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David Ghiyam

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The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

You now know. I walk in a room now and I know the hours and years and decades I put into David Goggins. That's something, it's not on the wall. It's not a trophy on the wall. It's not a medal around your neck. It is actually a feeling in your heart. And people go, why don't you ever smile? I don't have to. Yeah, I do have a stoic look on my face. I'm a very focused person.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

You now know. I walk in a room now and I know the hours and years and decades I put into David Goggins. That's something, it's not on the wall. It's not a trophy on the wall. It's not a medal around your neck. It is actually a feeling in your heart. And people go, why don't you ever smile? I don't have to. Yeah, I do have a stoic look on my face. I'm a very focused person.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

But the feeling I have in my soul and in my heart, that's why I need to smile. I don't need to smile. I don't need you to look at me and say, oh my God, you look happy. Because half of us aren't happy. We're giving you something that we think you want to see. I don't do that anymore. I don't care how you perceive David Goggins. Because through my journey, I figured out the one piece I was missing.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

But the feeling I have in my soul and in my heart, that's why I need to smile. I don't need to smile. I don't need you to look at me and say, oh my God, you look happy. Because half of us aren't happy. We're giving you something that we think you want to see. I don't do that anymore. I don't care how you perceive David Goggins. Because through my journey, I figured out the one piece I was missing.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

I thought it was cars. I thought it was women. I thought it was money. I thought it was everything. The one piece I was missing was me having the courage to face myself. And once you do that on a daily basis, it's not about the running. People are going to be, you have to start working out. Where I got my work ethic from, was the hours I had to spend learning this.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

I thought it was cars. I thought it was women. I thought it was money. I thought it was everything. The one piece I was missing was me having the courage to face myself. And once you do that on a daily basis, it's not about the running. People are going to be, you have to start working out. Where I got my work ethic from, was the hours I had to spend learning this.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

When you sit down and you're not smart, and you have a disability, and you still wanna be at the top of your class, I didn't wanna just get by. When I realized that I can learn through hard work, and I can beat the valedictorian in school, but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does. You know what kind of strength comes from that?

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

When you sit down and you're not smart, and you have a disability, and you still wanna be at the top of your class, I didn't wanna just get by. When I realized that I can learn through hard work, and I can beat the valedictorian in school, but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does. You know what kind of strength comes from that?

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

When you're sitting down, that guy, that valedictorian study for an hour, and you know, I caught you. I caught you. And I am dumb. But I have the work ethic to catch you. That's where David Goggins got really invented. Was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks that were empty. And then three months later, they were full. And when you can go through that, I still have them in my storage unit.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

When you're sitting down, that guy, that valedictorian study for an hour, and you know, I caught you. I caught you. And I am dumb. But I have the work ethic to catch you. That's where David Goggins got really invented. Was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks that were empty. And then three months later, they were full. And when you can go through that, I still have them in my storage unit.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

You go through these spiral notebooks of your life and you realize this is how I learned. This is unbelievable. There's no miles. It's not about the miles. It's that, having a discipline every day to say, for me to learn this one math problem, it's gonna take me 10 hours. And that's where, and you realize through hard work, you can outwork anybody, no matter how bad they are.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

You go through these spiral notebooks of your life and you realize this is how I learned. This is unbelievable. There's no miles. It's not about the miles. It's that, having a discipline every day to say, for me to learn this one math problem, it's gonna take me 10 hours. And that's where, and you realize through hard work, you can outwork anybody, no matter how bad they are.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

but that's the part people don't wanna dive into.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

but that's the part people don't wanna dive into.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

It starts with yourself, man. You gotta start diving into those things that you are afraid of. You don't gain confidence by going to the spot that makes you feel good. It's gonna be a false reality. And the second life gives you that challenge, all you wanna do is go back to what made you confidence or what gave you confidence. It's that happy spot.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

It starts with yourself, man. You gotta start diving into those things that you are afraid of. You don't gain confidence by going to the spot that makes you feel good. It's gonna be a false reality. And the second life gives you that challenge, all you wanna do is go back to what made you confidence or what gave you confidence. It's that happy spot.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

No, what gives you confidence, what gave me confidence was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write on my own, realizing I can't learn the way you learn. I can't. But I can learn. What gives you confidence, not being afraid, is overcoming the fear. I used to stutter severely bad. So right now, I don't know how many people are gonna watch this.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

No, what gives you confidence, what gave me confidence was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write on my own, realizing I can't learn the way you learn. I can't. But I can learn. What gives you confidence, not being afraid, is overcoming the fear. I used to stutter severely bad. So right now, I don't know how many people are gonna watch this.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

You know what gives me confidence? Is knowing I no longer care if I sit here and start stuttering to you. That's what gives me confidence, is facing these things, overcoming them. And maybe not overcoming them every day, but facing them, and facing them, and facing them. Pretty soon like this, you know what man, this is where it's at. It's not in that comfort zone.

The School of Greatness
How To Start Your Day For Peak Mental & Physical Performance

You know what gives me confidence? Is knowing I no longer care if I sit here and start stuttering to you. That's what gives me confidence, is facing these things, overcoming them. And maybe not overcoming them every day, but facing them, and facing them, and facing them. Pretty soon like this, you know what man, this is where it's at. It's not in that comfort zone.