Navy SEAL & Endurance Athlete David Goggins on Being the Hardest Human Alive
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This conversation is with David Goggins. It's real. This podcast is not for kids -- it's for adults -- who want to understand toughness and authenticity. David is clear. Very clear. He lives in true alignment. He's figured out who he is -- and he lives accordingly. Period. The odds were stacked against David ever making anything of himself. He grew up in an abusive household, barely graduated high school, and struggled with serious health issues, to name just a few of the challenges David had to overcome. In spite of all of these obstacles, David never had a “woe is me” mentality. David is the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training (including two Hell Weeks), the U.S. Army Ranger School (where he graduated as Enlisted Honor Man) and Air Force tactical air controller training. David has completed multiple ultra-marathons, triathlons, ultra-triathlons, bike races and arduous mountain ascents, setting new course records and regularly placing in the top five. His achievements made him the subject of a lead feature in Runner’s World, where he was named “Running Hero”, and Outside Magazine named him “The Fittest (Real) Man in America.” The Navy SEALs even asked him to be their poster-boy and appear in a recruiting commercial.
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| 0:00.0 | Every man and woman must form their own ethos on what they stand for in their or her life. |
| 0:07.0 | They have to stand for something or you stand for nothing. |
| 0:10.0 | So when you're in that situation, it's hard for you to lie because you can't lie because you |
| 0:14.1 | know now you gotta hold yourself to higher standard anybody else's real. All right. Welcome back or welcome to The Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay. And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. |
| 0:36.1 | To better understand what they crave, what they're hungry for, their unique philosophical framework of how they understand how the world works, how they |
| 0:44.8 | understand how they work, how people work, how their craft works, and we also want to |
| 0:49.5 | understand the unique mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
| 0:54.9 | It's not that we want to do what they do, it's that we want to understand what they're searching |
| 0:59.6 | for and the mechanical ways that they've gone about creating the path to lead them closer to it |
| 1:05.7 | and the artistic ways that they've figured out the nuances, especially on the path that's |
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| 1:15.0 | Your brain is one of the hungriest organs in your body. |
| 1:18.0 | It's been found to consume roughly around 20% of your energy every day. |
| 1:23.0 | That means an important factor between the days you feel sluggish and the days that you feel sharp |
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| 1:50.9 | among many other potential factors, of course. |
| 1:54.4 | When dopamine is optimized, it's been linked to enhanced mood and motivation, focus, attention, |
| 2:00.1 | mental clarity, learning. |
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