When I was going through basic seal training, we were getting

absolutely crushed by our instructors at two o'clock in the morning.

And I forget what we did wrong, but we messed something up, but we failed to do something,

and we were paying for it. We were doing

sprints up and over the sand berm, and we were doing buddy carries, and we were doing bear

crawls, and we were wet, and sandy, and it was a gut check.

And this was after a standard day of seal training getting crushed all day anyways.

And some of the guys were feeling it. And the class

kind of grew silent as we went from exercise to exercise and punishment to punishment.

And then one of the instructors yelled at us, and he said false motivation is better than no

motivation. And I remember thinking to myself momentarily that I didn't agree with that.

That seemed actually kind of weak. If you aren't really truly motivated,

it seems weak to fake it.

Because my whole life, I always had an aversion to fake people.

Fake people with their fake way of talking and their fake way of acting and their fake voice

and their fake attitude. I never liked people like this. And now I had this seal instructor

telling us that if we weren't truly motivated, then just to fake it.

But you know what? He was right. He was right. You see, I was already fired up.

And some of the other guys were fired up as well, but not everybody was.

And that had us as a class dragging.

But then the guys that weren't truly motivated, they started to fake it. They started to yell

and they started to pretend like they were fired up. And all of a sudden the mood of the class

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