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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