Motivation Daily by Motiversity - MENTAL TOUGHNESS - One of the Best Speeches EVER from THE TOUGHEST MAN ALIVE | David Goggins

Episode Date: May 24, 2023

This is one the Best Motivational Speech Videos EVER. Period. David Goggins is a complete beast. He's a retired US Navy SEAL, ultramarathon runner, former US Air Force Tactical Control Party member, triathlete, ultra-distance cyclist and former world record holder for the most pull-ups done in 24 hours.Thanks to Tom Bilyeu for partnering with us on this video: https://www.youtube.com/c/TomBilyeuSpeaker: David GogginsYou need to be following David on social media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamdavidgogg...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidgoggins/Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgogginsWebsite: http://www.davidgoggins.com/Music:Really Slow Motion: http://bit.ly/1r3lPvNMattia Cupelli: https://www.facebook.com/MattiaCupell... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. I was weighing like 297 pounds. And I had to make a change in my life. You know, I was at all-time low. And I wasn't going anywhere. And I was exactly what everybody said I was going to be, which was nothing. This man is a self-made beast.

Widely considered to be the toughest man on the planet and one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time. I was just an insecure, scared kid, and the only way I could find myself was to put myself through the worst thing possible. He's the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training, the U.S. Army Ranger School,

and the Air Force Tactical Air Controller Training. He's completed the infamous destroyer of men known as Hell Week three times, including two in a single year, and one that he started and finished with multiple stress fractures and a hernia. No one was here to help me. And the feeling I had every morning, I started shaving my head when I was 16 years old. And the feeling I had every morning, I looked in the mirror, was horrible. And I didn't want to feel like that anymore.

And how I felt was a kid going nowhere, a kid that was scared. and most kids will accept that and look for help. But the best thing that happened to me, no one helped me. He served in combat in Iraq, was the bodyguard for the Iraqi Prime Minister. He once held the Guinness World Record for most pull-ups in 24 hours at 4,030. No one felt sorry for me. No one looked at me and said, like this day and age, they'll take you in and they'll tell you by, I stop picking on this person.

Back then, they didn't care. I had to build calluses in my brain the same way I built calluses on my hands. So I broke the Ginsburg of the world's record for pull-ups a long time ago, but I felt at it twice. And I did 67,000 pull-ups in trying to break this record. So to do 4,030 pull-ups, I had to do 67,000 for training for that. He's run eight, eight consecutive 100-mile races over eight back-to-back weekends. He ran over 7,000 miles in a single year, and that is the equivalent of running 267 marathons. I saw myself as the weakest person God ever created.

He had to have a goal. My goal was the only person that's going to turn this person around is me. The only way I can turn around is put myself through the worst things possible a human being can ever endure. And that would be the only way that I can build this brain. to handle anything that comes in front of it, callousing my mind through pain and suffering. The only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer, to grow, to grow you must suffer. I'm afraid of my shadow.

How can I overcome that? Go in the military, get your kick, do things you hate to do. Be uncomfortable every day of your life. Roger that. I'm not the smartest kid in the world. Okay. Instead of somebody saying, oh, no, you're smart. No, no, don't say that to yourself.

I said to myself, no, I'm a dumb motherfucker. Okay, Roger that. How you get smarter? Educate yourself. So the things that we run from, we run it from the truth. We're running from the truth, man. So the only way I became successful was going towards the truth. As painful and as brutal as it is, it changed me.

It allowed me to become, in my own right, who I am today. If you can for the rest of your life, live inside of yourself. Stop listening to people who are calling you fat, gay, transsexual, everything that is makes no sense. All these insecure people putting their insecurities on you, you got to flush it out. You've got to just be whoever the hell God or whatever the hell you believe in. If you believe in nothing but yourself, I don't care what it is. You got to take everything and throw it away. You have to believe in one thing and that is yourself.

Self-talk and visualization are the two keys to my success. Search your soul, search your mind, search your abilities, and you'll find it. But if you're not looking for it, you won't find it. So you've got to go start your journey. And the journey starts with you finding, why the hell am I here on this planet Earth? Why am I here? And if you don't know that, you will live the rest of your life searching, always asking the question, why. I use the hurt you're trying to put on me.

I flip it upside down and use it. You try to use it for kryptonite? No. It's power pillars for me. I'm using it for strength. I just flip negative into positive, so it is. You might be called some Jewish word or some gay word. It's okay.

Let them call you that. What are you going to do now? They don't own your life. How are you going to control that now? How are you going to flip it upside down to say, Roger that, now I'm going to harness this shit, and you'll read about me years from now? How?

That's the question. How are you going to do that? Thicken your skin, become more of a human being. Don't be afraid of the reflection in the mirror. Because that's all you can be afraid of. Once you overcome the reflection in the mirror, you've done it. It's so easy to be great nowadays.

Because everybody else is, most people are weak. This is a softened generation. So if you have any mental toughness, any ability, if you have any fraction of self-discipline, the ability to not want to do it but still do it. People have a hard thing to understand. I hate to run. And what makes me so crazy, it doesn't even more,

people go, well, why do you run if you hate it? What are you talking about? I don't want to take showers and eat either. I hate that too. That's a life, man. And it wasn't until I changed that mentality that I became somebody. I hate it going to school. So guess what?

I was dumb. But if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness. That's what people understand. By me running, I am callous in my mind. I'm not training for a race. I'm training for life. I'm training for the time when I get that 2 o'clock in the morning call

that my mom is dead or something happens tragic in life, I don't fall apart. I'm training my mind and my body and my spirit so it's all one so I can handle what life is going to throw at me because the life I've lived, it throws a whole bunch at you. And if you're not physically and mentally prepared for that, you're just going to crumble and you're good for nobody. So the accountability mirrors something that,

I kind of came up with in high school. Like I said, I started shaving my head and I was 16. And I got caught up in trying to impress so many people because no one liked me. So I developed so many different identities. Let me sag my pants. You know, let me, okay, let me pull my pants up. Let me talk this way or act this way or be this way or whatever the hell it may be. God, there are so many different things I did to try to fit in with so many different groups that when you look in the mirror that's the one person you can't lie to so every morning I was shaved my head thinking God I reflect back on some of the lies I may have told somebody or some of the ways I acted I didn't feel comfortable doing and I did it to impress other normal people the key

where there is normal everyday people I was trying to make other people like me how pathetic is that so I this mirror would always tell me my like my reflection to say God you You are a pathetic man. How does I feel every day to be this way? So I would just start having myself accountable. How did I attack today? How did I attack yesterday? And if I didn't do something I was proud of, I'd write down a sticky note.

And I would fix it. So then my senior year in high school, it was a totally different day of Godness. What brings me joy and happiness is knowing how beautiful the mind is. and I'm one of the few people that didn't read about it didn't experience it through some some drug I got to experience the beauty of

true fucking willpower if you don't know who you are if you don't know who you are I can't tell you who you are we are all great no matter if if you think you're dumb

to matter you think you're fat no matter if you are fat no matter if you've been bullied or no matter if you just got back from Iraq or Afghanistan and you have no legs or your arms or whatever man we all have greatness it just you got to find the courage you got to find the courage to put your bow's headphones on and silence the noise out of this world and to find it and to find it because it's out there but it's going to take hard work courage self-discipline it's going to take all the non-cognitive skills to all the non-cognitive skills to all the non-concognitive skills to all the non-concognitive skills cognitive skills to be great. You know, smart is good, all this stuff is good. That's all cognitive.

It's the non-cognitive skills that sets you apart from everybody else. And that's what it's all about. Talk to me about what it takes to be on one side of a door in Iraq or anywhere, knowing on the other side of the door people who are not afraid of you, they're ready for you to come in and they have guns and you still have to breach that door. That's a great question. that's a very scary situation when you are on one side of the door and your mind is racing because on the other side of that door it could be no one it could be four guys with four AK-47s

that that door you're about to open can be booby-trapped so once you open it boom your legs are gone so there's a thousand things you think about when you're the first guy second guy third guy, getting ready to go in a room and flood it. And that's why I talk about the warrior mentality. And that's why so many people are lost when I start talking. You have the right. You're lucky that you don't have to think like warriors think. You're very privileged. I chose this world to be a warrior. And I would choose it again if I came back to this world. But the mentality of a warrior is very different than normal mentality. You must be that person on that door, get ready to open it, thinking to yourself,

if I die, so be it. The only way you can go in that door is knowing there's a great chance you're going to die. It's like being a seal, you train with live ammo. You jump out of airplane. Everything you do, you could die. So to be a warrior, why people don't understand me, I'm glad you don't understand. me. Merry Christmas. Good on you. Because being a warrior takes a whole different mindset. A whole different mindset to know that there's a great chance. I may not be in, though, like I was in for 21

years. I'm lucky. I'm very lucky that I'm alive. Able to talk to you, able to still run. But when you sign up on that dial line to be like a seal, your mentality changes. I may not live. You got to accept that. And that's the mentality you have. And that's what makes you a warrior. If you're scared to die, you're a bad warrior. I'm also looking at the guys to my left and to my right, realizing that we're here together, man. And I have to be strong for them. And they got to be strong for me.

A lot of people, either you like me or don't, even in the SEAL teams, but when you get to that door or you get on that mission or you're getting that up, all that shit's out the door, man. You know, you do it honestly. I mean, people say all the time in these movies. You really out there fighting for that guy besides you. And you can't be a coward.

Because you know what? And this is I look at everything I do now in life. And this sums it up. I hate it jumping out of airplanes. I hate it shooting guns. I hated the job as a Navy SEAL. But I did it because I wanted to change myself. Everything I do, I'm not really comfortable doing.

But if you choose, to go that route, to go be a Navy SEAL. You might as well go be the hardest motherfucker in the world. Because if you're choosing to do something, you have two routes. You can go there and be a little weak person and get through barely, and that's your reputation. Or you can go through the hardest guy you can possibly be, and that's your reputation.

So my whole thing is if you're going to choose to open that door in Iraq or Afghanistan, open the mother-puff. You go and go in hard. Because they're going to remember you, by slowly opening it and peeking in. So if you're going to open it and you made the mind to open it, don't crack it open. Open the door go in.

That's what's life. If you're choosing to do something, attack it. Because they're going to remember you as not attacking it. So I want to be remembered. You can hate me. There's one thing you can't say about me, I didn't attack it. So that's the mentality you have. If you're going to do something, you might as well attack it.

Because you can do it anyway. Who on this earth would still be going right now? You are. You are.