How to Build Immense Inner Strength | David Goggins

Writing & Learning, ADHD & Focus

Nothing is easy, like running is running, it sucks, but you have a choice to make.<br>Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were?<br>No. So this is what it takes.<br>A lot of people will never get it cause they were never David Goggins.

Friction, Focus, “Conqueror’s Mindset”

You have no fucking idea how great you are because you are using such minimal, minimal of what you have.

Early Hardships, “Haunted”

No matter how much you improve, no matter how much you change who you are, it’s not permanent.

Anger, Social Media; Growth & Challenges

There’s no fucking passion, no fucking motivation, it’s every day of your life just **doing.<br>**No passion, no discipline, no motivation, all these words.<br>So many people fucking use these words now because it’s watered. It’s someone sitting in their room by themselves and they figure themselves out and say, god, this is going to fucking suck. Where’s passion when you’re 300 pounds? Where’s the motivation when you can’t read and write? Where is it? So how did this happen? Just fucking did.<br>I (Goggins) said that maybe at the end of this journey, there will be something there for me.<br>If not, I can read. If not, I’m 185 fucking pounds. There’s no magic position, there was no, oh, let me wake up and look at some shit. All those words are overused; they’re all bullshit. Just do! You’re living. How do you want to live? How do you want to die?<br>How do you want to fucking be remembered? That’s it.

Stick vs. Carrot, Negative Inner Dialogue, “Stay Hard”

The reason why you’re a loser, the reason why you’re not fucking making it, and the reason why you’re trying to go to all these conventions.<br>You’re lazy, you know exactly what to do, exactly what to do, because even Goggins, in his state of he can’t read and write, he still knows exactly what to do, it just sucks doing it. There’s no get out of jail free card. This is why David says stay hard, because when you weren’t given the gifts, the only thing you can do in life is stay hard. There’s no magic pill or a magic potion; all you can do is outwork the man that god created in you, and what that looks like is unfun.

Inspiration, Characters & Self Image

Hard work looks horrible, it’s not motivating, it’s not motivating at all.<br>It looks like a man being stuck in a fucking dungeon, and there’s no fucking way out.<br>You’ve the fucking key, but you refuse to use it, and that’s nothing motivating about that.

Willpower & Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex

There’s no fucking hacks. You may this and that and saunas and all this shit, yeah, it’s great, but there’s no fucking life hack.<br>How to grow is just do it and do it and do it, that’s the hack, the hack is going to fucking suck.

Friction & the “Suck”, Willpower

There are no hacks; it’s you against you, and if you misunderstand that, you have a real problem. David can understand you misunderstand him, running down the street, shirt off, fuck this, no.<br>But if you misunderstand what his saying right now today, the problem is you, and you don’t want to fix it.

Losing Weight, Challenge & Willpower

Maybe you’re a piece of shit, maybe you want to be nobody, maybe you’re happy exactly where you are in life because obviously, you are.<br>Maybe you don’t have the determination to be somebody better than who you are.<br>If you want to live with that, Goggins will support you in that.<br>If you’re good with being who you are, and that makes you feel good? Nothing Goggins or anyone can say to you. People are haunted, and they obviously like horror films because they keep watching the same fucking movie. A lot of people like horror films. Something in you has to wake up. And usually, the only person who can wake it up is you.<br>If you don’t have a little flame, just barely, you’re done. You have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want out of life?<br>Your friend and a lot of people out there just don’t fucking want it. This is your new life, take it or leave it.<br>There’s no happiness about it, there’s no peace behind it, it sucks, it just fucking sucks.<br>And that’s the one thing, if Goggins could teach anybody, anything, it just fucking sucks. There’s no dopamine when you’re in a bad situation; you have to envision something more powerful than you, something that has to get you out of bed, and you have to create it. It has to be false because you’re not it, you’re a fat piece of shit.

Self-Criticism & Discipline; Recovery; Stutter & Building Confidence

Goggins: I’m not good enough, smart enough, talented enough to do that.<br>Some people are, some people can start at 1:00, some people don’t have to start at all.<br>If you lack talent, you can’t sit back and say, “I’ll start in half an hour”.

Feeling Lost, Self-Reflection & Individual Process

The brain is the most powerful weapon in the world. Once you figure out your brain, you become unstoppable to almost anything.<br>Your brain is amazing. Once you feed it the right conversation, the right mental nutrients, the right mental supplements, the right internal dialogue at the right time with the right hit, with the right proof of what you’ve done in the past, and you send that into the right circuit, you’re a fucking beast. But you just can’t read about it, you can’t sit back and be a theorist, you have to be a fucking practitioner.

Inner Dialogue: Failing Properly

Sometimes all the inner voices are telling you the wrong shit. But through years, years, not a podcast or listening to a book or reading a book, years of sacrifice, of suffering, of diligent pinpoint fucking work on what you want to do for yourself, not like just do a bunch of shit. Pinpoint what you want to do with your life. What happens is you have all these voices that are telling you you’re fucked up and this is going to be hard, but for some reason, you put so much practice into you that you can ignore every one of them that are telling you you’re not going to fucking make it, and still be able to fucking make it.<br>Because you have put the practice into what you know, this is the process.<br>It’s such a daunting task that all the voices are saying no, but you still have the conviction that I know I can do this, and that’s what David took for him to get here. When you lace them motherfuckers up every day, pretty soon, you’ll fucking win. If you have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the mindset of everybody can go fuck themselves, I know what I know, I’ve listened to myself enough to know I know what I know. None of you can hear what I’m hearing, and that’s what people don’t do enough of.<br>They don’t listen to their journey; they listen to everybody else’s shit.

Introspection & Unconscious Mind, Cleaning “Cupboards”

Tests come when you have not studied.<br>Tests come when you think you’re in a great place.<br>That’s the test. The test is every day of your life, and most of us fail because we don’t know why we’re here. After all, we don’t go inward to fix our inner selves.