Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of Episode 1212 David Goggins

Episode Date: December 20, 2018

David Goggins is a retired Navy Seal and an ultra marathon runner.  He is a super inspiring person that has an amazing story of success over adversity. David was hugely over weight and lost it all to join the Air Force and eventually became one of the baddest Navy Seals ever. His story is always amazing to listen to and his new book “You Can’t Hurt Me” has become a massive success. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews:                                                                        [e-mail]

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Becoming pretty big fans of David Goggins Podcast 1212 now. He's been on Rogan before and it's just released a new book. He is a retired Navy seal and incredibly badass fucking guy that can run hundreds of miles whenever he wants every weekend and he really is like a testament to mental toughness. 205 miles or once I think 205 miles or once? Yeah, at one time. That's unbelievable. Yeah. So, with that, I mean, it's something that resonates with me because I really like the idea of people being able to push themselves much harder than they think they can go. And it's important because you know, a lot of people feel tired, they feel trapped, they feel stuck, they feel broke, they feel

these different things. But, but you know, there's people like David Goggins out there that give you the inspiration to push harder to say, hey, you know, maybe I've got an extra 25% energy. I think a good metaphor to that, not to interrupt, hey, you know what, maybe I've got an extra 25% energy. I think a good metaphor to that, not to interrupt, is compartmentalizing. He's so good at just separating what it is from what it can be. Yeah, I totally agree. And, and that, that is it. And when you say compartmentalize, are you saying that he, he chunks things together.

He doesn't say, oh, I've got 205 miles to run. I've got one foot in front of another. Correct. And he just has the ability to say, I'm doing this. There is no other. Like, there is no thinking about it or maybe or if I could or tomorrow it's I'm doing this. Sure, there's a yes and no. There's no, it's either that, I mean, if you will, it is no dream. It's got as a quote somebody said, but. Google it.

But no, you're right. You get, I think people get a lot of anxiety from overthinking a task that is strenuous or stressful. And it's most simplest form. That's what it comes down to it So you're what what he says is I'm in my own fucking psychological world and it's like you're fucking yourself by telling yourself that you can't or Thinking about it. Just do it right just do right if you know you got to do it That's what I like setting up my day the day before do it. That's what I like setting up my day the day before, which I never used to do. But like if you have like a, you know, a dry race board, like a list, yeah. And if you just put on that tomorrow on doing this, even if you don't like the idea of it, it's on that. Just do it.

You've already said it. And then you hold yourself accountable to do it. That's what it comes down to. Life is accountability. Yeah. Period. And if you choose to be accountable is when things start changing. Yeah. But it's tricky though. Yeah. It's not eat right. It's like you can say it, but doing it is it takes a lot of work. I think it takes the whiteboard. I think it takes conversation. I think it thinks it takes thought, but in order to change something you have to want to be accountable for sure And I and another thing is it takes people like David Goggins to speak to Joe and Inspire people and that's why it's so important and also why this

podcast That we're reviewing was so important so his new book is out I've ordered it but Amazon ran out of copies, so I don't have them to take to England, which is kind of annoying. Can you get an audible or not? Oh no, when you buy it, it actually said you can start reading it now and there was a link,

but I'm so stupid that I forgot having to get to it. And I don't know where it is now, so that's okay. But the book is show up, and I'm really pumped for it. Joe also said that's okay. But the book is show up and I'm really pumped for it. Joe also said that the audio version of the book is slightly better because Goggins and the narrator of the book who who also wrote the book with David Goggins, they kind of do a little podcast that the end of each chapter and they talk about how it was You know what the chapter meant and those things so it's like a more in-depth way and I really like that I like the idea of that and I think it's a cool Cool process so so I'm gonna do both I read the book and

Do that I'm excited to listen to it. I will, I need to be more disciplined with reading in general, but I will be reading makes me sleep. But I like to push it. It really depends though. There's only certain books that I can do that that that I think the on tape option is an amazing avenue.-A-A! That's it. Stay a bit louder. So, you know, let's get into really what they were talking about. I mean, Goggins starts off talking about his rough upbringing because Joe was asking really what set you off on this road to discovering like your physical abilities. Now David Goggins has had a lot of ups and downs. He, the major story behind him, which is why it's such a success story, as he was massively overweight. He didn't have a very good job.

I think he weighed upwards of like 400 pounds at one point and just wasn't feeling good about himself. Couldn't really exercise, couldn't really do a lot. He had an abusive father growing up and he really was like failing over and over again, but not in the type of failure that allows you to strive, just in the just one bit of disaster after another. And he couldn't read well after high school. So he was at a huge disadvantage. And slowly he just started to make these conscious decisions about what he was gonna do to change things in his life

It was slowly, but I know that I remember listening to him say it prior to he was like there was just a moment when he was killing cockroaches and drinking chocolate shakes that really resonated with me because at one point he was just like set down the pesticides in the job that he was at and he was like I'm changing it. He walked out left, started running, got a new job and then that's when he called up the Navy, seals, it was like I want to be part of this. But it just took a fucking, it just took a mind shift in one moment, you've changed everything. I think that's what resonated with me. I was being a fat fuck to I was this was 10 years ago now I'm 36 now when I was 26 I still resonates now I was like I would always tell myself like you're

just this is just you you're just lazy like I would just I didn't it wasn't it wasn't conscious it was just like going through the motions and at one point I would I would always say I was like you don't have a lock for the gym. You can't lock your bags. You can't do it. And I was like, one day when I was 26, I remember waking up and I was like, go buy a fucking lock. Right. But it's amazing. The excuses. Right. Yeah. Right. Absolutely. Like they exist. And they're the same for everyone to think that really motivated people don't have the same excuses is not true. Even Goggins talked about in this podcast with Joe, he talks about how sometimes he

tie up his shoes, but he takes like 30 minutes to do it because he doesn't want to go do the thing. Nobody wants to do the shit. It's not a matter of why. It's just a matter of I'm doing it because I'm holding myself accountable I know how I'm going to feel after the fact and I know what I can share with other people after I hold myself accountable Then I have this precedence or this bar that's already set and I can share that right That's what and it goes goes back to that overthinking it and that anxiety because the more you do it the less you think about having to do it Absolutely, so you just go. Then it becomes a practice and that's what fucking life is.

It's a practice. It's not that he talks about that to the end game. There is no end game. We're practicing every day to be better. Like that's the only opportunity that you have. You can either choose to be better or choose to just go through the motions. But being cognizant about your thoughts and what you're doing is the only way to, I mean, that's the best fucking medicine, right? For sure.

For sure. And that was an interesting point that they make because, you know, if you think about where Joe Rogan is, very successful, very wealthy, doesn't need to keep working, you know, Gorgins, retired Navy SEAL probably has a pretty good retirement plan, even here with the right budget, wouldn would need to keep working He's gonna be a smoke jumper. He's gonna be a wildfire fucking fighter. He's living life like that's the point And they know that it doesn't end like that like you don't really retire. What do you do then? Yeah, you'd be so bored It'd be a nightmare. You don't get to sit on the beach

You just keep you keep going and that's an important message to come across because that's not what I was taught. I had the impression that you go to college, you get a good degree. You get a good job, you make lots of money, and then you retire and do nothing and that's the goal. And it's like you can't retire and do nothing. You have to realize that you've got to keep moving but to always be searching out That passion I think is what is what Rogan's doing is what Gogans doing It's like trying to fill your heartbeat is what's most important, right? Yeah trying to feel how the fuck When your blood flows through your body. There's no retirement. It's all a practice like what what's retirement?

That's a silly fucking word that somebody came up with. Sure. And the only thing that fucking dictates action is words, correct? So whatever you say is, is. Yeah. No, that's very, very true. Another thing that I really liked is that Gorgins talks about how exercise is not for the body, it's for his mind. Now the body gets to benefit, which is great, but it's not anywhere as important as the strength that your mind gets. To be able to overcome, and I think that directly correlates with everything in life, just when you prove to yourself that you can accomplish a certain thing, and especially nothing comes other than physical activity, you can't get that reward from anything else. There's no substitute. Can't buy. That's why I'm always wondering when I see my

fucking Instagram feed, it's like shredded or a millionaire. I'm like, well, I know I wouldn't be fucking happy if I was a millionaire and I wasn't shredded. Right. Like I wouldn't, there's no, it wouldn't, you can't be happy if you're fucking not living the life that you actually desire. Sure.

So money will not fucking dictate that. And there's no way that there will ever be a thing. Well, maybe. Sure. So money will not fucking dictate that. And there's no way that there will ever be a thing. Well, maybe, well, you just get a bunch of stem cells and tons of steroids and you just sit on the couch and get some peck and plants. But like he said, it's all mental. I don't think that you would feel the same satisfaction. Even if you looked in the mirror and you were shredded, but you didn't work for it. No, you'd be a mentally weak bitch. Yeah, it would look amazing. Right. Some people will still do it, though. They, they will

I'll not get up early. I'm not get up early the future is gonna be weird man. They're gonna be able to just buy all this stuff. Yeah, absolutely the truth I Yeah, I think that What he talks about as far as the mental game? It's a psychological game, sitting in the sauna, what you said, like to be able to overcome mentally is probably the biggest fucking strength you can ever have in life.

Yeah. The sauna is a really important place to go to, especially if you have a co-ed one, because you realize real quick, wow, women can stay in the sauna long fucking sauna. That's what yoga is to a z equalizer to. Yeah, so it makes you really well women are very strong and the they they birth babies. Exactly, but it's easy to dismiss it right because they can't do a lot of pull ups or something like that but then you sit in there and they're just

chill and you're like I need to get out of here but like anything if you do it enough you can add 30 seconds here and there. Some days I get bad day, and I can stay in the sauna for like 10 minutes, and I'm just like, I gotta get out. But it's the average, right? And the averages go up, it takes some time. But it really gets that.

One really cool thing that towards the end of the podcast and the conversation with that Joe is having with Gogg's Joe talks about and so does Gogg's that your mind always has a tactical advantage over you, right? And it's true. It knows you because it's your own mind. It knows how to make you quit. It knows how to make you afraid. And it does it because it wants you to stay calm and it's safe. Exactly. And he goes, so don't try and hide. Meaning you can't hide from it. You can't lie to it. Right. Right. That's that's the ultimate equalizer. You can lie to your friends. You can lie to your family. You can bullshit everyone. But when it's you

with your mind, your mind knows what you can do and what you can't do. And that's where this training comes in and you've just got to accept it. And that's a really powerful say ability. A palability. Yeah. To be able to recognize that is the most enlightened thing. It's honestly to be able to see that and say it out loud and vocalize it. Then your mind has to be like, oh, shit, he's on to me.

Yeah. And it was really powerful to hear that. A lot of what Goggen says is super powerful. I mean, in so many ways, this is why... So simple too. It feels, I'm wearing a sweatshirt, it says primitive, but it's just like, from the tribal aspect and the mental fortitude of survival, it's so simple, but so relatively. Yeah, it really is and that's why it's important because I think we over complicate a lot of these issues and they really don't have to be that way.

But anyway, guys, check out this conversation. It was such a pleasure to listen to Joe and Goggins talk. And if you can, check out his new book, Can't Hurt Me, which from what I've heard is amazing. And I can't wait for Amazon to hurry up and get more fucking copies. Let's rock my go down issue. That's it. Thanks for listening, guys. And thanks for joining me to Dekarit. I appreciate it.

Hey, be great. Cheers, guys. Love ya. Thank you.