The Resilient Mind - Develop A Strong Mindset - David Goggins

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

An accomplished endurance athlete, Goggins has completed over 60 ultra-marathons, triathlons, and ultra-triathlons, setting new course records and regularly placing in the top five. He once held the Guinness World Record for pull-ups completing 4,030 in 17 hours, and he’s a sought after public speaker.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind Podcast. We strive to empower people all over the world with information so they can thrive during difficult times. If you would like to contribute to our mission, you can subscribe or donate through the link. In this episode, you will be learning how to develop a strong mindset with David Goggins. Gagins has completed over 60 ultramarathons, triathlons, and ultra triathlons. He once held the Guinness World Record for pull-ups completing 4,030 and 17 hours. Enjoy. Most of us fail in life because we're afraid of what everyone around you is thinking. That's 100% truth. So we live by the narrative of other people. When I first called a recruiter to be a Navy seal and I was 297 pounds, the first recruiter looked at me and said,

you're not going to be able to make this man so what he was doing was he's projecting his energy on me he knew he couldn't be a fucking Navy SEAL so God helped this black guy because I was only the 36 African American to make it through in over 70 years how's this black fat guy going to make it through in my ass

he wasn't even willing to try so he's projecting this so a lot of us who are negative people all we do was project how we feel on other people so what happens is there's a lot of negative people walk around the planet Earth who are afraid to try because everybody,

a lot of people are very negative in this world so we are afraid to fail. Why? I told you, man. She didn't even try to it, dude.

Just chill out, relax. Why are you so crazy? Why are you so obsessed? So all that stuff drives the quitting mind, I call it. The mind wants to quit. The mind is tired.

The mind is tired. The mind is deserving. The mind thinks it's very deserving. So, yes, the biggest problem in this world is other people. Not yourself. It's other people in your head. They are puppet mastering you pretty much on your life.

I realized once I was talking to myself the right way and all this shit wasn't in my mind, wow. I went from this piece of shit, kid who thought he was dumb, not successful, insecure, who stuttered when I first saw somebody to a person who can now do all these things just because I now control my own mind.

When you get to the point where you really fucking don't care, you become very, very dangerous. I'm not saying don't care like, I don't care if I do that. No, when you don't care about other people and how they view you, about how you walk, how you talk, how you dress, where you want to go with your life. You know, growing up, I didn't want to tell anybody I wanted to be in the military. Because why, some of my black friends, I was afraid of what they think. You know, why do you want to join the fucking military? man, how fuck you want to do that shit?

I was afraid of what other people thought about me. So now, we're not going to the military. I didn't know you want to fucking join the military. Yeah, I ain't tell you because I'm afraid what you thought. Once again, man, you're allowed other people to shackle your mind.

It's the worst thing in the world. And anybody, not just Navy Steelers, but anybody that can accomplish anything that is hard. The only separator is that they really want to be there. There's some people that get inspired and that inspiration moves them to try to do something.

But the inspiration is very high right now in this nice environment. We're in a nice environment. The ocean's out there. I'm talking to you. If I want to go to the fucking refrigerator and get something to drink, eat, I can. I watch a movie about some badasses. You're inspired. But the second, you're not in this environment.

and you're actually doing what inspired you, that suck factor is not real. You can't just get off your fucking couch and get a fucking shake, get a fucking box of donuts, or turn the TV, or go take a shit or a piss, or go get your girlfriend to color up. No, you're now there. And only those people who have been there

a million times in their minds and have lived in that water and have suffered a million times and realize my legs may break, my knee may break, my bones will hurt. I will be the coldest I've been in my life. I will be miserable and accept that. Because what happens is when you get in a horrible situation in life, your mind, I call it my one second decision.

When you get a horrible situation in life, your mind immediately says, get the fuck out of here. Everybody does, even if you want to be there. But it starts to have all these different questions. in your mind in that one second and says okay why are you here why you do this why this why this why that and then you start to say yourself if you don't want to be there that bad i have a beautiful wife at home man why the fuck am i doing this man like this is stupid this is going to get these guys injured like like they're going to pay for this for the rest of their lives i'm not

going to break my body up to do this your mind starts to say yeah this is stupid but if you have if you are already knowing that this is going to happen to you you have all the answers to these questions that your mind starts to give you when you're in suffer mode. We all have two people. We all have two people. And I'm not saying you're crazy. We have the easy voice, which is that 20% telling yourself that you're, I'm easy at 90% of my full potential, maybe 100% at that 20%. That's that voice that we all love.

That's that very comfortable voice that, that's that mommy holding you saying, it's going to be okay. Doesn't care how good you are, just loves you, just loves you, no matter how messed up you are in life. That's where you want to be at. So that's that one voice. This other voice that we walk very far away from is the voice saying, hey man, you ain't doing shit. So we try to get this voice out of our head completely.

And we live over here in this land. So what you have to do first is turn up this voice over here, the voice saying things to you that aren't nice. that it's in our head saying, you know what, man, dude, you're not, you're not doing shit. You're not, you're not, you're not a mount, I mean, and it's not putting yourself down. People take this the wrong way in this new society. I'm not saying to put yourself down. I'm saying listen to the truth.

And the truth isn't in the 20%. The truth is in this other part of your brain saying, look, man, you're wasting a bunch of percentage here. We have 80 more percent that we're not tapping into because in this other 80 percent is suffering, pain, failure, failure, failure, self-doubt, darkness. And then a whole bunch of light. But to get to this light, you got to go through all of this shit. So a lot of us know that. We know, I can get over here, but over here, man, this is. much better because I got to go through this journey that is not fun this this from 20 to 100 percent this shit in between is not fun so we decided to live over here so everybody goes how do you

do that you know exactly how to do that you know exactly it's it's not a magic trick there's nothing I talk about in that book that's a magic trick it's all back down to a very primitive mindset set of we just have to do. It's like breathing. Breathing becomes normal. Like we don't know that that we're doing it. That's how you have to live your life. When that alarm clock goes off at four or five in the morning, your mind says no. You just say, it's just what we do. It's what we do now. Because to get to where you want to go, the amount of pain involved, I'm not saying physical. I'm not saying you got to break yourself off. The amount of mental pain, of how many times you're going to have to do something that you don't want to do

to get to where you want to go. There's going to be more times you do something that you don't want to do than you are going to want to do it. And that's your new norm. That's your new norm. So then it's like breathing. And then once you do this over and over and over again, it becomes like breathing.

I don't want to live this lifestyle, but to get to the other side of this, I have to. So if you really want it, you realize what trying is and what trying is not. I believe in winning the battle against yourself. People say, why do you say that? Because there's a lot of things you can control. When you wake up, I'm talking about making your bed.

Make your bed. Make sure your house is clean. Make sure you get your breakfast. Make sure you shower, shave. Whatever you're doing, control that. Don't hit the snooze button. All these things are very important. That's been told a lot of times.

Why don't you hit this news button? because you wake up already failing. You're already behind the power curve. So what happens when you hit this news button, you may not make your bed. You may not do your hair the way you want it. You may not pick the right clothes out in the morning time. And I go back to this real quick.

Remember how you had a job interview for a job? We've had several of them in our lives. What did you do the night before that job, weeks before the job interview? We knew you had it. You prepared your, you know, you had a bowl out for your oatmeal, your cereal, whatever you had in the morning time, your coffee cup was out,

your clothes were laid out, You studied, you rehearsed, you were ready. You brought your best self. You were going to war with yourself because you wanted that interviewer to see your best self. You won. You got the job. After a few months in that job, you look around,

I got the job. Start to back off. The clothes aren't out. You're not ready. You're hitting this news button. You don't get up on time anymore. You realize that you can still have this job and not be your best self.

the interview you is gone. Your job is gone. You have your job, but the interview you is gone. So when in the battle in the morning time is just that, is that you wake up in the morning time and you own all this stuff because once you leave your house, the world then gets at you.

And that's why I believe not getting up in the morning time and checking your phone immediately. Everybody does that. They get up, the first thing they do is you grab the phone. Look at the phone. Maybe bad news on there. So how does your day start off?

I don't go to the gym. I don't meet my bed. You're caught up now on that phone. That's how your day starts. You lost control. So once you win that, once you win that battle in the morning time, then once you go out, now you've won. You go outside your house. You may lose your job.

You may have a bad hit, but you won something. So you're going into battle having already won something. Haven't already won. So then if you get this news button, you go out. You're just defeated already. You're behind the power curve. Now you've won something. You feel better about yourself.

So now you're able to take these hits along the way. So that's the mindset that I think it's important to bring with you every day you go. Everywhere you go in life. Do you like suffering or do you just deal with suffering? Real answer. Real answer? Yeah. I like to see.

Real answer, I like to get a bunch of men together. Okay. Men that are the hardest of the heart. And I want to be with these men. And I want to see them suffer because I'm suffering right along with you, but I want to see me get through it. I want to see what you're made of. I want to see almost like the Coliseum in Rome. Let's fucking go to the fucking Coliseum.

And the only way to see who the baddest motherfucker is is to suffer. You can't do it by writing a paper. So let's go because why. What I found out through my life was I thought of myself as some weak little bitch kid. And when I found out, and the only message I want to get across to people is once you change one thing, your mindset, you can attack everything. And I find it fascinating. I'm fascinated because I'll be in these moments. I put these guys on some fucking pedestal.

Yeah. Which people do with you? They do with me and they shouldn't. And I was this guy who was a piece of shit looking at this, my God, how are you guys? It's amazing. But once I worked my way up there, I said, my God, man, we can all compete, motherfucker. Let's go.

So do I like suffering? I like suffering in the way that is competitive. That brings out the absolute best in me and in everybody else. So like I want to see a man be defeated. I want to see a man get broken and say, fuck you. I love these men. These men, I love. But there's very few of them.

There's very few of them. And there's very few that are willing to go there more than once. A lot of people, even people who've gone through special ops, it kicks the shit out of them to a point where in their mind, what got me bad in par rescue was when I was going through it, I said, I'm only going to do this one time. And so many people on special ops, where they believe it or not, in anything, fuck special ops in anything.

That's hard. I'm only doing this one time. Once you say that, you fuck yourself. I think we're all an underdog. I think the top CEO on the planet Earth still has that doubt. I don't give a fuck where you're from. Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, the best on the planet. We're all underdogs.

whether you're underdog because you put yourself up there to be hungry or you're just a real-life underdog. We're all an underdog. And so this is about the mind and people discovering the mind, their own mind. And one thing I know is we all have an equation. We all have an equation. Like, you know, I'll talk about 3.14 is pi. There's different equations to figure out different kind of, you know, mathematical problems.

We as human beings are mathematical problems. I cannot give you a book for every fucking body in this world. That's what my book, even though it's one book, it's tailored to the individual. It's not like you do these five steps, you're good. No, I'm helping you figure out your fucking equation. Because it's different. My equation is different from your equation.

What's going to make you tick? What's going to make you go to the distance? What's going to make you go to that spot in hell and say, I love this spot. It's okay. That's what this book does. It helps you figure out your 3.14. Helps you figure out your fucking mathematical equation and say,

oh, because once you figure out the equation in any math problem, you no longer fail, man. You got it figured out. And what's important. What's important is I'm still figuring out this, you know, different things. Yeah, I got the equation figured out. But now the real journey has begun. So I'm still chipping away.

at life. Still chipping away at life. I think pushing yourself physically is the number one factor of life. That is the true spot where you can really dive deep into life's about self-discipline. It is about self-discipline. We tend to do the things that are easy. And that is the, it builds no mental toughness. It builds no mental hardening. It builds nothing. When you work out, working is where you can build that the fastest. Because it's a constant, it gives you instant feedback. You may not lose the weight you want to real fast, but the discipline it takes, it transfers over it to all aspects of your life.

It's not people, man, why are you always working out? Stop looking at that way. This is the foundation of life. When you look in the mirror, every morning we all look in the mirror to get ready to go to work, to go anywhere. The first thing you see is your reflection. If you don't like what you see in the morning, you lost the war already. It's not by even liking what you see.

It's about looking at the mirror and you may start, man, I feel different. That reflection may be not, that reflection is not everything. It's a feeling you're supposed to get. So you have to, in life, once you leave your house, the war begins. In your house, you have some control. And that reflection in that mirror, you have to control that reflection in the mirror. That's how you start your day. If you leave your house feeling like, okay,

I can fight. I've established the mentality to fight. And all that comes from working out. It's not just from, you know, you can't find that in the office. Well, my morning routine is every day I get up and run. Every single day. Because why I hate that the most. So that is where I-

You share that feeling. Yes, I hate that the most. So you have to do something that sucks every day. Because why, once you overcome the suck, oh, now you're powerful. You've overcome yourself already. So now you're ready to battle. I go to the gym about four times a week.

But my biggest thing I do is my nighttime routine. I stretch out anywhere from two to four hours every night for the last five. It used to be a lot longer than that. And I talked about in my book why I started doing this thing. But I had through my whole life, as you see, I was using my fighter flight muscle. I was under severe stress as a child, growing up, my job, whatever. A lot of stress. Just sitting down right now, Raj used,

our SOAS muscle, your hip flexor muscle. And I give you a two second on that. That muscle attached it to your T-12. And about five or six years ago, I got really, really sick. Doctors give me all kinds of hormones. Take this, take this, take this. And it's in the book real good, so I won't go deep into it now. But I lay it back and I literally said, you know what, I'm dying.

The doctors can't figure out what's wrong with me. My blood tests were coming back fine. I just like, I can't even run a block. I went from around 205 miles. I can't run a block. I'm in my bed sitting there. And I started realizing I had these humongous knots on my hip flexors. And back in my head.

And I said, I'm just done. So I started slowly stretching out. I couldn't do anything. Over a period of a couple of years, I got off this medication, that medication. I was on like 15. I was on several medications. Now I'm on one. And honestly,

What I believe, no doctors had said this is what happened to you. I was literally so tight I was cutting off blood supply in different places in my organs. The more opened up my body. So now I went from running 8.30 mile on a training run to now running a 7.15 to 7 minute mile on a training run. At the same heart rate. And it's not because I'm training any different. It's just because my body, my body's opened up and it's a lot of more blood flow. So every night I stretch out and it's truly, I have to be wound so.

fucking tight. Like, I couldn't sit in this chair for this long. I'd be like, I could get out of here, man. I'd go. It's totally changed my whole perspective of life. It's changed everything. So, stretching out, yoga, all those things has put me in a whole different state of mind. And I'm the healthiest

have been in my entire life, mentally and physically. Unreal, how much time you waste during the day. And most of it is on these fucking computers, phones, you know, Instagram and back and forth, whatever the hook you call it shit nowadays, tweeting and texting and shit. We waste so much time on our little gadgets

is unreal. And we talk about we have no time. If you really take, you have to take your day and write down this one day. Everything you do write that down and you're like, my God, I am wasting so much time on frivolous bullshit. It's not even funny. I mean, it will, if it doesn't infuriate you,

it should. Because there's so much time. I can't get it in. Look at your schedule. You just waste a seven hours today on bullshit. I mean, and you don't have an hour a day to try to get something in for yourself, I guarantee everybody can find an hour. Thank you for tuning into this episode of the Resilient Mind podcast, where we're committed to empowering you with the knowledge and tools to strengthen your mind. We hope you found this episode with David Goggins, insightful and valuable. If you enjoyed the episode, please consider subscribing or donating to our podcast. Thank you again, and check out our other episodes

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