Conquering Challenges & The Power of Breaking Down Goals | Chadd Wright

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Chadd Wright shares insights from SEAL training, emphasizing the importance of breaking challenges into smaller, manageable pieces to avoid feeling overwhelmed. He discusses the significance of focusing on the present moment, using examples from SEAL training, ultra-running, and his business ventures. Chadd highlights the concept of the "steady state," a mental space where pain remains constant, but the mind simplifies, enabling a primal focus on the task at hand.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:06.0	The biggest reason that people quit is because they're looking at the big picture, man.
0:20.0	With seal training, there's no single evolution that's that difficult.
0:25.2	Yeah.
0:25.6	Really, I mean, it's four-mile runs and, you know, two-mile swims,
0:30.5	and it's nothing that you couldn't get up from this table and go do right now.
0:35.3	But the guys that quit, they couldn't break it down like into digestible pieces.
0:43.6	One hour at a time, one moment at a time, one day at a time.
0:46.8	Yep. Yeah.
0:47.7	It seems so overwhelming. You're like, if I can't do this right now, if I'm struggling this
0:52.3	moment, how am I to take on all of this, right?
0:54.7	Six months, four month, three months.
0:57.1	And so we become overwhelmed and in fear as opposed to just one step of the time.
1:01.2	I said, brother.
1:02.2	I remember an evolution during Hell Week.
1:04.4	All it was was a one mile repeat.
1:07.3	All you got to do is run one mile over and over again until we tell you to stop.
1:12.5	So I'm out here like, heck yeah, dude.
1:14.9	All I've got to do is run one mile at my own pace on a sunny beach on Coronado Island.
1:20.1	But that was the single evolution during Hell Week where we lost the most guys.
1:25.1	Certain people just could not focus on that mile, dude.
1:29.3	They, they, they, they, all they could think about was all the miles in front of them.
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