for you to constantly win win win when this voice over here the real you is saying get the [ __ ] out of here go you're nobody you've always been nobody and it's true people don't hear that that's a true voice that's the real reality of David Goggins at 24 years old it's not a false reality and then you had to create another voice over here that is saying you're better than that other voice and you're in the freezing cold water that both voices don't want to be in but you win and goes from the
water to the studying to the running to the losing weight to how you eat to how you function as a man every day of your life you're winning these battles and then I have normal people who only have one voice never created the second voice the winning voice is the second voice they have one voice and that's just I'm a piece of [ __ ] that's all they hear and then they judge people like me who are out here trying to be better it's something that I can never really it's a frustrating thing for me
cuz I know I know the majority of people I know what goes on in the brain cuz I studied the mind more than almost more than you cuz I wasn't I'm a practitioner so for you to be a piece of [ __ ] and come out of that you don't just come out of it you spent decades studying your mind in the human mind on how it functions in good environments bad environments stressful environments patient environment you studied all because you have to put all this together to create create the mind to become successful so
I had to it like God blessed me with this brain I had to create a mind and so in doing so I figured out every piece of sh human being in the world cuz that's what I was going off of for myself so I know why you go on Instagram I know why you cuz you just have the time you have the time because you don't want to put that time into bettering one oneself so I know why I'm misunderstood I'm misunderstood by people who have plenty of time on their hands to misunderstand me because
they are exactly where I once was which is a lowlife lazy piece of sh and it's the harsh reality of people who troll you who go after you they have nothing better to do with their lives it's not some after school special it's the truth by once was that way way I know where it all comes from that's why it's frustrating to me now cuz I'm not so frustrated at the fact that I'm being trolled I'm frustrated about the fact that you don't have the courage the courage to try to be somebody better than which
you're not and that's the frustrating part most people live their whole lives without ever contemplating what it means to be great they put all the greats on a pedestal but think of themselves as mere mortals and that's exactly why greatness eludes them they turn it into some untouchable plane impossible for almost anybody to reach and it never even crosses their mind to aim for it no matter what I'm doing or which Arena I'm engaging in I will always aim for greatness because I know that we are all mere mortals and greatness is possible for anyone
and everyone if they are willing to seek it out in their own soul in golish terms greatness is a state of letting go of all your faults and Imperfections Scavenging every last bit of strength and energy and putting it to to use to excel at whatever you set your mind to even if some [ __ ] out there told you was impossible it is a feeling pursued by those rare Souls willing to extend themselves Beyond Reason and pay the cost in the late 1950s Captain Joseph kinger was a pilot in the Air Force tapped for
experimental Aviation in skydiving Duty in New Mexico he wasn't a household name in fact hardly anybody knew the first thing about him until August 16 1960 when he dawned a red duct tape pressure suit and boarded an open-sided Gondola Tethered to an onion-shaped helium balloon he flew that rig nearly 20 mi High until he reached the thin atmospheric line where everything goes from Blue to Black he traveled to a place where the Horizon did not exist he was above and beyond all previously known limitations suspended at 102,800 FT he unclipped his harness and stepped into
space his Free Fall lasted nearly 5 minutes his maximum velocity was 614 mph he plummeted over 880,000 vertical feet before his primary chw opened this was no Red Bull sponsored party it was wasn't a television show kinger wasn't an Entertainer he was an Explorer a seeker of a new realm for the world his flight and his jump helped make man's space flight possible and also for himself I don't jump to Earth from outer space but I know that atmospheric line between blue and black it is the glimmer of greatness that runs right through the human
soul we all have it most of us will never see it because to get there requires a willingness to extend yourself to the Limit without any guarantee of success then again success is just another mile marker on the journey Landing the jump and walking away while lighting a cigarette as if it were a typical day on the job made kiding her look cool but it didn't make him great his willingness to do it in the first place knowing that the chances of failure were high and everything it cost him made him great it wasn't a
stunt to Garner fame or publicity it was merely an attempt to see what was humanly possible just as words can be redefined never doubt that we can redefine ourselves it can feel impossible at times because we live in a world filled with arbitrary boundaries and fixed social lines that are as thick as the walls around a fortress worse we allow those walls to limit Us in too many ways the brainwashing starts early and it starts at home the people we grow up with and the environments we grow up in Define who who we think we
are and what we think life is all about when you're young you can only know what you see and if all you are ever exposed to are lazy people content with mediocrity or who convince you of your own worthlessness greatness will remain a fantasy if you live in the ghetto or in a dying industrial or farming town where buildings are boarded up addiction runs rampant and the schools are a mess that will factor into the possibilities of others Envision for you and you envision for yourself but even privileged people can feel Shackled by their circumstances
the vast majority of parents don't know what greatness looks like so they are ill equipped and afraid to encourage Big Dreams they want their children to have security and don't want them to experience failure that's how limited Horizons get passed down from generation to generation should we really be surprised that almost everybody has a knack for twisting their story to work against themselves I hear it all the time privileged kids say I have too much so I cannot develop the skills that you have the kid that came from nothing will tell me I don't have
enough therefore I cannot develop the skills that you have no matter where someone is in life they never fail to confess why they can't get where they need to go the minute they open their mouths I see how limited their Horizons are and their Saab stories come with expectation that I will deliver a become great package to their front door but that's not how it works to this day it is for me to become better mentally how I look has just become a like I have thousands thousands hundreds of thousands of miles on this body
running pull-ups push-ups swimming whatever you want to call it this body is what it is now it's from repetition it's not from studying you know hey if you hold a plank for this long go that bull I I don't care about it I just do it for my mind right I want to continue to harden because that's the only thing I want that's what I want I want to have that mind ready for Life identity is a trap that will keep you in blinders if you let it sometimes identity is what we are saddled with
by Society other times is a category we claim it can be empowering to associate yourself with a particular culture group job or lifestyle but it can also be limiting if you stick with your own too closely you will be susceptible to group think and you may never learn who you really are or what you can accomplish I know people who are so obsessed with Landing a specific job that once they settled into that role they clipped their own Wings they never moved on or attempted to try anything new and that blocked them from evolving and
developing new skills sometimes we are misled by others who categorize US based on what they perceive as our identity when I met with Navy recruiters several tried to steer me away from SEAL training and into a different opportunity because I didn't fit the mold I was overweight my ASVAB scores were low and there was my skin color remember I was only the 36 black Navy SEAL the recruiters weren't trying to hurt me and I don't believe they were racist they honestly thought they were helping me by presenting more realistic options usually however we mislead ourselves
those of us who are struggling with our selfworth like I was as a child often build identities around the very things that haunt us the most not because we want to but because subconsciously we are convinced that is how everyone else sees us you cannot allow what someone else may or may not think about you or the issues you're dealing with to stop your progress my environment and my history made me over anxious and stressed out the color of my skin made me a Mark I was prejudged and vulnerable at almost every turn and it
was my job to defy all of that no matter how troubled or hopeless or sheltered your environment is it is your job your obligation your duty and your responsibility to yourself to find the blue to black line that glimmer buried in your soul and seek greatness nobody can show you that glimmer you must do the work to discover it on your own there are no prerequisites to becoming great you could be raised by a pack of wolves you could be homeless and illiterate at 30 years old and graduate from Harvard at 40 you could be
one of the most accomplished mother in the country and still be hungrier and work harder than everybody else you know is you attempt to conquer a new field and it all starts with a commitment to looking beyond your Known World beyond your street town State or nationality Beyond culture and identity only then can true self-exploration begin after that comes the real work fighting those demons every morning and all day long is maddening because they only ever want to break you down they don't encourage you or make you feel good about yourself or your long odds
as you fight through all the toxic mold and crust that is self hate doubt and loneliness they want to limit you they want you to surrender and Retreat back to what you know they want you to quit before you get to pliability where the sacrifice hard work and isolation that felt so heavy for so long become your Haven where after struggling to visualize greatness for years it is effortless that's when momentum will gather like an updraft and send you airborne and spiraling toward the outer limits of your known world it's time to level up and
seek out that blue to black line the line that separates good from great it is within each one of us you have to remind yourself we all have a story we've all all of us have gone through very hard times but when we're when we're in a hard time time our mind has a way of forgetting what all we've overcome mhm I have a way of taking one second when I want to quit and saying okay you endured this so I look at my life and how I came up as the ultimate training ground versus
most people look at it as why woe is me God why exctly why I had to flip this upside down and say hang on a second God was training me to be one of the baddest men on the planet Earth that's how he this was this was my journey because those things beat me but they didn't kill me and I was able to work around him and figure out ways through it so when I was in the worst time of my life in hell week I looked at everybody and said I'm the most trained person
here I've gone through more mental torture than any of you I can even fathom so I'm looking at the baddest people on the planet I'm looking at them like this you guys can't hold a stick so I started looking at versus like I don't belong here versus like I might be the bad person ever come here who could have pulled this off who could have been given a sewer to live in in their mind and say okay at Birth I'm going to put you in the worst place on the planet Earth and let me see
if you can go to the top of the mountain with nothing but just hard work grit and figuring it out and not putting yourself back in the dungeon every time something got harder so that's what became my daily voice was you really are the baddest person on the planet
