The Tenets of Mental Toughness With Eric Davis
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What causes a lot of people to quit is the first time they fail, the first time they weren’t good enough. It doesn’t matter how great of a football player you are, it doesn’t matter how strong you are. I can have you do pushups in the cold California surf until your arms give out. No matter how strong you are, eventually your arms will give out. That’s what seal training does. It pushes you past your limits. A lot of people aren’t comfortable going past their limits. They have a mindset that’ become fixed. They only like to do things that they can be good at. They tie in everything that makes them feel good about themselves by being naturally good at something or being able to do something with little to no effort. And for guys who make it through seal training ,what we feed off and what we pride ourselves on is the effort. – Eric Davis
Eric Davis served our country as a U.S. Navy SEAL and decorated veteran of the Global War on Terror. Eric has been recognized as one of the premier sniper instructors in the U.S. military and has served as a Master Training Specialist at the SEAL sniper school in Coronado, CA.
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| 0:00.0 | What causes a lot of people to quit, it's the first time they weren't good enough. |
| 0:05.3 | Because it doesn't matter how great of a football player you are, it doesn't matter how strong you are, |
| 0:09.7 | I can have you do push-ups in the cold California surf until your arms give out. |
| 0:15.1 | There's no matter how strong you are eventually your arms will give out. |
| 0:18.5 | That's what sealed training does. |
| 0:19.5 | It pushes you past your limits. |
| 0:21.6 | A lot of people aren't comfortable going past their limits. |
| 0:24.1 | They have a mindset that's become fixed. |
| 0:26.9 | They only like to do things that they know they can be good at. |
| 0:29.9 | They relate all of their confidence. They tie in everything that makes them feel good |
| 0:35.1 | about themselves by being naturally good at something or being able to do something with little |
| 0:39.4 | to no effort. |
| 0:40.7 | And I think the guys who make it through seal training, I know this is for sure true for me and the people I know, what we pride ourselves on, what we feed and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window |
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