NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOU - David Goggins Motivational Speech
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How did David Goggins describe his emotional state after finishing an ultra marathon?
David Goggins, you did it! Good job. David Goggins! It's the summer of 2007, and David Goggins has just completed America's toughest ultra marathon under extreme conditions. And your time is 25 hours, 49 minutes, and 40 seconds. Even though he has just achieved his personal best, something is wrong. Onlookers are congratulating him and chanting his name, but he is emotionless. This is because this isn't David's first time coming out on the other side of darkness. He's been through this many times.
I had to use all this negative shit 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 flip it on its head and say, hold up. This might be exactly what I need. The darkness is exactly what I need. It's how you look at your situation. The most important conversation you'll ever have in your life is when you have yourself. And my conversation was absolutely horrifying.
What were you saying to yourself?
I'm dumb, I'm nobody. So when you're growing up with all this stuff, all this hate, it wasn't the beatings. I could hit the beatings all day. It was a mental torture. So when at a young age, your parents put a dialogue in you of confidence or you're nobody. So that voice in my head was I'm a loser. You have to face that in that dark room. In that dark room is who you are. But in that dark room is where you have to create another human being that walks out of that dark room. When you really sit back at your life in that dark room and you're looking at where you started from and you tell yourself, my mom is this way. My stepdad got murdered. My dad beat the shit out of me. I can't read and write to save my fucking soul.
I've lied about it to everybody. I've cheated on all these tests. My God, man. And then you put a goal in your mind. How are you going to feel, man, when you accomplish this goal coming from that shit?
How did Goggins turn childhood abuse and negative self-talk into motivation?
Coming from the fucking hell you came from. A lot of people start from a good starting point. They have a good foundation. What if you can surpass all of these motherfuckers?
Really, no one came to save you?
No. I had a learning disability. My focus in life was way off. I was afraid. I was afraid of everything. And when you have that kind of foundation growing up, and that's where you start life at, is being abused and also working all night at a skating rink, not going to school, and you have a guy who's an alcoholic, and the second he got drunk, he got mad. And so our house lived in fear. And the one thing that you can't ever get out of a kid's mind is your mom's face. The terror of your mom's face. So, you know, I didn't care about my brother. I didn't care about me. But I saw this woman go from Mary Poppins, the sweetest person on the planet Earth. And when you see your mom start to transform to a shell,
to a person whose face becomes stoic, a person who has no emotion. And that changes a kid. And when you're young and you have to grow up so fast. So about eight years old, my mind was of a 40 year old at eight. You know, my family, like life came at me and it makes your brain, you know, you're not outside playing with kids. you know, you're trying to avoid getting beat. When you have all this negativity growing up and now you're cheating and you're doing this and your dad beats you and your mom's fiance gets murdered and tragedy after tragedy after tragedy, and then you come to this and your mom's working three jobs. You know, she's not home at all. She never saw one report card of mine. She didn't know how bad off I was in school.
She was hustling, trying to make money. And I was the man of the house, lying, sneaking around, not going to school, cheating, right, everything I could. She was in a dark place, and I was in a dark place, and we were kind of on our own, in the same house, but living different lives. And I realized at this time in my life, she was a great mom, but I was on my own. And that's when the real big change happened for me. So I said, I'm gonna join the military. Every place I went in the military, there was this ethos about how this place is, how we're gonna live, how we're gonna represent ourselves.
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