Why Getting Comfortable Is Slowly Killing You | David Goggins
The Daily Motivation
Lewis Howes
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show. |
| 0:09.0 | Do you have any fears today? |
| 0:14.0 | I do have a lot of fears today. |
| 0:17.0 | But it's hard for me to call them fears anymore. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. I don't use that word anymore. They're almost like it's hard for me to call their fears anymore. I don't use that word anymore. |
| 0:22.6 | They're almost like it's another challenge. |
| 0:25.6 | Because anything that makes me feel that fear feeling, is going to get overcome. |
| 0:30.6 | You go do it. |
| 0:31.6 | It's going to get conquered. |
| 0:33.6 | That is, that's almost like fear is my ultimate guide of where you're supposed to be going yeah |
| 0:40.8 | it's my ultimate guide so what's the big challenge then for you then the biggest challenge for me |
| 0:46.8 | is always going I want to be comfortable you want to be comfortable you want to be comfortable |
| 0:51.3 | you want to sleep a nice bed and relax I'm a normal human being being. You want to chill out. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I want, and the time is going to come. There's time for everybody to get civilized. The worst thing in life that happens to a man is they get civilized or a woman, anybody. Yeah, yeah. Because you lose the hunger for life. Uh-huh. You think you've arrived. |
| 1:11.6 | And once you have a, I've arrived mentality, that's my biggest fear. |
| 1:14.6 | Is I get to the point right, I'm at that point where life has come to me and I had that feeling if I've arrived. |
| 1:21.6 | I now know my life for what I know it to be is over. |
| 1:26.6 | Even though that's where comfort is and everything else, |
| 1:29.3 | I found the most life in the most uncomfortable places in the world. |
| 1:36.3 | I was the most David, the Gagons that I invented, |
| 1:41.3 | because David Gagons was weak. I never want to get rid of Gagons. The that I invented, because David Goggins was weak. |
| 1:46.6 | I never want to get rid of Goggins. |
| 1:54.8 | The guy I created, that weak person that used to be, the guy I created that can handle anything, |
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