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Wikipedia Summary for David Goggins
David Goggins (born February 17, 1975) is an American ultramarathon runner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, public speaker, and author. He is a retired United States Navy SEAL and former United States Air Force Tactical Air Control Party member who served in the Iraq War. His memoir, Can't Hurt Me, was released in 2018.
If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you ca' see yourself doing it, usually you ca' achieve it.
Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.
When you're in hell, you forget how great you really are because you're suffering and you forget the great things you've done.
If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me -- that I didn't attack it.
It's like a muscle -- if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.
You are stopping you, you are giving up instead of getting hard.
You can be born in a fucking sewer and still be the baddest motherfucker on earth.
You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.
If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.
I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I've done it all -- I'm good. Now, it's about setting an example for others to follow. I can't just talk it -- I have to live it.
Before you start a goal -- let's take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you're suffering.
I'm different than most people...when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line.
I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done.
No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you.
It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.
I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I'm a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.
When you tell a recruiter that you're almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn't go too well. I got hung up on a lot.
Boot camp sucks -- SEAL training sucks -- but you know what? That's what makes you good.
If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can't see yourself doing it, usually you can't achieve it.
Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.
Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that.
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
It's funny, humans tend to hatch our most challenging goals and dreams, the ones that demand the our greatest effort yet promise absolutely nothing, when we are tucked into our comfort zones.
Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.
Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.
Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world.
Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you're f*cking nuts.
The only reason why I became successful was because I went towards the truth. As painful and as brutal as it is, it changed me. It allowed me, in my own right, to become the person who I am today.
The things that we decide to run from are the truth. When you make excuses, you're running from the truth.
Don't limit expectations of yourself and settle for anything less than what you are truly capable of achieving.
If you want to be one of the few to defy those trends in our ever-softening society, you will have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity, which requires an open mind.
It's possible to transcend anything that doesn't kill you.
Have the courage to be who you are, not what people expect you to be.
Having lived the life I've lived, and having seen the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me, has made me happy.
Stop making excuses. Stop being a victim. Take personal responsibility. Hold yourself accountable. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable. And finally, make your dreams come true.
The only way that you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is by suffering. You have to suffer in order to grow. Some people get it, some people don't.
Your best self can be found based on how you respond to failure.
A savage mindset is a conditioned mindset that knows quitting is not part of the plan. It knows that it has to find a way around any and all obstacles to complete the mission.
Inner strength isn't found -- it's created.
Whoever says you can't develop mental toughness or anything else doesn't truly understand the human mind or the human spirit.
There's no excuse.
Suffering is the true test of life.
We must live our lives to a higher standard. The standard we set for ourselves must makes us feel uncomfortable. If the standard you set for yourself allows you to feel comfortable, you must re-evaluate the bar you set for yourself.
True belief in yourself is the ultimate determining factor if you make it or not.
There are no special people, just special minds and the mind is something we can sharpen through hard work.
The key is to quiet your mind while in mental hell and embrace whatever obstacle is in front of you with open arms.
It's very easy to neglect to train the most important thing -- the mind.
Some times saying f*ck it at the right time can be a very powerful thing. It tells your mind that you are willing to do whatever it takes to get to the other side.
When your mind is telling you that you're done, that you're exhausted, that you cannot possibly go any further, you're only actually 40% done.
Get off your phones, computers, and shut the TV off. Don't let this fast-paced world dull your sharpest weapon, that weapon being your mind.
Your entitled mind is dead weight.
A true champion has experienced fatigue many times and yet always finds what they still haven't given.
When times are hard and you are mentally and physically exhausted and feel like you have nothing left and all you want to do is quit, that's when you find out who you are.
It's not supposed to be easy. Life is designed to test the human soul.
The hardest thing in the world is to continuously fall and stay motivated. But those who can will start to create great separation between them and those who choose the path of least resistance.
Dark times are not hopeless times.
Never be afraid to suffer, it's just a tool that some people aren't willing to use. It's that very tool that strengthens weak people.
You can outwork anybody.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to become civilized.
You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period.
Don't worry about the elements around you and what's going on… You gotta get out there and get it.
We live in a world where a lot of people need goals, motivation and a lot of other words to get started. It's just a big excuse to not get started.
I'm happy as hell, but I'm also real. Happy didn't get me here. But going through hell to get to where I'm at made me happy.
Don't get mad at others because life is kicking your ass.
Sometimes saying fuck it at the right time can be a very powerful thing. It tells your mind that you are willing to do whatever it takes to get to the other side.
Don't be the person that looks at the weather report the night before to decide what you are going to do the next day.
Show people, don't tell people.
Success is based off of your willingness to work your ass off no matter what obstacles are in your way.