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0:00 how the does a 297 pound cockroach guy who quit on everything is now considered one of the best man on the planet how is that possible i mean when goggins lived with me his rule is we had to do something every day that sucked it means i had to change one thing my mindset i believe that most human beings are only living at about 40 of their capability when i got through with that first hundred mile race that i did around that one mile track that i didn't prepare for it i was considerably it was horrible and i'll never forget i found such peace and beauty and i got that i was in the worst pain in my [ __ ] life and i got done and my wife pulled the
0:46 car up on the my ex-wife pulled the car up on this little lawn and i got in the back of it and i got up the stairs i'm not gonna go through the whole story but i remember laying in the in the tub and she put the shower on me and i ran 101 miles like 19 hours and i was like peeing dirt out of me and i'm sitting there and i'm jack hammering and my body is just the most broken it's ever been even to this day and this feeling came over me call it crazy if you want but very few people i guarantee they've ever felt this before to push themselves so far outside of what they thought was even possible even for me i laid in that tub and i didn't want it to go away i had drained myself of every bit of
1:34 strength energy i had and it was the best feeling i had in my life all that pain it was it was confirmation it was confirmation that i had gone through a crucible and i figured out another level of david goggins a level that i thought was humanly impossible for anybody to do when i was at mile 70 and [ __ ] and pissed all over myself and had 30 more miles to go and i was damn near dead and i was able to go 31 more miles in that process of the next 31 more miles i found out more about myself and that 31 miles than ever have in my entire life the conversations the mental blocks the roadblocks the
2:20 everything horrible it was just feeding at me like light speed get the [ __ ] out of here man like but i was able to figure out different tactics and when i finally got done with that and i laid in that tub and it was over the feeling of my god man you just really discovered a whole new world a whole new part of the brain that guarantee very few people have so it's a it's a feeling i can't even describe [Music] so the mine has a governor like a car if you're driving a car and the car has a governor on it the car may say 130 miles an hour but the governor set for 91. once that governor sets in you get 91 that car starts doing this the car wants
3:05 to go the car wants to go but that [ __ ] factory said uh-uh we're not going past 91. we have a factory a nice governor in our brain and it's a survival mechanism it protects us from pain and suffering the second we feel that [ __ ] our mind says oh no this isn't fun we should back off we should sit down find something more comfortable and there's something about the mind the mind has the tactical advantage over you at all times at all times of your life the mind has a tactical advantage over you why is that it knows what you're afraid of it knows your insecurities it knows your deep dark lies and it starts to push you away from that [ __ ] it pushes you in a direction that is comfortable
3:50 the mind controls everything so what i realized was that when i was growing up and i was 300 pounds and i got all fat i got all insecure i realized that my mind kept taking me in this direction when things got uncomfortable for me when i was facing my insecurities i was facing my fears my mind said oh no we have the tactical advantage we need to get you separate you from this feeling this feeling over your life's all about feelings we want the happy feeling we don't want that feeling of this sucks why am i here and you don't have any so you can't answer those questions so you leave i started realizing that if in that moment you can answer those [ __ ] up questions and you are now in charge of your brain
4:35 versus your brain ruling you that's where all that stuff comes from so so the 40 rule is all of that you get to 40 your brain says we're done let's roll man this is starting to get painful this is uncomfortable so you sit down flee the fight or flight kicks in okay we're done we're not good enough it starts telling you all these things you start to believe it because the mind controls all this is the time where you have to gain control back of your mind it's okay let me see if i can go 45 and once you start giving yourself more and more hope and start realizing okay the mind starts to be okay what are you doing we're supposed to be going right and you're going left you start then controlling your mind start finding more in you know in
5:21 yourself and it goes from 40 to a lot further than that but that's the start of it though get to get to the spot where your mind is saying stop wherever that is get there first and then that's when that [ __ ] starts to work for you you got to control yourself in that moment and i was able to visualize the end so before so when i was 297 and i was all fat and out of shape i couldn't run a quarter mile and i was drinking milkshakes and eating boxes of donuts i visualized man how would it feel so after i watched that show on discovery channel for a brief moment i was so there was 22 guys that graduated i watched this segment on tv about these guys going through navy still training and i couldn't even i i wanted a great
6:06 swimmer i was afraid of the water all this crap man and um i saw these guys as quitting but at the very end it says 22 guys there's command officers up there and he gives this great speech i was like man i wonder so i started visualizing me being the 23rd guy in these dress whites sitting there with these guys getting that navy seal you know graduating this navy seal training i was like god so i put myself there i was like man that's that's an amazing feeling i put myself there at 297 not even able to do anything that these great men were doing i said man if i could feel that that would change my life if i could just feel that one it lasts for one second you get that certificate you walk across
6:53 the stage and what's next but i didn't know that then my mind wasn't i thought i'd live in that moment forever so i said wow man if i could just feel like them if i could feel like them and what was that feeling you wanted so bad respect accomplishment victory i wanted to win not like beat somebody else it wasn't about that i i just wanted to go the distance everything in my life when something got hard i quit if it was reading that's why you know i wasn't great at reading i wasn't great at writing so i just quit i couldn't catch on as fast as you i had to work harder than you so i quit you know i wasn't great at things so i quit you know i'm i'm not good at this like man if i could just go that
7:38 distance that extra mile to just go just to finish i want to finish i want to feel victory and victory for me wasn't winning it was just finishing so i said you know what if i could feel like these guys feel it would change my life but what i realized the best feeling i had was when i was by myself trying to lose this weight i had to lose it in literally less than three months 106 pounds in less than three months and literally i started feeling victory just by putting myself in the battle it wasn't about going to navy seal training it wasn't about being the 23rd
8:23 guy in that chair i started realizing man just by going to war with myself every day and putting these challenges and these goals and these obstacles these insurmountable obstacles so it went about losing 106 pounds me losing 5 pounds was an accomplishment me losing 10 pounds and then 50 pounds and the more i did the more i gained confidence and then the more i gained confidence the more i realized [ __ ] these navy seals man these guys can't do what i'm doing right now i had no coach had no trainer had no money i didn't know how to lose weight i had no knowledge of what i was doing i was just working i was just sacrificing and then through
9:08 that all these different tools started coming up but i would have never found these tools if i didn't put myself in a very uncomfortable place we all look for toughness we all want it but we look for in a comfortable environment you will not find toughness in a comfortable environment those of you who are listening to this whoever hear this you will not find it i was trying to look for it everywhere the only way you find it is to drown yourself in a position where you're just out of sorts where you can't swim and you're drowning where you're drowning you're drowning in life but you say you know what ma'am
9:54 [ __ ] that i'm gonna figure out how to [ __ ] backstroke or [ __ ] something i'm gonna figure out how to and then through figuring out all these tools your mind starts to when you quit your mind does this because you're out once you say i'm not going to quit this is the 40 when you quit your mind says we're done so it doesn't expand there's no expansion when you quit when you say [ __ ] you uh-uh this sucks i'm drowning i'm miserable i'm suffering i'm broken but i'm not going anywhere what happens to your mind is it does this it says [ __ ] he's not leaving so we gotta expand we gotta grow we gotta figure this [ __ ]
10:42 thing out so then these compartments in your brain start to have they have to work they have to work and then you start to engage parts of your mind that you never engaged before but you can't engage it by sitting back in these nice chairs drinking this nice water talking to you talking about what i want to do that's where so that's where the 40 thing comes in it comes in when you're in suffer mode and you say i'm not gonna quit you're forcing your brain now to operate on a level it's not used to i mean when goggins live with me his rule is we had to do something every day that sucked he wanted to see how many pull-ups i could do so he could map out the month he lived with me for a month and i went to the pull-up bar and i got like maybe eight pull-ups uh and then he
11:28 said all right wait 30 seconds go and do it again and i went up on the pull-up bar and i did maybe like three or four he said i wait 30 seconds i want you to do it again and i got up on the pull-up bar and i did maybe like one kipping you know getting my damn chin over the bar barely and i dropped down i was all jacked up and i said all right well what's what's next he said well what's next is we're not leaving here until you do a hundred more we're not leaving the gym until you do a hundred more that day now like right now right now so you and i was like seven either like probably seven or ten and i was like man goggins that's impossible and you said you know i already i already know what your biggest problem is and it's like the limitations you're putting on yourself are self-imposed get [ __ ] back on the bar and you know roger that man and uh i got up on the bar and i over
12:15 over the course of an hour or two i did them and that started our journey of like you're about to go in a place where you've never been [ __ ] i went i walked a mile i said hmm maybe i can walk one more mile maybe i can walk another mile at mile 81 my expert looked at me said you're not gonna make the time when your mind knows it's not going to quit and this is what i found out this is my 40 rule when your mind knows it's not going to quit your body will adapt to whatever is in front of it i end up running 20 more miles i did 101 miles in 19 hours and six minutes and that one day change that one 19 hours it wasn't still a train it wasn't range of school it wasn't delta force whatever that crap i went through it was this 19
13:02 hours and six minutes that forever changed my life to know that we as human beings are capable of anything and we don't need any special kind of parents or tools to get there so engine with this don't stop when you're tired stop when you're done
