The Most Motivating 10 Minutes of Your Life David Goggins

your brain is the most powerful weapon

in the world once you put away your

phones and your computers and all that

[ __ ] we have nowadays that’s great

we’re up to date you know you but your

brain

is the only thing you have when you’re

going through

depression when you when you’re going

through hard times you’re going through

death

real life you can’t google that [ __ ] man

you’re alone you’re alone you may have a

shrink you’re going to you may have a

best friend you’re going to

but there’s 24 hours in the day where

you’re alone

in this brain and your brain is talking

to you in all kind of ways

and it wants to control you and pull you

in these different pockets

if you can’t control your own brain and

your brain controls you you’re

you got to tell your brain where you

want to go and how you want to go and

how you want to get there

you got to control it if not it’s over

what existed for me was okay man how am

i gonna [ __ ] make this work

and and all i knew back then was hard

work

the only way anything gets accomplished

that’s all i heard back in those days

you gotta work hard you gotta work hard

i’m not

getting how to i can’t get this

paragraph i can’t remember what the

[ __ ] in this paragraph to pass this

test to get in the military

read again still not getting it read

again

but if not getting it write it out and

that’s how i started learning

okay well i can’t i gotta write out

every [ __ ] thing i do

and then write it out again and write

out again and guess what happened

i got it i got it i can’t swim

i’m negative buoyant go back again i

can’t swim

go back again go back again go back

again

i got it i realize if i keep going back

and going back and going back until this

just becomes your mind was safe okay

we’re gonna figure it out because he is

not going to stop

it’s not like i’m gonna try one more

time no i’m look

it’s just like alarm clock goes off boop

we’re going back i can’t read right

we’re going back

i gave myself no way out and my mind

realized that

they said okay we’re gonna adapt and

overcome now

a lot of people say like when i say

trying hard

they your mind knows man you know this

guy’s bullshitting me man this guy’s

lying

there’s no truth behind it when i was in

navy still training people go how are

you there for 18 months

the program is only six months long you

were in three hell weeks

in one year no one’s ever done that how

did you do that

i talked about the new norm when i lived

in a seven dollar a month place when i

was growing up for

a short period of time i loved it i

didn’t know any i

i knew any different that was my norm

once we moved out of that place we moved

to a 236 dollar a month place

i was like i never want to go back to

that little piece of

but if you go back to that seven dollar

month place

and you realize this is where i live

that’s all i got

your mind says roger that this is home

so when i was going to navy seal

training for 18 months

and going back to all the hard parts

over

and over again i told myself after the

first time

i knew it was gonna be a long journey

there my body was breaking down

it was it was just how it was going on i

said you know what this is my new norm

so my mind said it’s like going to work

like you go to work you put your suit

and tie on

i go into suffering every day every day

suffering being broken duct taping my

feet up

stress fracture shin splints being

broken

this is my new norm and your mind says

if we’re not broken

this ain’t normal we got to be broken so

then your mind starts to get tougher

and tougher and more cows people how how

did you run on broken feet

broken broken shins my mind knew

this is how we operate we’re we’re navy

still training

this is what we are i became hell

and that became my new norm i gave

myself no way out

there was nothing outside these walls of

hell nothing

i became i loved god but for a short

period of time i became the devil

because that was hell i became i became

the boss the owner the ceo

of navy seal training that was my

mindset

and that’s how you get through things

you put yourself you immerse yourself in

wherever it is

you become that you become that and give

yourself no way out

when i was 297 pounds and i was fat as

hell trying to be a navy seal

the scariest thing in the world to me

even to this day

was that that could have been the rest

of my life

i thought then i was trying hard that’s

the scariest thing in the world

i thought then 297 pound

working for ecolab spraying for

cockroaches making a thousand dollars a

month

i thought that was me at my 100

potential coming to find out

a few years later i wasn’t anywhere near

that 106 pounds less

graduate navy still training we don’t do

all these other things

looking back on that that was me trying

hard

that’s why people got to understand what

is in us

we have no idea until we start trying

hard

and i mean really trying hard where

you’re obsessed with

hey this is my new norm my new norm is

that wow

this isn’t always fun it’s not always

meant to be fun

and that’s when you know you’re trying

hard

people hear my story and think this guy

is sadistic

i realize how how the brain works

i figured out how the brain works i i’m

a scared kid

and that’s what gives me so much power i

had no foundation

and i built this off of just researching

the mind

the feeling you get is basically

invincibility you realize

that you can’t do it all the time

when you need to do it i know i can go

to a place

that i can live in and when you know

that you can run

on broken legs and you can do certain

things that a lot of people can do

but they’re not willing to do this power

this sympathetic nervous system of fight

or flight

and you’re fighting it it gives you this

charge of energy of when you’re sitting

there at 3 30 4 o’clock in the morning

and you’re duct taping your feet up

because they’re broken and you’re doing

it by yourself

and you’re going through arguably one of

the hardest training in the world

and these guys most of them are healthy

and you’re going through it broken

and you already at a disadvantage but

you’re still there

you can feed into that and tap into that

for a lot of power

but if you look at it well i’m broken

man

like i’m not gonna make it but if you

look at it as man i’m broken and i’m

still here

and i’m fighting i’m gonna find a way to

get through this

because i have no other place to go

it gives you a lot of power when things

start to

really really bad my brain

and a lot of people’s brain they they

don’t go to the people that called you

or your dad beating you up your brain

says we

get the [ __ ] out of here this is

miserable so anger

goes away a lot of times when you’re

suffering

because your brain just says we gotta

run right we gotta go

so that anger is not popping up saying

oh i wanna show them

i wanna show those people no there has

to be a much

deeper when i say deeper it has to be

down to mineral

mineral soil it has to be down to that

nice mineral soil where nothing can burn

you can’t burn dirt so it has to be down

that low that literally is something in

you

that’s at the core of your soul and but

you but you don’t find it

unless you spend a lot of time with what

you want to be in life

you i i can’t give that to you right you

can’t give it to somebody

when when you find your true passion in

life and my passion for me when like oh

i want to be that and get

about navy seals army round give i want

to serve my country

i cared about i want to be someone that

i’m proud of

i want to look at myself in the mirror

because i was so disappointed

that accountability where i talk about

i was so disappointed in what i saw

every

day i wanted everybody to love david

goggins

and a lot of people did i didn’t love

myself

but i knew a lot of us want to find

peace first

some people say man you always talk

about this suffering and pain and

i’m at peace right now because i went

through that right

you don’t find peace first if you do

merry christmas more power to you

more power to you i found peace

on the opposite end of finding myself

and no one really finds himself without

going through

trials tribulations suffering

accountability

and accountability is suffering

being accountable every day for doing

right

for yourself for the people next to you

it’s miserable

it’s hard so you know even the smallest

details

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