The Key to Unbreakable Mental Resilience | David Goggins

0:24Thank you.

0:30Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

0:43What's your biggest insecurity today? Not to be arrogant, I don't have one. What was the last one you had and when was that? We used to live in a$7 a month place when I was growing up. And when my mom left my dad, we went to nothing for a period of time before she got on her feet. Right. In that$7 a month place, it was who I was. I was no one. I was in the sewer. My mom went there. I had nothing. And you always feel like you have nothing. I'd achieved so much. I was a Navy SEAL. I'd gone through ranger school. I'd gone through Delta IV selection training. I'd done so much. I run 200 miles, pull-up records, everything.

1:24Learned to read and write, became pretty intelligent. And I still was like, man, what is wrong with me? It wasn't until I got real sick, and I talked about it in the last chapter of that book, and I was about 38 years old, and my life got real quiet. I went from running 205 miles in 39 hours until I couldn't get out of bed. The doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with me, but once again, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. In that moment when my whole life changed, I went from a guy who worked out every day, trained every day, to a guy who couldn't get out of bed. My life was taken from me.

2:00The one thing that kept me going was my training. Now you didn't have that. I didn't have anything. Now you just had to sit alone. Alone. And not train. And that's what changed me. And that's when I realized I hadn't taken time to think about what I'd done in my life. I'd done all these things, but there was no finish line. I still believe that, but you must have time to reflect. I was just going. I finished a race of life and I wouldn't even receive my medal. I'd go on. You're like, on to the next. I get in the car and I go. You won't even take the medal. Gone. Don't care about it. Like, I'm not going to waste an hour sitting around with this ceremony.

2:33Most people sit around and that's what they like. They need the ceremony if I accomplish something. The validation. I haven't done anything. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. I'm just getting started. I'm just getting started. That's right. When I started figuring out life, and once I realized, my God, man, I was this dumb, fat kid being bullied, and now I'm a 180-pound person who lost 106 pounds in less than three months. learn to read learn to do this learn to do that I was like I need more I was fueling my mind with everything I never took time to say my god you came from this hell and you're here so those insecurities and this is how I explain it the best way SEAL training became pretty hard and a lot of guys weren't getting through it so they designed a SEAL prep program and it was two months in my last two years before I retired from the military they sent me there to train these kids.

3:25So when they get to Navy SEAL training, man, they were physical studs. They were running, swimming. I mean, they were hybrids. But they'd get to BUDs and the same amount of people would quit. Why is that? This is why. We were training bigger, stronger, faster quitters. We weren't diving into the sewer. Everybody's got a story. We don't share it on social media we share our nice life on social media we have we all have a dungeon i'm just willing to talk about mine yeah i wasn't getting into the dungeon of these guys minds i wasn't building that so-called mental toughness mental toughness isn't something that you sample it's something that you live in every day so when something hard would happen to these kids is like in Hell Week, it would draw on something that made them very insecure.

4:19And they look for comfort. Whenever hardness comes, and you don't know what it is. It may be different for you than it is for me. But you go back to your insecurities. And then when you go back to your insecurities, you then look for comfort within those insecurities. And we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you when you were sad, when you were sick. We look for our wife or our husband. We look for comfort. It's in those moments. You must retrain your mind to think differently in health. I wasn't training them to do that. The physical standard is not what they need to meet. It's a mental standard you must meet in life.

4:59So going back to when I was sick, I was hitting the physical standards. I wasn't meeting the mental standard. The mental standard is you must know how far you've come. Wow. I had come 8 ,000 miles from where I started. But if you never know that, you're still in the$7 a month place.

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