The Secret To Becoming UNSTOPPABLE David Goggins Motivation
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i was just an insecure scared kid
and the only way i could find myself
was to put myself through the worst
thing possible
my biggest advice to give everybody in
the world
is like i say we live in an external
world
everything is is you got to see it touch
it it’s external
if you can for
the rest of your life live inside of
yourself stop listening to everything
that is makes no sense all these
insecure people putting their
insecurities on you you got to flush it
out
you got to just be whoever the hell god
or whatever the hell you believe in if
you believe in nothing but yourself i
don’t care what it is
you got to take everything and throw it
away
you have to believe in one thing and
that is yourself
and and i’m not saying don’t believe in
god or what you believe in but right now
for you to find
greatness in yourself you’re not going
to find it
by looking in a book or by even hearing
me i may give you the spark
but you’ve got to go inside yourself to
find it and that means you got to be
quiet
go in a room stop talking search
your soul search your mind search your
abilities
and you’ll find it
but if you’re not looking for it
you won’t find it
so you got to go start your journey and
the journey starts with you finding why
the hell am i here on this planet earth
why am i here
if you don’t know that you will live the
rest of your life searching always
asking the question why
well it was pretty crazy for me it um it
took a while to get to that point
where enough was enough
um
what happened
i i came home one night from work
spraying for cockroaches
and
long story short i turned on the
discovery channel i saw some guys going
through navy seal training
and they were going through hell week
and they were getting their ass just
beat you know in and out of the water
guys ringing the bell
um they was suffering and i was weighing
like 297 pounds
and i had to make a change in my life
you know i was at all-time low
and i wasn’t going anywhere and i was
exactly what everybody said i was going
to be which was nothing
so i had to make a change
no one was helping me out
my dad made my mom kind of irregular so
she worked three jobs went to college
full time so she was never around
one time this this person drew a picture
of me and you know said we’re going to
kill you you’re on my spanish notebook
and i took it to my principal and my
principal said they spilled niger that
was the best device he can give me so
long story short what i realized was no
one was here to help me i started
shaving my head when i was 16 years old
and the feeling i had every morning i
looked in the mirror
was horrible
and i didn’t want to feel like that
anymore and how i felt was a a kid going
nowhere a kid that was scared and most
kids will accept that and look for help
but the best thing that happened to me
no one helped me
no one thought sorry for me
no one looked at me and said like this
day and age they’ll they’ll take you in
and they’ll tell everybody stop picking
on this person back then they didn’t
care the kkk marched in our fourth july
parades
they had to stay a hundred yards back
but they marched in it
that’s how this town was and my mom
cared about me
but my dad took our soul
and she you know did the best she could
i had to figure out
i wasn’t going to be a punk kid all my
life
so the only way i could turn around
was to suffer
i had to build calluses in my brain
the same way i built calluses on my
hands so i broke the ginsberger royal’s
record for pulps a long time ago
but i failed at it twice
and i did 67 000 pull-ups and trying to
break this record so to do 4030 pull-ups
i had to do 67 000 for training for that
and so what i realized is for me to
become the man i wanted to become
i saw myself as the weakest person god
ever created
but i never blamed god for anything he
did to me
so i wanted to change
that to be the hardest man ever created
am i that i don’t know but you had to
have a goal
and my goal when i was sitting there not
going to school being bullied being
having no self-esteem
my goal was the only person that could
turn this person around is me the only
way i can turn around is put myself
through the worst
things possible a human being can ever
endure and that’d be the only way that i
can build this brain to handle anything
that comes in front of it callousing my
mind through pain and suffering
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in the end like what would your advice
be to that 16 year old kid who’s staring
in the mirror does not like what he sees
but is still running from adversity
well my biggest advice to him is that
first of all he won’t like what i say to
him
because i’m going to say the exact
opposite of what the world today’s world
is saying so we read a bunch of books
nowadays as as humans we we want to find
out how to be someone else
what we don’t do is we don’t go
inside
so literally turn yourself inside out
read the book that says like we’re
writing a book every day of our lives
but we never read that book
so what i would challenge this young man
or young woman to do
is you have to look inside of yourself
to see what you really want what are you
passionate about we use these words and
these little phrases of only the strong
survive and also the crap they’re all
just [ __ ] words
i get so tired of hearing people just
talking like right now someone may think
goggles just talking
you don’t know me
so when i speak i speak from passion i
speak from experience i i speak from
suffering
i have to tell this young man and woman
that the only way i believe and this is
just my experience in life
the only way you’re ever going to get to
the other side of this journey
is you have got to suffer to grow
to grow you must suffer
and
some people will get it and some people
won’t but they have to see what their
journey is to start their journey
several people live to be a hundred
years old and they have great lives and
they have great kids their kids go to
college and lost their stuff
but somewhere in their life
there was a point where they had a
decision to make
they can go left or right on this path
left was the easy route
right was a hard route
a lot of people take the easy route and
they had a good life that way
but the better life was going to the
right side
and you may have 20 years of pain and
suffering to get past it
but a lot of us died never truly
starting our journey
and
i would tell this young person you got
to start your journey it may suck
but it will it will come out the other
side where you’re coasting
every day
we’re seeing who we are as people when i
was growing up
i i lied for people to accept me because
i didn’t accept myself so i would make
up stories so then you would accept me
into your world
i would uh everything i did was for
someone else to like me it wasn’t until
i started reading my own book about how
pathetic i was as human being i could
blame my dad i can blame kids at school
i could blame having health issues atd
my mom not being around great mom but
she was doing her thing
i could blame a lot of people
and that’s the book i was reading
and i put it off on everybody else it
wasn’t until i said you know what for me
to fix this i gotta read what the hell
what the [ __ ] is wrong with david
goggins not blame anybody
read my books okay i’m afraid of my
shadow
how can i overcome that
go in the military get your ass kicked
do things you hate to do be
uncomfortable every day of your life
roger that i’m not the smartest kid in
the world
okay
is there somebody saying oh no you’re
smart no no don’t say that to yourself i
said to myself no i’m a dumb mother
okay roger that how you get smarter
educate yourself
so the things that we run from we’re
running from the truth
we’re running from the truth man so the
only way i became successful
was going towards the truth as painful
and as brutal as it is
it changed me
it allowed me to become
in my own right
who i am today
so hopefully
i can help people
that believe that they’re much less than
what they truly are
help them find greatness in themselves
and greatness
isn’t running 200 miles at a time or
doing 4 000 pull-ups or being a seal
greatness is whatever the hell
you’ve dreamed of in your own mind
you got to first see it you got to first
create this vision in your mind
and then that’s when i come into play
once you create this vision in your mind
it’s how am i going to get there now
and that’s when i come into play but
first you got to create your own vision
and it’s not external
it’s the the vision created is inside of
you
so until you create that i’m i’m nobody
to you
i’m slowly writing a book right now it’s
taking me four or five years because i
have so many things to talk about it’s
gonna be several probably several books
but um the first book are probably about
my life story
how i came up
and um a few lessons learned along the
way
but you know i have so much to talk
about so much to say
you just give people
a lot more than hope
so
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