When it comes to mental toughness, discipline, and being hardcore like no other, very few people can stand with absolute confidence. By now, you’ve realized how hard life is. Maybe your future didn’t work out the way you and your family expected. Maybe you’re convinced the world you grew up in is hostile, dark and heartless towards someone like you.

Living with a victim mindset isn’t going to change your situation. Learning how to meet yourself where you are and stare at your inadequacies with total and radical honesty may be the most difficult thing you ever do, but perhaps it’s the only way out of the messed up life you’re living now.

David Goggins, former Navy Seal, ultra marathon runner, athlete and total badass knows what it takes to build a level of mental toughness very few people truly know about. His radical approach to building himself from an overweight “nobody” to one of the toughest people alive makes many people uncomfortable, but inspires the heck out of many more. If you’re looking to break out of a mindset that’s keeping you stuck, save this episode and listen to it over again

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction
0:20 | Face Your Darkness & Master It
6:57 | Taking Souls Not the Easy Route
14:12 | The Accountability Mirror
23:40 | Testing Your Mediocrity
34:45 | Find Yourself In the Insecurities
43:50 | Look Into Your Cookie Jar
1:08:26 | Train Your Mindset

QUOTES:

“If you think that I’m some unhappy guy you’re wrong. Having lived the life I’ve lived, and seen the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me has made me happy.” [0:46]

“If I don’t give you all of me, why the hell am I here? [...] People take so much offense to me. You will never learn from people if we always tap dance around the truth.” [5:48]

“I want to be the very best, and the very best may not be ‘I’m number one.’ The very best is, did I leave everything inside of me out there, [...] I’m running against myself in everything I do. [13:43]

“I got to experience the beauty of true f*cking will power, true f*ck you, I’m going to fail, I’m going to f*cking fail, I’m going to f*cking fail, I’m going to f*cking fail, and I will succeed.” [20:41]

“I chose the path of most resistance, talent not required.” [21:48]

“You gain knowledge through suffering, and on the other end of suffering is a world that very few have ever seen. It’s a beautiful world cause that’s where you find yourself.” [26:21]

“All the energy and fuel you need is right in yourself. It’s all there. You got a lot of stuff to do to overcome [...] I found drive in my own insecurities.” [33:56]

“When you can find drive in your own doubt, fear, insecurities, you become very unstoppable.” [34:15]

“Even though I was standing erect, my mind was in a fetal position.” [42:09]

“I had to build calluses in my brain the same way I built calluses on my hands.” [47:24]

“The only you’re going to ever get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow. To grow you must suffer.” [50:48]

“In times of suffering we forget how hard we really are cause [...] suffer is the true test of life.” [1:06:18]

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