How To Cultivate The Mind Of The Warrior with David Goggins

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Your Suffering Can Become Your Superpower

Would you like to know how to cultivate the mind of the warrior?

Are you ready to suffer to become the best version of yourself? Are you willing to push past your pain to unleash your fullest potential?

David Goggins asks the hard questions because he understands that it takes relentless obsession to flip our lowest “me” mentality, upside down. David once worked his days killing cockroaches to becoming the only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller. What you’ll hear in this episode is how a man decides to do something radically different to shift his life in order to wake up and achieve the best version of himself he knew he could become.

“If I can overcome this, if I can find some power in this, some way to get through this, that right there could be the fuel for the rest of my life. And so I found great strength in suffering.”
— David Goggins

In this episode you’ll discover:

How David figured out a way to overcome the “Lowest Me Mentality”
How he defines motivation versus obsession, and what a difference it can make in your life
How suffering changes your self-identity and reminds you of your strengths
The caveat to earning a “badge” and how mental toughness needs to win over and over again
How to create a Cookie Jar — Learn about the indestructible mental toolbox David developed to overcome the hardest points in his life
The Jar of F*ck — Learn how you can win your life by winning the control of your morning
How and Why David starts his morning with his Cookie Jar and The Jar of F*ck
David explains how peace and enlightenment is ultimately reached through adversity and suffering
David shares the concept of The 40% Rule in one of the most powerful analogies we’ve heard yet based on the idea of Heaven

Resources and Mentions:

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
David Goggins on Impact Theory
Exponential Organization by Salim Ismail
Jason Campbell, Host of Mindvalley Impact
Marisa Peer, British Hypnotherapist

Connect with David:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.
0:05.2	You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and
0:09.2	thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind,
0:15.1	body, spirit, and work.
0:18.4	Welcome everyone.
0:19.9	You're going to want to listen to this over and over and over again because this is one of the most intense
0:26.9	awakening like kicking the butt trainings I've ever done of any guest I've ever brought
0:32.2	onto this show.
0:33.3	David Goggins is an exceptional human being.
0:37.6	He's one of the only people in the US military
0:40.9	to complete seal training, ranger training, tactical air control
0:44.7	training, he's an ultra marathon runner, his book is called Can't Hurt Me and he is a
0:49.8	guy who got to this level, he's one of the most inspirational people on the internet right now.
0:56.0	You've probably seen him on podcast or on shows like Impact Theory, but the craziest thing about
1:00.6	David is how he got to this level.
1:03.6	Couple of years ago, he was simply a guy killing cockroaches for a living.
1:09.2	And then he made a decision in life to do something different, to peek and look at the man he could be, and then
1:17.5	to go through as much suffering and pain as he could relentlessly to become that man. And his message is going to wake you up. Now we are
1:26.5	recording this in New York, so you're going to hear the sounds of New York around us. New York is not an easy
1:31.7	place to record in.
1:33.0	And I also want you to know that David is one of the most real, authentic,
1:37.0	and true to himself human beings I've ever encountered.
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