Retired navy seal david goggins is described as the toughest men on the planet
holding the pull-up record 4 000 pull-ups in 17 hours
He's also an ultra marathon runner with more than 60 races
Everybody thinks i'm superman I had to tell them the truth
I was not always this strong guy you see david goggins is the only member of the us armed forces to ever complete seal
Training he beat the living hell out of me u.s. Army ranger school. I had stuff on my notebook
You know you were going to kill you and air force tactical air controller training
That's when the real war started for me athlete speaker soldier and new york times best-selling author often referred to as the hardest
motherfucker on planet earth
Why is the truth so important?
I'm about seven eight years old
And I hear some ruckus outside my room as i'm getting ready to bed down for the night
And my dad is smacking the hell out of my mom
And knocks her
She falls down. He grabs him by her hair and drags her down stairs by her hair
and so at this age
I'm starting thinking man. You know what the fuck should I do man? Like, you know i'm scared, but then something in me saying
You gotta go and do something
So I go on the stairs and I jump on his back and he beat the living hell out of me
And he beat me literally from my neck
down to my ankles
the next morning
Um, I was gonna go to school half today my mom woke up and she pulled the covers back
and when she saw how bruised I was
I'll never forget looking at her face
she was broke like
She was just broken
My mom got courage to finally leave him when I was about eight years old we moved to a small town in brazil indiana
And that's when the real war started for me. There was about maybe 10 black families at about 10 000 people in town
And in 1995 the kkk marched in the 4th of july parade
So me being one of the few black kids in that, you know in that area
You know, it kind of haunts you I had stuff on my notebook
You know when you were going to kill you, they had that on my car and they were going to kill this is early 90s
and um
Even though I showed it didn't hurt me
It was jacking me up. So all the insecurities I had when I was a kid with my father
It just got worse and worse and worse
And it shit haunted me, but I was doing nothing about it
And so my mom and I she was gone working three jobs
We lived in a seven dollar a month place for a lot of the time
And um, she had a hard way to go
I kept everything from her pretty much
I felt like I was a man of the house
So I didn't want her to know anything about my life
I cheated all through school
copy from the fourth grade to the to my junior year in high school on every assignment
She got a letter in the mail from my high school
And i'm a junior in high school and it later says pretty much your son's gonna flunk out. He's missed twenty-five percent of school
She was always gone studying school
She read the letter to me
She put my bed
And I broke
I broke I I couldn't imagine going back through that again
I started finding things that was comfortable
And the more things I found comfortable
the more uncomfortable my mind was
And I gained 125 pounds
In that time frame, I went from 175 to almost 300
I started working for a job called ecolab where he sprayed for cockroaches at 24
Driving home turned the tv on and I was taking a shower. I walked out heard these guys
I saw these guys going in the water. So I was terrified of it
I mean, I can't even express and these guys ringing the bell quitting dropping their helmet down rolling out a lot of guys. Just leaving
and it made me reflect on my fears my
insecurities and I saw
Real men when I thought were real men who were staying
Who were overcoming adversity who were overcoming all these different things that?
I had blamed so many fucking people in my life my dad
My learning disability my my skin color, you know
Me being everything
And so, um, I sat there for a while and I was like, no one's gonna can come to help me
No one's gonna come to help me. Just give me against me period
and I said, the first thing I started doing is facing every fucking fear I have
At this point I actually drive back to buffalo new york to see my dad
Haven't seen him in years because I realize now I gotta fix some shit i'm blaming
Everything but I need to go back to the root of the problem
Which is my dad
I gotta face the demon
I gotta go back and see what made him so to make me so why am I fucked up?
And I go back as an older man now i'm in my 20s. I'm not a kid anymore
And I realized he was the same man that he was
I looked at him in a way
We never said sorry to one another
And he went off by my mom and my grandparents and all kind of shit. I looked at him in a way
That I realized now
Why you this uh?
somewhere in your fucking life
Something fucked you up
And you didn't deal with it
And so you put that shit on me my mom and everybody around you i'm gonna deal with my shit
You gave me this
I'm gonna fix it, though
I go home several months go by
What it was I was obsessed with rocky
When I was a kid I come every day
And I would fast forward with the little vhs tapes to round 14
When apollo creek beat the fucking shit out of rocky beat the shit out of him. He kept fighting. He was a dumb
Fighter that was me couldn't read couldn't write I probably should have been he was in the corner. Everybody was saying stay the down
and
him getting up
Him getting up apollo cree raised his arms up in the air turn around thought he won the fight
He turns around and sees this guy getting up and it was the face of apollo creed that changed my life
The face of apollo creed it was like just by that mother getting up not winning just by him getting the up
Rocky had taken his soul his head goes down. He looks them like, what the fuck are you?
But said, this motherfucker's gonna keep coming
After whatever, the is in front of them. I wanted to be that I wanted to feel something besides defeat
I wanted to just go to distance
I wanted that worse than anything in the
World and now i'm like, okay, here we go
It's time to be a navy seal
Hell week is 130 hours of continuous training. You might get two hours of sleep and what it does is
It's designed to break a man. If you only fix the surface, you will never get through hell week
We're all you know, a lot of us are going through a hard time in life, some people have been bullied
Some people are just stressed out. Some people are insecure
And the world puts a lot of this shit in your mind. It's not just you
I had to develop a mindset
A mindset that was indestructible. I had to armor plate my mind
It's about what you're saying to yourself, but it also comes at work
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 shit our mind says, oh, no, this isn't fun
We should back off. We should sit down find something more comfortable
It knows what you're afraid of it knows your insecurities. It knows your deep dark lives
And it starts to push you away from that shit. It pushes you in a direction. That is comfortable
This is the time where you have to gain control back of your mind
I had to build calluses in my brain
The same way I built calluses on my hands
The only way I can turn around is put myself through the worst
Things possible a human being could ever endure and not be the only way that I can build this brain
To handle anything that comes in front of it
Retired navy seal david goggins is described as the toughest men on the planet
You're the only member of the u.s armed forces to have completed navy seal training u.s
Army ranger school and air force tactical air controller training and you've competed in more than 60 ultra marathons
triathlons and ultra triathlons
And breaking the world record for 4 000 and 30 pull-ups in just 17 hours
Why is the truth so important?
I had to tell him where I came from to give people hope
That wow, that's where he came from and now he's there
I'd like to take my mom up here
Who?
Who never picked me up
Who never picked me up when I fell
She taught me how to get up when I was knocked down
Go into the pain of your life and say why does this suck for me so bad?
Why am I afraid of all this stuff?
Why have I shut down the whole world?
What makes you afraid of it study it?
because at times of hell
Even the hardest men we forget how hard we really are
Suffering is a true test of life
You face it every day. You face it every single day of your life
The only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow
But a lot of us die never truly starting our journey
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