The Resilient Mind - You Don't Need Another Seminar. You Need to Do the Work - David Goggins

Episode Date: September 30, 2026

[Explicit]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: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/Download_JournalExplore tools from past guests of the podcast. Some links below are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you:💓 HeartMath: https://www.heartmath.com/resilient🧠 Muse: https://choosemuse.com/resilientmind🌿 Brain Ritual: https://www.brainritual.com/THERESILIENTMIND🌍 The Resilient Mind Podcast is a proud member of 1% for the Planet — building resilient minds and a resilient planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let me teach you the real life how it really is. The reason why you're a loser and the reason why you're not fucking making it and the reason why you're trying to go to all these, I go to all these fucking conventions. Speak all the fucking time. I look in the fucking audience and these people sign up, sign up, sign up, sign up fucking every year to go to a convention, thinking they're going to learn something fucking different.

No, you're lazy. You know exactly what to do. Exactly what to do. It just sucks doing it. It sucks. do it. Everybody has the ability to do it, but they just don't want to. They're going to keep asking questions and keep going

to seminars. You can watch me, you can watch you, you can watch fucking Rogan and Cameron Haynes, all these motherfuckers. You can go to Tony Robbins and fucking bullshit. All this shit. You do all this shit. If you, you could keep going back and keep spending money and spending money with no results.

You can wonder, wow, maybe let me go try out David Goggins. He ain't going to fucking help you. you have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want under life? Maybe you're a piece of shit. Maybe you're, you want to be nobody. Maybe you're happy exactly where you are in life, because obviously you are.

Maybe you don't have the determination to be somebody better than who you are. And if you want to live with that, I'll support you in that. That makes you feel good. Nothing I can say to you. Something in you has to wake up. And usually the only person that can wake it up is you. But if you don't have a little flame, you know, just that, just barely, you're done.

I can't, I can't light it for you. I want you to learn that the only way you grow is how to look at yourself and say, okay, like I did. Table longer than this. What the fuck I have to do to get somewhere? I'm this, I'm this, I'm this, I'm this, I'm this, I'm not this, I'm not this, I'm not this, I can't do this, I can't do this, I'm all these insecurities, your life finally started. When you sit down the ugly mirror and say, I'm this, I'm this, I'm this, I'm this, and this, you finally started your life. But most of all, your biggest fears, the biggest things that put you in the fucked up place you are today are in there. So we all like to keep them shut, even like to lock them up.

It acts like it never happens, so you never grow. Never improve. You never have real conversations like we're having right now. Never. Never. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's not, no, no, no, no, let's not go there. You got to relit it.

Every fucking detail of it. You can't say, oh, yeah, yeah, my dad beat me. And it, you know, it is what it is. Hey, it is what it is motherfucker. It's killing you. It's taking over your whole fucking life. But that's the conversation. Yeah, my dad beat.

I'm fine now, though. I'm good. Okay. All right. You're right. You're fine. Human beings want to show you the best side, and they want to hide the worst side. For me, I'm going to teach you how to be vulnerable, because that's the only way you fix yourself. I didn't teach myself victory first.

I taught myself failure. That's so depressing, is it? When you're 300 pounds and you can't read and write and you're fucked up, you don't many times you're going to fucking fail on that process? So if you don't know how to fail, there is no victory. When you have buried yourself in such a deep fucking hole, you better teach stuff how to fail first. Because if you sit in failure for too long, you will never come out of it.

So I taught myself how to fail properly. No one teaches you how to fucking fail. And then eventually, I started getting a few victories. If you put yourself in the fire and you come out every fucking day like this, brush it off, not scared to go back in there again? Come on, man. Your truth is real,

because human beings need to hear this. Then he stop hearing these hacks. There's no fucking hack, bro. Do it, and do it, and do it, and do it, and do it. That's the hack. The hack is going to fucking suck. And that's what I realized. It sucks to wake up every morning of your life

and do it again. Do it again. Do it again. It's not just there. It's not just there permanently for me. I lived, I woke up, like every human being does and goes, fuck, man, I'm a fucking piece of shit today. How the hell is this going to work out for me? And you fight that. And you fight that. You don't override it. It's no override button. It's the conversation in your fucking, like, in your head. So how do you do that? We don't have enough of these conversations about the real conversation that every human being is having. and they have no idea how to get out of it, but they do. It's you against you.

You against you. And if you misunderstand that, you have a real problem. If you misunderstand what I'm saying right now today, the problem is you, and you don't want to fix it. Why most people don't want to do that is because it is scary. It unlocks a whole bunch of things about who you are and who you're not. It's 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 fucking little like little pinhole. And then through examining myself, getting some willpower, some courage, it became bigger than this tape.

There's no fucking passion, no fucking motivation. There's no, oh my God. God, man, I fucking, this is, no, it's every day of your life just doing. I just fucking did. I just did. This is why I cussed. This is what is in me. This is what it took for me to be me.

Sorry. It didn't take, hey, okay, we're going to do this today. No, this fucking really sucks. This is real, dude. This is real. Just do. You're living. How do you want to live?

How do you want to die? How do you want to fucking be remembered? That's, that's it. That's it. Period. For you to constantly win, win, win. When, when this voice over here,

the real you is saying, get, go. You're nobody. You've always been nobody. People don't hear that. That's a true voice. Because whenever I take these tests, they're real hard,

in the back of my brain, it's like, the good chance you're not going to make it, Gagans. This ain't you, bro. this ain't you. You weren't born like this. This ain't you. The real you, bro.

Study all you want to. But the second that fucking computer comes on with 150 questions, this ain't you, man. And somehow, comes back, I passed. Passed again.

Past again. But that ruled me back here every fucking time. It's saying, that ain't you, bro. That ain't you. And I have to

outwork that voice. And then you had to create another voice over here that is saying you're better than that other voice. What happens is you have all these voices that are telling you're fucked up and this is going to be hard. But for some reason, you put so much practice into you that you can ignore every one of them that are telling you you're not going to fucking make it and still be able to fucking make it. But when you put that practice in, every day you lace them up. I mean, Ron, it's just a metaphor for life. When you lace them motherfuckers up every day, pretty soon you win.

Pretty soon you'll fucking win. You have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the mind and everybody can go fuck themselves. I know what I know. I've listened to myself enough to know. I know what I know. None of you can hear what I'm hearing. And that's what people don't do enough of. They don't live. listen to their journey. They listen to everybody else is shit. Everybody needs that

pound on the back. They need that training partner. They need that accountability coach. I don't hear that shit. And neither do they. But it's what we've trained ourselves to believe that we need. I've trained 99% of my life alone. No one had me on the back.

I did all of the work alone. I have a resume full of fucking motivation. that whenever I'm down, like, oh, hang on, motherfucker. Oh, you know, you know the truth. You know the darkness of the fucking dungeons and the fucking demons that fly. And then from there, it's like, okay, you were there.

You know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, to go in that. It was you. It was you. There wasn't no pat on the fucking back at 300 at 275, at 250, at 220. No, that was you. You had nobody anyway, motherfucker.

Look around you. There was no fucking team. It was you. There was no weight loss programmer. Mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it. You can be better trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottle.

That's worth every dime I ever made in my life. It's a fact that I can look at man the eye finally and have a real conversation without going like this. Because I'm lying or I'm a piece of it. to shit who I am and who I say I am I am. No more lies. No more skirt in the truth. No more bullshit. And that is worth every dime ever made in my life. And I swear to God on that. Most people are missing something because they don't know who they are. They never examine themselves. They've never done this experiment on themselves. Most people are missing something

because there's so much trapped in there. There's so much in you that God or wherever the hell you believe in, or if you're an atheist, in you, that you have not unlocked for you to be a piece of shit and come out of that. You don't just come out of it. You spent decades studying your mind in the human mind. You studied all because you have to put all this together

to create the mind to become successful. But once you figure out your mind, your brain, you become unstoppable to almost anything. Your brain is amazing. Once you feed it the right conversation, the right mental nutrients, the right mental supplements, the right internal dialogue at the right time,

with the right hit, with the right proof of what you've done in the past, and you send it right to the right circuit, You're a fucking beast. A beast. But once again, you just can't read about it. You can't sit back and be a theorist.

You have to be a fucking practitioner. What's this life about? That makes no sense. Being tested, my friend. Tests come when you have not studied. Test come when you think that you're, in the great place. That's the test. The test is every day of your life. And most of us fail because we don't know why we're here, because we don't go inward to say, oh, you came to be a lot of shit

to fix, man. And this test sucks. Then you start. Thank you for listening. Continue strengthening your mind by subscribing and listening to our other episodes.