Latest / Motivational Podcast / It's Time to Grind – You Must Build Belief and Strength
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, I believe that he has to build belief.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Belief is like there's an actor school special belief where
- 0:08Speaker 2: the mom says, believe in yourself and that's all great,
- 0:12Speaker 2: but there's also a built belief. And the built belief
- 0:16Speaker 2: is one where you are constantly Like for me, I
- 0:20Speaker 2: came from a bad place. How I build belief is
- 0:23Speaker 2: through the daunting tasks I put myself through. So that's
- 0:28Speaker 2: proof positive that I can. So it correlates. And that's
- 0:33Speaker 2: how this pieceous kid I once thought I was built
- 0:37Speaker 2: belief by saying hmm, I was in three hell weeks.
- 0:41Speaker 1: I went to Ranger School. I tried out for Delta selection.
- 0:44Speaker 1: That is proof, mother fut.
- 0:47Speaker 2: So whenever you think, whenever you think you can't, confidence
- 0:51Speaker 2: comes from the thing that you built. You must build belief.
- 0:55Speaker 2: You must build confidence. It can't be like, hey, I'm
- 0:58Speaker 2: going to knock that out. You got to look over
- 1:01Speaker 2: here and say.
- 1:03Speaker 1: I can knock that shit out.
- 1:05Speaker 2: It's a belief and it's built on what you put
- 1:07Speaker 2: in to yourself.
- 1:09Speaker 1: And one thing I was able to do was to dream.
- 1:12Speaker 2: I was able to dream outside those four walls of
- 1:16Speaker 2: that small town. And until you're able to really put
- 1:20Speaker 2: yourself into that dream. But don't make dreams your master.
- 1:25Speaker 2: That's where you truly become what you're destined to become.
- 1:29Speaker 2: A lot of people sit back and they dream about
- 1:31Speaker 2: being a sports figure, or dream about being a seal,
- 1:35Speaker 2: or dream about being an astronaut, and all it is
- 1:38Speaker 2: is a mother dream. They don't put the work behind
- 1:40Speaker 2: the dream. That dream has become their master. When you
- 1:44Speaker 2: become the master of your dream is when you say
- 1:47Speaker 2: I want to go be a Navy seal and you say, okay,
- 1:50Speaker 2: I'm going to lose one hundred and six pounds in
- 1:52Speaker 2: less than three months. The dream was the one thing
- 1:55Speaker 2: I thought about, and the dream was now gone. Now
- 1:59Speaker 2: what comes in the dream goes away in the floundary
- 2:02Speaker 2: list of details and tasks come up.
- 2:05Speaker 1: God do this, got do this? God do this? Got
- 2:07Speaker 1: do this.
- 2:08Speaker 2: That's when you become the master of your dream.
- 2:11Speaker 1: So a lot of people out there dreaming.
- 2:13Speaker 2: The brain that I was given as a child, It
- 2:15Speaker 2: was easy to go home and think about what, how
- 2:18Speaker 2: do I want to.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Be a freak today? How do I want to show
- 2:21Speaker 1: up to school today and be a freek.
- 2:24Speaker 2: It didn't require me going home and opening a book
- 2:26Speaker 2: up saying, it's going to take me all year to
- 2:28Speaker 2: learn this page. So instead of learning that page, I
- 2:33Speaker 2: learned how to become a character. And maybe that character
- 2:37Speaker 2: that I created, that three hundred pounds insecure guy that
- 2:40Speaker 2: used to fake, fake it till I make it type
- 2:43Speaker 2: of guy. You know, let me become your friend, let
- 2:47Speaker 2: me lie to you until.
- 2:49Speaker 1: You like me. Type of guy.
- 2:50Speaker 2: When you have any kind of any manhood, womanhood, a
- 2:55Speaker 2: human being, a soul, a spirit, any I had, no,
- 3:01Speaker 2: I must have just this much pride, because that's exactly
- 3:05Speaker 2: what opened the door for me.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Because every day you were a character. Every day you
- 3:11Speaker 1: were a clown.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Every day you opened that Spanish book or that science
- 3:16Speaker 2: book or English book, and you like you looked at it.
- 3:20Speaker 2: It was like it looked like foreign language. And you're saying,
- 3:23Speaker 2: where do I start? Well, who do I start? And
- 3:29Speaker 2: obviously it was necessary. The more I talk about it,
- 3:33Speaker 2: it wasn't necessary. Because what happened is I became haunted
- 3:36Speaker 2: by the mere fact that this is my existence, and
- 3:39Speaker 2: you got to live with that. I lived with it
- 3:41Speaker 2: for a lot of years, and so I sat back
- 3:44Speaker 2: and said, okay, all right, I know what this takes.
- 3:48Speaker 1: And when you sit back as.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Fucked up as I was, and I had a laundry list,
- 3:53Speaker 2: a table like this of what I have to do
- 3:55Speaker 2: to become just a human being that can make ends meet,
- 4:00Speaker 2: make a thousand dollars a month just to get there.
- 4:01Speaker 1: It was like, oh my god, dude, I'm sixteen seventeen, I.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Can't read, I can't write, and I'm so behind the
- 4:09Speaker 2: power curve.
- 4:11Speaker 1: And my brain is about being pressed.
- 4:14Speaker 2: And my dad beat my moms at home, and kids
- 4:17Speaker 2: are calling me nigger at school, and I'm like, oh
- 4:20Speaker 2: my god, man, what.
- 4:22Speaker 1: The fuck do I do?
- 4:24Speaker 2: And it wasn't like someone came around and said, hey, man,
- 4:26Speaker 2: you can do this.
- 4:27Speaker 1: This is all me.
- 4:29Speaker 2: So people know, where's this cold man come from. I'm
- 4:32Speaker 2: not trying to be cold. It's the reality of my life.
- 4:36Speaker 2: It's the reality of a lot of people's lives. And
- 4:40Speaker 2: so yeah, that had to happen for me to be haunted,
- 4:44Speaker 2: to be haunted, to pull out to extract the god
- 4:46Speaker 2: in the day.
- 4:47Speaker 1: That haunting is something that's still there today.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Because no matter how much you improve, no matter how
- 4:52Speaker 2: much you change who you are, it's not permanent. You'll
- 4:56Speaker 2: just wake up and say, oh my god, man, you're
- 4:59Speaker 2: David Goggins.
- 5:01Speaker 1: You break records, you do this, you do that. People
- 5:05Speaker 1: don't know. How are you able to just be so hard?
- 5:09Speaker 1: I never turned the thing off, because once it turns off, I.
- 5:13Speaker 2: Go right back to the David Gogauz that is, and
- 5:16Speaker 2: that's the guy that I'm constantly fighting every day.
- 5:19Speaker 1: And it's a choice, like I never forgot.
- 5:21Speaker 2: I was on the podcast one time and this dude goes,
- 5:24Speaker 2: you were blessed with a strong mind, Like the hell
- 5:29Speaker 2: you talking about? It's blessed with a strong mind.
- 5:32Speaker 1: That's something that you have to develop.
- 5:35Speaker 2: You developed that over years, decades of suffering and going
- 5:41Speaker 2: back into the suffering. That's why a lot of people
- 5:44Speaker 2: who graduate in Navy steal training I talk about very
- 5:47Speaker 2: openly all the time, a lot of guys don't go
- 5:51Speaker 2: don't don't want to go back into that water, don't
- 5:54Speaker 2: want to go back into the hard stuff.
- 5:55Speaker 1: And maybe not anything hard, anything hard in life.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Once you get through it, it's like you become a
- 6:02Speaker 2: Pelw Like how many peow's you do want to go
- 6:05Speaker 2: back to Pelw camp? None?
- 6:08Speaker 1: When something sucks so bad in life. This is on
- 6:10Speaker 1: this that.
- 6:11Speaker 2: We're talking about now. Very few people want to.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Go back, they're happy they graduated.
- 6:20Speaker 2: I realized I'm just same way.
- 6:23Speaker 1: I don't want to go back. I have to go back.
- 6:27Speaker 2: I must go back because that is exactly where all
- 6:32Speaker 2: the knowledge of my life exists.
- 6:34Speaker 1: What's back there in what you're exactly what you're talking about.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know anything about this, but how I
- 6:40Speaker 2: grew a will was constantly doing these things to.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Now it's just life. I wake up while it still sucks.
- 6:49Speaker 1: It's just life. You don't sit back and like.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Oh my god, like I have days I don't want
- 6:54Speaker 2: to do it, but I know I'm going to do it.
- 6:57Speaker 2: I know from years of just doing it. So that's
- 7:02Speaker 2: that's beautiful. And this is why I came on here
- 7:03Speaker 2: with you today. And I'm glad you're talking about this
- 7:06Speaker 2: because human beings need to hear this. Then you stop
- 7:10Speaker 2: hearing these hacks on.
- 7:14Speaker 1: This and that.
- 7:14Speaker 2: There's no faking hack, bro, there's no gen hack. Yeah
- 7:18Speaker 2: you made this and that and saunas and all this that. Yeah,
- 7:23Speaker 2: it's great. There is no green life hack to grow
- 7:28Speaker 2: that thing. How do you grow it? Do it and
- 7:31Speaker 2: do it and do it and do it. That's the hack.
- 7:35Speaker 1: The hack is go fucking suck. And that's what I realized.
- 7:39Speaker 1: That's what I realized life. That's why I.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Wanted to come on here today. I don't want to
- 7:42Speaker 2: come on here on top of I no fucking passion
- 7:45Speaker 2: and purpose and how to get the out of bed
- 7:48Speaker 2: and how to hit an alarm clock and all this
- 7:50Speaker 2: catchphrase bullshit, because that wasn't how I lived, and how
- 7:56Speaker 2: I lived.
- 7:57Speaker 1: I lived.
- 7:57Speaker 2: I woke up like every human being does, and goes,
- 7:59Speaker 2: fuck me, man, I'm a fucking piece of today. How
- 8:02Speaker 2: the hell is this gonna work out for me?
- 8:04Speaker 1: And you fight that, and you fight that.
- 8:07Speaker 2: You don't override it, no override button. It's the conversation
- 8:11Speaker 2: in your in your head, So how you do that?
- 8:15Speaker 2: We don't have enough of these conversations about the real
- 8:18Speaker 2: conversation that every human being is having and they have
- 8:22Speaker 2: no idea how to get out of it, but they do.
- 8:25Speaker 1: It's that right there.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Man. You gotta build your will. The road to success
- 8:31Speaker 2: is rarely a straight line for me. It's always been
- 8:35Speaker 2: more like a maze. Many times, when I thought I'd
- 8:39Speaker 2: finally cracked the code, had it all figured out, and
- 8:42Speaker 2: found the straight past a certain victory, I hit a
- 8:45Speaker 2: wall or got spun into a turnaround. When that happens,
- 8:48Speaker 2: we have two choices. We can stay stuck or regroup,
- 8:51Speaker 2: back up and try again. That's where evolution begins. Hitting
- 8:56Speaker 2: those walls time and again will harden and streamline you
- 8:59Speaker 2: having to back up and formulate a new plan without
- 9:02Speaker 2: any assurances it will ever pan out. Will tune your
- 9:05Speaker 2: say up and develop your problem solving skills and your endurance.
- 9:09Speaker 1: It will force you to adapt.
- 9:13Speaker 2: When that happens hundreds of times over the course of
- 9:17Speaker 2: many years, it is physically exhausting and mentally draining, and
- 9:22Speaker 2: it becomes damn near impossible.
- 9:23Speaker 1: To believe in yourself or your future.
- 9:27Speaker 2: A lot of people abandon belief at that point. They
- 9:32Speaker 2: swirl in the eddies of comfort or regret, perhaps claim
- 9:35Speaker 2: their victimhood and stop looking for.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Their way out of the maze.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Others keep believing and find a way out, but hope
- 9:43Speaker 2: to never slip into a trap like that ever again,
- 9:47Speaker 2: and those skills they'd hone and developed with her they
- 9:51Speaker 2: lose their edge. I am always on the hunt for
- 9:54Speaker 2: another twisted pretzel of a maze to get lost in,
- 9:58Speaker 2: because that's where I find myself.
- 10:00Speaker 1: The smooth road to success is of no use to
- 10:02Speaker 1: savages like me. That may sound ideal, but it won't
- 10:06Speaker 1: test us. It doesn't demand belief, so it will never
- 10:09Speaker 1: make us great. We all build belief in different ways.
- 10:14Speaker 1: I clock countless hours in the gym, where I.
- 10:17Speaker 2: Log thousands of reps and run and ride my bike
- 10:20Speaker 2: obscene distances to cultivate belief. Despite what you may think,
- 10:25Speaker 2: I don't consider myself an ultra athlete because those races
- 10:29Speaker 2: are not who I am.
- 10:32Speaker 1: There are tools.
- 10:33Speaker 2: Each one provides me a stockpile of faith. So when
- 10:37Speaker 2: I get stuck in the maze of life like a
- 10:39Speaker 2: broke down savage, I still believe I'm capable of achieving
- 10:42Speaker 2: my unreasonable goals, such as becoming a smoke jumper at
- 10:47Speaker 2: forty seven years old, no matter what society or the
- 10:51Speaker 2: good doctor says.
- 10:53Speaker 1: I don't mean to suggest that.
- 10:55Speaker 2: You must run one hundred or two hundred miles to
- 10:57Speaker 2: believe you have what it takes to get or you
- 11:00Speaker 2: want to go. That's what I had to do based
- 11:03Speaker 2: on the depth of the darkness I came from and
- 11:06Speaker 2: the scale.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Of my ambitions.
- 11:07Speaker 2: But if you've lost it, you do need to find
- 11:10Speaker 2: your way back to belief. Whatever it takes for you
- 11:13Speaker 2: to believe that you're better than good enough to achieve
- 11:17Speaker 2: your dreams is what you must do. And remember, your
- 11:21Speaker 2: greatness is not tied to any outcome. It is found
- 11:26Speaker 2: in the valiance of the attempt. So you got to
- 11:29Speaker 2: make sure that you constantly are rewriting your book.
- 11:32Speaker 1: You have to constantly rewrite your book every day of
- 11:35Speaker 1: your life, you know.
- 11:36Speaker 2: And these aren't just words I say, This is how
- 11:38Speaker 2: I have to live like. These are conversations I have
- 11:41Speaker 2: with myself, and I say to everywhere I go. The
- 11:43Speaker 2: most important conversation when you have it yourself, Yes, you.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Live with it every single day.
- 11:50Speaker 2: But most of our conversations are not the right ones.
- 11:53Speaker 1: They're not the ones that are going to push us
- 11:55Speaker 1: to the place we need to go.
- 11:56Speaker 2: They're the ones that are going to keep us sitting
- 11:58Speaker 2: in that toxic vironment that you've helped create and everybody
- 12:02Speaker 2: else helped create, and you just live in it. You
- 12:04Speaker 2: live in that muck and that conversation this plays in
- 12:07Speaker 2: your head and that becomes you. So my first conversation
- 12:10Speaker 2: when I was absolutely nobody, and that's one thing you
- 12:13Speaker 2: have to say.
- 12:14Speaker 1: We live in the world.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Now, that's so kind. We find a kind way around everything,
- 12:21Speaker 2: Like if you don't look good, I have to find
- 12:25Speaker 2: a kind way of saying I don't like your shirt.
- 12:28Speaker 2: That's not the approach, the approach you have to take,
- 12:31Speaker 2: at least I took.
- 12:32Speaker 1: You take what the approach you want.
- 12:34Speaker 2: The conversation had to be a real, honest conversation in
- 12:37Speaker 2: the accountability mirror of.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Guess what I was fat?
- 12:41Speaker 2: Don't find a kind word to say that, you know what,
- 12:44Speaker 2: I've gained some weight. No, you're fat when I couldn't read,
- 12:49Speaker 2: not like, hey, you know even learned disability.
- 12:51Speaker 1: No, I cannot read of a fourth grade reading level.
- 12:54Speaker 2: I'm struggling, and sometimes I call myself stupid, not in
- 12:58Speaker 2: a way to put myself down.
- 13:00Speaker 1: So don't take it like my god, those are so hurtful. Yah,
- 13:02Speaker 1: the hurtful. This honest.
- 13:06Speaker 2: The conversation has to become an honest conversation of where
- 13:09Speaker 2: you're at mentally?
- 13:10Speaker 1: Where am I at? Mentally? I look like I feel
- 13:13Speaker 1: like I'm not this.
- 13:14Speaker 2: I'm falling behind in school, I'm lazy.
- 13:18Speaker 1: My house is a mess.
- 13:20Speaker 2: You have to look at what it is and call
- 13:22Speaker 2: it what it is. Don't find words to make yourself
- 13:25Speaker 2: feel better because that's what So we hang around people
- 13:29Speaker 2: that make us feel better, that tell us what we
- 13:32Speaker 2: want to hear, not what we need to hear, and
- 13:35Speaker 2: so we stay away from those people, and we stay
- 13:38Speaker 2: away from those people, like our internal dialogue becomes that
- 13:42Speaker 2: kind it's okay, it's not okay.
- 13:45Speaker 1: So that's where it starts.
- 13:46Speaker 2: It starts with that accountability of it's not okay anymore,
- 13:51Speaker 2: this can no longer be okay, and calling yourself out
- 13:55Speaker 2: for exactly what you are and exactly how you need
- 13:59Speaker 2: to fix it.
- 14:00Speaker 1: That's where it starts