Navy SEAL Reveals the Deadly Power of Negative Self-Talk | Chadd Wright EP 637

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In a heart-wrenching story of perseverance and the power of words, Navy SEAL Chadd Wright shares a gripping tale from his time in SEAL training. When his best friend uttered the fateful words, "I don't think I'm good enough to make it through this training anymore," Wright watched helplessly as his comrade's confidence crumbled, leading to his devastating decision to quit. Through his own grueling experiences, Wright has come to understand the paramount importance of the words we speak to ourselves, likening the tongue to a ship's rudder steering the direction of our lives. "The things that we say...it is paramount..." he emphasizes, urging listeners to harness the transformative potential of their words. Dive into this emotionally charged episode as Chadd Wright, a man forged by the unforgiving crucible of Navy SEAL training, reveals the life-altering lessons he's learned about the power of words and the indomitable human spirit. From his personal mantra, "I won't die in the chair," born from a heart-wrenching endurance race he dedicated to his fallen SEAL brothers, to his commitment to avoiding negative language, Wright shares the tools to cultivate unshakable resilience and master the art of positive self-talk. Discover how to overcome any obstacle on your path to greatness in this must-listen episode.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	What's the killer of getting through hard challenges in your mind? What's the thing that kills most individuals?
0:20.0	Once it starts to get hard and they stop.
0:23.0	Negativity, man.
0:25.0	The thought process, the words.
0:27.0	It's not necessarily the negative thought
0:30.0	because we can't control our thoughts obviously all the time.
0:35.0	We're gonna have thoughts in our head that pop up that we don't want to be there.
0:39.0	But it's it's when you give those thoughts power through the things that you say.
0:45.0	So I give you an example.
0:47.0	One of my best friends going through SEAL training.
0:50.0	He came to me one morning and I could tell he had been in a bad place mentally
0:55.1	But he was doing fine progressing through training but he came to me one morning and he said out loud for the first time
1:02.2	I don't think I'm good enough to make
1:03.8	it through this training anymore which was a lie he was completely physically
1:08.9	capable of doing every single thing that we had to do that day and every other day.
1:15.0	But when he came and said that, those thoughts that he was having that he wasn't good enough.
1:20.0	They didn't have enough traction to stop him until he came and told me that out loud.
1:28.0	He spoke it out loud.
1:30.0	Yeah, man.
1:31.0	You might be thinking, uh, am I good enough to do this? Can I make it through? Maybe I'm not as strong as these guys.
1:35.8	These guys are more talented. But once you start saying it to someone else out loud,
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