Go Beyond Perceived Limits | David Goggins EP 471

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12We live in a box and we don't want to go outside that box at all, ever. Outside that box is all these possibilities of life. What we do is we shackle our mind. We are a prisoner in our own mind that this is all I can do. This is all I'm good at. We take away the possibilities that you could be this, you could be that, you could be all these things. And I never thought at 300 pounds I could be negative. So if my mind was shackled, me and you would never meet. What people understand is that they live for themselves, not knowing that you have the power within yourself to change millions of lives by facing life, by facing yourself.

0:54I would die never knowing that I had the power to change millions of lives. What haunts me most is that if I were to die at 300 pounds, let's say I was 75 years old, I got to heaven, and God has a chart like that on everybody's life. God knows all. Let's say that. I don't care what you believe in. It doesn't matter. I'm not judging anybody. But let's say my thing is God. You get to heaven, I'm 300 pounds, I sit down, and he gives me that chart. And he says, look at this. Now look at this chart, and on the chart it has all these different things, but my name's on it. but these things aren't me.

1:32I was going to change the world. I was going to set records. I was going to be a Navy SEAL. I was going to be all these things in the military that I accomplished. You're going to get the VFW award. You're going to be honored here, honored there. I'm like, God, this isn't me. Like it says David Goggins, I was an Ecolab guy. I prayed for cockroaches, and I'm 300 pounds. It said here I'm 185. It says here I got a bachelor's and a master's. It says all these things. And God goes, no, that's who you were supposed to be. Wow. My biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world, and there's a final judgment, and you talk to something much bigger than you.

2:15I don't want to sit down and have a conversation with someone, with something that says, you're in heaven, this is what you should have been on earth. Are you really in heaven now or are you in hell? thinking about how much I left on the table for fear, for not willing to go over the wall and over the next wall and over the next wall. So in my mind, I believe that. And God knows all. At least I believe that. I want God to be up there right now, as we're speaking, writing stuff down, saying, my God, he exceeded even my expectations. That's how I live my life. I now know that there is no cap on the human mind.

2:59There's no cap. We cap it ourselves. Is there a cap on the human body? I don't believe so. One thing I found out was I didn't. For several years, I gave myself a way out. All the way up until I was 24 years old, I would climb a mountain, I'd fall back down. I'd start climbing, I'd fall back down for the first 24 years of my life. I went to my first hell week, my second hell week, and then my third hell week came in SEAL training. and the CO, Captain Bowen, looked at me. I'm on crutches. I'm all jacked up. He says, hey, this is your last time you're going to go through bloods. This is it. I had several stress fractures.

3:39I had double pneumonia. I was jacked up, and he gave me a few months to heal. He said, this is your last time going through. I shouldn't even let you go back through it. Wow. I started maybe still training with stress fractures. Stress fractures. That's hard to finish. That's hard to finish. Stress fractures. Starting the hardest training, the hardest training in the world was stress fractures. And this is when I started to not put a cap on the body if the mind is there. Every morning I would wake up at 3.30 in the morning, 4 o 'clock in the morning, go to my dive cage, go in there before anybody saw me.

4:13I'd get duct tape. And I would tape from my forefoot all the way up to the mid of my calf. And I would put two black socks on. and so I ran not using the pivot. Oh my gosh. And I ran my hip flexors. So for the first 45 minutes to an hour, I was in absolute excruciating pain. But what motivated me through that whole process was the fact that this kid came from that. I'm in the hardest training in the world in the worst shape of my entire life. What if I can graduate amongst these studs? Wow. All these guys around me are studs. They're stallions. They're gladiators in my class. They're all healthy.

4:58Most of them. They're not broken like this. They may have some, you know, everybody's sick going to that training. But if I can graduate, it would change everything for me. So my mind fed off of that. You are now, from the weakest man, you're now the hardest man to ever live. If you can do this. If you can do this. Life is one big mind game and you're playing it with yourself. Is it true? I don't care. It got me through the hardest training, starting out broken. When most people quit, I had just started. And when you take that mindset and you learn to flip that around, that's what made me powerful and my body followed.

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