Why Getting Comfortable Is Slowly Killing You | David Goggins

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0:36Do you have any fears today? I do have a lot of fears today. But it's hard for me to call them fears anymore. Yeah. I don't use that word anymore. They're almost like it's another challenge. Yeah. Because anything that makes me feel that fear feeling is going to get overcome. You go do it. It's going to get conquered. That is, that's almost like fear is my ultimate guide. Of where you're supposed to be going. Of where I'm supposed to be going. It's my ultimate guide. What's the big challenge then for you then? The biggest challenge for me is always going, I want to be comfortable. You want to be comfortable.

1:17You want to sleep in a nice bed and relax. I'm a normal human being. You want to chill out. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I want, and the time is going to come. It'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. And once you have a, I've arrived mentality, that's my biggest fear. Is I get to the point where I'm at that point where life has come to me, and I have that feeling that I've arrived. I now know my life for what I know it to be. is over. Even though that's where comfort is and everything else, I found the most life in the most uncomfortable places in the world.

2:02I was the most David. The Goggins that I invented, because David Goggins was weak. I never want to get rid of Goggins. The guy I created, that weak person that used to be, the guy I created that can handle anything. you don't want to let go of that guy because you realize that that guy was made. You weren't boring him. And that is, when you get comfortable, God just starts to die. He starts to die. That one creature from the Black Lagoon that can live in a sewer, that can eat rats all day, that doesn't need water, that doesn't need sunlight, that doesn't need nothing. He can just live because he knows he can.

2:48That's a powerful human being that you never want to... It's in everybody. That's the scary thing about... That's what makes me so upset, man. Is that everybody wants to put this daggone label on me. They forget the first three chapters of my book. They forget how this started. A lot of times, it takes someone's wife dying or something like that for them to change. Yeah, near death. Yeah, something. No, no, no. None of that. I wanted to figure out, is there more to this horrible feeling of feeling like a loser? Can I change this? And once you figure out I have the ability, not through your mom or your dad or through a special school, through you.

3:37You have the ability to change this. That's what makes it so mad. Once people put this title on me, you now give yourself a get out of jail free card and say, oh, he's just crazy. He's special. He's unique. He's this and that. You just saved yourself from not having to do the work. From not having to do the work. Yeah. And that's why I want people to hear my story. I'm trying to take away all that bull crap that you want to put on me. I'm trying to make you suffer up here to know what my guy, man, he really had a hard way to go. Wow. There was nothing special about him. He wasn't talented. He wasn't gifted.

4:14He wasn't nothing. He wasn't nothing, and he made it. I want everybody to feel uncomfortable around me. That's it. Because I want you to go home and think about yourself. Think about yourself, man, because you're leaving so much on the table for the possibilities of what you can be. You say most people are at 40 % potential. What percent are you at? I like to say that I live in the 90 % town, sometimes 99. 100 % is dead. 100 % is dead. 99 sometimes. 99 sometimes. The reason why I know 99 is because the first five hours of my day, I am very uncomfortable. What do you do? First of all, every morning I get up and people think I love to run.

5:02I don't. That's why you do it. That's why I do it. And people don't understand that mentality. Oh, you have to love it, man. No. Running has changed my life because every morning I know I'm going to do it. If you know what? Every morning you do something you don't like. Every morning I would do it for And guess what If I just ran for an hour a day A day is 24 hours right What percent is that What's one hour over 20 Was that 4 % A small percent But anyway That's why I know I'm at a high level Because I'm at a Not wanting to be this You know uncomfortable I put myself in the dungeon Every day Off jump Out of bed It starts Shoes on.

5:47Out of bed. While most people lose the battle in the morning, once you leave your beautiful house, the war starts. Nowadays, it starts before you leave home. The phone rings, social media's up, the world's attacking them. If you don't control what you can to build that armor, so in the morning time, what I'm doing is I'm building my armor. It gets broken every night. I get up in the morning time, I start to build the armor. That's a run, okay? Got to do our push-ups, our sit-ups, our pull-ups. Got to go to the gym. Got to do our stretch. Every morning, I'm building. You do one hour in the morning of training?

6:21Oh, no. In the morning time, I do at least an hour and a half. And then I go to the gym. Of running? So that's running. Hour and a half of running. Yes. Then I'm in the gym. And then at nighttime, every night for the last five to six years, about five and a half years, I've only missed two days of stretching for two to three hours. Two to three hours a night stretching. I've only missed two days in about five and a half years. Wow. Stretching? Stretching. Why stretching? That is where I, so the sickness I had was my psoas muscle got real tight. Huh. And it caused my body, long story short, to pretty much choke me out from the inside.

7:00So when you're young, your psoas muscle is your fight or flight muscle. We're sitting down right now. We're using the hip flexor muscle. when you're under stress as I was my whole life by being afraid of my father tight inside clenched your whole body's tight then I choose a job like being a Navy SEAL it's even tighter and then I put myself under stress it's just tighten and tighten and tighten it's a vice grip and you need healthy blood flow through your body I wasn't getting any of that so I push so hard in life people say oh because you ran so much no sorry life emotional stress yes emotional stress made me just tight.

7:37So now I couldn't sit down here for 10 seconds and I was like, I was wound. What that's done to me is allow me to be even open, even more open-minded.

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