David Goggins: I Rubbed Some People in the SF Community the Wrong Way

Cut off the bullshit. Cut the bullshit. Just get to the weeds of that you are you are fucking yourself up by not examining your brain. You're not examining your brain. Message it. That's done. Examine your fucking brain and that takes some hard work and suffering. If you're not gonna do that, I'm sorry. And it seems like there's no way to do that as a bystander. No, you can't watch it, man. Yeah. You gotta get out there and be like, oh this hurts. This hurts real fucking bad. I don't think this is smart. And then guess what happens? The body will adjust. It will adjust. Everybody goes, well, then the next question I get, but is there a time when it doesn't adjust? I guess some of the stupidest shit, man. Like don't, don't take it with a grain of fucking salt, people. Those questions are people that are wanting to quit. Yes, yes. And that's what I say. When should I quit? Yeah, like, uh, did you ever like feel like, no, shut the fuck up. Stop. Stop. I don't want to, like that. There's always that next question. No, don't take it like go out there and run through a brick wall as many times as you can. No, I'm not saying be me. Don't run towards it in five miles at one time. I'm not saying do that. I'm saying start to learn the mind is powerful. It's powerful, man. It's unbelievable. But people need, they need a thing to get them going. Right. They need a thing. Right. They need a goal. They need, they need a, um, like it's, well, sometimes the first step is the hardest. Like it's hard to take that one million step too, but sometimes the first step is the most, there's something about the, what do I do? How do they start going over the phone? They start calling people. They don't get out of the house. Right. And there's something about procrastination. It's like, you know, it's painful. You know, you should be doing things, but you just keep doing it. You keep itching that scab. I procrastinate like a motherfucker, man. Every day I want to do this. That's what's so funny, man. People looking like I'm some damn superhero that came down from the gods, from the heavens up earth. No, man. I don't want to do this. I'm looking at my shoes for 30 minutes. Sometimes thinking man, fuck man. People, people look up to your Goggins. Fuck them. I don't want to do this. I'm like, I want to do this shit man, but guess what? You do it. I'm going to do it as long as you do it. And that's what I know about it, man. That's why I stopped doing it. I'm thinking, man, you go to fucking sit here. You look at your shoes for 30, 40 minutes. You go. You're going to think about all day long. You go do it anyway. And sometimes you don't have the time to look at your shoes for 30 minutes. Those are the, those are the beautiful days. Yes. Cause you know, you just have to go. That's right. And so like, there's no room for procrastination. And that's when I was in the military, I loved my schedule because I knew how to be working seven o'clock. So you better get your ass up at four o'clock, man. You gotta get your shit in brother. Cause I had to get my shit in before I got my shit in, you know? So that was my mentality back then, man. You know, like I, I had to get the miles and get everything in man and, and get to work, man. I'm a competing with the alpha males. Yeah. But how much did that piss other alpha males off that you were, you were imposing a very high bar? I, I was a very misunderstood human being. I was in the military. The air force guys liked me a lot. The Rangers liked me a lot so much, not the seals. Cause they were with you. They, they didn't like me so much, which is fine. You know, I, I respect them. I think a lot of them respect, I have a lot of friends in the seal teams. A lot of guys that like, like minded mentalities as me. And once again, man, I grew up and I got over it. A lot of guys still have, you know, like they, a lot of people can't get over the fact of whatever. When I became a seal recruiter, a lot of guys thought I wasn't deploying for a lot of reasons and whatnot. And they, I heard a lot. I was that guy who grinded. I grinded hard. I mean, I, I grinded hard. I was that guy who was up. Like if we went on an op or we had a workup, let's say we had a workup. We're at an island. We're out there shooting guns and, and, and doing land warfare. And we did it to like one o'clock in the fucking morning. Most everybody go to sleep. They didn't go to sleep. I was at the gym and I worked out or I go to sleep and I said, we'd be up at five o'clock. I was up at four o'clock and got an hour in. I made sure to always do that. And I, I did it to a point to where I think it pissed some people off because I, I want a quiet person about it. You know, I, I, I want the most humble person always, you know, so when you're around alpha males, you're sometimes picking a fight, you know, all the time. And I look different. I acted different. I was different. I am different. I take a lot of pride in that. And so, you know, if, if you didn't get after it, I didn't respect you because I believe that, you know, where, where I'm at, I know that human potential is what we have. It's all we have is what we, the world sees us a certain way. And when I saw that people weren't doing that, I had a funky ass fucking attitude and I own it in my book. I come back from ranger school, a big time leader. I was a big time fucking leader. I got honor man out there. I led by example. And when I realized a lot of times when you're in these schools, these schools, people want to graduate these schools because they suck. They don't want to ever go back to these schools. Those schools became my fucking life. People don't want to see a fucking God that wants to go back to day one, week one, a fucking Navy. So train every fucking day of your life. And that's how I live. And it's a disgusting human being that I can be. It is. And a lot of people didn't like me. A lot of fucking people started some stupid shit and started saying this and that the bottom line, man, is my fucking resume says it all, man. My resume is out there. Google the motherfucker. You say whatever you want to say about me, man. I miss some diplomas, man, for having fucking two heart surgeries and people try to start some rumors shit on me, man. You started rumors shit on me, man, because I fucking got the fuck after it. And real hard guys, like a guy named Hawk, I talk to all the time. Yeah. He's a great friend of mine when the hardest before my heart surgery, my second heart surgery, I'm going to 10 mile record on before my second heart. The day of it, I'm going to 10 mile record on 50 pounds. I saw that guy. He's like, what the fuck are you doing out here? We got a heart surgeon. It's Roger that brother. I'm getting in before I'm going to be out for about six months after the heart surgery. That was my mentality. Cause I started realizing at a young age, when I was leaving on the table and once I found out what a human being is capable of, I didn't know how to control that. I was, I was a fucking, you want to talk about fucking savage. That's what I was. I was a fucking straight up people talk about savage very likely. I was fucking from the back woods motherfucking savage dude, you know, and I just, I was just, I was, I told you what I thought. I had eight chips on my shoulder. I, um, and a lot of times that wasn't great. So is it a situation where like with the seals where once you've gotten through buds and once you've gotten through all the physically grueling parts of getting to be accepted, once you're in, then you were imposing standards that they didn't want to, they didn't want to keep up with. I would say some people, you know, I had, uh, I had one platoon that had a problem with, you know, like I, like I, I, I graduated ranger school and I got in this platoon and I didn't see how to, I was in charge of a PT program and you put me in charge of the PT program is fucking your ass. And the thing about it is I didn't like it either. I didn't, I didn't want to do this shit either, man. But what were you making them do? Like, you know, like I, it was some Navy, it was some bud shit. You know, we went back to buzz, like, you know, log PTs and they're carrying logs over the berms and shit. And like, I had us do like pull ups rope climbs, pull up like for like an hour. So imagine doing a rope climb, then go over, do like 10 to 15 pull ups coming back. And we would do like these, they were very hard workouts. Like there was no, like go to the gym, lift some weights type of shit. And I was imposing my own mentality on everybody. These are grown ass fucking men. They know, you know, they don't want to be what I'm trying to make them to be. And when they called me off, like, Hey, you know, we're not in seal, you know, we're not in buds anymore. Goggins, it pissed me off. And I, and I got a little fucking attitude, got my chip and I got my ball and me and Sledge went ahead and started to work out together. And we developed this like me and Sledge work out like fucking grand animals. And we had this fucking mentality of fuck yeah, we're getting answered every day. And everybody's kind of did their own thing, man. And I just, that's when I started looking at people, you know, not just seals, but people very differently, man. Because I bid in to like, you know, like to be the special operator, you gotta be broken legs and these guys, all those stories. I was the same guy, man. I put people on a pedestal. I put people like I can never be them. I can never be that guy, man. Never put anybody on a pedestal. That's what happened to me. I put them on a pedestal. And once I got up there with them and I saw them, and once again, not everybody, some hard motherfuckers out there do period. Not hard motherfuckers. I thought every motherfucker was hard. Hey, hey, uncommon amongst uncommon men. That's all it was about for me, man. And I took it to another level and I pissed a lot of motherfuckers off. And they were trying to find chinks in my armor then. They were trying to find chinks in my armor. You know, all he does is run. All he does is fucking run. That's why, you know, but once again, that's why I'm talking about the military too much. Like I said, the Air Force loved me. The Army guys I worked with loved me. The Ranger School, all that stuff, loved me. You know, I wasn't, you know, this is what it is, man. I was part of the Navy Seals. I was a team guy, but I wasn't part of the brotherhood. And that's just me, man. That's just me. It ain't saying nothing bad about them. I got a lot of love for a lot of them. A lot of them. A lot of them ain't got love for me, but I can't talk bad about them. It's just, I'm different. That's the thing I figured out. I'm different from everybody in the fucking world. And I had to own that and say, you know what, man, you made a lot of fucking mistakes being who you are. And I should have been more of a leader at times, but a lot of times a lot of people should have been a little bit harder too. So was it that some of those guys just didn't want to work as hard or was it just that they weren't appreciating how competitive you were? You were always against them? Is that what it was? Did it just foster the sense of brotherhood? Because you were more like, come on, pussy. I didn't really call them pussies, but you can look at my face and how I looked at you. And you can kind of say this, you know. So what happens, I started developing this like, this separation. Another thing about me too, man, is I don't go out. I don't party. I don't hang out with the guys. I don't, you know, so I was always forming this kind of separation. I'm a big time introvert. You know, I do my job and I don't want to see your fucking ass again. I'm going to go home refreshed and we'll see you again. You know, you're in a platoon with these guys for two, two years, sometimes a year and a half. And I would, you know, we work up, do our shit. And I'm just, I'm just a different fucking cat. I'm a different cat, man. Like I, you know, I just, I think differently. I believe differently. I believe strongly in what I believe in. Well, some people must appreciate the fact you were self-motivated and that you were pushing the envelope, that you were pushing the pace. You were setting a high bar. Yeah. I have a lot of guys right now within the community. A lot of, a lot of guys. Once again, this is like, it's like a big soap opera sometimes, man. When you, you know, when, when you're in a fraternity like that, that's what it's like, man. So I had to, I did get a different vantage point, look at it and see like, you know, a lot of guys did respect who I was and what I did. And I brought it fucking hard a lot in every day, but I also rubbed people the wrong way. I'm like that it you're talking about. I'm like that it you want to scratch the fuck out of my ass. You want to be like, fuck this dude, man.