Become A Savage & Live On Your Own Terms | David Goggins on Impact Theory

I worked so hard that I turned a person into this right here, not by reading a book by a theorist, but by working on myself and saying: I don't know how to do this, but I know how to overcome it. There on that side I have to strive until I reach great power and I did it Hello everyone, welcome to the

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. Our goal with this program and this company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you execute

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dreams. Well, today's guest. He is widely recognized as the toughest man in the world, the only member of the US military to complete seal training at the US Army Ranger School, where he graduated as a enlisted honor, and in air force tactical air controller training.

He entered Bud's hell week three times in one year. Him completing it twice despite a severely damaged knee, multiple stress fractures and a hernia. He served in combat in Iraq. He was the Iraqi Prime Minister's bodyguard. He completed an ultramarathon with pneumonia and once held the Guinness World Record for most pull-ups in 24 hours. 4030. In total, he has completed over 60 endurance and ultra-endurance events, often winning or at least placing in the top five, and when asked how he was able to accomplish so much, he simply said he hated what he saw in the mirror. to make a change after growing up bullied and abused both physically and mentally when he graduated high school, he himself admitted that he was broken and weak, but instead of accepting that he turned inward, stopped saying woe is me ! and he set to work to

become

the man. wanted to be to do that, he learned to accept suffering and harness pain as a way to harden his mind and the resulting man he has

become

and his indomitable spirit has so inspired the world that he has become the one he is driven by. among us. hang from

your

mirrors as a reminder of how much is possible, as iconic nfl coach pete carroll said, in my quest to understand and learn from the best competitors in the world, he is the one who sets the standard, so please help me to welcome you. who once ran 205 miles in 39 hours without stopping the author of you can't hurt me the legend in person

david

goggins

welcome back thank you thank you so I'm beyond excited to do the second round with you the first one for me was absolutely transformative just researching you you and the way your mind works, I really mean as evidenced by the program that I run, I really am that guy that likes to put your picture up and it became a reminder of what we can all do if we're willing to get over that pain and all that, but speaking of pain, I want to know why the book is called "You Can't Hurt Me." I guess there are some internal uses for the people that are there, but it's a general message for the people that we all are, you know, many of us are going through a difficult time in life some people have been harassed some people are just stressed some people are insecure some people are fat and overweight and the world puts a lot of this on your mind it's not just you yeah you help it and my whole thing is about I had to develop a mindset, a mindset that was indestructible. , I had to shield my mind and it's about what you're telling yourself, but it also comes to work, so every time I got hit physically, mentally, spiritually, whatever was going on, I just said, you know, I did it.

I would, you know, you can't hurt me, you can't hurt me, it just became a message, you know, I would say to myself. and that's where what I find so interesting is your concept of the governor that basically, to get you out of the cold, an expert is someone who is going to tell you what your limits are instead of the person who is out there practicing to catch you. beyond the limit, so what is the governor and how do we eliminate him from our

live

s? I think most humans only

live

at about 40 capacity so the mine has a governor like a car if you're driving a car and the car has a governor the car can say 130 miles per hour but the governor is set at 91. once the governor sets, you get to 91, that car starts doing this, the car wants to go, the car wants to go, but that factory said uh-uh we're not going to go above 91 we have a factory, a good governor in our brain and it is a survival mechanism that protects us from pain and suffering the moment we feel our mind saying oh no, this is not fun, we should go back We should sit down and find something more comfortable and there's something about the mind.

The mind has a tactical advantage over you at all times. At all times of your life. The mind has a tactical advantage over you. Why does he know what you're afraid of? know your insecurities, know your deep dark lies and start to move away from that, it pushes you in a direction that is comfortable for you, the mind controls everything, so what I realized was that when I was a child I weighed 300 pounds and I gained weight and I became insecure I realized that my mind kept leading me in this direction when things got uncomfortable for me when I was facing my insecurities I was facing my fears my mind was saying oh no we have the tactical advantage we need to get it to separate you from this feeling this feeling about your life is about feelings we want the happy feeling we don't want that feeling of this sucks why am I here and you don't have any so you can't answer those questions you leave, I started to realize that if in that moment you can answer those questions and now you're in charge of your brain instead of your brain ruling you, that's where all that stuff comes from, so the rule of 40 is all that, you get to 40 your brain says we're done, let's go man, this is starting to be painful, this is uncomfortable, so you sit down, you have to find ways and we're all different, that's how the book talks, like we all have these things, you know, five. steps for this and four steps for this is much more than that that's all it's a practice you have to do it's a habit so if you know that at 40 I'm still, you know I feel pain at 40 I'm feeling pain, there it is where rule 40 comes into effect now it starts well, I feel pain, my mind tells me all this tells me: get out of here, run away, run away, fight or flight kicks in, okay, we're done, we're no good.

Enough is enough, he starts telling you all these things, you start believing it because the mind controls everything. This is the moment when you have to regain control of your mind. Okay, let me see if I can make it to 45 and once you start giving yourself more and more. more hope and you start realizing, okay, mind starts getting okay, what are you doing? We're supposed to go to the right and you go to the left, you start and then you control your mind, you start to find more in yourself, you know, in yourself and it goes from 40 to much more than that, but that's the beginning , although it gets to the point where your mind tells you, for wherever, you have to get there first and then that's when it starts working for you, you have to control yourself at that time, friend.

We're going to try to thread a really powerful needle right now, so your response to all that has been so incredible, so it's all good, it has a regulator that starts to act when you're in pain, you're looking for areas of comfort, so most of people live their whole lives there, they never try to get out of it, but you had such a fascinating response, you said two things that I think need to be explored, one is that you created this alter ego

goggins

, which I think is incredibly powerful and reminds me of. Eminem talked about the same thing with the creation of Slim Shady was that it was the way that once he had the personality he could face his fears and he could stand up um and then the other thing was you said you had to shut up and listen, but talk alone with yourself so as not to try to distract yourself from social media or television, nothing like going into a room alone and really listening to how those two things work, the creation of the alter ego and hearing the kind of dark hateful things that you're probably saying to yourself. yourself how they work together so that many people can live with themselves that's the first thing that many people can live with themselves look in the mirror and say I'm okay with being afraid I'm okay with going down this easy road here, the easy road It has all these signs and instructions on how to get somewhere and first you have to get uncomfortable with how you feel about yourself with that voice that so many of us like to run away from. we all have it we all have that voice to say hey man, you know you're, you're weakening right now, you're being a little punk right now, but a lot of us are like, okay, okay, okay to tell ourselves these little lies. pious ourselves, so first we have to face the real you, the real you is David Goggins, the real you is a guy who looks at you right now and says I don't want to be on this show right now because I used to.

I stuttered when I was a kid and I'm afraid of that, I'm afraid that here in a second I'm going to start stuttering and stuttering and the whole world will know that I have all these problems, but that's when I see right now, okay? I have to go to this show which is goggins goggins is saying okay

david

goggins you are a punk life made you this way we can't live like this we can't live in fear we can't live judging we can't be afraid of what people are telling me right now he's looking saying about me we can't be afraid of that that's goggins goggin he's saying all of you that don't like me don't want to and then that person comes in but you have to be david goggins and he says man I'm afraid of this I'm here up, life made me like this here, I stutter, I have these problems with reading and writing and I'm fat and I'm insecure, you have to Face it in that dark room in that dark room it's who you are, but in that dark room it's where you have to create another human being to come out of that dark room to face who you are, that's the only way you're going to do it. about all those things you have to create someone else, it's not like you have two different personalities, it's you, but you have to find strength and that visualization of almost me breaking goggins like almost like that Superman cape, like it's coming off like a different person. a person who doesn't care about anything who doesn't care about being judged who knows I'm weak who knows I'm scared who says whatever you think of me take it whatever I'm here it's goggins in the dark room you face yourself you realize that you want to be better you realize that you don't want to be this weak and insecure person in the world who has all these problems that we all have we all have social media is a great platform to tell yourself who we love no be who we are, so that's where that dark room is.

I didn't know if you were going to be able to surprise me today because I know you so well from sitting in front of you and having researched you as much as I have, but I really got excited while you were going through it because it's so tempting to make yourself extraordinary as a way to not have to be up to your standards like even now and I don't do it on purpose because I know that's not the case and I want to be extraordinary too, but even I like that I get caught up in that and that I listen to you talk now that I'm still nervous because you're going to start stuttering, like people will actually hear that you are the way you are now. not because you pretend you don't have those things, but because you face them so fully and are able to look at that, be responsible and talk so raw to yourself as a friend, that's when I get chills again because when you think about what any of us are going for.

What we can achieve in our lives is because we are finally willing to look in the mirror and say you're stupid, you're fat and I know that right now people are going crazy. when you hear me say that, but tell me about raw conversations, tell me about how you started talking to yourself in the mirror because if they understand David like that, it's the moment of transformation, so in my book I talk a lot about my son. year in high school and I went back a lot I went back in this whole life the moment you think you're over it you climbed Everest you're at that last point and life will tell you no today and push you down and my third year in school high school I missed a lot of school I was lying to my mom I had like a point something GPA I was just screwed I mean I was in one of the worst moments of my life and my mom was also with a lot of people and she didn't have time to sit and take care of me and it was me against me my parents were on their knees I just wasn't there, whatever was going on, I wasn't in it was in bad shape, so I went to the bathroom and got a weird haircut because I wanted to get attention.

He was someone who attracted attention. I went to an all-white school. Many of the children liked him. Many of them didn't like him. What not. It doesn't matter, I was looking for something, so I dressed differently, with crazy haircuts and I went to the mirror and the reflection in it revealed a lot of bad things, a lot of things that I was hiding behind sagging pants and I waslooking at myself. the mirror goes like god dude, you gotta be something else man, like you created a character, I want to be the cool guy at the table and anything I could do to get attention I did, it wasn't me, it wasn't who was inside, but I was afraid that someone would know who I was, so in that mirror of responsibility I call it, I became real.

I said you have a third grade reading level, which is hard to admit when you're a junior in high school. You copied every single thing you did for fear of being put in a special school. We all know what special means. I'm going to have a title for the rest of my life and being cool you don't have a title about yourself so I started cheating it was dumb and people say oh you know you're a learning disability because of a learning disability , but I realized I was lazy, so I called myself, I called myself every possible way, I didn't call myself, I was just honest, I was honest, look at yourself, man, look at yourself and it was that day a couple of days after that I got real with myself and every day I came home I called the accountability mirror what am I going to do today to change what I see in this mirror? what I am going to do?

What I did today and a lot of it was I stopped sitting with the cool kids. I actually took my shirt and went to school looking like "hey man, I'm going to look at this if you don't like it, so be it, I really had to wear this." this this layer of skin I had to develop a very callous skin in me to take whatever you call me you'll call me whatever I'm going to be you know I want a geek but whoever you are you're going to see me, you're going to see me as I am because I need change who I am not and that responsibility became raw and I got fat over the years because I fell back into the hole where I called myself fat because I was fat and people don't want to do that, they want to say oh, don't call yourself fat, don't Call yourself a fool if you are not real and you are wrong with who you are, nothing is going to change and in this it is nice.

The new world we live in we want to hear that you're a little big, no one, you might be fat and it's okay to hear that about yourself, vile, so that's where it started and it's raw, sometimes it gets ugly with me in that mirror. but I'm also proud of myself for being able to tell myself that and then fix what's in that mirror, that's what hits me and that's what I really want people to hear is that you can say those things because they're true and b because you can solve them correctly and your whole life has been about addressing those things so tell us how in the book you help people start to address it because that's what I think is so powerful about your book so the first thing is once you you realize and you have to realize that you have to call yourself address it it's very small it's like it didn't happen from one morning um this way the next time I wake up and that's it, you know, five steps to greatness, no , it's like that It's not that bro, you read my book, this is hard work, it's every day, like now, I had to be honest with you, man, I'm even shaking right now from being on this show, I'm very introverted, what?

How do you approach it? Accept it, face it every day, face it every day of your life, where you say it's okay, if you're fat you need to lose weight, it's patience, it's patience in this act of accepting who you are now. I'm fat. I don't like it, except actually, if you lose three or four pounds, that's a huge accomplishment, you have to live in your own world, you can't judge yourself, that's why social media, all these things are horrible, you can't judge yourself for that. -called competition we have done in our mind the things that how people look how people act how smart someone is this is a race that you run completely alone and you are alone I had tons of sticky notes all over my mirror it was not being better that john or be as fast as whoever well, david yesterday, you did this today, our next goal for the week is this, so I had a yearly goal, weekly goals, daily goals, hourly goals and the big goal was to lie a A lot growing up I wanted to be accepted, one goal was to leave one day without lying, leave one day and then when I lied to someone it was like "hey man now leave" I had to come back now and apologize. "Hey, man, I lied to you." You know how hard it is to go back someone says I lied to you Hey man, do you know what I lied to you back there, buddy?

I was really excited, so I discovered these forms of total responsibility, like right now, I had to run this morning. before I talk to you because that's what I'm talking about I'm talking about crazy mind body fitness a lot of people talk a lot about hey I'm going to change your life I'm going to do it so I'm going to do that they are you are responsible for what you are doing you are responsible and I mean the t so what you're saying I am and that's where it started it started with that total total responsibility of not lying today we're going to tell people the truth about who you are you are and when you can go ahead and tell someone like I'm doing it now exactly how well you are, that's the goal in life, to put your life on a billboard on the busiest road in the world and say this is how up, I used to take it or leave it when we first talked, really I didn't understand why they called me niger in your book and you said it was one of the best things that ever happened to me because the director told me oh, they're just ignorant and you said that at that moment I realized that no one would come to save me and I I realized that I didn't really understand until I read the book and in reading the book I really understood how one thing followed another, from your father's abuse to running away from it, to your mother being missing and then thinking that she finally found love and then the boy is murdered the day after Christmas.

I thought no one really came to save you, no, and seeing that from time to time. Listening to you tell these stories I realize that's the crux of power, but how did you stop feeling sorry for yourself when you actually sit in your life and in that dark room and look at where you started from and count? Oh my God, man, my mom is like that, my stepdad was murdered, my dad beat me up. I can't read or write to speak my soul. I have lied to everyone. I have cheated on all of these tests. My God. and then you put a goal in your mind, how will you feel, man, when you achieve this goal, coming from the hell where you came from, a lot of people start from a good starting point, they have a good foundation, and if you can overcome? all of this we have everyone who was up here started here and you started out with no legs you had to grow legs to even start walking and then crawling and then running and then you start passing people and everything that was given to them.

To use all this negative that was making me weak and horrible as a person I had to use this as the power that now fueled me I had to turn it on its head and say wait this could be exactly what I need the darkness is exactly what I need That's how you see your situation and I was looking at all this in the book. You tell people to make a list of everything that works against them, every really valid excuse, why do you ask them to do that? There's a lot of power in that list, so in that list of who you are, what makes you up all these other things, come to

terms

with it once again, you have to accept it first before you can fix it, a lot of people walk oh man, I'm fine.

I'm okay, no you're not, you have to accept what you're not, you have to do it and people don't want to do that and that's the only way to fix it. You must first accept it before you can embark on the journey. A lot of people don't even start the journey, they never start joining because they live in this fake life where they act like what they want to be, but they're not because they haven't figured out all of these things yet. To fix this first before we can start our journey in life, that's why I haven't made this list, fix these problems now, your journey can begin because you no longer care how people judge you, when, when you care more about what someone is like judging yourself, you're going to stay there, there's no forward momentum, so that's what happens with that list, okay, talk about making that list, accepting where you are so you can address it in the book you talk about, like what the things are what you're going to do, you're going to put together the list, how people use it, I don't know if it's the accountability mirror, how they address each of those problems, okay, so let's say.

The first is that you are not the smartest person in school. I had that problem, so the most important thing was how I addressed that problem. I had to sit down. Every single thing that is wrong with you has to be a focal point that you can't. look at this gigantic list and say: I have to change all this, my God, this is crazy, no, take the first one off, I want to be smarter for me, that was my thing, I have to become smarter, I have such a severe learning . disability that I cannot retain. I had to understand that now and then create a strategy for that problem.

How can I do this? I'm not going to learn like you. I'm not going to learn like the others. How am I going to solve this? So I figured out, where are my strengths here and my weaknesses in learning? Okay, man, how am I going to do this? And I discovered a way to do it, but it's a strategy, so how do I learn to this day if I have a big manual to study I'll have to get a bunch of spiral notebooks from the daggone store and every page I have to write every page maybe 10 times so there was a thousand page diving manual that I got 18 months before I went to diving school most people I'm not smart I'm going to go see if I can pass this exam I realized wait a second no I'm smart, how can I get over this?

How can I overcome this obstacle? I need to get it I need to get this book 18 months in advance because it could take me 18 months to write each page over and over again and then memorize it, so when the question came up, I had written it so many times in that in on you. I know on paper I can remember, okay, page 71 was where I remember seeing this and I can remember it that way and this is how I did it so you can strategize every problem you have in life, slowly break down that problem. , do not think. about all the problems you have just one at a time and before you know it you solve all these problems but you can't focus on all of them just one thing at a time there is a concept in your book that permeates the entire book and I I think it really is one of the most important things for people to understand in their own life.

Without a doubt, understand you and it is the notion of detesting mediocrity. Tell me about that. How did you instill it in your life? How can other people instill it? Theirs is one of the biggest things in the world, many of us mediocrity is everywhere right now and we are all trying to find an easy way out and we are judging ourselves, let's say there are 10 people in this room and we are all mediocre but I am the best of the mediocre people now I think I am great I am great we surround ourselves with people who make us feel great they tell us what we want to hear the moment we put ourselves among the unusual people we don't like it that feeling that challenge and feeling that person's breakup at 3:30 in the morning hey push yourself let's go run we don't like that challenge we like that person who says hey you know what man, I don't feel good today, man, and they're like, oh, okay bro, we'll take a day off, maybe have some pizza and watch the game.

We like it, we love that feeling, why, because you understand, man. you're good bro, we don't want that, hey man, no bro, stop being a punk, we don't want that in our lives, we don't want that person who constantly challenges our weaknesses, we want that process constantly. We know that making us feel good, good and safe in ours, that is the mediocrity of life, we want to be the best among average people, people wonder how it is possible that you stay hungry all the time, because after achieving something I don't stay seated at all. of the kids who graduate graduate this graduate who feel comfortable they wonder why I'm getting weak man I don't know I lost my edge what's going on because once you get to the top of the mountain guess what happened I'm fine I'm fine, then you wonder why you are falling now because once you are at the top of the mountain you have to build another one that is mediocrity.

There are many people in mediocrity who have a good resume but are unique. They hit, they made a one-time deal, they opened it, they got a lot of money, but they're good, now you're mediocre, man, what are you doing today, tomorrow the next day? That's why I listen to theorists, I don't listen. All that I listen to who is like this man what's up man I'm tired friend why are you tired? because tomorrow I have to do the same man, whatever made me feel nauseous and upset my stomach hurt me there is no end and that is the person I listen to that is the person who has acquired knowledge you gain knowledge through suffering and At the other end of suffering there is a world that very few, very few, have ever seen.

It is a beautiful world because that is where you find yourself and you do not find yourself here you find yourself in the other.extreme like in the 100 mile race I was in, I ran it for 24 hours I found myself at the other end of that race in those 19 hours I found wow, there is a whole different world here that I never even saw that the world is in your mind and that's what all that mediocrity is about. Mediocre is contagious. Tell me about not being civilized, not giving civilized, it's about having a

savage

mentality, civilized is something where people, um, it's a comfortable world for many.

Let's say, you know, for example, I see these athletes right now that are retiring, you know, I'm 38, you know, I'm 39, I spent 20 years at the top of my game and I'm relaxing now, you see them a year later. and what they look like, what the hell just happened to you dude, what the hell you're one of the greatest athletes of all time? Children admired you, women, men of all ages admired you and they reached the top where it is time to retire. and your mind says I'm civilized the worst thing that could happen to me.any human being becomes civilized is that total responsibility like even when you retire there's someone watching me and judging me right now man I was the baddest person that ever lived , it doesn't go away man, you gotta wake up even though you retired, you never retired, you're leading by example every day of your life and being civilized feels so good, sorry man, once you get to the top you can Retire, but you're never coming home, man.

Because now you're judged, people see you fall, you want to be that guy who knows I may be retired from the sport or forever, but I'll be damned if you ever see me wanting to not make it, people. I have arrived I have arrived mentality you are always leading by example civilization feels so good these comfortable feelings are what people want they want retirement they want they need it it is a feeling of longing I want it too people love to put a label About me Oh my god, you're just wired differently, not wired differently, dude, I'm thinking right now, after I got over my stutter, now I'm on a roll, I'm fine, now you know what I'm thinking about, right ?

Now I have to wake up tomorrow and do the same thing again. I have to leave this interview and stretch for two and a half hours. I hate that, but guess what it does, even though I'm constantly numbed by the victim mentality I once had growing up. every day you have to do this because when you stop doing it you don't keep it if you stop shooting a gun you won't be a great shooter if you pick up a gun a year from now the only way to avoid rust is to constantly owe that machine the machine is this one you have to keep challenging it every day the way I think is very similar and I have to imagine that this is one of the things that makes you one For me, one of the most misunderstood humans on the planet is driving that tough being, that being hungry, pushing long after everyone stops, has nothing to do with anyone but myself and my drug of choice is how I feel about myself when I'm alone.

No one knows how hard I work and no one ever will, not even my wife is awake enough to see how hard I really work, but it doesn't matter because the way it makes me feel right now is where I get to. say ah the world doesn't know I could be lying but I would know and the way I feel now because I know how true it is that no one is outdoing me that to me is the juice and when people understand that what you you do We're fighting to build the reason I'm wearing a t-shirt that says what would Goggins do.

The reason I sang Goggins like the crowd before it started rolling, the camera was singing Goggins. The reason this is so resonant is because they want to do something for themselves they want to feel some way about themselves now that you've become a great speaker what do people come up to you the most and ask you how I do? How can I do what I do on a daily basis? You know how I fight demons because you hear me talk and I'm very raw and real. How do you fight my insecurities? All these things and they're there every day, every day, like you said. in search of a feeling I am not in search of a trophy I am not in search of love not so much for more followers on Instagram or social networks when I started this journey years ago and I realized that I am going to be someone and I am looking for a feeling, a feeling of true victory for me and only me at the moment when I exclude the whole world and realize that one thing is that I am alone in this world: I am fighting in this race alone yes, I mean the people, I mean the team, I mean that, but I really care about right now and in my life, just like you said, no one knows the truth about me, how hard I really work.

I don't care if anyone knows. I don't want anyone to know that I'm an introvert. I live an introverted life and I love that about myself. That's my fuel. I know there's really no one out there grinding like that. me and if it is, so be it, if I know about you, I will make sure that in my gang, that is what mentality is about, my whole thing is a question of mentality, as I told you the last few times on the program, I I saw myself as the weakest person on planet earth my goal in life was to believe in my mind that I am the toughest man in the world and that's why this whole thing is you can't hurt me that's what it's about it's about what Whatever you think you are, you have to make that dream come true, but that's where the hard part is making that dream come true, that's where the hard work comes, that's where people know how to keep working every day, you have to do those things. insecurities, those fears, like when I weighed 300 pounds.

I have no drive I'm going to be a Navy Seal What kind of stupidity is it that at 300 pounds there was no drive to be a Navy Seal? I was a lying, insecure child who was afraid of having to look at my insecurities and at my fear and find momentum in that we are all looking for passion passions around you you have a lot of that around you it's your insecurities all you have to delve into that all this is there all the energy and fuel you need is in yourself, it's all there, you have a lot of things to do to overcome and you know, that's where I found it, I found it right there, among the insecurities, I found the drive in my own insecurities and that is the most powerful thing.

The thing in the world is when you can find momentum in your own doubts, fears, insecurities, you become very unstoppable, you may have changed me on a deep and fundamental level. I've never thought about it that way, so the number one question I get is how? Do I find my passion, the answer to which is very rudimentary and perhaps ultimately not as true and powerful as what you just said? There's another thing I need to link to what you talk about in the book, which is that people have lost touch with her. their bodies and you always tell people that if you want to change, do something physically demanding, like putting yourself in the suffering and pain of doing something with your body.

Yes, it's absolutely fascinating to me. It's hitting me now. I never would have done it. I heard you say that before, so I'll reserve final judgment for round three when we get back together, but thinking about yourself makes you feel lost, you feel insecure, you have no passion, you don't know what to do, you're reaching out Tell someone that you need that help, you know that you could do more, be more, and the answer is that in the last interview we did, you called it the bag of, if I remember correctly, yes, you put your hand in the bag of and start changing them for what may be the most extraordinary advice I have ever heard in my life, in fact, I will say this because of the way it is affecting me right now, that is the most extraordinary advice for self-transformation that I have ever heard, is the right who's sitting here right now today this is the real me, obviously, but I'm going to go.

I'm a very philosophical person and I'm going to come to you very quickly. I believe in a higher power. I do not know the name. I don't know where it comes from, it's nothing like that, but I think this power and very quick visualization, let's say it's a man up there or a woman whatever and they have a chart and when you're born they say David Goggins was born. February 17, 1975 at 6:00 am they write the chart because they can see everything they know exactly what you're supposed to be they know what you're supposed to be you die you go to so-called heaven you get to heaven I weigh 300 pounds, retired as an employee from a green lab, which is fine, just a job, whatever.

I go up there and God looks at me and shows me my chart and my chart there says you were supposed to be a Navy Seal. you're supposed to weigh 185 pounds you're supposed to be one of the smartest people on the planet this this all this you see this and now you're in heaven you made it to heaven but you're like god it was supposed to weigh live that life it was supposed to live that life and then you find out that the reason is because we all think that if we pray about it, if we do this, if we do that, whatever, if we don't work, we just do whatever we magically can.

It doesn't happen with us, I think when it's all said and done, all my job is to get over the chart, whatever the chart says about me, the omniscient power that's up there, I want to go up and say, look at me and say I know. everything I didn't see this I didn't see this I want to feel like I want to reach the other end of this world and anyway I'm being judged whoever is judging me should look at me and say yes I don't know, I had you at 185, if you had done this, but everything This, I was riding while you were living it, I want, I want to find more, everything I can and in that bag of you I have to dive into it to find more because if you are not willing to go in there and face yourself you are not going to find anything You're going to live here on the surface, man, here on the surface, so there's an end to this world and there's a place to go and there's a judgment, you're going to get there and you might see a graph and that graph might tell you who you should have been and now you can rest your life to think about that man.

I could have lived a much better life if only I would have suffered a little more if I had gotten into that and realized that I was so much more afraid in my 40s and living here instead of living here, being afraid, stopping, like that. I'm a big guy at visualization. I'm a big guy at creating a world, it may not exist for me, for me it exists and I'm mastering myself every day and you have to find tools to do that, that's the tool I use so that's what it's about . Damn, you said in the book that the only thing to fear is the man looking at you in the mirror.

I thought that was incredibly powerful and it seems to be related to this. Is there something more to that or is that what you're talking about? That's all I'm talking about, like you're your biggest enemy, your greatest, the most important conversation you'll ever have in your life is the one you have with yourself, you wake up with it, you walk with it, you go to bed with it. , eventually You are going to act accordingly, whether you are good or bad, you have to do it. That's why everything about this book that I have is about you, it's strictly about you, it's strictly about you discovering who you are.

So many people die, they live a hundred years. I never know who they are, I never know who they are, you have to look in that mirror and know this, there's a lot more here, man, because literally right now I could be a 300 pound guy spraying cockroaches to this day if I didn't look. in that mirror and say there has to be more to this this can't be and then be willing to dive deep into it and give everything I have to find it so that's what that's all about and everything that you've done and everything you've been through help me understand when they gave you the award and you didn't have a happy childhood.

I think it would be very fair to say when you got the vfw award recently and you were listening to people who had an

impact

on you and you got to your mom, you couldn't even talk, yeah, uh, it almost choked me now, so I got the vfw award for The Americanism Award for Military Service and Remuneration. I am as human as human. Maybe that's why what you see is what you get at that moment when I was giving my speech and I thank my uncle for being there and I let my mom know, it wasn't just her, it was me, I know so passed.

I know what I went through and we got knocked down so bad that I had a moment in front of all these great American heroes where I had the opportunity, it was so fast it went through me like a bolt of lightning. I can not believe it. I'm here, I can't believe I'm getting an award like this for that kid who was in the fetal position most of his life and so much the fact that my body and my hip flexors are tight to this day that a Even though I was standing tall my mind was in the fetal position and when I looked among all those people it was a feeling of pride that I can't even explain.

These are the moments of three weeks of hell. These are the moments of being in that room alone studying for hours and hours. and I was trying to catch up with all the kids that are above me, it's just those moments like the real, raw moments in life that were like a boom that hit me and we were gone, but I was like I did it. that I overcame that you know it is as if there was power behind all that and that is the feeling that I was looking for in my life I discovered that it was not money, it was not fame, it was not awards, it was that feeling thatI have right now I feel like I'm about to collapse, but it's not like "Oh my God, I'm upset", it's like I worked so hard that I turned a person into this right here, not by reading a book by a theorist. to go work on myself and say I don't know how to do this, but I know to get there on that side I have to work my way up to good power and I did it, I did it all safely and very few. very few people will know what that feels like, I love that more than you guys could know before I ask my last question, tell these guys where they can find the book, so the book is now called It Can't Hurt Me, but please david goggins and it's on amazon right now it's a real, plain book it's not a five step book it's a real book on how to develop habits on how to improve yourself and I think all humans have an equation like What do you know, pi is 3.14, that's how you solve it. equation every human being has a different equation and there is no ready made book of hey read this book and you will be fixed no you have to discover your own personal equation and once you discover that equation now you become a mathematical genius about yourself same and that's what this book does, it makes you a genius about who you are and then from there, once you realize that 3.14 is pi, you can solve any equation in the world, from that It's about, I love it.

Okay, my last question: what is the impact you want to have on the world? The impact I want to have on the world is for everyone to be able to face who they are. I want to have that kind of impact where you can move forward. tv you can put your life on a billboard you are not ashamed of who you are you are not ashamed of what life did to you what you helped life do to you everything bad that is now in this big pot that is stirring you Not anymore you are ashamed of it, you realize that we are all awake, stop judging yourself in front of other people who have hidden it better than you, that's all they have done, they have mastered it better than you and now they are turning it back on . you and say that you are awake, I want you to realize that life in this world is a big mind game and once you learn to play the mind game it is no longer a game, you can start living your life.

I love it, David, thank you. I bought this book a lot, I read it, it is extraordinary, it is one of the most amazing manuals on how to change your life and I think this interview alone could be transformative for some people and the book goes into much more detail and really reaches inside you and shows you how to do it in your own life. He helps you find that 3.14 so you can go out and do the things you need to do, but the things I hope you take away from it, be honest. with yourself be crude but understand that you can fix it stop tolerating mediocrity you have to detest mediocrity in your life and you have to understand that the only way you will find yourself is through pain and suffering and if you can become a master of suffering the things you can do with your life are truly limitless you can truly free yourself from all the limiting beliefs that you have imposed on yourself your circumstances have imposed on you your family has imposed on you experts have imposed on you whoever you are You can get rid of everything that and going completely crazy with what you are capable of doing and one day you will have a t-shirt that instead of saying what Goggins would do, you will ask what I would do because you are the right person to ask and when you get to that point nothing will be the same, get the book guys if you haven't already make sure to subscribe and until next time my friends are going to be legendary take care David that was great.

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