there's been this unrelenting voice in my head we all have this voice it's the right or wrong voice and a lot of times that voice guides us into comfort and my voice guided me into Comfort a lot but I have this other voice I heard my whole life saying hey [ __ ] what are you doing no man we got to go over here we got to go over here to to that rock pile over in the [ __ ] corner where nobody's at that's that's where victory's at where over there that corner so this
voice was giving me all these answers not I wasn't real smart kid growing up but I had this crazy voice in my head saying over there is where the [ __ ] answers are and I want to listen to it cuz over there was pain over there was me looking in the mirror over there was me being accountable for all these things that went through my life even though people put them on me it's now a mind to own and I didn't want to go over there by myself but I had to and this voice
was guiding me there I it's God whatever you want to call it um but that's what that's what it was in me life is one big psychological warfare that you play on yourself you play on yourself man the most important conversation I ever had with is is with myself and the [ __ ] I was telling myself was so [ __ ] up it was so wrong it was so misguided and other people start to write that dialogue for you also and it starts to be what you say to yourself every single day and I
started creating a whole another Warfare a whole another battle started becoming I was like oh hang on a second cins you have these tools you have these tools your life life was basically the perfect the perfect grounds for training for where you need to go in your life all the beatings all the all the bullying all the you know you going through uh learning disabilities all the struggles it was the absolute perfect training ground for you to go to read need to go and that's how I started looking at my life versus wo was me
Poopy Pants kick a rock down the street mentality it was n God just hooked you right the [ __ ] up he hooked you right up man with the perfect place you were training you had the advantage of everybody else versus my God they're so above me they came from a great family Mom and Dad love them they didn't have a learn they didn't started they didn't Struggle No Man your struggle is what made you who you are now self-discipline is everything and if you don't have it I I don't look at you right cuz
I know you're capable of more it's not discipline so much for me it's all on you it's all on you the self part is is Big we need someone to hold hold people accountable [ __ ] that [ __ ] man [ __ ] that [ __ ] we we count on people too much to get us through [ __ ] and we look to our right we look to our left we're looking for help and if you can build that self you can build that total accountability in on self and it's not about being
selfish I'm trying to create a better me so hopefully people who are hearing this are taking it the right way can say I can run a mile a about running 205 [ __ ] miles through and forth being a ain't about all that [ __ ] [ __ ] doesn't matter I want you to see how [ __ ] far you can go and that's all it's about yourself and that's where it all comes from no one's going to [ __ ] come to help me no one's going to [ __ ] come to help
me it's [ __ ] me against me period and um so I had the man up and I said the first thing I start doing is facing every [ __ ] fear I have no matter what the [ __ ] it is man and and these things would keep me up and not no one people who are hearing this [ __ ] they they will never really understand and grasp when You Face these things and so many things how they keep you up and haunt you at night I had two options to either be that
300 lb guy who sprayed for cockroaches and made $1,000 a month and at 24 years old knowing when I'm 50 [ __ ] years old I can reflect on this and think about what guy I never became or I can totally just sack it up and fail and fail and fail until until I succeed so I started calling recruiters up I said I'm go be a [ __ ] Navy SEAL most people are missing something because they don't know who they are they never examined themselves they they've never done this experiment on themselves the lab
rat we're all Lab Rats but you're also the scientist you create your own self most people are missing something because there's so much trapped in there I I want to say potential I think that's word used out too much too there's so much in you that God or wherever the hell you believe in or if you're atheist in you that you have not un unlocked God I feel like I'm missing something yeah because it's about 75% of you is still [ __ ] in there still chained up because you just didn't want to find your
willpower didn't want to find your soul your will your heart your determination your guts your courage and what that looks like it looks scary like your little scary lab I went in scary to wake up every day and say I'm stupid but I want to figure out a way to be smarter versus saying man I just can't do that so you limit this box so your box becomes so small of things you can do my box wasn't even a box it was a [ __ ] little like little pinhole and then through examining myself getting
some willpower some courage it became bigger than this table but that's what we all do that's why I wanted to come here today and talk to you about real [ __ ] not no [ __ ] like hacks there's no hacks bro it's you against you you against you and if you misunderstand that you a real problem real problem I can understand you misunderstand me running down the street shirt off [ __ ] this no yeah I can I can get it I get it if you misunderstand what I'm saying right now today the problem
is you and you don't want to fixed it it developed a lot of anger and I still have it it will never go away because when you put yourself in the sewer like I was in and please if someone saved me come out and announce it to the world there's no one there's no one so when you know that and then I'm sitting at a table with all these smart people who are telling me what to doing [ __ ] and guiding me through my life now I don't need you to guide my future I
know what's good for me and what's bad for me and for me it took every bit of focus I could I know social media that's why people love to go on there because they want to show you the good side of life I'm not teaching good side of life so I had to figure out a way when I came on in 2016 of teaching you what life really is for the majority of us is hell and so while people love to show you the cars and the house and the vacations and [ __ ] all
that's good all that's happy I'm going to show you the side that I know most you're going through and people hide very well I don't want to hide anymore I hit for 24 [ __ ] years I'm going to teach you how to be vulnerable cuz that's the only way you fix yourself you don't fix yourself by coming out here and me selling you some [ __ ] books that's why I don't have them I forgot them I'm glad people got something from the book I want you to learn that the only way you grow
is how to look at yourself and say okay like I did what the [ __ ] I have to do to get somewhere there was nothing good on there nothing yeah I love playing basketball I left that out that's something I love to do I don't care about that that that didn't make the [ __ ] list cuz the list that I had to live by was it was the very list that was going to get me at this table with you and and a lot of us have this voice in our head we all
know that voice in our head that tells us the truth every single day that we try to run away from that says we're scared of this let's go this way it started gnaw at me so horribly bad that it wouldn't allow me to live anymore without facing me I had to go back in the dungeon so when I tell my story I tell on a very surface level I had to go down in the dungeon the sewer where my mind used to be at and talk to that guy because I I I wanted to live
my life in a way that when I died I was proud of myself I know what Pride felt like and if it took pushing myself to death I was willing to do that but I want to look in that mirror not impress anybody not money not fame not nothing I wanted to impress the guy in the Dagon mirrror and I worked endlessly and tirelessly to do that and it happened it's too hard life isn't fair these things in life are are are not easy for me you you you look to your left you look to
your right and you start to judge yourself off other people like if you're a female well she's skinny and she doesn't work out as hard as I do and everything starts to corrupt your mind you start to look around too much at other people and what they're doing and that starts to corrupt your own dialogue we are judging ourselves against too many [ __ ] people you have to judge yourself against yourself and that's the one thing I started learning man this isn't a race against me and Rich Ro this race against David gogin and
David gogin alone and once you can silence all that [ __ ] all the outside interference and things that are attracting your mind to everything you can then start to grow and realizing I'm stressed out for no reason this is my own little race this is my own timeline and this is how I'm going to run it you're willing to suffer and suffer and go back in the grind that internal dialogue you have with yourself when you're in misery and you're uncomfortable it's a real scary unfiltered no line dialogue between you and yourself and people
know exactly what the [ __ ] I'm talking about when you're in a bad spot in life and your mind is saying all kind of [ __ ] that's who you really are that's the real you no Rocky B boa moments going on up there like hey you know it's round 14 let's come on we got this no it's like [ __ ] this I'm out of here man this is crazy that's where the growth happens when you're able to stay in that moment and talk to yourself talk to yourself back into the suck of
whatever you're going through and you start stripping those layers away but as you're stripping those layers away You're Building calluses over top of [ __ ] in your mind that's where the growth starts to happen is when you have to force yourself to stay in it you can't you can't leave it every day is going to suck and live like that to be better and I put this right I'm in the water the water's going over my head the Pacific Ocean you know it's freezing February cold as [ __ ] been through three hell weeks
for you to constantly win when when 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
it 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 the thing about it is you you you have to be really and sometimes all the voices are telling you the wrong [ __ ] man but through Years Years not a podcast or listening to a book or reading a book years of sacrifice of suffering of diligent pinpoint [ __ ] work on what you want to do for yourself not like
oh let me just do a bunch of [ __ ] let me I want to be in every task possible no pinpoint what I want to do with my life what happens is you have all these voices that telling you you're [ __ ] up and this is going to be hard but for some reason you put so much practice into you that you can ignore everyone n of them that are telling you you're not going to [ __ ] make it and still be able to [ __ ] make it because you have put
the practice in that you know this is the process it's such a daunting task that all the voices are saying no but you still have the conviction that I know I can do this and that's what it took for me to get here 20 30 years ago 30 25 years ago pipe dram and ever since then every voice was like you're [ __ ] nut but when you put that practice and every day you lace them up I mean run it's just a metaphor for life when you lace them [ __ ] up every day
pretty soon you win pretty soon you'll [ __ ] win there's so much peace in knowing what I've accomplished and what I've done I found peace years ago years ago in the battle in the battle you find peace when you go to war with yourself you find a lot of Peace because you know exactly who you are and that is where the peace is really found for me
