Overcome Your Worst Fears & Achieve Greatness | David Goggins EP 337

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1:13A lot of us have been conditioned or some of us grew up with wealth or grew up with comfort. So we're conditioned that way and we're grew up expecting now that things should come a lot easier right that's the damn shame we got we get frustrated when we don't get it right right quickly quickly yes yeah and I'm always talking about delayed gratification like the longer I can wait to receive gratification that's right the more fulfilled I am so when I got sick like I did I actually had to quit this race called bad water yeah 135 miles yeah death valley it was 2014 i got real real bad i pulled out of the race at mile 50.

1:52i went to the emergency room and the docs were like you know we can't find this you can't find that we know what's wrong with you so this is the crazy thing about gratification long term i sat there couldn't run a half a quarter mile couldn't get out of bed the only thought i had in my mind I pulled out of that race I told myself I'm gonna go back to Badwater one day and ready I'm gonna win the race haven't been back since haven't been back since 2019 I'm not saying I'm winning I'm just now in the shape to go back Wow how's it going 100 mile race since 2014 Wow because I've been that sick imagine the gratification I'm gonna get by getting to start line that race and what if I can win it?

2:40It'd be pretty sweet. Pretty sweet. Four or five years, yeah. Imagine that. Of having that kind of self-discipline that every day I wake up and having these setbacks where I can't even run a mile. Wow. But I'm thinking about running 135. And with that process, guess what happens? Sooner or later, you can run 10 miles. It may take a year, but it gives you more and more hope that it's possible. And I'm at the point now where guess what? It's right around the corner. Wow. Most people in that time frame in that in that in that mindset I Can't run anymore. It's over no It's just gonna take a little bit longer You have to turn the negative into a positive Mm-hmm at the end of it all if you can sit back and wait if you can wait six seven eight nine ten twelve years When you get to that point when you finish that's what keeps you going is you got feel I want I'm doing it for one second

3:39Years of pain. For one second. One second. Think about it. You cross the finish line, it's over. One second. Most people do that, and the one second isn't what they thought it would be, and then they're pissed and upset, and they keep going on to the next because they never reflect back on what they did. It's not the one second, it's the 12 years. Yeah. It's not the race. it's the 12 years why you did it it's not the winning it's not the way not what place you got no i would achieve all my athletic goals for years and then 10 minutes later be the angriest person so angry and frustrated nasty with people and i would delay my gratification for years to achieve what i wanted that's right and i never understood that either being a perfectionist is the worst thing that can happen to a person like when i lost that 106 pounds in like two and a half months whatever it took me, that was the biggest trophy of my entire life.

4:37I didn't care if I graduated in ADC training. I didn't care. What I just accomplished in that time frame is massive. Yeah. It was funny about this. We talk about mental toughness nowadays. It's like the biggest crave. When I grew up, it was just suck it up. Yeah. It was just make it happen. Yeah. You had to figure out. It was called figure it out, man. And all these nuggets that I gained along the way, That's what it was about. It went about the trident. It went about all those daggone medals. It went about any of that. And that's why I hate even talking about being a SEAL, you know? It didn't define me.

5:14The journey getting there was harder than going through it. That's the whole thing about life, man. It's that journey that makes you who you are.

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