When you really sit back at your life and you in that dark room and you're looking at where you started from
And you tell yourself
Ma'am my mom is this way my super stepdad got murdered my dad beat the shit out of me
I can't read and write to say my fucking soul. I've lied about it to everybody. I've cheated on all these tests
My god, man, and then you put a goal in your mind
How are you gonna feel man when you accomplish this goal coming from that shit
Coming from the fucking hell you came from a lot people start from a good starting point. They have a good foundation
What if you can surpass all these motherfuckers?
If everybody who was fucking way up here
Started up here. And you had you started with no legs
He had to grow fucking legs
To even start walking and then crawling and then running and then you start passing people and all this give it to him. I
Had to use all this negative shit. That was making me weak and
Horrible as a person I had to use this as the power that now Hume had to flip it on his head. It's held up
This might be exactly what I need. The darkness is
Exactly. What I need is how you look at your situation and I was looking at it all fucked up
You have to first accept it before you can fix it. A lot of people walk around. Oh, man. I'm good. I'm good
No, you're not. You have to accept which you're not
You have to and people don't want to do that
That's the only way you can fix it
You have to accept it first before you can go on the journey. A lot of folks never even start the journey, man
And never start to join me because I live in this fake life
That who they want to be they act like they are but they're not because they haven't fixed all this stuff yet
You gotta fix this first before we can start our journey in life
So that's why I haven't make this list you fix these problems. Now your journey can begin because you no longer care about
How people are judging you we when you care more about how someone's judging you, you're gonna stay right there
There's no 4-momentum
Each thing that is wrong with you has to be a focal point
You can't look at this gigantic list since I got changed all this shit my god, this is crazy. No
You take off the first one. I want to be smarter for me. That was my thing
I have to I have to become more intelligent. I have such a severe learning disability. I can't retain shit. I
had to now get that one thing and
Then strategize in that one problem. How can I do this?
I'm not gonna learn like you I'm not gonna learn like anybody else. How am I gonna figure this out?
So I didn't figured out okay where my strengths here where my weaknesses in learning? Alright, man
How am I gonna do this and I figured out a way to do it
But it's strategizing. So how I learned to this day if I have a big manual to study I
will have to get a bunch of spiral notebooks from the from the daggone store and
Each page I have to write each page out maybe 10 times
So there was a thousand page dive manual
That I got 18 months before I went to dive school
Most people I'm not smart. I'm a ghost if I can pass this test, I realized hang on a second. I'm not smart
How can I get past this how can I get through this obstacle?
I need to get I need to acquire this book 18 months in advance because it could take me 18 months to write down
Each page over and over again to then put it to memory
So when the question came up?
I'd written that question so many times down and you know on paper that I can recall. Okay page
71 was where I remember seeing this and I can recall it that way and that's how I did it
So you got to strategize on each problem you have in life
slowly break down that problem don't think about all the problems you have just one at a time and
Before you know it you fix all these problems, but you cannot focus on all of them just on the one thing at a time
There's a concept in your book that
permeates the whole book and I think
really is one of the most important things for people to understand in their own life certainly to understand you and it's the notion of
the testing mediocrity
Talk to me about that. How do you how did you instill it in your life? How can other people instill it in theirs?
It's one of the biggest things in the world a lot of us mediocrities everywhere right now
And we're all trying to find an easy way out and we're judging ourselves
Let's say there's 10 people in this room, and we're all mediocre
but I'm the best of the mediocre people I
Now think I'm great
I'm great. We surround ourselves
Around people that make us feel great. They tell us what we want to hear the second
We put ourselves amongst the uncommon people
We don't like that feeling that challenge they feel that of that person's making about 330 more
Hey, push your shit on we're going for a run. We don't like that challenge
We like that person who says hey, you know, I mean, I don't feel good today, man, and they say, oh, it's okay, brother
I take a day off maybe get a pizza and shit watch the game. We like that
We we love that feeling why cuz you understand man. We're good, bro. We don't want that motherfuckers like this. Hey, man
Nah, bro, get your fuckin shit on man. Stop being a punk. We don't want in their lives
We don't want that person who's constantly challenging our weaknesses
We want that process constantly, you know making us feel nice and good and secure nurse. That's the mediocrity of life
We want to be the best amongst the average people people wonder how do you stay hungry all the time?
Because after I accomplish something I don't sit back like a lot of guys who graduate buds graduate dis graduate that they get comfortable
They wonder why I'm getting weak man. I don't know. I lost my edge
What's going on? Cuz once you hit the top of the fucking mountain guess what happened? Yeah, I'm good
I'm good. So you wonder why you're falling down now?
Because once we top of the mountain you got Buddha fuck another one that's mediocrity
There's a lot of people in mediocrity who have a nice resume
But they're one-timers man. They hit they hit a one time deal. They busted open got a lot of money, but they're good
You're a mediocre man. What are you fucking doing today? Tomorrow the next fucking day?
That's why I listen to theorists. I don't listen all that bullshit. I listen to a motherfucker who's like this man
What's wrong man? Fucking tired dude right tired? Cuz tomorrow
I'm gonna do the fucking shit again, man. Whenever this shit is that made me fucking nauseous and sick to my stomach
It made me hurt
there's no ending and
That's the person I listened to that's the person who's gained knowledge
You gain knowledge do suffering and on the other in the suffering is a world that very few
Very few have ever seen it's a beautiful world because that's where you find yourself
You don't find yourself in over here. You find yourself on the other end like the hundred mile race
I was on I ran it for 24 hours
I found myself on the other end of that fucking race that 19 hours
I found wow. There's a whole nother fuckin world out here that never even stopped but the worlds in your mind
And that's with all that mediocrity is about
mediocrity contagious
I'm a very philosophical
Person and I'm gonna go there with you real quick. I
believe in a higher power don't know the name don't know where it's coming from the leanings like that, but I believe that
this power and
Visualize me real quick
Let's say it's a man up there or a woman whatever and they have a chart and when you're born they say David Goggins
Born February 17th 1975 at 6:00 a.m
They write the chart down because they can see everything. They know exactly what you're so fucking supposed to be
They know what you're supposed to be
You die you go to so-called heaven you arrive at heaven. I'm 300 pounds
I retired as an eco lab guy, which is okay. Just a job. Whatever I go up there and God
Looks at me and he's chosen my chart and my chart on there says you were supposed to be a Navy SEAL
You're supposed to weigh her in 85 pounds
You're supposed to be one the smartest people in the plant this this all this you see this
And now you're in heaven you made to heaven but you're like God done. I was supposed to live that life. I
Was supposed to live that life and then you find out
That the reason why because we all think that if we pray on it if we do this if we do that, whatever
If we don't work, we just whatever it's gonna magically happen for us
no, I
Believe that when I'm all said and done with my whole job is to outwork the chart
Whatever. The fucking chart says about me the all-knowing power up there
I want to get up there and say him look at me and say I
know everything I
Didn't fucking see this
I
Didn't fucking see this. I want to feel that I want to get to the other end of this fucking world and
However, I'm being judged
Whoever's judging me to look at me and said I did not
Fucking know I had you at 185 had you that this but all this other shit. I was riding as you were living it I
Want to I want to find more
All I can and in that fucking sack of shit, you have to dive in that
to find more
Because if you're not willing to go in there and face yourself, I can find anything you
Can live right here on surface man right here on surface
So if there is an ending to this world and there is somewhere to go in this a judgement
you're gonna get there and you might see a chart and that chart may tell you who the fuck you should have been and
They get to rest your life to think about that
I mean I could have lived a much better life
like just would have just suffered a little bit more if I just would have went in that shit and
Realized I had so much more but fear and the 40% and living here versus living here being afraid
Stop me
You