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  Speaker 2: and you're trying to pull things out of that. You're
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  Speaker 2: trying to learn things about yourself and about your potential
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  Speaker 2: from that. It's exactly it, And that's what people don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I study the darkness. You find no answers in the light. None.
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  Speaker 1: It's too happy, it's too nice. We need to be
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  Speaker 1: taught how to live in happiness that just comes naturally
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  Speaker 1: to us happy moments, But the dark times, man, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't get there unless you put yourself there. Life
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  Speaker 1: will take you there. But when you get into those
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  Speaker 1: dark moments, that's what people that's why people how are
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  Speaker 1: you able to man? I couldn't read and write to
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  Speaker 1: I was a junior in high school. How are you
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  Speaker 1: able to write like this? Man? Mother, First, I go
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  Speaker 1: to such places in my mind and I study the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: like it's not just physical. When I was growing up
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  Speaker 1: and I saw my mom getting beat, and I got beat,
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  Speaker 1: and I was some stuttering little black kid in all
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  Speaker 1: white school and I'm on stage and I gotta say
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  Speaker 1: one line, one in line in front of fifteen people,
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  Speaker 1: and I walk off, stags, come with and stutter. All
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  Speaker 1: those insecurities and those things. Man, I used to go
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  Speaker 1: home and cry, like my god, mans off up. I'm
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  Speaker 1: hang on man. As I got older, we got to
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  Speaker 1: study this shit. Man. The only way we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: through this if you study it. So every time I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a dark moment and life's up around me, whether
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  Speaker 1: it be physical or just life, I get in it, man,
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  Speaker 1: with it and pen and paper. I'm like, Okay, this sucks.
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  Speaker 1: I can feel like I'm losing my ship. Let's and
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  Speaker 1: study this. Let's come out of this, mother genius. I
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  Speaker 1: studied the black matter of the mind, the dark matter,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like Stephen Hawkins, that's that's his name. I
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  Speaker 1: said it right. That mother studied the space and shit,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I consider myself man, and so many people
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  Speaker 1: get it wrong. I don't give a man. You can't
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  Speaker 1: for me. I cannot help people. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: cookie cutter shit out here in this world. Oh, discipline,
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  Speaker 1: wake up early, take coach, shower, this that whatever, it's
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  Speaker 1: off bullshit, it's not. But what they don't teach you
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  Speaker 1: within the cookie cutter is like our minds are like
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  Speaker 1: a garage, and the garage. If you open a garage
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  Speaker 1: and it's all cuttered up, it's off up. You can't
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  Speaker 1: put your car in there. You got boats, and you
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  Speaker 1: got kids, toys and shit everywhere. But if you organize
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  Speaker 1: that garage and you put everything in rightful spot, you
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  Speaker 1: can pull that car in there. You can put two
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  Speaker 1: cars and there, you can put bikes in there. And
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  Speaker 1: that's like with the mind. People talk about discipline and
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  Speaker 1: determination and repetitions and all this shit consistency. Why people
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  Speaker 1: fall off the wagon so often is because their mind
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  Speaker 1: is full of shit. There's no room in that mind
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  Speaker 1: for discipline, there's no room for consistency. They may do
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  Speaker 1: it once or twice, but then the mind takes over
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  Speaker 1: and that cluttered garage comes in, and then it's like
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  Speaker 1: a circuit breaker. Man. A circuit breaker is overloads and
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  Speaker 1: it sparks and our minds. That's that's our mind. Man.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a circuit breaker that has so much shit
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  Speaker 1: in it you keep on loading it. You can't put
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  Speaker 1: any more into it. So I talk about it in there, man,
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  Speaker 1: so much about clearing space in your mind, so then
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  Speaker 1: you have room for all those discipline, waking up early,
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  Speaker 1: taking those because they do mean something. But we don't
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  Speaker 1: get to that dark matter that is keeping you from
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  Speaker 1: clearing out that mental garage. That's a good.
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  Speaker 2: Way to put it, because that is the mind of
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  Speaker 2: most people is filled with stuff that they have to
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  Speaker 2: move around to get to what they want, and it's
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  Speaker 2: constantly piling up.
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  Speaker 1: And the shit unorganized and organized. Mine, man, you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at I got to take care of the kids. The kids,
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  Speaker 1: schedules off up, my husband and my wife. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: by McDonald's to get this, and I'm rushing my schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's this. I wish I was doing this, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing that. That's it, and that and this and.
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  Speaker 2: I want to raise but I can't get what's it
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  Speaker 2: a boss of asshole?
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  Speaker 1: Where's greatness in that? Man? You can't you can't fit
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  Speaker 1: discipline into that. You can't fit structure, you can't fit consistency,
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  Speaker 1: you can't fit the grind, and then when you try,
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  Speaker 1: it gets overrun by the clutter in your mental garage.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I'm in a bad situation, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I study it. And that's the only reason I do
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  Speaker 1: this should I do is I'm studying this shit because
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  Speaker 1: I know that. I never thought I was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: writing books and trying to help people get better. But
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  Speaker 1: I was always trying to do it because I knew
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  Speaker 1: I sucked. And so when you know you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get somewhere, you know you suck. You know that you
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  Speaker 1: believe that you're a born loser. You are taking snapshots, man,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know you see something on your phone, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, I'm gonna take a snapshot of that, or
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  Speaker 1: how you do the little picture shit so you can
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  Speaker 1: save it on your phone. I do that in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: So when I get in these moments, I'm like, Okay, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's some good knowledge right there. Man. I snapshot it
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  Speaker 1: because I know that I can use that later. I
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  Speaker 1: can use it because I'm not out there. Just I'm
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  Speaker 1: not most people that go out and they run, and
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  Speaker 1: they go out and do it, and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is beautiful, look at the mountains and the shit
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  Speaker 1: and all this bullshit. No, I don't like it. My
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  Speaker 1: body hurts. I'm hurting. How do we get through this?
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  Speaker 1: It's a lab, It's my mental lab. And so when
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  Speaker 1: I come home, I'm not forgetting it. Every day I
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  Speaker 1: get done running. Every day I get through work, and
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  Speaker 1: every day I get through studying whatever it is that
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  Speaker 1: brings you to that place of knowledge. So I come
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  Speaker 1: home from running and I write everything out. People have talent,
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  Speaker 1: and this is going beyond your talent. When there's no
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  Speaker 1: more talent, what happens to you? Most people quit. People
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  Speaker 1: only go to their talent level. And once your talent
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  Speaker 1: level is on, it becomes a mental game. That the
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  Speaker 1: whole mental game sets in then and most people can
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  Speaker 1: only perform to their talent, and they realize, Man, why
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  Speaker 1: am I always messing up right here? Why? Why is
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  Speaker 1: this My big hurdle? Is because you're performing to your talent,
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  Speaker 1: and then after that your mind has nothing for you.
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  Speaker 1: I see fighters, I see runners, I see people who
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  Speaker 1: they're great, but they get to the edge of their talent.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, man, what's what's up? Because you're now at
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  Speaker 1: the point now where your talent and could do a
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  Speaker 1: ship for you, my friend. Now it's the mental game,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where people get lost in life, get lost
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  Speaker 1: in that next level. And that next level was found
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  Speaker 1: for me and the things that I do. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have much talent, so I had to train
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  Speaker 1: one content. You better train your mind because my talents
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  Speaker 1: can run out way early. When shit got hard for
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  Speaker 1: me back in the day. Bro, I'm done, I'm out
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  Speaker 1: see you, Okay. I got to invent a mother that
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  Speaker 1: can So I'm vented Goggins. I'm vented mother that that
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  Speaker 1: realized we're not good enough. But Goggins realizes we're mentally
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  Speaker 1: strong as and we're going to outstrength these mothers in
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  Speaker 1: the mind. And so many people just wanted the easy way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, it's not so what they start to
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  Speaker 1: do is they build this narrative it's okay, when the
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  Speaker 1: narrative should be you need to work harder, you need
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  Speaker 1: to discipline your mind better. We need to help people
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  Speaker 1: more than just saying it's okay, it's okay that you're
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  Speaker 1: not willing to help yourself out. That's not okay. It's
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  Speaker 1: not okay. It's not acceptable, even though it's your life's
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  Speaker 1: If that's acceptable, that's unacceptable. And there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in this world. Me included that if I accepted that,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be anywhere. So yeah, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: just they start creating a narrative about themselves that make
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  Speaker 1: it okay, the ultimate get out jail free card, and
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  Speaker 1: now the world is set up to have so many
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  Speaker 1: get out of jail free cards. Everything is okay, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't say a mother thing about it. Man, Why
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  Speaker 1: are you always yelling? It's I talk, bitch, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: proud mother. You know what I'm saying. I'm a proud mother, man.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not proud like look at me. It's like, mother,
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  Speaker 1: I know where I came from. Bitch. I shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: here right now talking to you. Shouldn't be talking to you, mother,
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be you a fat, sloppy mother. I'm proud,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm able to tell you I was up. Many
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  Speaker 1: people can. It's now all those mornings that you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get up, and I look at it as
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  Speaker 1: like a like a rock, and you find this rock,
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  Speaker 1: and that rock is you. And every day you fight,
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  Speaker 1: not wanting to get up, and you do anywhere, you
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  Speaker 1: chip another piece off that rock. And every day you
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  Speaker 1: can eat the right foods, and every day you go
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  Speaker 1: to train, you train harder and harder and hard and harder,
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  Speaker 1: and you get up earlier, and all these things you
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  Speaker 1: do to start forming yourself, you're chipping another fucking piece
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  Speaker 1: of that rock. I mean, before you know it, you
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  Speaker 1: get this beautiful piece of artwork that that you built.
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  Speaker 1: And then once you get there, you see it and
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  Speaker 1: it becomes real, like, oh my god, did shit and
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  Speaker 1: so like the journey becomes so real then. But so
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  Speaker 1: many people aren't willing to ship away at that stone
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  Speaker 1: that is them, to start chipping off those rough edges.
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  Speaker 1: That's the fear.
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  Speaker 2: The fear is never reaching your potential.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: That always fallen short, always quitting before you're done, always procrastinating,
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  Speaker 2: always not doing the right thing. And then one day
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  Speaker 2: you're an old man yep, and you look back and go, God,
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  Speaker 2: 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 and 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 moments of like, it's crazy, man,
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  Speaker 1: of this thought. I'm always by myself, I'm always in
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  Speaker 1: deep and thought about how to be better, and I
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  Speaker 1: look out there. I'm like, man, I wonder how many
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  Speaker 1: of you mothers in there are so upset with how
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  Speaker 1: you lived your life and can just regret how you
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  Speaker 1: lived it. And I'm running at three hundred pounds man, thinking, Man,
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  Speaker 1: don't and die like this, bro, don't die like this.
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  Speaker 1: So people wonder where this shit comes from? From me?
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  Speaker 1: It comes from such deep thought of trying to see
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  Speaker 1: what this is all about? What is this life all about?
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  Speaker 1: What am I all about? Why am I here?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: I had to find purpose and my suffering it had
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  Speaker 1: a purpose. It had a purpose. Many people build confidence
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  Speaker 1: in different ways, and they build belief in different ways.
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  Speaker 1: Coming from where I came from, I didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: belief in myself. So some people can go read a
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  Speaker 1: book and get belief. Some people can go take a
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  Speaker 1: yoga class have good parents. So where I came from
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  Speaker 1: was so far down underneath soil that I had to
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  Speaker 1: build belief by truly ingraining it in my brain. So
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  Speaker 1: the things I do, I'm always every day building belief
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  Speaker 1: in My belief had to be where it is because
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  Speaker 1: I was so far down. So it may take a
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  Speaker 1: two hundred mile run for me, it may take a
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  Speaker 1: hundred mile run, it may 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 kier. I have no belief.
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  Speaker 1: I have to build it, and a five mile run
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  Speaker 1: did to do it. I had to push myself to
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  Speaker 1: such extremes because I came from People judged me by
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  Speaker 1: not knowing where I came from. So unless you're me
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  Speaker 1: and you came from where I came from, I guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you when it made it out, guarantee it. And I
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  Speaker 1: knew that. So my belief comes from going I have
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  Speaker 1: to build it, and that's how I built it. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I build it by the things I do. I never
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  Speaker 1: cared about myself, never, never ever, which makes what I
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  Speaker 1: do now for people I understand because I care about people,
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  Speaker 1: even though I'm an introvert. I'm an intro because my
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  Speaker 1: life sucked. But what I do for people, I really do.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I want to make sure that book and
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  Speaker 1: things I do. That's why I don't like. Why don't
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  Speaker 1: you say ship, Why don't you always you know?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why aren't you like promoting this and that? And no, man,
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  Speaker 1: no I care that you understand that I want to
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  Speaker 1: see you and kill shit. I want to see you
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  Speaker 1: better