The central theme is the profound importance of overcoming the fear of external judgment and embracing self-acceptance to achieve personal growth and success. True strength comes from within, by silencing the "noise" of others' opinions and focusing on self-respect and discipline.
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most of us fail in life because we're
afraid of what everyone around you is
thinking that's a 100 truth
people one thing you have to learn early
in life i didn't learn this till later on
on
i don't give a mother
you can't care
care
what anybody thinks about you if i care
what people thought about me you think
i'll be yelling out here
doing 105 pound rock
talking [ __ ] this is who i
am find out who you are
and own that [ __ ]
and tell people to go themselves i think
i had to stop caring what people thought
about me i realized that everybody stopped
stopped
that's the one thing i realized i walked
around i put these people on a
[ __ ] pedestal everybody was better
than me so i can't tell you anything
about me because you're going to judge
me and i'm going to feel even worse than
what i am
what i realized once i calmed my mind
down and sat back and looked at how
jacked up this world is
once you realize that you are not alone
everybody that's talking to you about
how jacked up you are the only thing
they've done better than you
is they've hidden
their [ __ ] up world better than you have
have
that's all they've done
we live by the narrative
of other people
when i first called a recruiter to be a
navy seal and i was 297 pounds the first
recruiter looked at me and said
you're not going to be able to make this man
man
so what he was doing was he's projecting
his energy on me he knew he couldn't be
a [ __ ] navy seal
so god helped this black guy because i
was only the 36 african-american to make
it through in over 70 years
how's this black fat guy going to make
it through in my ass
you wouldn't even want to try so he's
projecting so a lot of us who are
negative people all we do is project how
we feel in other people
a lot of times i'll be in a 200 mile run
or something like that
and i'm all jacked up
body's broken mine's broken spirit's broken
broken
i start to say what if i can pull this
off when i first walked into the navy
seal recruiter's office he looked at me
and said there's only been 35 african
americans in 70 years make it through
you know i said to myself
what if i can be the 36th
it's the what if
i can pull off a [ __ ] miracle
what if i can become someone that no one
thinks i can be and just that just me
talking about that
i have the hair growing up on my arms
because it makes me just like
what if so what happens is there's a lot
of negative people walking around the
planet earth who are afraid to try
because everybody a lot of people are
very negative in this world
so we are afraid to fail why i told you
man shouldn't even try to dude
just chill out relax why are you so
crazy why you so obsessed
so all that stuff drives the uh quitting
mind i call it
the mind wants to quit the mind is tired
the mind thinks it's very deserving so
the biggest problem in this world is
other people not yourself there's other people
people
in your head they are puppet mastering
you pretty much on your life my next
door neighbor two months ago she just
killed herself tons of veterans i know
they killed themselves i got an email
two weeks ago from a family member that
an 11 year old boy killed himself from
people at school bullying him
one thing about life is that people in
life they are the ultimate puppet
masters they exploit your weakness and
they love to walk you around life and
own space in your head one of the
biggest ways to cut those strings and
walk on your own two [ __ ] feet to
your own destination in life
is to build self-respect self-esteem
self-discipline all those things stay
hard is not just about going to the
[ __ ] gym stay hard is about going
that extra step and you [ __ ] you can
that's what builds self-esteem and
self-respect stay hard because i
realized once i was talking to myself
the right way
and all this [ __ ] wasn't in my mind wow
i went from this piece of [ __ ]
kid who thought he was dumb not successful
successful
insecure who stuttered when i first saw somebody
somebody
to a person who can now do all these things
things
just because i now control my whole mind
when you get to the point where you
really [ __ ] don't care you're
dangerous you become very very dangerous
i'm not saying don't care like i don't
care if i do that no when you don't care
about other people
and how they view you about how you walk
how you talk how you dress where you
want to go with your life [Music]
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with success in life comes more haters
don't make them hurt your feelings
use them for fuel
use them for energy
in times of need
put them on the [ __ ] mental roller
decks in your mind
and when you don't want to do [ __ ]
roll through your brain
pull up that [ __ ] that you need
that person who said you couldn't do something
something
work fast enough good enough smart
enough where the [ __ ] it may be
use it for energy
instead of killing them with kindness
torture and success
in life we have to continue pushing past
the odds
use everything this world has to give
you for fuel stay hard you know growing
up i didn't want to tell anybody i want
to be in the military because why
some of my black friends i was afraid of
what they think i was afraid of what
other people thought about me so now
i'm not going to military i know you
[ __ ] join the military you ain't
telling as afraid what you thought
once again man you're allowing other
people to shackle your mind is the worst
thing in the world so when i saw the
military uniform when i was growing up i
thought to myself if i can get that
uniform on
i would find honor
honor
and wear the uniform
so not only do i want to be
in the military
i want to be in special ops
but i realized to be a special ops
you gotta know how to swim
so i got a how-to book on swimming
first page was easy float
so i went to the pool
tried to float
i sank right down to the bottom
i realized i was negative point as hell
the more i failed
the more my father's words
were creeping to my mind
about how i'm not good enough
all this other [ __ ] he said to
dehumanize me
as time went on
i started
realizing the more i didn't quit
the more self-respect
i gained
and the power
was all mine
in life it's important to do one thing
many people
were trying to humanize you
it's up to you
to find self-respect
and dignity
in yourself
you don't need a uniform
to have honor
you need to have pride in yourself dignity
dignity
stay hard
you have to first accept it before you
can fix it
a lot of people walk around oh man i'm good
good
i'm good i know you're not
you have to accept what you're not
you have to and people don't want to do that
that
that's the only way you can fix it
you have to accept it first before you
can go on the journey a lot of folks
never even start the journey man
they never start to join because they
live in this fake life
that who they want to be
they act like they are but they're not
because they haven't fixed all this
stuff yet
you got to fix this first before we can
start our journey in life so that's why
i haven't make this list you fix these
problems now your journey can begin
because you no longer care about how
people are judging you
when when you care more about how
someone's judging you you're going to
stay right there
there's no forward momentum do you think
you could go the other way and maybe
become a bit cold if you don't care what
anyone thinks your fiance your kids you
know those they're not the people around
do you not care what they think that's
the thing about it you have to have an
understanding of what not caring means
if your fiance and your kids don't
believe in you
you can't care what they think
that means you chose the wrong support staff
staff
so that's why a lot of people don't
understand one another your support
staff has to be like if i want to go out
and do
whatever it is
my support staff is
you know my fiance
and she's like you know what you know i
don't think that you should be doing
that i have to take it you know
why so i could be open minded so so why
are you saying this
but she's saying it because of her
you know that's not that's not the right thing
thing
because i need backing you know what i'm
gonna do open-mindedness i need support
so you gotta be very
clear thinking about all that stuff for
instance there's all these things that
are on tv and we have all these news
people judging people who up in life
yeah they made big mistakes
but that person who is judging you on tv
i guarantee you that that news person
and say i'm glad that my [ __ ] didn't
come out i know that about people so if
you want to sit back and judge how
jacked up i was and how messed up my
life was merry christmas go for it have
a good time but i'm smiling at you right
now knowing
you have a secret that you're not
willing to share it gives you a lot of
power when you're able to go on a
podcast this big and say hey
tell me i'll tell you anything you want
to know i no longer care there's a lot
of power in that
to be able to put your life on a
billboard for the whole world to see and
say judge it man
judge it like just me talking about it
makes me feel good
and that's another thing about it when
you are willing to talk about how jacked
up you are
the strength that big rock that you carry
carry
it just starts to come off you it just
starts to come off that's what i do as
often like hey man i'll tell you
anything you want to know i'm tired of
being afraid
i'm tired of not telling your [ __ ] tired
of lying about how good i'm not
i used to always want people
to accept me
and like me
so i became
who they were
if you liked something
and i didn't like it
i liked it because you liked it
become unapologetic
of who the [ __ ] you are in your life
you get after it you're a hard [ __ ]
[ __ ]
get after it
you gotta make yourself
better than what you think you are
and what that requires
is people not can understand you
not know you
not get you at all
look at you like you're off
look at you like you've a problem don't
worry about that [ __ ]
be unapologetic
get after it stay hard be who the [ __ ]
you are my circle is very small
i made sure i didn't hand pick these people
people
because i'm like so so you don't want
people in your corner they're like oh
let me pat you in the background you do
i don't want people pat in the [ __ ]
back because i woke up in the morning no
so you don't want that you want people
who are honest with you who are going to
tell you what the [ __ ] is honest honest
and truthful people so someone who's
honest and truthful
who has lived
is accountable for their own personal life
life
that's what you want in your court said
hey man you're pretty [ __ ] dumb
like this is not smart or you're beating
you know you're being deterred today
you're not getting after it that's when
you want your core so you don't want a
lot of people
hand pick people to be in their corner
who kiss their [ __ ] ass
you don't want that the most important
step we'll ever take in life
is our next one
but a lot of us get our feet stuck in concrete
concrete
we get our feet stuck in concrete
because we're afraid
to make enemies
one thing in life you're gonna always
have haters embrace them
if you can walk on [ __ ] water
trust me your haters are safe
you can walk on water because you can't
[ __ ] swim
shut the [ __ ] noise out
embrace the fact that people don't like
you means you're doing something right
stay hard
stay in the fight
but i don't respect a lot of people
because how am i going to respect you
if you're not [ __ ] grinding every day
and i mean working out getting the gym
really going out there and grinding
so if you don't know how i'm living my life
life
how am i gonna respect you
so you have to be a hard worker period
thought you gotta work your [ __ ] ass
off that's where i gain respect for you
so if you're working hard every day
now you have an opinion in my eyes but
if you're just a guy who talks [ __ ]
and you live this [ __ ] life of
talking [ __ ]
come on dude i understand one thing
you're just talking [ __ ]
but if i see you every day of your life
trying to be better
every day going through all the wickets
to be better
you got my attention i respect you now
so we first have to face the real you
the real me is david goddess the real me
is the guy looking at you right now
saying i don't want to be on this show
right now because i used to stutter as a kid
kid
and i'm afraid of that i'm afraid that
here in a second i'm going to start
[ __ ] stammering and stuttering and
the whole world's gonna know that i have
all these issues
but that's when i see right now okay
goggins you gotta go on this [ __ ] show
show
that's god's goggins is saying okay
david goggins you're a punk
life made you this way we can't live
like this we can't live in fear we can't
live in judgment
you can't be afraid of what the [ __ ]
people right now are looking at me
saying about me we cannot be afraid of that
that
that's goggins
god is saying [ __ ] all of you who don't
like me who don't want it and that
person then comes in
but you have to be david goggins and say
man i'm afraid of this i'm [ __ ] up
here life made me this way here i
stutter i i have these issues with the
reading and writing and i'm fat and i'm insecure
insecure
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
create
another human being that walks out of
that garden
to face who you are
that's the only way you're going to get over
over
all those things you have to create
someone else
not like you have two different
personalities it is you
but you have to find strength and that
visualization of almost me
cracking out goggles like almost like
that superman cave like i'm coming out a
different person a person that doesn't
give a [ __ ] about anything
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