MASTER YOUR MIND POWERFUL Motivational Speech David Goggins )
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00:00The easiest thing I've done was to get out from under the labels and to live the life
00:10that I live.
00:11The most difficult thing I've ever done was to believe that I can do it.
00:17You have to tap into suffering every day of your life because we have so much scarring
00:22that we have to clean up.
00:24You have to look at suffering as almost like I look at failure.
00:29To succeed, you must fail.
00:32In failure and in suffering, all the answers are in there.
00:37All the answers to all the test questions, the test is your life.
00:41All the answers are in there.
00:43You don't have to live in suffering and pain and failure all the time.
00:47You have to learn, I need to visit it.
00:50Like people hate working out.
00:51You're only going to visit working out maybe an hour a day, 23 other hours of the day you're
00:57not in it.
00:58But how you become in shape is you must visit suffering, visit working out one hour a day.
01:05Visit suffering one hour a day.
01:08Visit your past failures one hour a day.
01:11The relationship with it is the answers are in there.
01:15They are in there.
01:17Within the suffering, go in there, I call it the live autopsy.
01:21The live autopsy, how you find out someone died, they crack you open after you're dead.
01:27The only way you can live is do it while you're alive.
01:30Go back in your brain, crack it open while you're alive.
01:34Don't wait until you're fucking dead to figure out why you died.
01:38Do it while you are living.
01:40Go in there, go into the suffering, go into the pain of your life and say, why does this
01:44suck for me so bad?
01:46Why am I afraid of all this stuff?
01:49Why have I shut down the whole world?
01:51I guarantee I'll tell you why you shut down the whole world.
01:54These nooks of the suffering within your brain, in the scarring, are all the answers to why
02:01you are on the couch feeling sorry for yourself.
02:04They lie within the scars.
02:07Visit them for at least an hour a day, study them, and then you'll find out more about
02:11yourself.
02:12You will then grow.
02:13So don't look at it as every day I suffer.
02:16Go into it an hour a day.
02:19Learn from yourself, learn from life, learn from your failures, learn from your insecurities,
02:23learn from your self-doubt.
02:25Don't just say, I'm afraid to jump off an airplane.
02:28What makes you afraid of it?
02:30Study it.
02:31That's why I studied my mind, why I became so powerful in the mind, because I realized
02:35I was weak.
02:37So instead of running away from the mind, I dove into it and said, what is making me
02:40weak?
02:41Oh, this makes sense.
02:44I came from hell.
02:46I came from a place that beat me down to nothing, which is why I'm afraid.
02:52Oh, this makes sense.
02:53So systematically, one by one, I went back and met every single person in my mind, every
02:59situation.
03:00I went one-on-one with them again in my mind and said, okay, let's now revisit this.
03:07That's how you do it.
03:09That's how it works.
03:10You live in a dominant culture that is designed to destroy your sense of self and your belief
03:16in yourself.
03:18And you have to learn ways in which you can begin to connect with this power that you
03:22have within yourself to handle where you are.
03:25The key is to be constantly in a perpetual process of discovering the truth of who you
03:32are and fighting constantly to look for ways in which you can escape the inner conversation.
03:42You know every painful moment.
03:46You remember it.
03:47You try to put it under a rug, lift the rug up, you'll find them.
03:50So yeah, that's how I was able to write that book.
03:53You don't forget that shit, you want to, and that's where you fail, by trying to forget
03:59it.
04:00That's where you fail.
04:01That's where there's no growth.
04:02Let's just move forward from all this.
04:04There's no growth there.
04:05There's no growth there.
04:06No.
04:07You just want to forget about it.
04:09You will continue making the same fucked up mistake.
04:12You will continue doing the same things wrong if you don't go back.
04:15So as I'm talking, and as I'm going back, I'm very aware that I'm going to do that.
04:22And I may do it for 45 minutes, and I'm like, you knew you were going to do this.
04:30You have to be very aware of the conversation you're having while you're doing it, because
04:34your mind chooses the path of least resistance.
04:38Your mind has the ultimate tactical advantage over you.
04:41It knows what scars you.
04:44It knows your fears.
04:45It knows your insecurities.
04:46And it protects you, which is why I talk about the 40% rule in my book.
04:51The 40% rule is all about the brain has the tactical advantage over you.
04:56It knows, and it keeps you away from all that.
04:59That's why it says don't jump out of an airplane.
05:01Don't go in the ocean where there's sharks.
05:03It's a protective mechanism.
05:05Don't go back to the place where your dad beat the shit out of you in your mind.
05:09Don't go back.
05:11The brain protects you, but protects you so much, it doesn't allow growth.
05:17So the brain is an amazing thing, but the brain controls you.
05:21You must control it.
05:23You must take power over your own mind, or your mind will guide you into all the soft
05:28spots, soft places that your brain wants to live in.
05:33Life is going to beat up on you in so many ways, and many things, they come back.
05:38Negative thoughts and how you feel about yourself, they don't die.
05:43They come back once you stop doing the maintenance work on your own mind.
05:49So there's so many things you can do to get outside your own head, to then allow your
05:53body to just be like, hey, we're just a machine.
05:56But you have to let your mind be able to process all these different tactics to do that.
06:01Take a different vantage point in life.
06:03When you are in the hell, you can't see the beauty of being in it when you're in it.
06:08Get on top of that mountaintop in your mind.
06:10Get on top of that mountaintop and look down at what you're doing.
06:14You can see a whole different world, and that world is beautiful, but you got to get a different
06:18vantage point in the suck.
06:22Don't be in it, spiritually get out of it.
06:26Get that soul, look down on what you're doing, be amazed by the process of where you're at
06:31now and where you came from.