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everybody you are about to watch an
amazing episode of impact Theory with
david Goggins i love this episode more
than i can tell you i absolutely am
blown away by david Goggins himself but
i want to give a full disclaimer first
of all this man swears a lot and when i
say that you know it's an issue so if
you have kids around you now would be
the time to get them out also his
worldview is ultra hardcore i'm not
recommending that everybody do what he
does which is pretty extreme but i just
wanted to give everybody a full warning
ahead of time but i think this man is
incredible but let it be said you have
been warned and now welcome to impact
theory with David Goggin everybody
welcome to impact Theory you are here my
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alright today's guest is widely
considered to be the toughest man on the
planet and one of the greatest endurance
athletes of all time but if you're
tempted to dismiss him as the product of
amazing genetics great parenting or even
performance-enhancing drugs think again
he grew up in an abusive household spent
his high school years as one of only a
small number of black kids in a tiny
Indiana town roughly 20 miles from where
the KKK was founded he had to endure a
relentless bullying and he barely
managed to graduate with a 1.6 GPA he
struggled with obesity twice in his life
weighing in at over 300 pounds had
severe allergies sickle-cell trait and a
congenital heart disease that left him
with a hole in his heart the size of a
poker chip he grew up feeling soft and
weak with no self-esteem but despite all
of that one day he decided he was going
to stop saying woe is me and start
kicking some
ass that set him on a path to
transforming himself into the hardest
man alive did he do it well he's the
only member of US Armed Forces to
complete field training the US Army
Ranger School and the Air Force tactical
air controller training he's completed
the infamous destroyer of men known as
hell week three times including two in a
single year and one that he started and
finished with multiple stress fractures
and a hernia he served in combat in Iraq
was the bodyguard for the Iraqi Prime
Minister he once held the Guinness World
Record for most pull-ups in 24 hours at
4030 he's run eight eight consecutive
100-mile races over eight back-to-back
weekends he ran over 7,000 miles in a
single year and that is the equivalent
of running 267 marathons I think it is
abundantly clear this man is a self-made
Beast so please help me in welcoming the
man who once ran an ultra marathon with
pneumonia the king of no excuses
David Goggins my pleasure I assure you
the things you've done are absolutely
incredible but what I find fascinating
is if you just read your litany of
things that you've accomplished you do
just assume well you must be really
gifted you're shredded you're in great
shape but when you see the before
picture it's pretty startling right so
what was that moment like looking in the
mirror the day you decide okay wait
enough is enough
well it was pretty crazy for me it took
a while to get to that point where
enough was enough what happened I came
home one night from work spraying for
cockroaches and long story short I
turned on the Discovery Channel I saw
some guys going through Navy SEAL
training and they're going through hell
week and they're getting their ass just
beat you know in all the water guys
ringing the bell there's
offering and I was waiting like 297
pounds and I had to make a change in my
life you know I was at all-time low and
I wasn't going anywhere and I was
exactly what everybody said I was going
to be which is nothing so I had to make
a change what was it about seeing
suffering I said that's really
interesting and I actually get it but I
want to hear you explain it why
suffering was the thing that triggered
that thought well for me growing up I
came from a horrible background I got
called nigger every day of my life
growing up lived in a small town the
Klan headquarters at that time was about
20 minutes from where I lived the one of
the high ups in the KKK son sat behind
me in two classes so you called me nigga
a long time got my first car they spray
print nigger we're going to kill you on
it so I was just an insecure scared kid
and the only way I could find myself was
to put myself through the worst thing
possible
how'd you have the insight though like
that's so counterintuitive like most
people that's precisely what they're
trying to eat away from right so what
was it in you at that moment you're
overweight you've been bullied
essentially your entire life up to that
point what makes you go all right
motherfucker like that that's what I've
got to do well no one was helping me out
so my mom my dad made my mom kind of
irregular so she worked three jobs with
the college full time so she's never
around one time this this person drew a
picture of me and you know said we're
going to kill you nigger on my Spanish
notebook and I took it to my principal
and my principal said they still nigger
Niger that was the best advice you can
give me so long story short what I
realized was no one was here to help me
and the feeling I had every morning I
started shaving my head in are 16 years
old in the feeling I had every morning I
looked in the mirror was horrible and I
don't want to feel like that anymore and
how I felt was a kid going nowhere a kid
that was scared and most kids will
accept that and look for help but the
best thing that happened to me no one
helped me no one felt sorry for me no
one looked at me and said like this day
and age they'll take you in and all
clear buy stop picking on this person
back didn't any care the KKK marched in
our 4th of July parades they had to stay
100 yards back but they marched in it
Wow that's how this town was and my mom
cared about me but my dad took our soul
and she's you know did the best she
could I had to figure out I wasn't going
to be a punk kid all my life so the way
I could turn it around was to suffer
I had to build calluses in my brain the
same way I built calluses on my hands so
I broke the Guinness Book of World
Records for puffs a long time ago but I
felt at it twice and I just 67,000
pull-ups and trying to break this record
so to do 4030 pull-ups I had to do
67,000 per training for that Wow and so
what I realized is for me to become the
man I wanted to become I saw myself as
the weakest person God ever created but
I never blamed God for anything he did
to me so I wanted to change that to be
the hardest man ever created am i that
I don't know but you had to have a goal
in my goal when I was sitting there not
going to school being bullied being
having no self-esteem my goal was the
only person that's could turn this
person around is me you know I can turn
around
is put myself through the worst things
possible
a human being could ever endure it and
I'd be the only way that I can build
this brain to handle anything that comes
in front of it callus in my mind through
pain and suffering that's so powerful
it's such an amazing insight so
obviously listening to some of the stuff
that you're talking about and one thing
that you say often is you know it's it's
hard to stay hard or get hard when
you're living in you know like you even
said at one point in a big mansion in
Beverly Hills right so I was sitting
there thinking you're absolutely right
but what I find so interesting is how we
as a species run from pain we run from
suffering and one of the reasons I've
talked about this before but one of the
reasons my wife and I don't have kids is
I firmly believe that you need
something that is brutal is difficult is
hardship it knocks you off Center it
makes you feel bad because in the
process of rebuilding and clawing back
from that climbing up then you can
become something but you unless you've
been tested unless you've gone to the
ring or you've got no hope so how do you
take somebody that you love and force
them through that and I think that what
you've done is maybe the ultimate
expression of that which is how do you
put yourself through it where you'd have
to do any of that so in the end like
what would your advice be to that 16
year old kid staring in the mirror does
not like what he sees but it's still
running from adversity well my biggest
advice that he was that first of all he
won't like what I say to him because I'm
going to say the exact opposite of what
the world today's world is saying so we
read a bunch of books nowadays as humans
we we want to find out how to be someone
else what we don't do is we don't go
inside so literally turn yourself inside
out read the book that's like we're
writing a book every day for life but we
never read that book so what I would
challenge this young man or young woman
to do is you have to look inside of
yourself see what you really want what
are you passionate about we use these
words and these little phrases of only
the strong survive and also the crap
they're all just fucking words I get so
tired of hearing people just talking
like right now someone may think God is
just talking you don't know me so when I
speak I speak from passion I speak from
experience I speak from suffering I want
to tell this young man and woman that
the only way I believe this is just my
experience in life the only way you're
ever going to get to the other side of
this journey is you have got to suffer
to grow to grow you must suffer and some
people get it and some people won't but
they have to see what their journey is
to start their journey several people
live to be a hundred years old and they
have great lives and they have great
kids the kids go to college and all sort
of stuff but somewhere in their life
there was a point where they had a
decision to make they can go left or
right on this path left was the easy
route right was a hard route
a lot of people take the easy route and
they had a good life that way but the
better life was going to the right side
and you may have 20 years of pain and
suffering to get past it but a lot of us
die never truly starting our journey and
I would tell this young person you got
to start your journey it may suck but it
will it will come out the other side
where you're coasting so it's really I
want to go back to what you're saying
about that we write our own book of
writing it every day but we actually
don't take the time to read it so what
do you were saying that here's what I
singing tell me if this is where you
were going that basically you're you're
writing down these things that are sort
of becoming your identity about being
weak about avoiding suffering about
being soft essential I mean all like all
the things were to by default there in
that camp and as you were saying that I
was imagining you sorta taking that pen
and beginning to write your own story
and writing things that you knew looking
back on that you would be proud of like
going through the military and doing the
hardest training some of the ultra
endurance stuff that you've done which
is unbroken feet I mean it's like so
crazy
in fact it one is that what you meant by
writing that sorry so I meant by that is
like every day we're seeing who we are
as people when I was growing up I I lied
for people to accept me because I did
accept myself so I would make up stories
so then you would accept me into your
world I would everything I did was for
someone else to like me it was until I
started reading my own book about how
pathetic I was as human being I could
blame my dad I can blame kids at school
I could blame having health issues ATD
my mom not being around great mom but
she was doing her thing
I could blend a lot of people and that's
the book I was reading and I put it off
on everybody else it wasn't so I say you
know what for me to fix this I get a
read what the hell what the fuck is
wrong with David Goggin not blame
anybody read my book is okay I'm afraid
of my shadow how can I overcome that go
in the military get your ass kicked
do things you hate to do be
uncomfortable every fucking day of your
life Roger that I'm not the smartest kid
in the world okay if there's somebody
saying oh no you're
don't say that to yourself I said to
myself no I'm a dumb motherfucker okay
Roger that how you get smarter educate
yourself so the things that we run from
we run from the truth we run up from the
truth man so the only way I became
successful was going towards the truth
as painful as brutal as it is it changed
me it allowed me to become mi alright
Who I am today one of the most powerful
things I think anybody can do and this
so I used to struggle with self-esteem
and my thing was I focused on being
smart and I just wasn't that smart I
focus on being right and I was wrong a
lot and so it created this weird thing
in my life where I would constantly try
to put myself around people who are less
and less intelligent so that I could
feel good about myself
and the badness is actually a really
good strategy for that right being
around people that were less intelligent
than me really did make me feel good
like feel good about myself but I
literally referred to myself at the time
as the king of remedial jobs because
that those are the only jobs that I
could really shine at and it wasn't
until I realized I can actually change
what I build my self-esteem around and I
can start building my self-esteem around
instead of being right or being smart
being a learner and being willing to
admit when I'm wrong and so the thing
that I began to build my self-esteem
around was being willing and able to
stare at my inadequacies right right
what you said like I fully understand
like how this this interview is going to
be M you warned me ahead of time this
interview is going to be bifurcating
people are going to love it and some
people going to hate it and but dude I
so believe in the notion of looking at
yourself and if you are pathetic owning
it right and saying because my thing is
you can change it right which you have
proven in no uncertain terms that's it
but if you don't admit it you're never
going to be on the path to changing it
exactly walk us through because this is
one of those crazy stories I I can't
imagine how you pull this off your first
ultramarathon which you got into like
really fast and one why you did excite
think that's incredible so this the
first ultra marathon wasn't smart at all
at all just so basically happened was
I was at military freefall school with
Morgan Latrell marcus luttrell if you
guys don't know was the lone survivor
the guy he was in a bad hop awfully and
bad he was the only Navy so that lived
long story short got to get the book
read lone survivor great story
Morgan is Marcus - Charles twin brother
and I was there with Marcus so what
happened was myself and Morgan were
freefall school at the same exact time
Marcus was in the worst incident in
still history so I knew that Marcus
might be dead he wasn't dead everybody
was dead so I actually bought Morgan you
know actually told Morgan hey man your
brother wasn't a bad incident I don't
know if he's alive I know what's going
on long story short
Marcus is alive and I go on to want to
raise money for families all these guys
died they all had kids I want to raise
money for the Special Operations Warrior
Foundation it's the foundation where 100
percent tuition goes to these kids to go
to college you know full tuition
whatever so I found this great
foundation I'm going to raise money for
it so I see know what I think Google
something that's that's evil something
very hard I knew nothing about
ultramarathons
I hadn't run a marathon I knew nothing
about this world so I googled it they
know the top 10 hardest races in the
world and what comes up is about water
135 so hundred thirty-five mile race
through Death Valley in the summertime I
thought it was a stage race I thought
was a race where you run like 20 miles
set up camp you know
barbecue outside and then go run some
more the next day so I called the race
director up at the race it said hey
Chris name is Chris Causton I want to do
your race so we had a long conversation
you know I was I was much heavier than
and I had to put running shoes on over a
year I'll have area at this one I'm
around between 240 to 270 whoa I'm in
there I'm in that ranch my weight is
buried a lot through the SEAL Teams and
I was no team so I was a heavy guy but
the long and short of it all was I had
put running shoes on in over a year I
was a big-time power lifter I lifted
weights heavy that's what I did I've got
back home from Iraq went straight to
freefall school and then this happened
so I call Chris costumed up on a
Wednesday he says look man the only way
you can qualify for my race is to run
100 miles at one time in 24 hours or
less there happened to be a race that
Saturday so 4 days later and he said if
you qualify by running 100 miles or less
in 24 hours I will consider you my race
I'm gonna cut to the chase I signed up
for this race it's called the San Diego
one day when you run around a one-mile
track for 24 hours to city miles you can
get my goal was 100 miles so I got 2
miles 70 and I cleared 70 miles in like
12 13 hours pretty quickly but I was
done my feet were broken
I was stretched fractured shin splints
muscles were tearing I was in bad shape
I was eating rich crackers and drinking
this that's all I had no water didn't
know what the hell is doing out there
head on some tube socks it was just
ridiculous it was it was a clown show so
I sat down at Mile 70 and at this time I
was married and I look at my wife and I
was like I'm messed up bad so I
literally start to turn white and when a
black guy turns white you're pretty
fucked up so here I am I'm all fucked up
in this chair I'm at Mile seven if they
got 30 fucking miles to go I'm jacked up
I got to go to the bathroom the
bathrooms like 20 feet from me supporter
party I can't get all the fucking chair
so I'm peeing blood down my leg whoa
pooping up my fucking back and I got
thirty miles to go and I'm I can't stand
up to my my blood pressure's all messed
up I've been in three hell weeks
Ranger School overcome so many obstacles
in my life this last 30 miles of this
race is when I realized a human being is
not so human anymore we have the ability
to go in such a space if you're willing
to suffer and I mean suffer your brain
and your body once connected together
can do anything and this 30 miles was
the
life-changing moment I was out of it I
was in the worst pain in my entire life
I was to me on the brink of death and I
was able to chunk this 30 damn miles
into small pieces I was so driven I'm
not gonna say motivated because
motivation is crap motivation comes and
goes when you're driven whatever's in
front of you will get destroyed so I sat
in this chair and I was so driven to
succeed in this race and at this time
everyone's rethinking about the guys
that died and I'm not gonna lie to you I
wasn't this became a personal thing this
became me against this race me against
the kids that called me nigger me
against me it just became something that
I took so so violently personal and I
broke this thing down to small pieces I
said okay I got to get nutrition I gotta
be able to stand up before I can get off
this curve and golf this chair and be
able to go 30 miles so I went through
all these small steps and I was able to
stand up and then from standing up
I was literally walking around with my
wife at the time and she goes you not
gonna make the time so you're walking
like 37 minute miles I got tomorrow 81
and the second she said that I'm not
going to make the time I ran the last 19
miles non-stop and I can show you right
now when we get done with this math bag
I'm going to show you right now this was
years ago and I had to put compression
tape on my own and I had so this was
years ago I had literally the size of
half dollars I had to get compression
tape and I taped up my ankles and i
taked up my feet and that's how I got
through that race but was it like a
hematoma I mean what do we well know
that what happened was I like my shins
hurts so bad I'm having stress fractures
that's the only way I could continue on
was I taped it so I wasn't doing the
flexor motion that that activates your
shins
so I taped my ankles and my shins up and
I got that from
because in my third hell week they were
going to go back to no train anymore
right so I literally went through all
the buds my last field training with
stress fractures and shin splints and
how I did it was I would take my ankles
all the way up to my calf every morning
so for the first hour the pain was
excruciating but what happened is my
feet would go numb now did that every
single day for six months whoa that's
how I got to my throat hell because I
was so broken from the first two that
the commander said hey to Co sir this
your last time I seen you through so
that's how I got the idea to do that
so with the right and people may listen
to this and say this guy is sadistic
he's crazies know if you know how I came
up you realized I was just a scared kid
that found Drive and passion to be
something much better than what he
thought he was that's all it is
god I'm going to ask the question I I
don't know if you have a good answer for
this I don't know if there is a good
answer for this but even I want to know
how do you find and cultivate that drive
like there is a kid right now watching
this man and I feel like you felt they
feel lost alone broken stupid lazy like
they're never going to amount to
anything and what you're talking about
is the closest thing to a fucking
superpower that this kid has ever heard
and right now he's on the edge of his
seat
how does he how does he like force
himself to take that first step I'm very
fortunate I grew up at a time when there
was no phones and there was no social
media and I suggest yes I'm on social
media on a very limited basis because I
have a story to tell and it's a great
platform use it as a platform don't use
it as your life my biggest advice to
give everybody in the world is like I
say we live in an external world
everything is is you got to see it touch
it it's external if you can for the rest
of your life live inside of yourself
stop listening to people who are calling
you fat gay transsexual nigger
everything that is makes no sense all
these insecure people put their insecure
on you you gotta flush it out you got to
just be
whoever the hell God wherever the hell
you believe in if you believe in nothing
but yourself I don't care what it is you
got to take everything and throw it away
you have to believe in one thing and
that is yourself and and I'm not saying
don't believe in God or what you believe
in but right now for you to find
greatness in yourself you're not going
to find it by looking in a book or by
even hearing me I may give you the spark
but you've got to go inside yourself to
find it and that means you gotta be
quiet shut the fuck up go in a room stop
talking
search your soul search your mind search
your abilities and you'll find it but if
you're not looking for it you won't find
it so you got to go start your journey
and the journey starts with you finding
why the hell am I here on this planet
Earth why am I here and if you don't
know that you will live the rest your
life searching always asking the
question why so I'm not last 19 miles
feeder broken ankles are taped shin
splints stress fractures what are the
words that are going through your mind
are you in the cookie jar I'm deke from
the cookie jar in the cookie jar is
something that I've made up of all the
failures of my life all the things that
I was I failed and I went back I failed
I went back and I finally succeeded all
the things that kicked my ass I put them
on the cookie jar because at times of
hell even the hardest men in times of
suffering what we do is we forget how
hard we really are because that's what
suffering is suffering is a test it's
all this suffering is the true test of
life and so that cookie jar travels in
my brain so whenever I get put in a
situation where I have poopy pants the
row was me mentality of oh my god life
sucks I take a second I take the one
second decision I stepped out of my life
for one second going to a cookie jar
pull up Oh motherfucker he went you were
in three homes and finished to one of
those oh it's a guy died he because it
was so bad oh you are motherfucking
badass you are
I put it back in the cookie jar and I
remember who
fuck I really am I'm not the kid that
guy that was called nigga I'm not the
scared kid this is who I am it's a
reminder of who you truly are at the
core of yourself but what I was saying
to myself the whole time on that track
in it and this is what I say to myself
self talk and visualization of two keys
to my success I believed for that last
time 19 miles I was indestructible
because I took myself in that chair
crapping up my back peeing blood in my
leg shin splints stress fractures I use
all that for motivation versus
negativity I use the promoter base I
said to myself who on this fucking earth
would still be going right now you are
you are you got to be the hardest
motherfucker on the planet is it true I
don't give a fuck at that time it got me
to the finish line of that fucking race
I believed it I believe it today I
believed it enough to where my body said
he's not going to stop and that I took
all the negative things I need to go to
the hospital this and that and I uses
all who the hell could even get on that
chair you did who the hell would even
think about taping stretch patches up
you did all those things I'd use for
motivation I'm going to use them for
motivate I mean that's like that's so
fucking powerful talk to me about the
dark side it's something that I'm sure
you take a lot of heat for it's
something that I think a lot about I
believe people should intentionally be
motivated by beauty and rage and so many
people are afraid of the negative what
power have you found in the darkness
first I'll be foreign to that question I
want to say about literally this arm I'm
the happiest man on the planet Earth so
people may take this and as so many
people do we live in a very weakened
Society so when they hear a throwback
guy like me from back in the
days of of Garanimals they often think
this guy's just whatever so if you think
that I'm some unhappy guy you're wrong
having lived the life I've lived in
seeing the other side not being afraid
to attack what was in front of me has
made me happy to say that again and in
fact let me make sure I understood it
getting to the point where you're not
afraid to face the thing on the other
side of the door that wants to attack
you has made you happy right right it's
really powerful I hope people heard that
right it made me very happy so basically
I just don't walk around the daggone
small my face on the anti so you know
Merry Christmas but um but basically
what the dark side is is we all have a
cookie jar and we all have a jar of fuck
that's it's a special name it's a jar of
fuck man with shit just it's just ain't
going right and in hell week what they
do in hell week okay this is where I
really went to the dark side we're doing
hell we cuz they designed hell week to
find your flaws and they do a really
good job of that
it's 130 hours of continuous training
you may get two hours of sleep and they
beat the shit out of you will find
everything wrong with your mentality and
then they start hell week and that's the
beauty of it and for me I'm not some not
no nasty guy giving guy you know I don't
have a great bit of talent in anything
so what got me through horrible times
was the dark side where I created my
name is David Goggins I created goggles
Goggins is the guy that can take
anything you put in front of them you
want to break my motherfucking legs so
be it
I have a way of going to a place I could
did in that race where all the pain and
suffering that they put on top of me in
hell week I will reverse that pain and
suffering and I will take your soul so
every instructor that put me through
buzz my job what drove me
was I wanted you to go home that night
after you beat the living shit out of me
and I smiled in your face I wanted you
to feel worse than I did and you were
going home to a nice warm bed with your
wife or your kids and a nice meal and I
was still out there in the grip
suffering for another 100 hours I wanted
you to think about me knowing that I'm
comfortable being very unfuckin
comfortable and I want you to think
about when you went through fucking hell
week how uncomfortable you were how bad
you wanted to quit knowing I'm not
thinking that fucking way so the dark
side is something that I've designed
it's an evil place I can go that very
few things can hurt me I used to hurt
you're trying to put on me I flip it
upside down and use it you can use it
for Kryptonite no it's power pillows for
me I'm using it for strength
I flipped negative into positive Saudis
I heard you doing an interview on time
and the person was trying to like see
the sort of empowerment of the beauty in
that and you were like no no no it's
darkness and one of the reasons that I
am so I'm utterly fascinated with comic
books and one of the reasons that I'm so
intrigued by Batman is he literally uses
the darkness the sickness that he has
over what happened to him and his family
to propel him forward for decades to to
keep driving and it's most people are
broken by the bad things that happen to
them but every now and then there's a
Goggins there's somebody who understands
how to use that power to understand how
as a human being it's fucking drives you
revenge is powerful like to be able to
tap into that in a way that's controlled
but to be able to bring it in to use it
to feel the energy there is an
intoxication to rage and I don't think
people are honest about it when they
talk about it there's a fucking
intoxication to that and if you can tap
into it and leverage it not get lost to
it which is why I know you always caveat
of it saying look I'm a fucking happy
guy like that's not what we're talking
about right now right but I'm a happy
guy right so you can't get overtaken by
it but it's there
and it is so fucking powerful it's real
that's why when I when you said before
this whole thing started you said I can
be me the second you said I can custom
be me in cussing people I said man you
cuss all the fucking time why well I
hate to say it the best way for me to
get how life Eagle across I can't see
and say you know what I went through
hell week and met it was it was really
hard know that motherfucker
takes your damn soul rips it inside out
and then they say now we're going to
fucking start it allows me to express
where I was at at a point of my life if
I don't give you all of me why the hell
am I here why how will you learn from me
people take so much offense to me you
will never learn from people if we
always tap-dance around the truth oh god
I love that we tap-dance around the
truth by finding the right words I don't
hurt you because you have thin skin no
tighten up people it's okay
trust me it's okay you might be called
nigger one day it's okay you might be
called some Jewish word or some faggot
or gay word it's okay let them call you
that what are you going to do now they
don't own your life how are you going to
control that now how are you going to
flip it upside down and say Roger that
now I'm going to harness this shit and
you're read about me years from now how
that's the question how are you going to
do that thicken your skin become more of
a human being don't be afraid of the
reflection in the mirror because that's
all you can be afraid of once you
overcome the reflection in the mirror
you've done it
I love them and you once said that if
you were growing up in this generation
that you would have a field day because
you would take their souls what did you
mean by that the younger generation
quits not everybody so I got it I got
put that people get their butt hurt so
not everybody most of this generation
quits the second they get talked to you
did this wrong you did this wrong or
they get yelled at it's so easy to be
great nowadays because everybody else's
most people are weak this this is a
softened generation so if you have any
mental toughness any of any ability you
have any fraction of self-discipline the
ability to not want to do it but still
do it people have a hard thing
understand I hate to run and it what
makes me so crazy it doesn't even more -
why do you run if you hate it
what are you talking about I don't want
to take showers and edie's I hate that -
there's the hole that's a life man that
innit
it wasn't until I changed that mentality
that I became somebody I hated going to
school so I guess what I was dumb as
shit that's what what was one is - but
if you can get through to doing things
that you hate to do on the other side is
greatness that's what people are saying
by me running
I am callous in my mind I'm not training
for a race I'm training for life I'm
training for the time when I get that
two o'clock in the morning call that my
mom is dead or something happens tragic
in life I don't fall apart I'm training
my mind in my body my spirit so it's all
one so I can handle what life is gonna
throw at me because the life I've lived
it throws a whole bunch at you and if
you're not physically immensely prepared
for that you're just going to crumble
and you're good for nobody talk to me
about what it takes to be on one side of
a door in Iraq or anywhere knowing on
the other side of the door people who
are not afraid of you
they're ready for you to come in and you
still have and they have done
and you still have to breach that door
that's a great question it that's a very
scary situation when you are on one side
of the door and your mind is racing
because on the other side of that door
it could be no one it could be four guys
with four ak-47s that that door you're
about to open can be trapped so once you
open it boom your legs are gone so
there's a thousand things you think
about when you're the first guy second
guy third guy getting ready go in a room
and flood it and that's why I talk about
the warrior mentality and that's why so
many people are lost when I start
talking you have the right you're lucky
that you don't have to think like
warriors think you're very privileged I
chose this world to be a warrior and I
don't and I would choose it again if I
came back to this world but the
mentality of a warrior is very different
than normal mentality you must be that
person on that door Oh get ready to open
it thinking to yourself if I die so be
it the only way you can go in that door
is know there's a great chance you're
going to die it's like being a seal you
train with live ammo you jump on an
airplane every everything you do you
could die so to be a warrior why people
don't understand me I'm glad you don't
understand me Merry Christmas good on
you because being a warrior takes a
whole different mindset a whole
different mindset to know that there's a
great chance I may not beat him like I
was in for 21 years I'm lucky I'm very
lucky that I'm alive able to talk to you
able to still run but when you sign up
with a downline to be asset like a seal
your mentality changes I may not live
you got accept that and that's the
mentality you have and that's what makes
your warrior if you're scared to die
you're bad warrior and so what do you
use to push through is that is that a
Goggins moment is that finding the
darkness I'm going through how I'll
become the devil if I have to like what
what is that moment what are you pulling
up inside I'm pulling up a lot of the
dark side of me I'm also looking at the
guys to my left and to my right
realizing that we're here together man
and I have to have to be strong for them
and they gotta be strong for me a lot of
people either you like me your don't
even in the SEAL Teams but when you get
to that door or you get on that mission
or you getting up all that's just out
the door man you know you you do it
honestly I mean people say all the time
of these movies and shit you you really
out there fighting for that guy beside
you and you can't be a coward because
it's knowing this I look at everything I
do now in life and this sums it up I
hate it jumping out of airplanes I hated
shooting guns I hate it the job as a
Navy SEAL but I did it because I wanted
to change myself everything I do I'm not
really comfortable doing but if you
choose to go that route to go be a Navy
SEAL you might as well go be the hardest
motherfucker in the world because if
you're choosing to do something you have
two routes you can go there and be a
little a little weak person and get
through barely and that's your
reputation or you can go through the
hardest guide you can possibly be nice
reputation so my whole thing is if
you're going to choose open that fucking
door in Iraq or Afghanistan open the
motherfucker go in hard because they're
going to remember you by slowly opening
and peeking in so if you're going to
open it and you made the mind open it
don't crack it open open the fucking
door go in that's what life if you
choose to do if you choose to do
something attack it because they're
gonna remember you as not attacking it
so I want to be remembered you can hate
me but one thing you can't say about me
I didn't attack it so that's them attire
you have if you're going to do something
module attack it because you do it
anyway right do use that in civilian
life like do you still employ that I'm
in attacking I'm going to take our souls
like how does that play out in a non
combat zone it still works for me in in
life as far as attacking things because
uh no matter what I want to know my wood
Avenue I choose I want to be the very
best and the very best may not be I'm
number one the very best is did I leave
everything inside of me out there so
attacking it's not like I want to win
this or win that or be the best the best
is I'm running against myself and
everything I do and that's that's why I
attack I attacked myself I'm always
questioning myself I'm always holding
myself accountable talk to me about the
accountability mirror so the
accountability mirrors something that I
kind of came up with in high school
like I said I started shaving my head in
on sixteen and I got caught up in trying
to impress so many people because no one
liked me
so I developed so many different
identities let me sag my pants you know
let me okay let me pull my pants up let
me let me talk this way or axis whether
it be this way or whatever the hell it
may be gods are so many different things
I did try to fit in with so many
different groups that when you look in
the mirror that's the one person you
can't lie to you so every morning I
would shave my head taking god I reflect
back on some of the lies I may have told
somebody or some of the ways I acted I
ain't feel comfortable doing and I did
it to impress other normal people the
key where there's normal everyday people
I was trying to make other people like
me how pathetic is that
so I this mirror would always tell me my
I got my reflection I said God you are a
pathetic man how do I feel every day to
be this way so I would just start having
myself accountable how how do i attack
today how do i attack yesterday and if I
going to do something I was proud of I
write down a sticky note and I would fix
it so then my senior year in high school
it was a totally different David Goggin
can you give an example of something
that you wrote down in sixth
alright there was a lunch table now you
know I want to sit the cool guy wants to
go man
no you never has called me a nigger on
time I wanted to try to act like
somebody I wasn't so I could fit in and
I sold my soul to the devil you know
trying to act like no I'm David fucking
Dawkins
that's who I and so I wrote down on a
piece of paper
fuck the table sit by your fucking self
and that's why I did it guess what
happened my table became a table people
started fitting in because a whole bunch
of people in that lunch room so exactly
like I did laundry list of things out I
write down in this fix so I'm right down
to fix it with are things that you look
to for role models people that you were
like taking ideas from like why pull
your pants up if that's the popular
style like what was giving either you
were the single most insightful person
I've ever met which by the way is
entirely possible having listened to
enough of your material or like you had
a treasure trove of people that gave you
great ideas even if they were like
fictional or movie or you know athletes
or whatever but it was funny man one
movie I walked all-time was Rocky great
choice rocky one and I related to Rocky
a lot because of a kind of know when a
smart guy just try real hard and the one
theme that I related a lot of my life to
still to this day was Rocky one round 14
and that's where I got taken souls from
if you look at round 14 of Rocky one
Apollo is beating the shit out of rocky
rocky falls down in this corner
Mickey saying stay down stay down rocky
didn't hear a fucking soul Apollo acting
knock them down turns around hands in
the air like I found him knocked down
this animal right
Apollo doesn't know it but Rocky is
getting up a power turns around the
second rocky gets up and Apollo looks at
rocky any Apollo looks at him with the
look of like rocking just took his soul
he polished his head and rocky has the
gloves in emotions towards Apollo come
on motherfucker I'm still here and this
song comes on that I played so I brought
the game put the M against for the Rose
Records it took me 17 hours to do four
thousand thirty pull-ups I listened to
one song of seventeen hours two minutes
in 17 seconds get to dentist and I
listened to that song for 17 hours
non-stop on repeat so the image in my
mind of a man was not one that had
earrings sag his pants I had this image
in my head and I was going to fulfill
that and I didn't do any trends I
stopped trending I stopped being this
guy whoever was new fuck it that's not
what I believe in I'm doing this this is
what I want to be this and I'm going to
be so it's incredible how do you
experience beauty and joy in your life
what situations do you put yourself in
what makes you laugh what what's the fun
stuff for you it's funny to say that I
just retired from the military November
2015 and I was going and going and going
and going and I never really I was a
happy guy but I'm never in the moment of
like sitting back and I want to travel
here to have fun and do this is that
I've never that person but the first
time I really got a chance to experience
true happiness and true peace was I was
like so what I did to myself to become
Who I am today
it takes a great toll on your body so I
believe God gave me time to rest and he
took me out of commission
not even the mind of God or could get me
back up so I had about a good six seven
months I was out and when I was out I
had time to reflect on all I've
accomplished and that was the first time
in my life where I sat back and said Wow
because only I I'm a be telling you some
of the story
the exact truth of how brutal my life
was and how I shouldn't be on this show
today and how the mind and how beautiful
it is so what brings me joy and
happiness is knowing how beautiful the
mind is and I'm one of the few people
that didn't read about it then it
experienced it through some some drug I
got to experience the beauty of true
fucking willpower true fuck you I'm
going to fail I'm going to fucking fail
I'm going to fucking fail I'm going to
fucking fail and I will succeed just me
talking about that gives me a feeling I
know what I did and I don't need to
travel somewhere or to have this I have
that I have it all here in my mind the
beauty is remembering this young dumb
what people called nigger is now where
I'm at today and that is when you
finally get to that point for me it's
forever lasting peace I'm doing it I
could die right now on this show and
I'll be happy man so that's that's my
happiness is my reflection on the
suffering of my journey knowing I never
quit nor was I got it by anybody on this
earth I was guided by something much
more powerful and I listened and I chose
the path of most resistance talent not
required you've said that you live the
life of a monk mm-hmm what is what does
that mean was that look like why do you
do that
so I stretched out every day for these
two hours I don't drink I don't go out
my regimen is I wake up have oatmeal run
come back hit the wakes um I'm a big
sports guy I don't leave the house at
all but to do stuff like this and I
stress out at nighttime I find people
that I trust which is a very small group
of people people who are honest and true
to me
people who have died for me and I'll
died for them which is a fucking small
and everybody else man you know do you
and I say to myself and I'll let you do
you I don't judge people I don't
criticize you you want to be a douchebag
and being asked and I love this country
do you everyone do I don't care man I
fought for this country for you to do
you and I am all about you doing you
because I'm going to fucking do me and
I'm going to do me until I'm fucking
dead and I believe I earned the right a
lot of people haven't earned the right
because you live in this country you
earn the right you got it
you got to live a little bit live and
then have something to say or shut the
fuck up you know so if you had maybe
impossible to answer but if you had that
same kid from earlier he wants to take
that first step you want him to go
experience some life what one specific
thing would you tell him to go do I
first asked a kid who are you at the
core of your soul and if he can can't
answer that question our conversations
over I can't say shit to him right if
you don't know who you are if you don't
know who you are
I can't tell you who you are what's the
next phase of your life look like you
can't imagine how intrigued I am to
watch you over the next five to ten
years well honestly I've I'm blessed
enough to have survived the life I lived
and to come out the other side with a
bunch of knowledge so hopefully I can
help people that believe that they're
much less than what they truly are help
them find greatness in themselves and
greatness isn't running towards it miles
at a time or doing 4012 to being a seal
greatness is whatever the hell you
dreamed of in your own mind you got to
first see it you got first create this
vision in your mind and then that's when
I come into play once you create this
vision in your mind it's how am I going
to get there now and that's not coming
to play but first you got to create your
own vision and it's not external if the
vision created is inside of you so until
you create that I'm nobody to you
you're writing a book I'm slowly writing
a book right now it's taken me four or
five years because I have so many things
to talk about it could be several
probably several books but the first
book will probably about my life story
how I came up and a few lessons learned
along the way but you know I have so
much to talk about so much to say gives
just to get people a lot more than hope
so all right before my last question
working these guys find you online David
Goggin calm you know Instagram is David
Goggins or face book David Goggins at
David Goggins you know you'll find me go
on there look for David Goggins Google
me they will find there's so much
amazing stuff on you alright so last
question what is the impact that you
want to have on the world the impact I
want to have in the world is it's a
great question man and it's a question
that I've been asked many times and
having several answers for it but the
biggest one is we all we are all great
no matter if if you think you're dumb
and maybe think you're fat no matter if
you are fat no Matt have you been
bullied or no matter if you got back
from Iraq or Afghanistan and you have no
legs or your arms or ever man we all
have greatness it's just you got to find
the courage you got to find the courage
to put your Bose headphones on and
silence the noise out of this world and
to find it in the funding comes out
there but it's going to take hard work
courage self-discipline it's going to
take all the non-cognitive skills all
the non-cognitive skills to be great you
know smart is good all the stuff is good
that's all cognitive it's the
non-cognitive skills that sets you apart
from everybody else and and that's what
it's all about
David thank you so much guys this is one
of those times where as I was
researching him I literally felt like I
should be doing this in a bucket of ice
water or something and I'm actually only
mean a sort of tongue-in-cheek it
fasted through most of my prep because
it felt right to put myself in a more
difficult situation while I was doing
that it really makes me want to find
more ways to go through hardship and
that's one of the things I really hope
you guys take away from him is how you
can totally create yourself and I
experienced him in Reverse so I saw all
of the amazing things that he had done
all of the races that he had won going
through hell week three times the
succeeding in three different branches
of the military nobody ever doing that
before the pull-up record all of it and
then found out that he had struggled
through everything and you realize how
insidiously and how quietly the idea
that somebody is just better than you
they're more genetically gifted than you
slips into your mind as a way of letting
you off the hook not as a way of making
them more extraordinary but you make
them extraordinary as a way of letting
you off the hook and so hearing all the
things that he had to go through and one
thing that didn't even come up in the
show he did most of the amazing
endurance stuff before he had his heart
fixed so his heart was literally
existing at 60% capacity he still did
all of that this is a man who peed blood
and got up and kept running for 30 more
miles if that kind of thing doesn't
inspire you to look inward and to really
take control of your own story to
realize that you can sculpt yourself
into anything you want it doesn't have
to be Goggins but to see in that the
power of both beauty and rage to see in
that the malleability of the human
spirit to see in that the power of the
human spirit to turn you into anyone
that you want to become that is this
man's story and I hope that you guys
heard it there were so many incredible
things so many times that I got the
chills so many times as I saw another
tool that I could take and use in my own
life and I hope you guys got that much
out of it as I did all right if you
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