Speaker 1: So when I speak about David Goggins, I can't speak
Speaker 1: about David.
Speaker 2: Goggins in a way that's just calm and.
Speaker 1: Cool, because when I wake up, I know the journey
Speaker 1: that takes for me to find my greatness, and it's hard.
Speaker 2: Every nothing is easy.
Speaker 1: Nothing just like oh I wake up and I just
Speaker 1: do this or I do that, or it just you know.
Speaker 1: I watch people every day go through life, and it's
Speaker 1: so easy for me to be where I'm at today.
Speaker 2: It takes every bit of me. So when I.
Speaker 1: Speak about it, and as I get going here, you'll
Speaker 1: start seeing me. The temple will rise, the passion will
Speaker 1: come out because I'm back there. I'm doing what I
Speaker 1: do every day to become a human being. And so
Speaker 1: nothing is easy. Like running is running. It sucks, but
Speaker 1: you have a choice to make. Do you want to
Speaker 1: sit down and go back to that guy you once were?
Speaker 2: No? So this is what it takes.
Speaker 1: It takes that misunderstanding of people, and they'll never get
Speaker 1: it because they never David Goggins. So that is what
Speaker 1: it takes for me to do what I do. It
Speaker 1: may take you something differently. So for me, everything has
Speaker 1: to be in the study.
Speaker 2: And everything has to be into this. Everything has to
Speaker 2: be in everywhere I am. It has to be there
Speaker 2: me focus where I am.
Speaker 1: That's why you're my second podcast I've done since Rogue
Speaker 1: and since the book came out. I don't have time
Speaker 1: for that because if I want to be great, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to maximize money or maximize people knowing me.
Speaker 1: I do these things because maybe someone out there will
Speaker 1: understand me and get it and say I can grow
Speaker 1: from this guy, and others just won't. The biggest misunderstanding
Speaker 1: about David Guts of all time, it's like whether you
Speaker 1: believe in God or not I do. He put this
Speaker 1: lab at which is me on this planet and say,
Speaker 1: let me can see what a beat up, abused kid
Speaker 1: who has who can barely learn, barely learn, who has
Speaker 1: a twisted body, messed up, messed up genetics sickle sell
Speaker 1: this and that let me give him everything that pretty
Speaker 1: much disqualifies you from the military. But back then it
Speaker 1: wasn't Estrius, and let's put him in this and see
Speaker 1: what comes out of me. So to do that friction,
Speaker 1: you don't wake up in the morning time and go
Speaker 1: to coffee maker.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, sometimes you don't even sleep.
Speaker 1: What it requires is when I'm at it's two o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning and my brain is thinking about a
Speaker 1: fucking drug and I gotta get up and look in
Speaker 1: my book to see that drug is how I remember it.
Speaker 2: And this is every day of my fucking life. That's
Speaker 2: why i'men. I trained a fighter or I train so
Speaker 2: I'm like, you have no freking out how great you
Speaker 2: really are because you are using such minimal, minimal of
Speaker 2: what you have.
Speaker 1: And if people can learn to focus, this is what's possible.
Speaker 2: While it may not be pretty.
Speaker 1: Like people want to do a documentary on me, I go, no,
Speaker 1: I want to do a documentary on me because I
Speaker 1: will have normal everyday people picking me apart.
Speaker 2: All his life is miserable. Who wants to live like that?
Speaker 1: He looks it's crazy how he's almost like he's sick,
Speaker 1: he's psychotic. The most frustrating thing in the world for
Speaker 1: me is when normal people.
Speaker 2: Judge a man like myself on what.
Speaker 1: It really takes to extract greatness from nothing.
Speaker 2: It takes every bit of who you are.
Speaker 1: If you choose that route, if you don't merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. But yeah, all these things
Speaker 1: for me like I told you, I'm gonna keep it real.
Speaker 1: I'm not coming here to talk about like you know,
Speaker 1: perform without purpose because I go through when I write
Speaker 1: these books, I go through and try dumb down David Goddess,
Speaker 1: how can I give normal people? And I'm normal, but
Speaker 1: I found something that most don't want to find. How
Speaker 1: can I speak to people and give them something from
Speaker 1: this crazy psychotic brain that I've developed?
Speaker 2: How can I give them that? So I sit down
Speaker 2: with Jennifer for years and.
Speaker 1: Write down perform with out purpose, callous your mind, armor
Speaker 1: your mind, the cookie jar, the accountability marriage that people
Speaker 1: can use.
Speaker 2: In their lives.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm glad it helps you. But the barbaric
Speaker 1: life that I live, that you have to live, the
Speaker 1: almost obsession that you must have to be great.
Speaker 2: You can't put that in the book. Bro, You can't
Speaker 2: put in a book. Can't You can't write about it.
Speaker 2: It has to be experienced, and.
Speaker 1: You can't even after you experience it, to write it
Speaker 1: in the book.
Speaker 2: It would seem like he needs to be locked up.
Speaker 2: It's too golrya.
Speaker 1: That makes sense for a guy that everything every second
Speaker 1: the day he is trying to extract more from something
Speaker 1: he's constantly thinking. He's constantly constantly discipline, never going off
Speaker 1: the path.
Speaker 2: Whatever is injured on him, he figures away.
Speaker 1: It's a conqueror's mindset, and very few people, if any,
Speaker 1: can really understand what that is. Like, I'm almost fifty
Speaker 1: and I've been this way for almost thirty years. Like
Speaker 1: what you do for fun? You never these questions. I
Speaker 1: don't get them. I don't understand them. I don't So yeah,
Speaker 1: our culture has become hooked on the quick fix.
Speaker 2: The life hack efficiency.
Speaker 1: Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm
Speaker 1: that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort.
Speaker 1: There's no denying this attitude may get you some of
Speaker 1: the trappings of success if you're lucky, but it will
Speaker 1: not lead to a callous mind or self mastery. If
Speaker 1: you want to master them mind and remove your governor,
Speaker 1: you'll have to become addicted to hard work, because passion
Speaker 1: and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you
Speaker 1: have the work ethic to back them up. My work
Speaker 1: ethic is the single most important factor in all of
Speaker 1: my accomplishments. Everything else is secondary. And when it comes
Speaker 1: to hard work, whether in the gym or on the job.
Speaker 1: The forty percent rule applies to me. A forty hour
Speaker 1: work week is a forty percent effort. It may be satisfactory,
Speaker 1: but that's another word for mediocrity. Don't settle for a
Speaker 1: forty hour work week. There are one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: eight hours in a week. That means you have the
Speaker 1: hours to put in that extra time at work without
Speaker 1: skimping on your exercise. It means streamlining your nutrition, spending
Speaker 1: quality time with your wife and kids. It means scheduling
Speaker 1: your life like you're on a twenty four hour mission
Speaker 1: every single day.
Speaker 2: The number one excuse I hear from.
Speaker 1: People as to why they don't work out as much
Speaker 1: as they want to is that they don't have time. Look,
Speaker 1: we all have work obligations. None of us want to
Speaker 1: lose sleep, and you'll need time with the family or
Speaker 1: they'll trip the fuck out. I get it, and if
Speaker 1: that's your situation, you must win. The morning when I
Speaker 1: was full time with the Seals, I maximized the dark
Speaker 1: hours before dawn, when my wife was sleeping.
Speaker 2: I would bang out a six to ten mile run.
Speaker 2: My gear was all laid out the.
Speaker 1: Night before, my lunch was packed, and my work closed
Speaker 1: we're in my locker at work, where i'd shower before
Speaker 1: my day started at seven thirty am. On a typical day,
Speaker 1: i'd be out the door for my run just after
Speaker 1: four am and back by five fifteen am.
Speaker 2: Since that wasn't.
Speaker 1: Enough for me, and because we only owned one car,
Speaker 1: I rode my bike twenty five miles to work.
Speaker 2: I'd work from seven thirty.
Speaker 1: Am to noon and eat at my desk before or
Speaker 1: after my lunch break. During the lunch hour, i'd hit
Speaker 1: the gym or do a four to six mile beach run.
Speaker 1: Work the afternoon shift, and hop on my bike for
Speaker 1: the twenty five mile ride home. By the time I
Speaker 1: was home at seven pm, i'd have run about fifteen miles,
Speaker 1: rocked fifty miles on the bike, and put in a
Speaker 1: full day at the office. I was always home for
Speaker 1: dinner and in bed by ten pm, so I could
Speaker 1: do it all.
Speaker 2: Over again the next day.
Speaker 1: On Saturdays, i'd sleep in until seven am, hit a
Speaker 1: three hour workout, and spend the rest of the weekend
Speaker 1: with Kate. If I didn't have a race, Sundays were
Speaker 1: my active recovery days.
Speaker 2: I'd do an.
Speaker 1: Easy ride at a low heart rate, keeping my pulse
Speaker 1: below one hundred and ten beats per minute to stimulate
Speaker 1: healthy blood flow. Maybe you think I'm a special case
Speaker 1: or an obsessive maniac. Fine, I won't argue with you.
Speaker 1: But what about my friend Mike. He's a big time
Speaker 1: financial advisor in New York City. His job is high
Speaker 1: pressure and his work day is a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot longer than eight hours. He has a wife and
Speaker 1: two kids, and he's an ultra runner. Here's how he
Speaker 1: does it. He wakes up at four am every weekday,
Speaker 1: runs sixty to ninety minutes each morning while his family
Speaker 1: is still snoozing, rides a bike to work and back,
Speaker 1: and does a quick thirty minute treadmill run after he
Speaker 1: gets home. He goes out for longer runs on weekends,
Speaker 1: but he minimizes its impact on his family obligations. Evaluate
Speaker 1: your life and its totality. We all waste so much
Speaker 1: time doing meaningless bullshit. We burn hours on social media
Speaker 1: and watching television, which by the end of the year
Speaker 1: would add.
Speaker 2: Up to entire days and weeks.
Speaker 1: If you tabulated time like you do your taxes, you
Speaker 1: should because if you knew the truth, you deactivate your
Speaker 1: Facebook account, stat and cut your cable when you find
Speaker 1: yourself having frivolous conversations or becoming ensnared in activities that
Speaker 1: don't better you in any way, move the gone. For years,
Speaker 1: I've lived like a monk. I don't see or spend
Speaker 1: time with a lot of people. My circle is very tight.
Speaker 1: I post on social media once or twice a week,
Speaker 1: and I never check anybody else's feeds because I don't
Speaker 1: follow anyone.
Speaker 2: That's just me. I'm not saying you need to be that.
Speaker 1: Unforgiving, because you and I probably don't share the same goals.
Speaker 2: But I know you have goals too.
Speaker 1: And room for improvement, or you wouldn't be reading my book.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee that if you audited your schedule, you'd
Speaker 1: find time for more work un less bullshit. It's up
Speaker 1: to you to find ways to eviscerate your bullsh. How
Speaker 1: much time do you spend at the dinner table talking
Speaker 1: about nothing after the meal is done. How many calls
Speaker 1: and texts do you send for no reason at all?
Speaker 1: Look at your whole life and list your obligations and tasks.
Speaker 2: Put a time stamp on them.
Speaker 1: How many hours are required to shop, eat and clean?
Speaker 2: How much sleep do you need? What's your commute like?
Speaker 2: Can you make it there under your own power?
Speaker 1: Block everything into windows of time, and once your day
Speaker 1: is scheduled out, you'll know how much flexibility you have
Speaker 1: to exercise on a given day and how to maximize it.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you aren't looking to get fit, but have been
Speaker 1: dreaming of starting a business of your own, or have
Speaker 1: always wanted to learn a language or an instrument you're
Speaker 1: obsessed with. Find the same rule applies. Analyze your schedule,
Speaker 1: kill your empty habits, burn out the bullshit, and see
Speaker 1: what's left?
Speaker 2: Is it one hour per day? Three? Now maximize that ship.
Speaker 1: It means listing your prioritized tasks every hour.
Speaker 2: Of the day. You can even narrow it down to
Speaker 2: fifteen minute windows.
Speaker 1: And don't forget to include backstops in your day to
Speaker 1: day schedule. Remember how I forgot to include backstops in
Speaker 1: my race Planet Ultraman. You need backstops in your day
Speaker 1: to day schedule.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 1: If one task bleeds into overtime, make sure you know
Speaker 1: it and begin to transition into your next prioritized task
Speaker 1: straight away. Use your smartphone for productivity hacks, not clickbait.
Speaker 2: Turn on your calendar alerts. Have those alarms set. If
Speaker 2: you audit your life, skip the bullshit and.
Speaker 1: Use backstops, you'll find time to do everything you need
Speaker 1: and want to do. But remember that you also need rest,
Speaker 1: so schedule that in. Listen to your body, sneak in
Speaker 1: those ten to twenty minute power naps when necessary, and
Speaker 1: take one full rest day per week. If it's a
Speaker 1: rest day, truly allow your mind and body to relax,
Speaker 1: turn your phone off, keep the computer shut down. A
Speaker 1: rest day means you should be relaxed, hanging with friends
Speaker 1: or family, and eating and drinking well so you can
Speaker 1: recharge and get back at it. It's not a day
Speaker 1: to lose yourself in technology or stay hunched at your
Speaker 1: desk in the form of a damn question mark