Control Your Mind - Or It Controls You - David Goggins #Goggins #DavidGoggins#DavidGogginsMotivation

So the things that we run from, we're running from the truth. 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 ended up. When you really sit back at your life and you in that dark room and you're looking at where you started from and you tell yourself, "Ah, God, man. Mom is this way. Soon his stepdad got murdered. My dad beat the [ __ ] out of me. I can't read and write to save my [ __ ] soul. I've lied about it to everybody. I've cheated on all these tests. My god, man. " And then you put a goal in your mind. How you going to feel, man? You accomplish this goal coming from that [ __ ] Coming from the [ __ ] hell you came from. A lot of people start from a good starting point at a good foundation. What if you can surpass all these [ __ ] If everybody who was [ __ ] way up here started up here and you had you started with no legs, you had to grow [ __ ] legs till you would start walking and then crawling and then running and then you start passing people and all this given to them. I had to use all this negative [ __ ] that was making me weak and horrible as a person. I had to use this as the power that now fueled me. I had to flip it on its head and say, "Hold up. This might be exactly what I need. The darkness is exactly what I need. " It's how you look at your situation. And I was looking at it all [ __ ] up. If I fail one of these one seconds, I will not be a SEAL. doctor. I will not be a lawyer. I will not be whatever the [ __ ] it is. So that's how important that one second decision is. It's all about your mind takes control of you. You have to say [ __ ] you. I run this [ __ ] And that's what that's all about. It's one of the biggest things in the world. A lot of us mediocrity is everywhere right now. And we're all trying to find an easy way out and we're judging ourselves. Let's say there's 10 people in this room and we're all mediocre. But I'm the best of the mediocre people. I now think I'm great. We surround ourselves around people that make us feel great. They tell us what we want to hear. The second we put ourselves amongst the uncommon people. We don't like that feeling, that challenge and feel that of that person wake up at 3:30 in the morning say, "Hey, put your [ __ ] out. We're going for a run. " We don't like that challenge. We like that person who says, "Hey, you know, man, I don't feel good today, man. " And they say, "Oh, it's okay, brother. Took a day off. Let me get a pizza and [ __ ] and watch the game. " We like that. We love that feeling. Why? Cuz you understand, man. We're good, bro. We don't want that [ __ ] like this. Hey, man. No, bro. Get your [ __ ] on, man. Stop being a punk. We don't want that in a lot. We don't want that person who's constantly challenging our weaknesses. We constantly, you know, making us feel nice and good and secure in ours. That's the mediocrity of life. We want to be the best amongst the average people. People wonder how do you stay hungry all the time because after I accomplish something, I don't sit back like a lot of guys who graduate Buzz, graduate this, graduate that. I get comfortable. They wonder why I'm getting weak, man. I don't know. I lost my edge. What's going on? Cuz once you hit the top of the [ __ ] mountain, guess what happened? I'm good. So, you wonder why you're falling down now. Because once you top of the mountain, you got to build a [ __ ] another one. That's mediocrity. There's a lot of people in mediocrity who have a nice resume, but they're one-timers, man. They hit a one-time deal. They busted it open. Got a lot of money, but they're good. You're mediocre now, man. What are you [ __ ] doing today, tomorrow, the next [ __ ] day? That's why I'm listening to theorists. I don't listen to all that [ __ ] I listen to a [ __ ] who's like this, man. What's wrong, man? I'm [ __ ] tired, dude. Why are you tired? Cuz tomorrow, I got to do the [ __ ] again, man. Whatever the [ __ ] is that made me [ __ ] nauseous and sick to my stomach and made me hurt. There's no ending. And that's the person I listen to. That's the person who's gained knowledge. You gain knowledge through suffering. And on the other end of suffering is a world that very few, very few have ever seen. It's a beautiful world because that's where you find yourself. You don't find yourself in here. You find yourself on the other end like that 100 mile race I was on. I ran it for 24 hours. I found myself on the other end of that [ __ ] race. That 19 hours I found, wow, there's a whole another [ __ ] world

out here that never even se the world's in your mind. And that's what all that mediocrity is about. New York is contagious.