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Chapter 1: What choices do we have when facing our past selves?
You have a choice to make. Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were? No. So this is what it takes. It takes that misunderstanding of people, and they'll never get it because they were never David Goggins. So that is what it takes for me to do what I do. It may take you something differently. So for me, everything has to be in the studying. Everything has to be into this.
Everything has to be everywhere I am. It has to be there. Me, focus where I am. We don't, we're not proud of ourselves for the small accomplishments. What we need is we need this monstrosity of the thing to happen and say, ah, I did it. Nah. There's a process that you have to go through and patience is the process. And if we don't have patience after a week, I haven't lost 30 pounds and I'm done.
I'm over it. So that's what I found out with people, man. They're not patient enough to realize and to enjoy the moment, not live in it. Just enjoy it. There's no finish line in life, but enjoy that moment. Roger that, man. I lost five. Let me go 10 next week. There's no fucking passion. There's no fucking motivation. There's no, oh my God, man, I fucking, this is, no.
It's every day of your life just doing. You have to learn what do you want in your life? We have so much influence coming at us that we are so lost. We don't know what we want to do because we don't spend enough time with ourselves. You have to learn to shut off a phone, shut off a computer, shut off a TV. And it's okay to sit in a room by yourself in a chair and just think.
about you, where I want to be, where do I see myself tomorrow, the next year, the next year from that. And it takes a lot of self-discipline to be able to do that nowadays because you want to be so attached to everything.
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Chapter 2: How can patience play a role in achieving our goals?
You want to be so caught up with the world. The world's moving too fast. The world's moving so fast that you're trying to keep up to the point where you lose yourself. If I want to be great, I'm not trying to maximize money or maximize people knowing me. I do these things because maybe someone out there will understand me and get it and say, I can grow from this guy. And others just won't.
But a lot of people, most people don't want it that badly, which is why they always ask the question, man, how did you get to where you are? You know how to do it. You know exactly how to be you or how to be me. You don't want to do it. So I can't make you do it. You have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want out of life?
Your friend, a lot of people out here just don't fucking want it. So guess what? Have fun with your life. The reason why we go back to old habits is because our goals are too lofty. We're not achieving our goals fast enough. So what happens is, you know what? Oh, man, we're very impatient nowadays. For me, it was good. I didn't have a phone. I was out of this world by myself.
It was a race against David Goggins. It wasn't a race against, God, I want to look good for this person or that person. It was me. I got to change myself. There's no luck in this game. There may be a little bit of luck, but the luck happens after you bust your ass. And you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn't happen.
You put yourself in that situation where luck might fucking happen. Maybe you want to be nobody. Maybe you're happy exactly where you are in life because obviously you are. Maybe you don't have the determination to be somebody better than who you are. That's why there's a lot of average people. And it makes me so fucking mad.
Every day I walk this earth and I see average all over the fucking place. And they want to ask me, how did you do it? I can't tell you how, because you're not going to fucking, you're not going to do it. A lot of people think self-talk works. It does.
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Chapter 3: What is the importance of self-reflection in personal growth?
But it doesn't work without the suffering before your mind starts saying we need self-talk. So what I tell myself is, is I go back to the months and years of preparation to get to that day. And I'm telling myself, the 3.30 in the morning, and I'm looking at my shoes and I want to go out there and run 30 miles.
I have to, in that second, in that moment of this self-talk, my mind said, you got to find more. You got to find more. I once again, calm down, go back into my mind and my cookie jar, I call it. And I had to reflect back on the shit I did to get here. And that becomes my self-talk. Self-talk does not work unless it is real. Most of us lie to ourselves in the self-talk. It doesn't work.
It has to be real. It has to be something that you've done.
It seems like, especially with confidence, right, or self-esteem, there's a relationship between confidence and competence.
Chapter 4: How does shutting off distractions help us find clarity?
So what you're looking to do is try and have what you believe that you can do be ahead of what you can do. You're not looking for it to be delusional. You don't want it to be able to believe that you can do something like fly, right? But you need to have a relationship between the two.
But what people are asking for is for their confidence to be so far ahead of their competence without having even been competent at anything in the beginning. And that's just delusion. That's fantasy. Right.
Well, I believe that you have to build belief. Belief is like, there's an after school special beliefs where the mom says, believe in yourself. And that's all great. But there's also a built belief. And the built belief is one, like for me, I came from a bad place. How I build belief is through the daunting tasks I put myself through. So that's proof positive that I can. So it correlates.
And that's how this piece of shit kid that I once thought I was built belief by saying, hmm, I was in three hell weeks. I went to ranger school. I tried out for adult selection.
Undeniable stack of proof.
That is proof, motherfucker. So whenever you think you can't, confidence comes from the thing that you built. You must build belief. You must build confidence. It can't be like, hey, I'm going to knock that shit out. You got to look over here and say, I can knock that shit out.
Because a lot of people will say, when you wake up in the morning, pound your chest, you know, look at yourself in the mirror and do all this bullshit. I hope it works. What works for me is that everyday resume, the things I know I've accomplished, the things I know I've done, real hard work, the real calluses on my mind, the real calluses on my hands. That's it.
You don't need to pound your chest in the mirror anymore if you have that. It's belief, and it's built on what you put in to yourself. I came from... a small town in Indiana where there was a handful of black families. And a lot of people in that town, when you come from a town of 8,000 people, it's like we had a local plant, Great Dane. You're like, you know what?
I want to work at Great Dane and get a house next to my mom. That's what you know. So many of us come from these small places in our mind that we're not willing to think outside only what we've seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment And one thing I was able to do was to dream.
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Chapter 5: What mindset shifts are necessary for overcoming challenges?
But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town. Until you're able to really put yourself into that dream, but don't make dreams your master, that's where you truly become what you're destined to become. A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure or dream about being a SEAL or dream about being an astronaut. And all it is is a motherfucking dream.
They don't put the work behind the dream. When you become the master of your dream is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL. And you say, okay, I'm going to lose 106 pounds in less than three months. The dream was the one thing I thought about and the dream was now gone. The dream goes away and the laundry list of details and tasks come up. That's when you become the master of your dream.
Ryan Holiday says, talking about the thing and doing the thing, vie for the same resources, allocate yours appropriately. Sit. Sit. That's the way it works as well. That's the way that the brain works. You can actually get these kicks of dopamine by telling your friends about, I'm going to be a Navy SEAL. I'm going to start my training next week. It's going to be great.
I'm going to feel like this.
Feels good. It feels good to talk about that shit, man. It actually makes you feel good, makes you feel proud, all that shit. But guess what happens? That alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m. to train. I want to be a SEAL today. I don't want to be whatever today. I'll start tomorrow. And that's the usual pattern of people's lives. That's why I talk about clearing out the mind.
Until you really want to do something, you always get to be a talker. You always get to run your mouth. So if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something, you don't care enough about yourself. And that's what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? Most people don't want to go to that extra mile.
Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely. A lot of people wonder, how did you become this? How did you become so vulnerable? How are you doing a podcast now when you were this kid? You overcame things. You fought them. And now this is what happens. This is on the other side of overcoming. You become very, very powerful when you overcome yourself.
All those things you once cowered from, you were afraid of, when you face them eye to eye every day, you now become exactly who you are. You've faced your demons. You were able to hear all your past traumas. When you go to war with yourself, you find a lot of peace because you know exactly who you are. And that is where the peace is really found for me.
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 guns, and you still have to breach that door.
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Chapter 6: How does self-talk relate to personal achievement?
Because they're going to remember you by slowly opening it and peeking in. So if you're going to open it and you made the mind to open it, don't crack it open. Open the door and go in. That's with life. If you're choosing to do something, attack it. Because they're going to remember you and not attack 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 the mentality you have. If you're going to do something, you might as well attack it because you can do it anyway. Who on this earth would still be going right now? You are.
You are.