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to be at the point of your life where

you don't care about being judged you

can be in a room of a million people and

they all hate you and you walk in and

you go like this if you just got here

yes we have some other obligations of

course obligation yeah do you like doing

the interviews no no I never did like

them no no no I'll hopefully this one

will be good for you oh there are good

people get some Marvin that's great yeah

yeah is there anything you just

particularly don't want to talk about no

I am that's the best thing about me man

I'm open book yeah wherever the the

podcast goes is yeah it's good enough

for me we've sort of a million copies of

our book in seven months appreciate it

thank you we were number two behind

Michelle Obama for 12 weeks yeah they

say all this yeah but the audiobook is

something that we're pushing hard

especially in the UK because it's easier

yeah and we've sold over 650,000

audiobooks Wow

the reason why is because it's the first

time anybody's ever done the audiobook

the way we did it yeah I listen to Suze

came out listened so okay that's all so

you understand how we did concept right

pop podcast part part radio show pal

part reading the whole book so yeah and

I'm used quite heavily involved with the

chap who did it with you you still who

still gone was it just a one-off it was

a one-off

yeah so you know we're trying to find

the right ghostwriter is very hard yeah

but it's not the ghost writers you found

in your voice yeah so I had to find my

voice I actually brought three of the

chapters right so when you give someone

the chapters then they can read it in

your voice okay I get it

yeah so wasn't the ghost writers fault

to begin with like the ones I didn't

hire yeah it was my fault

yeah so I was there reason you didn't

write yourself I was you know I'm not a writer

writer

yeah even though I write all my blogs

and all my posts and stuff like that but

I want to make sure that it was done so

99 percent was me yeah I was want to

make sure that it was professional mmm

so you will put that nice little toast

on the end of it yeah so if I'm gonna

spend this much time

the product out there I want to make

sure since I self-published it I want to

make sure that it was done right yeah

would you ever do one yourself do you

think yeah easy

yeah yeah even though I'm not a writer I

just have a person edited this time and

yeah I go from there

yeah yeah I've done I've written 14

books okay I'm interested yeah yeah and

I'm actually it's kind of like coming in

from the other I've written all mine and

now I'm thinking about getting some help

it's um I think it's better that way

because you can sit back and just be the

mastermind yes you have to sit back and

say oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] you can sit back and

be a mastermind son sit in your bed at

night time ago ah [ __ ] write it down and

say look this needs to be in there and

then you and works out well for me and

you got the accountability haven't you

because he's so hard to sit down and

keep yourself that's right because

you're you're doing too many things yeah

this way me my fiancee reread it over

and over again I mean we we changed so

many chapters yeah and then we rewrote

him and then he helped out so it works a

lot better you'll see it'll be it'd be a

masterpiece yeah and how did you find

him honestly he fell in my lap now 15

yeah alright I got lucky man someone

someone new someone they see he's not

even a ghostwriter

he just does it what is he a he's a

journalist yeah never asked that a

ghostwriter alright so he heard a bust

my podcast was very familiar with me to

begin with was helped most the other

people I had to interview and they go

and they wrote all these big books and

I'm so raw and real I needed someone

that was able to write raw and real yeah

and that's how it came to be yeah

because he is very natural it doesn't

feel like a very highly edited scripted

book I think they edited when we got to

edit it was yeah a half already

yeah probably if he came back yeah

because like don't don't change a lot

because it's how I talk yeah you know

yeah and I always prefer the audiobooks

because like I listened to it and I hear

I've heard your voice before I meet you

right so there's that sort of remote

connection there whereas if you read the

book I can't hear your voice I don't

know what you sound like you don't know

me Yeah right no [ __ ] book Yeah right

yeah great so sure so is there Kirsten

that Kirsten you can say whatever you

want however you want it so if you wanna

if it feels natural yeah okay yeah we're

good with that aren't we yeah we've had

definitely a few good ones though David

thank you very much for coming and doing

the podcast I appreciate you have me and

you're here to your dinner public speech

is that right yes it's my first time in

London so I'm doing a speaking event

about 500 people so we'll see how that

goes tomorrow yeah is that it goes well

is that something you've done a lot of

I've done a lot of public speaking yeah

a lot of speaking yes and something you

enjoy doing

I don't enjoy doing it nah no you said

you don't enjoy doing interviews and

people go why do you do it one big

reason why I can't stand it

public speaking being on camera Isis

started real bad growing up so you're

always having to face these [ __ ]

demons that come out of everywhere you

know people think you know because I'm

decently successful now successful not

monetarily but just I've overcome a lot

and I have a nice-looking resume but I'm

still everyday you know this badly so

this is why I do it I do it for my own

personal you know fears and younger

thing but [ __ ] man I bet her stuttering

his [ __ ] so you got man up man yeah it's

funny that you're sitting there saying

that like things like public speaking

you find hard when you've done all the

crazy and sane stuff that you've done

because I do them alone right

I do Malone yeah you know like I I

picked these hard things that most

people think you can't finish anyway so

you know you go out there you grind

you're alone you're in your own head I

work best alone right I work best alone

so those are easier mmm

you know I figure out a way to kind of

challenge you know kind of challenge

your mind channel it and challenge at

the same time and I figured out a way to

kind of just become have

destructable toolbox and in your mind so

those are easier yeah so and how are you

finding now you're very public right you

would say famous you come to London

which isn't where you live and you get

recognized everywhere you speak in front

of 500 people how you finding that face

of challenging your mind in your life

it sucks that's nice I'm gonna be honest

with you man because uh but for some

reason you know I have I have a gift I

have a gift it's not a gift of gab it's

just a gift to say look man I'm

vulnerable I'm very very human

I'm not God's gift I'm not Superman I'm

not Batman I'm not even Robin but I did

figure out some things along my journey

so if I kept myself introverted and

closed in no one would ever you know

realize man that that big hard tough guy

over there man you know he's just some

superhuman and they put a title on me

this way had to break myself down let

people know that anyone can be who they

want to be mm-hmm

so I think you're kind of like this

paradox because on the one hand a lot of

people are inspired by you

right your book was big in the UK as

well as America when it came out I mean

I'm big into audiobooks I listen to

hundreds a year and I listen to yours as

soon as it came out and a lot of people

were talking about it and they were

inspired by it definitely and they felt

like they could be better versions of

themselves but that's not the one

actually when the other extreme you do

superhuman stuff you do thousands of

press ups you run hundreds of miles

right so I'm kind of like its preparing

for this interview I'm like on the one

hand he's superhuman on the one hand

everyone can relate to him right so so

GTC what I understand I'm trying to say

yeah I get it

it's uh it's tough yeah but so I had a

starting point in the starting point was

this very scared

immature fragile kid but through

figuring out this fragile kid I found

out what [ __ ] through all this [ __ ]

muck and [ __ ] this can come out the

other end

person that was 4030 pull up she was

miles and miles and miles at a time but

we all had these ability

not just to run and do pull-ups but

these abilities that once we go back

into our dark holes that a lot of us

have a lot of us come from you know

insecurities a lot of issues but we

don't want to visit that place places

scary places something that we want to

forget about I had the courage

finally to go back in there and organize

that [ __ ] mmm get it organized in my

mind and figure out you know where to

start from so but the journey led me to

the so called superhuman stuff that I do

now yeah so when he said you had the

courage finally what does finally mean I

was haunted so we all have these voices

in her head

we like to not listen to him the one

that comforts us and keeps us nice and

warm and cuddly and gives us cookies and

milk at nighttime and [ __ ]

we like that voice that voice the one we

want to always share which is why people

don't like to listen to me a lot some

people do some people don't the only

thing that changes you is being real so

basically you know I had to have the

courage to go back in there because

nothing was getting done mmm

I kept on going to that nice cuddly

voice in my head saying you know what

you don't need to do this that's too

much work man you've earned this you

deserve this and that mentality got me

to 297 pounds fat out of shape to me a

loser to me making $1,000 a month and

making a ton of mistakes because

mistakes happen on the easy side of life

you take the easy road the easy path

there's a lot of mistakes over there the

hard journey you'll make too many

mistakes over here because it's too hard

you only repeat it hmm so it's

challenging and if you would you say

you've built this almost like sadistic

quality where you almost enjoy the pain

I don't enjoy it it's necessary yeah

it's necessary so every morning I wake

up it's not just about working out but

for me working out has been a very big

part of my mental growth so for me if I

am not challenging myself every day and

I swear to God people will not believe

it I was over almost

300 pounds twice in my life a person

that does that twice in his life does

not enjoy cardiovascular like a yeah so

people can put anything they want to in

their head I did realize one thing the

things I don't enjoy that I still do

that's where growth is at and that's for

me the only place growth is at is in

that very uncomfortable prio in that

uncomfortable zone yeah so I have to

visit it every single day mmm so I mean

when you say visit every day what sort

of things are you doing daily to push

yourself so for instance today I woke up

and I just got to London and I don't

know where to run here it's very

difficult to run around this place so

someone said hey you can run around out

here like I run this one-mile block and

I'm like you know what I'm not doing that

that

so I went down to the gym and there's

this like crazy elliptical trainer but

it's not a normal elliptical trainer

it's one that you like almost self power

and it's very yes no electric you know

very difficult yeah so I've gotten that

thing and I realized man this [ __ ] sucks

and that's like two minutes like I don't

want to do this so right then I realized

hmm it looks like we're gonna be here

for a while that's why I did that for

two hours and 45 minutes Wow yeah so I'm

not saying do that but that's something

I did today

watch my mind so you know what let's not

do this today I said well since we're my

mind went there I redirected and said

just for having that week thought we're

gonna be on here for a while right so it

does sort of sound like you're punishing

part of your mind in a way punishment

maybe not be the right word I want my

mind to know who's in charge so for the

better part of 26 years my mind was in

charge of me yeah which is why I made

all these horrible decisions once you

take control of your mind

you start making decisions for yourself

versus your mind making decisions for

you right do you have any routines or

particular habits that help you do that

cuz it almost sounds like you've got an

unconscious voice

right and then you the conscious David

comes in and sort of overpowers em

almost right we all do

yeah we all have that these two voices

for me my routine is every night I

stretch out that stretched out for two

or three hours every single night

without fail yeah it wanna stretch now

I'm thinking about my plan for the next

day now I'm thinking about all these

different obstacles that may come up so

basically a lot of us aren't prepared

for life we get up willy-nilly in his

hope life is going to happen it is going

to happen but it's going to happen with

the prepared mind or unprepared mind

most people attack life with the

unprepared mind what I do is I try to

account for all things that could happen

might happen probably will happen and

then the unknowns so basically I can't

account for everything but I do know

there could be some things that come up

in life that you need be ready for I

know for a fact I'm not gonna want to

work out tomorrow

therefore I'm preparing my mind for that

mmm I don't want to do that I know

tomorrow you'll come with some difficult

decisions to make it may come with

getting a phone call saying someone died

this happened that happened I'm always

prepared myself not in a morbid way but

just like look man be ready for life mmm

don't let life just start attacking you

left and right make sure that you start

to build a mental armor so then you're

ready for life and that comes with a

very physical way in the physical help

start to mental mmm do you think that's

a lot of thought your background your

training the hell weeks you've done and

all of that you think that's create that

discipline in your mind it helped but

honestly it was a I realized a young age

how to change myself was to discipline

in the military didn't teach me that it

was some of us I had zero discipline

zero self-discipline and I realized I

have to start developing this and I

started really because I was horrible at

reading and I was horrible at writing I

have so many learned disabilities not

even funny so I just sit down at the

table it's been so much time in this

reading and writing and

and that kind of translated over to my

self-discipline with with working out

mmm so that's where it started I started

off about 16 years old I said well I'm a

fourth grade reading level you know let

me go ahead now and start really

focusing because I'm not getting the

military can I got passed the test yeah

that's where it started for me mm-hmm

I think that's another thing why you've

been so popular is because you have

these great strengths but you share what

happened with your dad you share a pan

with your reading your dyslexia and it's

almost like yeah I know my strengths but

I know my weaknesses and failings and

vulnerabilities as well and you kind of

own both right do you think that's

important very important it's more

important to own your weaknesses you got

to really triple down on those man

because why you want to become a full

human being we like to run away from

weaknesses like for instance if you're

good at running all you want to do is

run if you're great at reading you have

several books but we don't do those

things that were not good at so for me I

realized [ __ ] man like I keep on running

away from these things I'm not good at I

have to dive into these things I had to

become one with these things and that's

what happened and so I own them both

yeah and I talk very openly about it

both mmm do you ever have a diver you

just think [ __ ] here can't be us to do

anything I'm not going for a run I'm not

stretching I'm doing nothing every day

yeah you say you have the filler you

don't have to die every day ever let

yourself have a day we always watch Netflix

Netflix

never because you guys chill Netflix I'm

hard to know I can't do it I can't do it

there may be some days I get up with

poopy pants and I'm like you know what man

man

[ __ ] this man like what am i training

for yeah I have no race in the docket

why am I having this this such a

structured life why and I'm like you

know what I'm good

we've done it I retire every day yeah

I'm done with the [ __ ] and I sit around

I say okay and then this is my thought

process so you want to be normal so you

just want to be like everybody else that

roams the world not knowing the power

that's in them being fine with being

mediocre you want to go back to who you were

were

hon Davis

I don't like [ __ ] that man I had you

have that conversation with yourself

every day not every day it's those bad

days yeah those bad this guy see a whole

bunch of people walking around out here

who have no idea how talented they truly

are now i'ma talk about talent like some

god-given ability talent that sometimes

you have to hone you have to work on and

you have to harness yourself and they

just walk around this on their phones

this clueless how powerful they are

mm-hmm so you seem really committed

really focused you put your mind to

something you achieve it and how does

someone who's ordinary or listening or

watching get more committed achieve more

success the biggest thing you have to do

is shut off technology you have to go

dark remember that is you have to be

quiet in your mind and get away from

people we love being around people we

love talked and we love we love parties

we love all that [ __ ] it's okay to be

alone it's also okay to be unhappy it's

okay to be unhappy sometimes man

it's okay so you know what man I'm

[ __ ] up so y'all go to the truth first

who are you you get really accountable

it say okay Who am I what's the truth

about me you get to that dark place in

your mind figure out it may take months

may take years figure out your purpose

figure out what you want to be in life

and then from there okay I have my

purpose it may take a long time no one

knows their purpose because it's too

loud find your purpose from there all

right guests are planning people love

the planning phase because it's very

comfortable and then from the planning

phase you get to go to execution so the

execution phase would be all hate

because that's where the real work

begins and that's when the failure

happens and the failure and the failure

but you know that's that that's kind of

how you have to do it yeah so is there

any part of thank you by the way is

there any part of what you do in your

day they actually just really enjoy it's

not overcoming demons or overcoming

voices you just actually think this just

actually makes me happy and I really

like it what's funny man yeah

fiancee is one of them but honestly

what's funny about this is people may

hear all this and say god this guy's

such a structured guy talk about demons

getting over things that's not like it's

whole life it's true but I'm the most

peaceful person on the planet Earth even

with like the conversations I got going

to the gym I have to do is have to do

that every day I'm winning everything

I'm winning the the other voice in my

head so I'm I'm very I'm I'm at peace of

myself the things that do for fun are

like me bettering myself yeah I love

sports I love watching sports but also

love accomplishing and overcoming myself

every day because every day is a battle

every day is a better because your mind

wants to choose the path of least

resistance every day but you don't

become better by by ever doing that you

become normal and I don't want to be normal

normal

hmm so it may not be alive for everybody

but I found a lot of peace and not being

normal in my life so if you could define

happiness for you maybe we maybe we did

there but if you could define happiness

for you what would that be so overcoming

yourself yeah it at all costs whatever

that takes to be at the point of your

life where you don't care about being

judged you can be in a room of a million

people and they all hate you and you

walk in and you go like this because not

because you're angry at them because you

know yourself inside and out and you

know that you've put yourself to hell to

be where you're at today you've walked

the walk you've talked to talk and

you've walked the walk and that's to me

what it's all about it's all about

putting those boots on the ground and

getting after it every day and once you

do that you have a feeling about

yourself that no one can ever take away

or even understand yeah so your book you

can't hurt me I'll find the title really

I think is a great title and forgive me

if I'm being a bit bit bold here but I

felt like it was a great title because I

did feel like you're quite hurt oh yeah

with what happened you dad your

upbringing I felt like you were hurt

right and so this is paradoxical

look uh you can't hurt me because of I'm

owning my life right but I felt like you

were hurt

oh yeah life beat me the [ __ ] up bad hmm

yeah I mean I was uh knocked out in the

12th round of a 15 round you know

heavyweight bout I was knocked out but

what happened was in the 12th round when

the Challenger turned his back on me I

was getting the [ __ ] up and I got up in

won the next three rounds and knocked

out my forgotten the 15th round so

that's my mind if I can't hurt me I was

hurt man like you literally I had to

overcome so much those first 26 years of

my life and I still do every day today

you know it's not over but the mentality

of can't hurt me is just that I'm at

what's in front of you man you have to

face you have to confront you have to

overcome and move forward so my father

you know some of the kids that bullied

me my learning disabilities all these

things I went through a life stuttering

you know has so many different issues

failing and failing and failing and

overcome or they would it overcame me so

I I'm a real believer sorry to just jump

in but I don't wanna forget this point

I'm a real believer that who we are and

how we're living our life is to a

certain degree trying to overcome the

voids we had as kids right and how we

were raised and and like I feel like

that story of all the pain you

experience that is who you are

mm-hmm yeah those those scars are real

those scars are proof that you know your

past is real mm so they're never gonna

go away

I own them but um I'm proud of my

childhood I'm proud because without all

of these lessons in life and everybody

says it's [ __ ] I mean I mean because

I was able to look at my childhood and

how I grew up as the ultimate training

ground for my life someone there has to

be some people in this on this planet

earth who have my mentality as gross as

it is to some people and as far off as

it is and not understood

there has to be some people like me on

this planet Earth has to be some

warriors out there that are able to take

this mindset and do something with it so

that right there once you are able to

look at your life and realize that all

these bad things are actually the

ultimate training ground for what you're

going to and you know encounter in life

you start looking at your past very differently

differently

mmm do you think that's still got your

pause still driving you now everyday not

at all

no no long because that what I'm doing

now there's not enough fuel in my past

cuz you've owned it I've owned it so it

out yeah it's kind of weird man once you

own that and once you sort out that

flame goes out but so to some Drive I

guess cuz you have yes right I mean

you're trying to get rid of using how

powerful anger is it is a very very

powerful thing but it can't overcome

everything no were you angry then I was

angry once I was able to uncover the rug

yeah and look at all these different

shells that I collected over the years

and say wow that [ __ ] me up and that

will [ __ ] me up even even worse than

that one and [ __ ] that one was real bad

and because what happens is when you

start to collect all these shells and

these shells are bad things of your life

and you put them in your nice treasure

chest and you hide them you know because

it reminds you of where you're at but

you don't want to visit him all the time

when I started visiting these shells I

was like my god man this was a it was a

tough tough way to go but now looking

back on a man I don't have any more

shells mmm so now you have to learn to

now what's your passion yeah so now my

passion is still trying to find out what

is what is left what is more is it can I

be driven without the anger and I can be

on what is left and what is more for you

I've only dissected 44 years of my life

while I was still living I'm still in my

live autopsy so you know right now until

I'm dead I'm still examining human potential

potential

how far can the mind go how far can we

go as human being so that's you know I'm

the I call myself to Stephen Hawking's

of of the mind you know he was obsessed

with everything he ever dove into you

know the guy couldn't walk or anything

you know so he was like the mine that's

one thing he didn't wanna lose and I

became obsessed with it cause it's the

one thing that controlled me so I became

obsessed with this where is this [ __ ]

thing up here that just has me on a

tight rope and this walks me into all

these horrible decisions I'm making

makes me feel so pathetic and weak and

insignificant and dumb and stupid in

everything I got to get control of this

thing mmm but it's amazing that wants to

get control that thing how far you can

go what sort of things are you doing to

get control your mind is it still these

fitness challenges and things or is it

Fitness challenges are part of it but

it's mostly now really I'm big into

visualization and also self-talk but

also like where do I want to be in life

where do I see myself and then I start

making these plans and how I'm going to

get there and I don't deviate from that

plan so that's kind of how I do them now

I mean it's a lot more to it than that

there's a lot of quiet time I shut out a

lot of noise I only have people my life

that that need to be there if you don't

need to be in my life I'm not about

acquiring more friends I'm not about

noise I'm about okay are you trying to

go somewhere you can you can jump on

board if not I don't want to hear all

your problems give a solution for your

problem that's I'm all about right now

so I'm not about whining [ __ ] and

complaining I'm about okay we need to go

this way mmm so that's the biggest thing

you said earlier and I might be

paraphrasing the words about you know

you want to find other crazy people on

the planet you know these other really

people who want to figure out the mind

people who want to do amazing things

right have you met many people like that

have you got some people that you look

at that and you go yeah you'd be an

adversary to me you you know you you

bring out the best in me

I don't I forget his name and I'm not

trying to meet him anytime soon that's

not it but I'm fascinated with the guy

free solo mm-hmm I he's another guy very

to me even though I'm not climbing rocks

like he did he has a passion to do

something and he's in at all costs and

what he was doing what he did I'm not so

impressive what he did I'm impressed

with how he shut the whole world out

when he was doing it he didn't care

about to me this I see it and I may be

totally off I'm not trying to speak from

out know him let me make that clear yeah

to be able to pull that off you have to

be willing to accept death yet we won't

accept you're not gonna see your loved

ones anymore you can't care about your

loved ones when you're in that rock

nothing mattered to him with but that

rock those people fascinate me those

people who are able to put themselves in

a place like that and very few people

understand that to want something so

badly I'm not saying that because I

don't think he believed that he was

gonna die I don't I believe that he was

willing to sacrifice everything to pull

that off those are the people and

there's very few people like that mmm

who are willing to say you know what man

you don't get me because your feet are

nice and firm on the ground that's where

you want to put them but for me there's

more to life than that and for him that

lasted I don't know three four hours

left someone that took him I don't know

it took him a while it's over now

he risked everything for just a few

hours on the rock and I've done that

with my own self with my own personal

life is I've risked so much but but what

he gained and what I've gained in these

three or four hours in these moments are

something that people will never never

know because they've never put

themselves on the rock for three or four

hours and put everything on the rock and

that's something that very few people

can understand so they they think he's

crazy and those the people I can't talk

to you mmm because it's not craziness

he found something like I found

something I found this I'm exploring

this he was exploring this he exploded

on the rock

I explored in different in different

venues so those that those are the

amazing people that's where I find

amazing who are willing to say look

honey I love you but you have to

understand something I have to go away

for a while here I may not be with you a

long time because it takes a hundred

percent focus to pull this off I need quiet

quiet

I need dedication these sacrifice from

myself yeah I need full support because

it's gonna cost everything to do this

one thing that takes three or four hours

mmm that's the dedication I'm looking

for and that's the dedication that does

not exist in this world

mm-hmm does not wooden you say does not

accept him and you know like it's hard

to find yeah

so I say does not it's like this it does

yeah it's so rare that you might say

doesn't exist yeah I mean literally like

especially nowadays the fact that he's

rare makes it special it makes it very

special but what makes it so crazy to me

is so many people had that ability mmm

they haven't taken the time to see what

they want in life therefore he's crazy

I'm crazy they put a title on us anyone

at i/o does to people a title it's the

greatest separator of all time it allows

you to go away and your comfort zone the

saying he's just nuts he's special

special person that gives you get out of

jail free card you can go ahead and be

normal now because we're special people

no we found what we want in life it's

all this so it is a very few people

they're all confused life's confusing

because they make it confusing

hmm so when you say I'm fascinated by

this bit you said you know the sacrifice

the choir the obsessive nature to climb

the rock or to run as far as you do and

the thing that you gained what was it

that you gained in those few hours of

doing those amazing feats what do you

gain so in the first hundred mile race I

did I wasn't prepared for it and I won't

go deep into the story but I detailed

well on the book basically I read 101

miles in 19 hours and six minutes unprepared

unprepared

[ __ ] on myself piss blood down my leg

had 30 miles to go

horrible worst pain of my entire life in

that 19 hours in six minutes that's all

it was

I lived 100 years I was able to pack 100

years in 19 hours and six minutes all

the emotions the highs and lows the the

trauma the failure the success the

victories everything you can put in a

life I put it in 19 hours and six

minutes and the beauty that comes out

the other side of that you what happens

in that timeframe we here at Mile 70 and

you're all [ __ ] up and your body is

destroyed and you have 31 miles to go

and you're not 31 miles to go in the

worst shape of your life with 31 miles

to go it's in that 31 miles that I was

able to crack open another part of the

human mind

a part that very few people are able to

examine because why they're not willing

to go there like back to the rock I

guarantee you when he was climbing that

thing and he had ropes on he was

thinking [ __ ] man I can only imagine

this is gonna be but no ropes at all

making some of these moves that I'm

falling with ropes you have to go to a

different focus the the focus has to be

so heightened that very few people they

even understand that but they have it in

them they have it in them to go there

but you have to go to a place of fear of

suffering of pain of doubt and that's

when your mind if it if it knows it's

not going to quit it opens up and once

it opens up that's my 40% room once you

can open open your mind up when you know

it's not going to quit it finds more it

finds more focus it finds more power

finds more Drive and that's what gets

you through 231 miles I said that's

that's what gets him so hyper focus on

that one little nodule to put his finger

on and that's what you find in those

moments but without those moments you

don't know what you're capable of

because you're living a very structured

do you think it's changed you as a

person having opened that part of your

mind is it like something that you've

seen that you can't unsee is it

addictive is it something you want to a

place you want to go back to again that

it's not addictive at all because you

don't want to live there you know but

it's definitely a place that makes you

look at people very differently because

once you see it's different if if I was

born with a silver spoon and everything

was given to me and life came easy but

knowing where I came from and where I'm

at now just because I was able to crack

open a few more doors

that's what's disappointing for me for

other people you know so it's not that I

want to live there I know I can go there

mmm and once again I know other people

can go there so I guess that's the thing

with me is I know I had the ability now

to go to a place that's very very hyper

focused that I can accomplish some

pretty amazing feats not because I'm

amazing because I allowed my mind to be

open minded for the possibilities of

what can I achieve okay if you said

before failure you must have some pretty

strong views on failure having anyone

who's not read your book it's called by

the way you can't hurt me if you haven't

got it you should get it I think I

understood the day it came out and you

talked a lot about it in that book but

you want to just talk about that briefly

here you've your thoughts on failure how

to battle it defeat it accept it well

think about it's funny man all these

catchphrases people always say you know

a failure is a part of life and figure

is how you grow I've said all that stuff

before but it really is a bunch of [ __ ]

it really is man I'm gonna be honest

with you man I'm so tired that I'll back

already know I'm so tired of hearing all

these [ __ ] cliche [ __ ] you know

like goal-setting you [ __ ] posters

and all that [ __ ]

half the people who write that [ __ ]

aren't even doing this [ __ ] you're

talking about mmm half the people talk

about failure you know they're [ __ ]

there is sitting back at some nice house

and we reflected talking about so it

just it makes me [ __ ] nuts the reason

why I believe I could talk him failures

because I'm still feeling today and I

filled in a major way and I'm and I'm

living when I'm talking so many people

who talk about all this [ __ ] there there

has been there people who used to do

back in the day not talk about it are

it's something that you should be afraid

of it should be afraid of but that's why

you should go out there and challenge

yourself to fail because if you're not

failing that something that means you've

set your goals to pass to succeed

everything you do which means you're not

setting your goals high enough so for me

okay I won't go out and break the

Guinness Book of World Records for

pull-ups lofty goal which is why I

failed it twice before I finally got it

I knew going into everything I've ever

done in my life maybe still training

three times before I got it and

everything I've ever done in my life

took me three times before I got it I

knew that there was a huge possibility

of failure but what I gained from

failure is this when you see a movie and

you watch a movie about a person who

keeps failing in at the end they succeed

how do you feel after you watched that

movie I liked it

amazing yeah yeah I become the movie mmm

I want to feel how I feel watching

someone else in the movie when I watched

rocky get his ass kicked and I watched

all these different things of failure I

was able to put myself there said God

man how much do you feel now that you

finally got there

that's what failure has done to me I

want so many things it wants someone

succeed at the end of it it's like god I

want to feel like that but failure

causes that one feeling hmm without that

failure involves you don't have that

feeling if you just pass and you succeed

and you're great that feeling yeah okay

I'm good

what takes you years months years to

accomplish because you just can't get

over the hump but you continue going

back to the drawing board you're looking

for those few seconds after you finally

figure out the equation whatever the

equation may be to get you to finally

pass to succeed I live for that feeling

but I can't get that feeling without

going through [ __ ] I feel this equation

I filled this one I felt this one I

filled this 100 figured it out so you

start to feel it before you even pass

before you even get to the success part

and then once you succeed the feeling is

unbelievable and you take that feeling

of success to failure and you put it in

your cookie jar you say I'll come back

and get you again I don't need you again

down the road in my life mmm to call on

you so basically then the level of

satisfaction in the success is directly

linked to the size of the failures the

bigger the failures the better the

feeling of success right does that

become addictive it does yeah it does it

becomes so addictive that you don't mind

family anymore mmm because you know now

oh I just [ __ ] next time I bit off on

something real big yeah which means the

feelings get me really big yeah so yeah

that's what I mean it takes failure to

get the best deal in the world mmm do

you think the biggest battle in all of

this is blocking out what everyone else

thinks about you yes most of us fail in

life because we're afraid of what

everyone around you was thinking that's

a horse of percent truth so we live by

the narrative of other people when I

first called a recruiter to be a Navy

SEAL denars torsion in 97 pounds the

first recruiter looked at me and said

you're not gonna be able to make this

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

help this black guy cuz I was only the

36th african-american to make it through

in over 70 years how does a black fat

guy gonna make it through in my ass

even 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 on

other people so what happens is there's

a lot of negative people walk 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

doesn't even try to dude just chill out

relax why he's so crazy right so

obsessed so all that stuff drives the

the quitting mind I call it the mind

wants to quit the mind is tired the my

entire demise deserving the mine thinks

it's very deserving so yes the the

biggest problem this world is other

people not yourself

it's other people in your head they are

puppet master in you pretty much on your

life and is that why your you've talked

a lot in this podcast about getting rid

of noise quiet aloneness is that part of

that equation it's it's all a part of it

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-shit kid

who thought he was dumb not successful

insecure who stuttered when I first saw

somebody to a person who can now do all

these things just because I now control

my whole mind yeah I don't care a lot

people say they don't care but they they

care like my son says I don't care every

time he says it I don't care it means he

can't easy care when you get to the

point where you really [ __ ] don't

care you don't have to decide 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 on you talk how you

dress would you want to go with your

life you know growing up I didn't want

to anybody I want to be in the military

because why some of my black friends I

was afraid of what they think mm-hmm you

know why would I join the [ __ ]

military man how the [ __ ] you wanna do

that [ __ ] I was afraid of what other

people thought about me so now I'm not

going to military I know you wanna

[ __ ] join the military I tell you

guys afraid what you thought

once again man you allow other people to

shackle your mind mmm and so as to is

the worst thing in the world do you

think you could go the other way and

maybe become a bit cold if you don't

care what anyone thinks if you don't say

your kids you know that is they're not

the people around do you don't 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

think

that means you chose the wrong support

staff there has to be so ice wire 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 fiancee if

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 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 because I

need backing to do what I'm going to do

and open-mindedness I need support

so yeah it's you gotta be very clear

thinking about all that stuff

are there not times though and it's just

a question and if you've got smart

people around you and they're giving you

good advice and you're not listening to

it can they could become a point when

you're just so blinkered sometimes they

don't listen to good advice from smart

people you gotta make sure they're smart

and I've got your best interests at

heart again that's it

yeah so that's why I got like I said

before like you know several minutes ago

my circle is very small I make sure I

didn't handpick these people because I'm

like so so you don't want people in your

corner they're like oh let me patch on

your back forever [ __ ] you do I don't

want people Pat me on the [ __ ] back

because I [ __ ] woke up in the morning

no so you don't want that you want

people who are honest with you were

gonna tell you what the [ __ ] is honest

honest and truthful people so someone

who's honest and truthful who has lived

is accountable for the whole personal

life that's what you want your corner

said hey you know you're pretty [ __ ]

dumb for doing this dude like this is

not smart or your being

you know you're being a turd today

you're not getting after it that's when

you want your corner so you don't what a

lot of people handpick people to be in

their corner who kissed their [ __ ]

ass you don't want that no no so you're

very selective of who I'm select yet but

you'll listen to those people will you

have to yeah you have to

so what am i big one of my best cause

I'm open-minded

to the right people but I don't respect

a lot of people cuz how am I going to

respect you not you personally sure but

anybody 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 how am I gonna respect

you so you have to be a hard worker

period died you got work your [ __ ]

ass off that's where I get it respect

for you mmm so if you're working hard

every day now you have an opinion in my

eyes mmm but here's a guy who talks [ __ ]

and you live this [ __ ] life of

talking [ __ ] come on dude hmm 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

mmm I respect you now so respect is the

first thing yeah great emotions you

talked about your mind is emotion and

how you feel do you see that as the same

thing or different and have you tried to

control how you feel how you react to

people anger jealousy hate you know

whatever and trying some kind of mastery

of that do you see that as different to

the mind jealousy a hundred percent you

have to if you're jealous about anything

that is a horrible thing anger I've done

really well with controlling it nowadays

back in the day when you're insecure so

all this stuff comes from conquering

yourself and once you feel good about

yourself all the anger not all of it we human

human

jealousy these things start to really go

away he's like no I'm good

yeah I'm good when you're full you don't

need other people to fill you up because

you're full that's right I think a lot

of people they like need people's

respect they need people's opinions they

need people's attention they need

people's love because they're empty

that's right and they're trying to fill

themselves up through other people

there's no one can live to your standard

so you're always gonna feel empty that's

how it used to be mmm

so we created me lying it creamy being a

dishonest person whatever I could do to

get it to get whatever it was I'm a back

to you Crescent buddy motion I'm a very

emotional person so I'm very passionate

because it took a lot for me to be Who I

am today hmm

so I'm very emotional yeah but it's just

the passion of me about the sacrifice I

put into being who when today mmm so and

sometimes that spills over sometimes you

lose control of it it's not losing

control I allow it to go mmm

so I got this awards for the VFW called

the Americanism award and I'm speaking

in front of like 5,000 veterans and I

get the award and I'm thinking people

and I turned back to my mom I look at

her and for 58 seconds just cried

because I had a chance at that time to

look and see what I've accomplished and

where I came from and I wasn't trying to

hold it by to get myself together to

give my speech but it was a very proud

moment for me to be able to reflect it

say okay man like you know you've not

like I've earned that right to cry or to

be emotional but it felt good that

literally I grinded myself into a fine

powder to get where I'm at today

mmm and it just came out in that way so

yeah emotion is a beautiful thing you

don't want to if if you're emotional

that's bad yeah but if you show emotion

at the right time I think that's a

that's a beautiful thing mmm so it's

still an essence of controlling it yes

yeah because you have to you want to be

in control of your mind you want to be

in control of your mind emotional people

they're rec hmm they control that

emotion controls your everything you do

yeah and what emotional people do is

like for instance I always say this they

can have a beautiful life husband and

wife kids everything everything they

want but it's the one thing that they

don't have that makes them emotional so

that emotion makes them focus on what

they don't have emotion makes them focus

on everything negative everything

pity-party what was me this didn't

happen so your mind loves that it loves

talking to other people how this is all

[ __ ] up maybe you know think about it

people love to [ __ ] and complain about

everything so when you're sitting there

you may spend weeks months years

bitching about the same thing so what

have you done

nothing hmm there's no solution in that

yeah but most of us live there all this

other guy got to pay raise every guy got

this and I got that and we live in this

emotional state of what was me mmm

nothing gets accomplished mm-hmm nothing

gets accomplished yeah so um penultimate

question then we do a few quickfire if

that's all right so it just got a few

minutes left just in advance a thank you mm-hmm

mm-hmm

business so I business one of my big

passions on our business and obviously

you've commercialized very well doing a

lot of podcasts your book and of course

your speaking so I don't want us off go

into a question per se right other than

can you just talk about your business

interests how have you managed to sort

of pivot your mind from what everyone

knows you for to having a business mind

and picking the right gigs speaking gigs

and what's your speaking fee and going

on promoting your book and all that kind

of because that must be a different

world for you right people aren't going

to like to hear I got to say I don't

care or to hear it I'm not about money

not about money at all it comes you have

to first be authentic what is your

[ __ ] brand there's a bunch of people

who are doing business right now who

don't know what the [ __ ] brand is

they're trying to figure it out they're

trying to piggyback off someone else let

me take this and steal this

everything I say another thing I do is

authentic to me mm-hmm

and I'm not out here trying to make

money off of you I'm out here trying to

help you when you truly want to help

somebody out that's when you have a

business your business is when you truly

are looking to help have a good product

the product right now is myself like

basically are you living what you talk

are you being who you are

so they're for me so yeah David Goggins

I may not like him every [ __ ] day I

know this guy every day I wake up I know

he's out there doing something I know

he's getting out so I know when he talks

he's speaking truth whether it be

whatever so what I've done with my

business is I made it very true to who I

am as a person I'm not someone else I'm

not trying to fake something and I'm not

looking for your [ __ ] money I'm here

to help you and when people see that

you're here to help you that's when you

can form a business but people can see

right through [ __ ] mmm they can see

right through [ __ ] so once they see

the [ __ ] your business is done mmm

you know authentic anymore yeah it's a

piece of [ __ ] mmm so people see true so

sometimes in your business you may not

make a dime for a while you have to gain

trust of people you have to have a good

product it has to be about the people

for the people and not about you there

can't be any underlining things with

very few people can do that nowadays

people a lot of people nowadays are

slugs they're cockroaches - bottom

feeders they just are they want that

quick dollar it's about me it's about me

about me about me if that's your [ __ ]

mindset your business is done some

people make it but they don't last very

long they don't last long so for me I

come from hell

I had to persevere through a lot I got

judged growing up so all I want to truly

do for people is I'm for the [ __ ]

underdog mmm I'm truly I want to see you

[ __ ] crush every [ __ ] on the

planet Earth anybody that said you can't

you can't you can't no but you you might

be your biggest bully you might be tell

you said you can that's my business

hmm whether it makes money or not

give a [ __ ] mmm that's what it's all

about man I want to see you at the end

of day say look my head Goggins I'm not

walking through the airport hey man you

[ __ ] saved my life now I tell you

about it go [ __ ] themselves man because

I changed my whole life around that's

the business if you can do that you're

rich as [ __ ] mmm that'd be a perfect way

to finish the podcast by the way I got a

couple more questions thank you [Music]

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these are quickfires mean you take as

long as you like but we sort of do them

you know nice and quick

so best advice you ever receive do you

remember what it was best advice I

received was it wasn't really advice my

grandfather when I was growing up I was

being bullied all kind of [ __ ] my

grandfather looked at me and he said you

know what man you're not going about to

[ __ ] because of how you hang your head

so I said hmm

and as true and as real as it was it

hurt and a lot of us what we do is we

hide from the truth we don't want to

tell people the truth we see people

every day loved ones friends family

members we see them walking around

everybody's seen them and they're not

amounting to [ __ ] the [ __ ] gaining

weight they're not going to school but

we live in a kinder gentler world so we

don't say [ __ ] to them we just watch

them fail because why we don't know what

to say or how to say it or we may lose

them as friends or they may not love us

anymore you're watching someone fail the

best thing you may ever do for someone

is to hey guess what brother you're a

piece of [ __ ] right now you may not say

just that way but that's what you may

want to say to somebody look man I love

you to death brother but your life sucks

you're not you you are so much better

than this man you're so much better I'm

watching you fail and I can't do it so

the best advice I ever got was a

negative comment from my grandfather

said hey you make him out to [ __ ] yeah

and he didn't mean it in like a mean way

he meant to is honestly you're allowing

this world to kick your [ __ ] ass and

it's going to if we keep on letting it

do it and it stuck with me it stuck with

me for a long time

what's the worst advice you ever

received which by the way is a terrible

question unknown no nobody comes out

with good answer it's a [ __ ] great question

question

the worst advice I ever received was

from an agent and he said if you

published your self publish your book

you were so 5000 copies if you do this

on your own you won't it no one will buy

this book I saw the million [ __ ]

copies in seven months so if I were took

his advice we all know how that would

have ended up a lot of people would have

been happy now I've been upset so some

advice that you get the bad advice that

you get from people a lot of times it's

the best advice for them yeah most

people give you advice that works for them

them

especially in business so make sure it

once against by having that good solid

core of people around you that truly

care about what is best for you not

what's best for them yeah let's talk

about the book for a minute then because

it did really well why did it do so well

you know did you promote it a lot to

jump on a lot of podcasts and share it

was it just a message did it go viral

why do you think it did so well it did

well because I was known as this

superhuman guy and I went on these

podcasts and I was vulnerable I told the

truth and the truth is a start line of

your life I went on and told the truth

about my life about look ma'am I'm sorry

to let you guys down there but I'm not

who you think I am all these

accomplishments yes but this is where I

come from and when you're able to be

vulnerable and be a tough guy at the

same time it almost people are looking

for permission nowadays and not saying

that I'm the permission holder but like

for a guy like me to come out after all

the tough stuff I've done I'm known as

the world's toughest man yeah that's

just a title someone gave me but when

you're known as that you do all these

tough things you like hey man but check

it out dude you open the door for people

in my life not only was I not the

smartest kid learn disabilities abuse

father my stepfather Masumi stepfather I

got murdered stuttering obese the list

goes on and on and on I broke down color barriers so one time when I went to do

barriers so one time when I went to do my book I actually went to book auction

my book I actually went to book auction years ago they looked at me it was like

years ago they looked at me it was like hey man

hey man there's only like 15 percent of

there's only like 15 percent of America's black okay [ __ ] you say they

America's black okay [ __ ] you say they thought to only black people who buy my

thought to only black people who buy my book I have like out of the million

book I have like out of the million people that my book is most of our white

people that my book is most of our white and the thing I say that for is this

and the thing I say that for is this story I'm not the hero in the story you

story I'm not the hero in the story you are I'm basically talking to you to make

are I'm basically talking to you to make you think about your life and I'm being

you think about your life and I'm being vulnerable to make you think about when

vulnerable to make you think about when you listen to a podcast or you listen to

you listen to a podcast or you listen to audio book or you read a book you by

audio book or you read a book you by yourself most of us can't be vulnerable

yourself most of us can't be vulnerable in a room of people but we're very

in a room of people but we're very vulnerable alone so I'm able to talk to

vulnerable alone so I'm able to talk to you as one person even though a million

you as one person even though a million people are reading the book it's made

people are reading the book it's made for each individual because that story I

for each individual because that story I tell is touching someone's like to say

tell is touching someone's like to say oh man yeah I experienced that [ __ ]

oh man yeah I experienced that [ __ ] behind you for coming I never even

behind you for coming I never even talked about that [ __ ] yeah so I broke

talked about that [ __ ] yeah so I broke down my barriers and that's why I did it

down my barriers and that's why I did it on podcast and I did it and I'm giving

on podcast and I did it and I'm giving you tools tools to help you get through

you tools tools to help you get through some of this [ __ ] not like five-step

some of this [ __ ] not like five-step [ __ ] no I went to the dungeon and I

[ __ ] no I went to the dungeon and I was the guinea pig and I figured the

was the guinea pig and I figured the [ __ ] out and I'm writing about it I

[ __ ] out and I'm writing about it I didn't sit back in a nice comfortable

didn't sit back in a nice comfortable room and say huh this would be a good

room and say huh this would be a good [ __ ] book let me say okay the five

[ __ ] book let me say okay the five steps are this and they write a book

steps are this and they write a book about it no I was the person I did the

about it no I was the person I did the research you know I wasn't a theorist I

research you know I wasn't a theorist I was the practitioner yeah and people see

was the practitioner yeah and people see that hmm okay thank you is that one

that hmm okay thank you is that one thing maybe in the world do you think is

thing maybe in the world do you think is really wrong that you'd like to change

really wrong that you'd like to change yes

yes what's really wrong is a softness of

what's really wrong is a softness of this world everybody's not a winner

there is failure there's tons of defeat we have to get

there's tons of defeat we have to get that back that's that that's growth that

that back that's that that's growth that that is growth we have to everything

that is growth we have to everything everybody has I'm glad about as a voice

everybody has I'm glad about as a voice there has to be structure in the world

there has to be structure in the world again

again there has to be accountability everybody

there has to be accountability everybody is not right mmm everybody's not right

is not right mmm everybody's not right kids are kids you know and and it kind

kids are kids you know and and it kind of stems from there people have to get a

of stems from there people have to get a little bit of toughness back a lot of

little bit of toughness back a lot of toughness back because the backbone of

toughness back because the backbone of of this world is built off of toughness

of this world is built off of toughness not like I got a go off there and do

not like I got a go off there and do push-ups and pull-ups and [ __ ] like that

push-ups and pull-ups and [ __ ] like that it's not about Todd toughness is

it's not about Todd toughness is accountability you're not always right

accountability you're not always right there's so many things I can say about

there's so many things I can say about this the world has gotten very very soft

this the world has gotten very very soft any particular areas and all of us all

any particular areas and all of us all of us it's easy nowadays we have we're

of us it's easy nowadays we have we're so technically technology so fast you

so technically technology so fast you know no one's even going to the library

know no one's even going to the library why Google the [ __ ] mmm everything is

why Google the [ __ ] mmm everything is easy

easy no one's ever code anymore no one's ever

no one's ever code anymore no one's ever hot anymore everything is exactly the

hot anymore everything is exactly the way we want it everything is exactly we

way we want it everything is exactly we want when we want it we are in and

want when we want it we are in and that's how the world is

that's how the world is everything is at our fingertips and that

everything is at our fingertips and that causes you not to use the most powerful

causes you not to use the most powerful weapon in the world which is your mind

weapon in the world which is your mind everything is easy so why so when things

everything is easy so why so when things get hard how the hell can you rely on

get hard how the hell can you rely on your brain when you don't know how to

your brain when you don't know how to B's everything's so easy yeah so we're

B's everything's so easy yeah so we're not utilizing enough mm-hmm because

not utilizing enough mm-hmm because everything is just there yeah so that so

everything is just there yeah so that so our brains and data in my mind a lot you

our brains and data in my mind a lot you get comfortable with things and like you

get comfortable with things and like you said you know it's like you have three

said you know it's like you have three degrees too cold and you it's true yeah

degrees too cold and you it's true yeah you feel wet and wimpy is true yeah I

you feel wet and wimpy is true yeah I mean like it's print when I say

mean like it's print when I say everybody's running so yeah it's just

everybody's running so yeah it's just it's just these small these horses say

it's just these small these horses say you know what I think creeps up on you

you know what I think creeps up on you you don't really know it's happening it

you don't really know it's happening it does versus say no I'm a man yeah a lot

does versus say no I'm a man yeah a lot of people like for instance I see men

of people like for instance I see men and women now are so much all the same I

and women now are so much all the same I see women carrying bags I see women open

see women carrying bags I see women open their

their doors like this hole words kind of mist

doors like this hole words kind of mist into one big one big person all these

into one big one big person all these customs and courtesies all these things

customs and courtesies all these things are just gone like you know the second

are just gone like you know the second the that bell rings when the daggone

the that bell rings when the daggone airplane parks everybody's ass up versus

airplane parks everybody's ass up versus a man has seen a woman that you sent by

a man has seen a woman that you sent by saying ma'am is this your back it's all

saying ma'am is this your back it's all these small things there's all these

these small things there's all these small sub-discipline always rushing

small sub-discipline always rushing we're rushing everywhere we're rushing

we're rushing everywhere we're rushing people aren't holding doors or it's all

people aren't holding doors or it's all these small things

these small things these small disciplines why do you make

these small disciplines why do you make your bed in the morning time when I was

your bed in the morning time when I was in the military never forgot I was like

in the military never forgot I was like a lot of [ __ ] we folded our shirt up

a lot of [ __ ] we folded our shirt up this way why why am I making these

this way why why am I making these Hospital corners 45 degrees in them

Hospital corners 45 degrees in them forward in my bed back six inches the

forward in my bed back six inches the size of a dollar why am I doing this all

size of a dollar why am I doing this all these small things that we do in life

these small things that we do in life are building your mind up for discipline

are building your mind up for discipline and all those disciplines are gone so

and all those disciplines are gone so that's the one thing that we're

that's the one thing that we're definitely missing it's self discipline

definitely missing it's self discipline and do you think your story and the

and do you think your story and the product of you and your book support

product of you and your book support caution message do you think that is

caution message do you think that is maybe pushing back a bit on that it's

maybe pushing back a bit on that it's pushing back a ton on it and because

pushing back a ton on it and because everything about it is accountability

everything about it is accountability everything about it is self-discipline

everything about it is self-discipline everything about it is no one's gonna

everything about it is no one's gonna save you no one's gonna come out of the

save you no one's gonna come out of the woods and say hey I got your back man I

woods and say hey I got your back man I want to take you from all this [ __ ]

want to take you from all this [ __ ] some people get that but very few of us

some people get that but very few of us do so the only person coming to save you

do so the only person coming to save you is yourself and that's what the books

is yourself and that's what the books about man don't look around the corner

about man don't look around the corner hoping I was selling this couch and hope

hoping I was selling this couch and hope for a [ __ ] miracle yeah it might come

for a [ __ ] miracle yeah it might come to that 1% but ain't coming to most of

to that 1% but ain't coming to most of us

us mm-hmm so you better start getting to

mm-hmm so you better start getting to work yeah before we went I'm live if you

work yeah before we went I'm live if you like you were talking about how your

like you were talking about how your book the audio versions a novel unique

book the audio versions a novel unique concept right I'd like you to tell

concept right I'd like you to tell everyone you know where your book is and

everyone you know where your book is and how they can get it but can you talk

how they can get it but can you talk about the concept because it was the

about the concept because it was the first book I listened to where I thought

first book I listened to where I thought this is kind of like radio kind of like

this is kind of like radio kind of like a podcast kind of like an interview and

a podcast kind of like an interview and kind of like a book all rolled in I

kind of like a book all rolled in I think that's what you were going for

think that's what you were going for yeah yeah so basically that's one of the

yeah yeah so basically that's one of the big reasons why this off publish because

big reasons why this off publish because I was able to put my Goggins twist on

I was able to put my Goggins twist on everything I did

everything I did so with the audiobook is the first of

so with the audiobook is the first of its kind and almost everybody

its kind and almost everybody besides my support staff said don't do

besides my support staff said don't do it this way you need to be the one that

it this way you need to be the one that reads this and that's it no one's ever

reads this and that's it no one's ever done it this way how we could do it this

done it this way how we could do it this way don't do it this way

way don't do it this way so basically in the audio book there's a

so basically in the audio book there's a bunch of me I have I have my a guy named

bunch of me I have I have my a guy named Adam who's reading it and through the

Adam who's reading it and through the book

book I'm chiming in and I'm going even deeper

I'm chiming in and I'm going even deeper diving in deeper with these different

diving in deeper with these different stories and we're talking off the cuff

stories and we're talking off the cuff and this mean him are talking so the

and this mean him are talking so the whole book is read but through different

whole book is read but through different chapters and then at the end of each

chapters and then at the end of each chapter so you hear me throughout the

chapter so you hear me throughout the whole book giving more content going

whole book giving more content going deeper giving the stories that aren't

deeper giving the stories that aren't aren't in the book and it's just my own

aren't in the book and it's just my own little flavor and there's tons of

little flavor and there's tons of stories that are in the audio book that

stories that are in the audio book that aren't in the real book yeah and I take

aren't in the real book yeah and I take pride in because basically no one's ever

pride in because basically no one's ever done it and right now our book is

done it and right now our book is sitting at I think number four so it's

sitting at I think number four so it's been at number four on the Amazon most

been at number four on the Amazon most sold since December Wow

sold since December Wow and we sold over a million copies and

and we sold over a million copies and I'm self-published so most of it comes

I'm self-published so most of it comes from the audio book we sold over 600 and

from the audio book we sold over 600 and I think 50,000 copies around there yeah

I think 50,000 copies around there yeah of the audio book because of the do you

of the audio book because of the do you think because of the concept because the

think because of the concept because the concept because you know basically it's

concept because you know basically it's so unique and it really draws you in

so unique and it really draws you in yeah because I have someone else reading

yeah because I have someone else reading it you're not in it but I want it

it you're not in it but I want it supposed to read it because you're the

supposed to read it because you're the hero yeah

hero yeah this isn't I'm not the hero this book it

this isn't I'm not the hero this book it may be about me but I'm really talking

may be about me but I'm really talking to you I want you to be thinking about

to you I want you to be thinking about your personal life and that's how we do

your personal life and that's how we do we draw the listener in to the story

we draw the listener in to the story yeah it make you say oh [ __ ] man like

yeah it make you say oh [ __ ] man like okay I'm in it now I'm living this story

okay I'm in it now I'm living this story now with this guy so but the fact that

now with this guy so but the fact that you're in it I think is also really

you're in it I think is also really important yes because people but it's

important yes because people but it's hard to get across how you're like and

hard to get across how you're like and your intensity and your passion with a

your intensity and your passion with a voice-over artist you know somewhere now

voice-over artist you know somewhere now here and hearing you write like some of

here and hearing you write like some of the things you've said on this interview

the things you've said on this interview of like oh that'd be a great time to

of like oh that'd be a great time to finish the podcast but I want to get the

finish the podcast but I want to get the questions in right but it's the way you

questions in right but it's the way you said it not just what you said right

said it not just what you said right yeah I have a different delivery which

yeah I have a different delivery which is why I had to find everything about me

is why I had to find everything about me is very unique and that's what I want

is very unique and that's what I want people to realize we're all unique and

people to realize we're all unique and all right now you can't be muffled you

all right now you can't be muffled you can't be muffled by these different

can't be muffled by these different voices in your head or these different

voices in your head or these different people who doubt you whatever so it took

people who doubt you whatever so it took me a long time to find my voice

me a long time to find my voice therefore I know what you're saying

therefore I know what you're saying that's why I had to be on the audio book

that's why I had to be on the audio book and how I write and how I speak is very

and how I write and how I speak is very different so but it's very primitive I

different so but it's very primitive I don't overthink anything yeah all of my

don't overthink anything yeah all of my takeaways in the book and there's tons

takeaways in the book and there's tons of them in the book they're all very

of them in the book they're all very basic takeaways and the things that you

basic takeaways and the things that you can apply immediately to your life and

can apply immediately to your life and I'm not trying to sell you on I'll give

I'm not trying to sell you on I'll give a ship you bite or not but they're very

a ship you bite or not but they're very quick and that's how my mind works I'm

quick and that's how my mind works I'm simple stupid yeah keep a simple stupid

simple stupid yeah keep a simple stupid man and that's all life things we

man and that's all life things we overthink things and be in net next

overthink things and be in net next thing you know this very simple thing

thing you know this very simple thing screw light bulb in becomes very hard

screw light bulb in becomes very hard yeah just screw the [ __ ] in man no

yeah just screw the [ __ ] in man no just screw the [ __ ] in that's it

just screw the [ __ ] in that's it you're done yeah and that's how my life

you're done yeah and that's how my life is now you screw the [ __ ] light bulb

is now you screw the [ __ ] light bulb amen let's go yeah great and this

amen let's go yeah great and this podcast is really about disruptors

podcast is really about disruptors disruptive people and what does that

disruptive people and what does that word disruptive me to you I mean the

word disruptive me to you I mean the first thing that comes to mind is just

first thing that comes to mind is just what you said disruptive people for the

what you said disruptive people for the majority of my life people disrupted my

majority of my life people disrupted my life but I allowed them to but what

life but I allowed them to but what happens is over a pretty time you become

happens is over a pretty time you become the disturbance in your life because you

the disturbance in your life because you allow all these disturbances to get in

allow all these disturbances to get in your head therefore you have all this

your head therefore you have all this [ __ ] going on but you become your

[ __ ] going on but you become your biggest bully yeah and once that happens

biggest bully yeah and once that happens it's over once it happens it's over

it's over once it happens it's over because all you have in your mind on

because all you have in your mind on literally on a loop is negative

literally on a loop is negative self-talk yeah and once that negative

self-talk yeah and once that negative self-talk is on a loop it's hard to get

self-talk is on a loop it's hard to get out of him someone once said to me the

out of him someone once said to me the the best thing the best way to disrupt

the best thing the best way to disrupt is to disrupt yourself before someone

is to disrupt yourself before someone else does competitions friends whatever

else does competitions friends whatever you have a thought on that about you

you have a thought on that about you taking control of challenging yourself

taking control of challenging yourself so someone else doesn't own your life

so someone else doesn't own your life that's the whole thing I'll talk about

that's the whole thing I'll talk about winning the battle in the morning so

winning the battle in the morning so every morning I wake up I believe in

every morning I wake up I believe in winning the battle against yourself

winning the battle against yourself people say why do you say that because

people say why do you say that because there's a lot of things you can control

there's a lot of things you can control when you wake up it's about making your

when you wake up it's about making your bed

bed make your bed make sure your house is

make your bed make sure your house is clean make sure you get your breakfast

clean make sure you get your breakfast make sure you shower a shave whatever

make sure you shower a shave whatever you're doing control that don't hit the

you're doing control that don't hit the snooze button all these things are very

snooze button all these things are very important that's been told a lot of

important that's been told a lot of times why don't you hit this news button

times why don't you hit this news button cuz you wake up already failing you're

cuz you wake up already failing you're already behind the power curve so what

already behind the power curve so what happens we get this news button you may

happens we get this news button you may not make your bed you may not do your

not make your bed you may not do your hair the way you want it you may not

hair the way you want it you may not pick the right clothes out in the

pick the right clothes out in the morning time and I go back to this real

morning time and I go back to this real quick remember how you had a job

quick remember how you had a job interview for a job we've had several of

interview for a job we've had several of them in our lives what you do the night

them in our lives what you do the night before that job weeks before the job

before that job weeks before the job interview we knew you had it you'd be

interview we knew you had it you'd be paired you're you know you had a bowl

paired you're you know you had a bowl out for your oatmeal your cereal we'd

out for your oatmeal your cereal we'd ever had in the morning time your coffee

ever had in the morning time your coffee cup was out your clothes were laid out

cup was out your clothes were laid out you studied you rehearsed you were ready

you studied you rehearsed you were ready you brought your best self you're going

you brought your best self you're going to ward your so because you wanted that

to ward your so because you wanted that interviewer to see your best self you

interviewer to see your best self you won you got the job after a few months

won you got the job after a few months in that job you look around hmm I got

in that job you look around hmm I got the job start to back off the clothes

the job start to back off the clothes aren't out you're not ready hitting the

aren't out you're not ready hitting the snooze button you don't get up on time

snooze button you don't get up on time anymore

anymore you realize that you can still have this

you realize that you can still have this job and not be your best self the

job and not be your best self the interview you is gone your job is gone

interview you is gone your job is gone you have your job but the interview is

you have your job but the interview is gone

gone so we're in the balance of more time is

so we're in the balance of more time is just that it's that you wake up in the

just that it's that you wake up in the morning time when you own all this stuff

morning time when you own all this stuff because once you leave your house the

because once you leave your house the world then gets at you

world then gets at you and that's why I believe in them not not

and that's why I believe in them not not getting up in the morning time checking

getting up in the morning time checking your phone immediately everybody does

your phone immediately everybody does that they get up the first thing to do

that they get up the first thing to do grab their phone look at the phone maybe

grab their phone look at the phone maybe bad news on there so how's your day

bad news on there so how's your day start off I don't go to the gym I don't

start off I don't go to the gym I don't make my bed I know you're caught up now

make my bed I know you're caught up now on that phone that's how your day starts

on that phone that's how your day starts you lost control so once you win that

you lost control so once you win that once you win that battle in the morning

once you win that battle in the morning time then once you go out now you've won

time then once you go out now you've won you go outside your house

you go outside your house you may lose your job you may have a bad

you may lose your job you may have a bad hit but you won something

hit but you won something so so you're going into battle having

so so you're going into battle having already won something having already won

already won something having already won so then if you this news button you go

so then if you this news button you go out you're just defeated already you're

out you're just defeated already you're behind the power curve now you've won

behind the power curve now you've won something you feel better about yourself

something you feel better about yourself so now you're able to take these hits

so now you're able to take these hits along the way yeah so that's the mindset

along the way yeah so that's the mindset that I think it's important to bring

that I think it's important to bring with you every day you go everywhere you

with you every day you go everywhere you go in life when what you can mmm and

go in life when what you can mmm and that is a good way to end the podcast

that is a good way to end the podcast just to finish where can people follow

just to finish where can people follow you where would you like to send people

you where would you like to send people so I'm on Instagram I'm on facebook I'm

so I'm on Instagram I'm on facebook I'm on Twitter it's just at David Goggins

on Twitter it's just at David Goggins yeah the book I saw published obviously

yeah the book I saw published obviously can't have me can't hurt me it's a book

can't have me can't hurt me it's a book title and it's on Amazon it's on audible

title and it's on Amazon it's on audible yeah those aren't you spots right

yeah those aren't you spots right it was on audible oh yeah iTunes yeah

it was on audible oh yeah iTunes yeah but for the most part you know but but

but for the most part you know but but the audiobook is definitely the one I

the audiobook is definitely the one I would definitely recommend yeah David be

would definitely recommend yeah David be a time thanks very much very grateful I

a time thanks very much very grateful I appreciate it thank you and kid thank

appreciate it thank you and kid thank you

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