David Goggins: Build Unshakeable Confidence Through Daily Discomfort

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0:38Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

0:50Whenever I talk to people, people take my words and they put it in a way to where they want to feel comfortable. This guy, you know, they want to put you in a box. They want to put a title on you. No, you're putting a title on me to make yourself feel better about yourself. If you read this book of mine and you see where I came from, this person was not built. This person was not made by God. This person, sorry, this person was built. I made this person. I made this person by diving in to the insecurities that life gave me because now they're yours they're yours to own if you're not smart call yourself dumb it's okay because you are but take that not as you put yourself down if you're fat call yourself fat i used to be 300 pounds we we want to talk so soft to ourselves we're looking for that recovery day and that recovery day is everything in your life everything in your life is a recovery day we're looking for it it's not coming it's not not coming.

1:57Get over that recovery day. And that's the mentality I took with me. And what happened through that process was all the frivolous things of life started to float away. I used to tell people lies so they would like me. Because I was so insecure. When you start to build yourself up and start to have the one thing that we don't have is confidence. Real, authentic confidence from hard work. Everything else goes away. You know longer look to other people for your self-esteem validation yeah you now know i walk in a room now and i know the hours and years and decades i put into david goggins that's something it's not on the wall it's not a trophy on the wall it's not a medal around your neck it is actually a feeling in your heart and people why don't you ever smile i don't have to yeah yeah i do have a stoic look at my face.

2:52I'm a very focused person. But the feeling I have in my soul and in my heart, that's why I don't need to smile. I don't need to smile. I don't need you to look at me and say, oh my God, you look happy. Because half of us aren't happy. We're giving you something that we think you want to see. I don't do that anymore. I don't care how you perceive David Goggins. Because through my journey, I figured out the one piece I was missing. I thought it was cars. I thought it was women. I thought it was money. I thought it was everything. The one piece I was missing was me having the courage to face myself.

3:28And once you do that on a daily basis, it's not about the running. People are going to be, you're about working out. Where I got my work ethic from was the hours I had to spend learning this. When you sit down and you're not smart, you have a disability. Yeah. And you still want to be at the top of your class. I didn't want to just get by. When I realized that I can learn, do hard work, and I can beat the valedictorian in school, but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does. You know what kind of strength comes from that? When you're sitting down, that guy that valedictorian studied for an hour, and you know I caught you.

4:08I caught you. And I am dumb. But I have the work ethic to catch you. That's where David Gaga's got really invented. Yeah. was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks that were empty. And then three months later, they were full. And when you can go through that, I still have them in my storage unit. You go through these spiral notebooks of your life, and you realize, this is how I learned. This is unbelievable. There's no miles. It's not about the miles. It's that, having a discipline every day to say, for me to learn this one math problem, it's going to take me 10 hours. Wow. And that's where it, and you realize through hard work, you can do, you can outwork anybody.

4:54No matter how bad they are. But that's the part people don't want to dive into. Yeah. When someone's lacking confidence in themselves, what's the answer you would give them if they're like, how do I gain more confidence? It starts with yourself, man. You got to start diving into those things that you are afraid of. You don't gain confidence by going to a spot that makes you feel good. This could be a false reality. And the second life gives you that challenge, all you want to do is go back to what made you confidence or what gave you confidence. Is that happy spot? No. What gives you confidence, what gave me confidence, was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write on my own.

5:39Realizing I can't learn the way you learn. I can't, but I can learn. what gives you confidence is not being afraid is overcoming the fear. I used to stutter severely bad. So right now, I don't know how many people are going to watch this. You know what gives me confidence? It's knowing I no longer care if I sit and start stuttering at you. That's what gives me confidence is facing these things, overcoming them. And maybe not overcoming them every day, but facing them. And facing them and facing them pretty soon like this. You know what, man? This is where it's at. It's not in that comfort zone.

6:14It's in the discomfort zone is where my confidence is getting built. That's where it's getting built. But people want to, they want an easier answer. Yeah. There has to be an easier way. There's not. I'm sorry. I searched for it my entire life.

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