Speaker 1: The quality of your identity is what happens when you
hit it. That's why I open with the Rocky quote,
right like, it's not how hard you hit, it's how
hard you can get hit. How hard can your identity
get hit? Everybody has one, everybody has an idea of themselves.
Then you go through something that tests you to your
absolute core, and you know if that identity is strong
or not.
Speaker 2: That's impossible. Let me tell you what I believe. What's
your weakness is not your technique. Don't think you know.
Speaker 3: You the Impossible Life Podcast and you're sitting on a
winning lot of.
Speaker 1: Second an idea that is fully formed, fully understood.
Speaker 2: That sticks.
Speaker 1: This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell
you it's too hard, it's just waiting to be simplified.
Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk. The real truth is this The
solution to any impossible task starts with this question, if
I had to, what would it take?
Speaker 2: Would it take?
Speaker 3: Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host next surface, and I'm looking across as
a man whose grip is so strong he's never used
a pair of pliers in his life.
Speaker 2: That's right, friends, Garret nunckleback, A man whose handshake is
more of an examination of your masculinity, an ingredient.
Speaker 1: Wrench hands is a mindset. You got to have rent chands.
I said that to the one time she was trying
to like open something. I'm like, you gotta have wrinch hands,
just like use your hand like She's like.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? What does that may mean? Gives
the people go in and fold it in? What does
that mean?
Speaker 1: You explain this to me? What does that mean? You
just gotta just your hands just need to be stronger.
Speaker 2: I love that you.
Speaker 3: I made that thing up and I thought it was
pretty funny. I didn't realize wrench hands was actually a flash.
Speaker 2: This was the thing, all right?
Speaker 1: Why why are you why can't you you know, make
your hands operate? Like I said of pliers because you're
weak mentally.
Speaker 2: Actually that's true.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, Uh well, I did not see that coming.
I was like, when I get a surprise, And as
I as I've gone back through our older episodes, I
realized that that's pretty much every time.
Speaker 2: I never know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 3: And my daughter was asking about that, and I was like,
the first time that you ever that Uncle Garrett ever
hears my intros is live on the podcast, because she
was laughing at us while we were listening to us.
Speaker 1: Anyways, really, Nick is like my wife and that one
of his greatest victories is just if they can.
Speaker 2: Make me laugh.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, I'm victorious all the time. I live in victory.
Praise the Lord. Okay, So dude, I'm very excited about
this episode, as I all, because this is I'm just
gonna be straight with people. Because of some things that
are going on our schedule, we did an old back
to back, which we don't often do, so we recorded
the episode which would be three twelve, about the journey
that we went on, and it instantly inspired this next
episode that we're about to do for you about inside
out Living, which I'm so excited to share with you, guys,
because we talk so much about how when you go
on a journey, you think it's about one thing, But
what God's actually doing is He's developing your who and
giving you and developing your identity. And what this kind
of boils down to is.
Speaker 1: People are people are going through stuff? You're going through life?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, And as our man Rocky would say, it's not
about how hard you hit, but about how hard.
Speaker 2: You can get hit. Boom? Is is life lifing you
or are you lifing life? Right?
Speaker 1: Are you going like as you go through stuff, is
it changing you or are you the one that's affecting
your environment?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because most of the time people are going through stuff
and it's like a man, it's really hard. It's beat
me up. I don't know if I can do this right?
Or are you overcome in what you're going through? And
that is not a reflection of what you're going through,
it's a reflection of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I cause I think about identity all the time,
man Like, It's something that's probably the thing I think
about the most. And you said something yesterday that we're
going to get into and I realized that the summary
of having a strong identity is that what's in you
is pushing out on what's outside of you, like when
you live from the inside out, that it's always coming
from the inside right than the outside. That's when you
know that you've got a strong identity. And with that
being said, gee, I can't wait to get into this now.
One of the things that I have quoted to you
a few times and that we've shared many moods, Nick
Nick really enjoys quoting me to me, I do this
is not you to you, This is your best friend
Josh Kraft to you. But I remember I was talking
to Josh about like, Josh has so many great stories
about you just basically being very unique, shall we say,
and quirky at a young age. And I remember I
was like, man, did you guys even think that he
would be a Navy seal? Because I've talked to people
who knew you when you were like a teager, and like,
I would have never picked that guy to.
Speaker 2: Be a Navy seal.
Speaker 3: Now, maybe they didn't know you that well, but you know,
obviously they did.
Speaker 2: Boom, they did not.
Speaker 3: But what Josh said is he was like, man, Garrett
was always trying to do things, and we were telling
me is crazy. He was telling me the story about
you bust in your lip because you tried to pull
the Superman off of a homemade ramp and everybody was like,
there's no way you can get enough air to do
a Superman.
Speaker 2: You're like, you guys don't know now they were.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, there's a bunch of people who've never done
a Superman on bike trying to tell me you can't
do that. And you like, if somebody who's like, you know,
a ramp expert, a bm a great BMX rider, is like,
that's probably not the best ramp to do Superman on,
I would have reconsidered.
Speaker 3: It, right, But this is like you were like ten
or eleven, So like, think about the level of thinking
that's going on in your head at that time. And
so I Josh, he was telling me the story and
he was laughing, was like, and then Garrett did this,
and the next thing you know, we had to stop
play because Grett had to go to the er because
you didn't quite land. You did the Superman, but you
didn't get the full landing, and so you smash your
face up.
Speaker 2: Now, But what Josh said, he's like, when.
Speaker 1: I when I when a superman is where one hand
on the handle bar is one hand on the bike seat.
You extend this the bike out in front of you
and then pull it back in. I did like a
half superman, and basically I got my hand down on
the handlebar, started to put out and then did not
have enough air trying to pull the bike back in.
Sat on my hand and so I landed from I
didn't land well and landed with one hand on the
handlebars right, so my face at the handlebars.
Speaker 3: There you go, and off you went to the er,
which was not an uncommon experience for your Your parents
took my son there yesterday for the first time.
Speaker 2: So fun times.
Speaker 3: Anyways, So the quote that Pastejosh said about you, he said,
Garrett knew who he was before anyone else did. And
I remember when he said that, I was like, I
just grabbed onto it because like he didn't say that
in your presence. I told you said, because I was like,
what a great way to sum up what I was
so drawn to you at first in identity And that's
great to say, like, oh, you knew who you were
before anyone else did.
Speaker 2: But guess what that's going to do.
Speaker 3: That's going to have some proof that's going to follow it,
and so like quick summary of Garrett's life, you can
get the full summery. I think it's on episode ninety four.
I'll double check that it's either ninety four or ninety
six where you go into your story. And for those
that aren't going to go back, I'll just give you
a very quick.
Speaker 2: Quick thing. Because Garrett knew who he was.
Speaker 3: There's been so many times where people have been like,
you can't do that, and Garrett's been like, watch me.
And this was Garrett being skinny in eighth grade to
becoming very muscular and people being like, oh, you're not this,
You're not that, You're not an athlete. Became a very muscular,
well built guy. Then you're too young to be here
in youth right, like, oh, you shouldn't be here, and
he becomes a key part of the youth group. This
may not seem like big wins, but these were things
to him. Suddenly you show up to buds, you shouldn't
be here. You've got no chance, Uncle Black, what are you?
What's gonna happen in hell week? We don't even think
you're gonna make it? Oh yeah, not only am I
gonna make it, but I'm gonna go for a run
on the beach at the end of buds and he
did it. Oh hey, gee, you can't build a factory
in a year.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: You can't change you can't revolutionize manufacturing. And I'm sat
here wearing a Union shirt and you're smiling because this
is Garrett is in process of doing probably the biggest
you can't do that in his life based on who
he knows God made him to be. And so this
theme has come up over and over and over again.
And by the way, I'm looking forward to sharing the
story of Union at something. It's still being written over
and over again because Michael, I'm just gonna repeat it.
He knew who he was before anyone else did. Now,
the great thing is God's desire for us to know
who we are and to have a strong sense of identity.
And remember from the episode two weeks ago, or i
should say two episodes ago last week, what you said
you don't know who you are because you don't.
Speaker 2: Know who your father is.
Speaker 3: Like that, that sense of God with you, that is
God's desire for all of us. And so like I said,
I think you inside out living is to me the
journey of when you is like is actually knowing who
you are so inside out living like you kind of
already touched on, But what what is like?
Speaker 2: What is it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because this is really what it takes that you know.
This is a different way of talking about identity. Yeah,
and we're talking about identity, but I'm going to talk
about it in a different form I would I would say,
hopefully simpler, simpler. One of the things I've learned just
in speaking is like when I first started speaking many
years ago, I'd be like, well said that already, can't
say that anymore, right, And that's that's an amateur's understanding
of speaking, right. Professional understands is you're saying some of
the same things over and over and over again. I
learned to measure my speaking by talking to people afterwards,
not looking for when people are like when you give
me compliments, I'm tuned out. What I'm I don't.
Speaker 2: Care I tell what I want to hear.
Speaker 1: Is what I'm judging myself on is how I know
what my message was? What did you receive from my message?
Speaker 2: Efficacy? Right?
Speaker 1: It's I can yell into the radio, right, But if
my transmission did not get across to you, and what
you say back to me isn't what I said. Then
I know my transmission was poor. This is what I'm
always judging. And so one of the things that I've
learned in speaking, Sometimes you'll say the same thing, say
it over again, right if you if you like picked
apart how I speak, you'll hear me do this. I'll
say something, I'll say it the same way. I'll say
the same thing in a different way, and then I'll
say the same thing again in a different way because
I'm coming at you and again. This is like, this
goes back to like principles of communication. I'm gonna keep
sending the transmission. I'm a stand over here, I'm a
stand over here. I'm a send it from this single.
I'm gonna send it from this angle. What do I
got to do to get this transmission into you? And
so really this is a different transmission of identity because
the quality of your identity is what happens when you
hit it. That's why I open with the Rocky quote like,
it's not how hard you hit, it's how hard you
can get hit. How hard can your identity get hit?
Everybody has one, everybody has an idea of themselves. Then
you go through something that tests you to your absolute
core and you know if that identity is strong or not. Okay,
So this is what when we say inside out living,
here's really the test of your identity is what's inside
of you stronger than what's outside of you. That's the test,
right because if you know it may be like look
tough on the surface, but then you put it under
a bunch of pressure and that thing cracks. You didn't
really have an identity. You had an idea of one.
You had a version of one, a beginning of one.
And really this hits at there's always natural, supernatural correlation,
and this is osmosis. Ok if you remember from science class,
like nobody really liked chemistry, but if you remember in biology,
but if you remember from science class, what osmosis is.
Osmosis is your cells and media are always seeking homeostasis
where everything's the same. Okay, So like if you have
a cell, let's just like this is this is kindergarten science.
But like you have a cell that has more salt
in it than the other cells around it, Well, salt
is going to go out from this the really salty
cell and to the other ones that are less salty.
So if there's more on the inside of this cell,
things are going out of it.
Speaker 2: Okay. If there's if you.
Speaker 1: Have a cell that doesn't have a lot of salt
in it and they all the all the other cells
around it have a lot of salt in it, well
the salt is going to come from the outside to inside, right, okay.
And so like you are always in a form of
osmosis and your environment, and it's a test of is
what's in you stronger than.
Speaker 2: What's outside of you? Right? If there's more.
Speaker 1: Outside than inside, it's it's changing you. If you're stronger
than what's around you, you're changing. It's very and that's that.
That is how your identity works in every environment, right,
And this is like it's a test of your character.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You can think you have character, and you go hang
out with people who have who have low character, Well
we'll see how how strong your character really is. Do
they change you or do you change them? Very good,
and so your identity has the like who you are
has the ability to affect the environments that you go
into if it's strong enough. So that's like really that's
what inside out living is and understand this is biblical, right.
Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world. My
kingdom is within you. Wherever you go, are you is
the Kingdom coming out of you into all these other places?
Or is the every environment that you go to it's
influencing you, it's it's softening, it's weakening. The kingdom that's
inside of you, says, my kingdom is not of this world.
He said, you are the salt of the earth.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Wherever you go, are you salt in that place? Or
are you getting influenced? He says, You're the light of
the world.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: This is like the journey and the life that we've
put on that that we've been put in. The question
is are you the message or are you the audience?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right, wherever you go, are you the message or
are you the audience? Right?
Speaker 1: And so what's inside of you is stronger than what's
outside of you. You have the ability to influence the world.
Speaker 2: Wherever you go.
Speaker 3: Man, I love that so much. Gee, And you know
you said this quote last time. Until you know who
you are, you can't go on the journey God has
for you. And I love that because something that i'd
be I've seen in scriptures that identity precedes purpose. That's
how I said it, and what we everybody wants purpose, right,
So the number one thing we get asked about, what's
my purpose? What we don't want is the formation of
our identity because that takes a lot longer and it's
very it's something that we don't know. It's something that like,
you can't just go here's your three stent.
Speaker 2: I know who you are, you know what you're there
to do.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people they want the purpose before
the identity, correct, right, Oh, oh, if if you tell
me I'm supposed to be a golfer, professional golfer, now
I know. Oh, that's my journey. Now I know who
I am, right exactly.
Speaker 2: When you know who you are, then you can go
on the journey. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And we see this in Jesus and you might be like, wait,
what do you mean. I think it's a fascinating thing
to understand that when Jesus was born from the womb,
he wasn't like, I am the son of God. Here's
exactly what I'm supposed to do. Like, he had a
process to go through, and you see this talks about
like learned, he learned what obedience through suffering. Wait a minute,
this is Jesus, This is literally God.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had to learn obedience through the things he suffered.
He was a man.
Speaker 3: It talks about he through a loud prayer and supplication.
He was a man of many sorrows. Wait what, this
is the son of God who were following. Yes, so
imagine this. You're Jesus and your mom's had you, and
you've got your brothers, and you're starting to get to the.
Speaker 2: Age of understanding. And you know, when.
Speaker 3: Jesus is twelve, which we get a picture of him
and John the Book of John, we know that that, like,
by that point, he's noticeably different. He's got a little
bit of like I have to be in my father's house. Okay,
So he knows who he is, like he understands, and
we kind of think, well, he was just always that way.
Speaker 2: Well think about this. You know you've told your kids.
Speaker 3: Your little daughter came in here before we record this
episode and was just being so cute as a five
year old is, and like, reasoning with a five year
old is amazing, as I got to observe with you two.
So imagine Jesus is like Mommy, like you know, what
was What was I like as a baby?
Speaker 2: Common question?
Speaker 3: And imagine the story that Jesus' mom tells him, Oh, hey,
your birth was a little different, and like as he
hears this story, and then he goes as a young
man and he's starting to be around the scripture as
he goes to the temple and he hears Isaiah seven fourteen.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. The
virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and
will call him Emmanuel, Emmanuel, which means God with us.
And he's sitting there and going like, huh, a virgin
will conceive and give birth to a son. What did
my mom say was different about my birth? Because it
always talks about how Mary treasured these things in her heart.
And look, you can say like, oh, that's a bit
of a reach, nick, and like, okay, it doesn't say
a scripture that Mary sat down and told Jesus the story.
But you're with your parents, you ask questions. He was
a kid like and when Jesus was so adamant about
that scripture would be fulfilled. There's so many times he
says that to the men. Why because once he realized
he was the Messiah. Do you not think he had
more of an intense understanding and more of an intense
study of the scripture because he knew what he.
Speaker 2: Had to do, because he knew who he was.
Speaker 3: And that's why I always use that story of jess
becoming because I think sometimes we just gloss over and
just assume that Jesus just came out of the womb,
you know, carrying the whatever you think he would be
carrying as the Messiah, and it was like, no, he
had a process to go through the same as well
in his hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I say that, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: So I say that for to kind of hopefully be
an encouragement to people that you really are going to
have the formation of my identity. And that's what we're
giving you today. You gave this analogy yesterday and of
like this is when that inside out summary kind of
clicked for me. You talked about like an apple tree,
and this was the picture of like inside, no matter
who you are, being stronger than the outside.
Speaker 2: Can you share that third body I was just talking about.
You know, what we were talking about yesterday was being.
Speaker 1: Fruitful, right, But that fruit is a reflection of who
you are. That's what Jesus said. He says, you'll know
them by your fruit. Yeah, what do you call an
apple tree? It's an apple tree, but it's what its
fruit is. Okay, does that apple tree ever? Does that
apple tree question who it is?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: That apple tree knows what it's DNA is. And so
you could stand outside of an apple tree like you could,
you know, have some stupid parade outside outside of an
apple tree, holding up signs, yelling at it. You'll never
be any good. You're an orange tree. Apples are wrong,
you know, apples are racist. Whatever you want to say
to this tree to try and convince it that it's
not what it is.
Speaker 2: And if as long as that apple tree keeps taking
in nutrients.
Speaker 1: It's DNA is not going to change. It's going to
keep producing apples. Right, you can't make that apple tree
question who it is. It knows who it is. Right,
that's what it's called, that's what its name is, it's
what it's DNA is. It's just going to continue to produce,
and that the fruit is a reflection of who it is. Right,
it's not going to change. You can't yell at it
or lie to it to make it be something that
it's not right.
Speaker 3: And you may sit there and go like, oh, well,
an apple tree, you know, it just is what it is,
our favorite saying on this podcast, and it's like, well, well, okay, yeah,
an apple tree doesn't have a brain for sure, but
that's a picture of what actual when you, when you
are something, it doesn't matter what everybody else is saying you.
Speaker 2: That's why this whole like genders.
Speaker 3: Confusion thing is so stupid, because you can say whatever
you want at the end of the day, your mailer thing,
because God's made you that way.
Speaker 2: You can't change it. I said that yesterday. It mighty man.
Speaker 1: I said that apple tree is not going to read
a book and decide to chop its genitals often become
something else. It can't do that, right, right, That apple
tree knows what it is when you had, when you
know who you are, then you produce fruit, right. And
that's what I said yesterday. Identity produces fruit. Fruit does
not produce an identity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I love that so much.
Speaker 3: So I hope you guys are capturing what inside out
what this concept is. And I guess the obvious question
to you what I'm hoping that we can answer now
for people is how do you know if what's inside
you is stronger than what's outside of you? Because you
gave a great example you talked about if you think
you're you're a person of great character and you hang
out with a bunch of people of low character.
Speaker 2: Whose influence you knew.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a good specific scenario, and like everyone can
relate to that, But like, what what are the things
that are always true? Because you know you may not
always be around people.
Speaker 1: Look, h chactor, Well I've got to I'm gonna that
is the test. Right, Are you influencing your environment or
is the environment influencing you? You may not know that
like instantly in a snapshot, but if you want, like
you put cells on a peach radition, look at them.
You'll see where the osmosis is happening. You'll see where
the change is occurring. Right, So this isn't so much
a like that specific example.
Speaker 2: That you gave.
Speaker 1: You watch it happen, like you go hang out with
littw character people. The test is not revealed, like the
answer to the test is not revealed instantly, but it
is revealed over time. Okay, and so time is going
to reveal this to you what I do want to
talk about is I've just got a few examples for
you of where like the battle is happening, that is
what's inside of you stronger than what's outside of you.
So I'll talk about the thing that's inside, I'll talk
about the thing that's outside, and what you have to
listen to before.
Speaker 2: We jump into that.
Speaker 1: There's a as we were kicking off on this, I
shared with Nick. You know when Nick says you knew
who you were before anyone else was. There's something that
I've had the privilege of being with around Pastor Keith
since I was a little boy.
Speaker 2: By the privilege has been around.
Speaker 1: Pastor Keith since I was little boys has been my
dad's best friend for forty years. And what's cool has
been to watch him progress over time and like some
of the things he says now are like more refined,
but he was saying it twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: He just like he's just like trimmed it up a
little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he used to always like one of the
things he says now is there's four voices. There's God's voice,
your voice, their voice, and the devil's voice. Right, But
he used to talk about, you know, He didn't always
say it that way. That's sharp now, right, But he
used to always just talk about how important your own voices, right,
Like what voices are you listening to? Those are things
he said when I was little, and maybe I maybe
just because I was eleven at the time, I didn't hear. Yeah,
that's just what I received, That's what I caught from it.
Speaker 2: But that is what I caught.
Speaker 1: What I caught was how important your own voices and
your voice has to be stronger than the voices around you.
Otherwise that that's the that's the wrong osmosis. Right, they're
changing you. Yeah, right, where that strength comes from. And
then we're gonna get it. And then I'm gonna jump
into like here's the inside, here's the outside. These are
the battles you have to win to be that thing
that is resilient in whatever circumstance you're in. I just
want to say this before we get into those things.
Is it is a reflect like it's inside out living,
which is the life that we're called to in following Christ.
It is a spiritual life. Right, transformation is living from
the inside out, not from the outside end. Right, this
is it's Romans twelve one and two, Like, you've got
to put your flesh on the altar so your thinking
can be changed so that you can be transformed and
know His purpose, so that you can live your purpose,
so that you can become what you're called to be.
It all starts from an inside out process and that
is meant to happen through a life in Christ. Now,
let me just display the principles here for you, right
like you can David Goggins your way through this. And
I always use Goggins as an example, not because I'm
beating him up. I have some of the greatest respect
for him because he's an incredibly tough individual. I got
to be around some really tough individuals and the Seal teams,
and it taught me things. It showed me what like
some of the extremes are, and you learn in extreme environments,
right And David Goggins is an extreme for sure. Dude
is his own thing, right Like, he's gone beyond the
Seal brand. He's the Goggins brand. What Goggins has inside
of him is some things that are a lot stronger
than the environments that are around him. For the most part,
just not infinitely strong. There's only one thing that is
inside you that can be infinitely stronger than what's outside
of you. And that's when Christ is inside of you. Right,
when when you have let Christ into your life, when
you've been transformed spiritually from the inside out, there is
nothing on the outside that can break you. What David
Goggins has is that pretty much anything on the outside
can't break him, but there are things that can, which
is a dangerous place to be when you've been convinced that, like, well,
I'm tougher than my environment. Garrett doesn't think he's tougher
than an environment. What Garrett knows is that Christ, who's
in him, is greater than anything that he could face.
Speaker 2: That's on the outside.
Speaker 1: Which leads us right into the first point here, right,
first point here, because again this is about inside out living.
How is the voice inside of you stronger than what's
outside of you? Well, this is where this is the
first battle. Here is a battle of truth versus pressure. Okay,
like you you test like pressure is what tests truth?
Speaker 2: Right? Truth? Like true is always true.
Speaker 1: That's the test of it, right, And that's what when
Nick and I talk about principles, When Nick and I
are like discovering things, what Nick sees me do is
I take things to the extreme because in the if
it's not true, in the extremes.
Speaker 2: It's not true.
Speaker 1: It's just a method, right, And a lot of people
bank on methods. Methods are nice, but when you put
them through the fire, they fall apart, right, right, And
so what you've got to know is learn how to
figure out what is true in life. And if it's true,
it's always true. And sometimes you can you can convince
yourself something's not true, Like you can think if I
jump on a trampoline, gravity is not real. Well for
for you know, half of a second, it feels like
it's not. It's like I'm going against it. Look for
a millisecond, I'm floating in the air. Well, eventually time
reveals truth, right, And so when you learn how to
look further down the road, when you learn how to
play the tape, like we've talked about, when you understand
what's always true, even when right like you know it
feels like gravity is being overcome and maybe gravity you
know in the context that gravity is on your side, right,
but it's like, man, like I'm believing gravity, but it's
not working right now. Well, when you know how gravity works.
You can be patient. You say, you know what this
thing may be going up for right now, but it's
going to come back down. These things may be working
against me, but I know what's true.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: If your life is on the line and you're watching
this thing float up in the air, you're like, what right.
But when you know what's true, no amount of pressure,
no amount of pressure that you're going through, is going
to shake you. Because you know what's true, you know
what will happen in the end. This is the understanding
that God's always victorious.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: When I know that that's true, I'm willing to continue.
I'm willing to stay underneath the pressure. Knowing what's true
is how you face giants, right, David said, like, because
God was with me when I fought lines embarrassed, so
I will.
Speaker 2: Face you too.
Speaker 1: David didn't say, like didn't size up Gliath and like,
you know, I think I've got enough in me to
kill this guy. He's stood on what's true. He didn't
stand on himself. And so this is one of the
tests of is what's inside of you stronger than what's
outside of you? Is what is the truth that you
live by? Truth is always true. And so if you
bank on some information or some experience or some knowledge, well,
as soon as what's outside of you gets tougher than
that thing, you'll crack on the inside. And so we
convince ourselves sometimes that we're tough because we go through stuff.
For like, man, I passed the test. No, you just
banked on something that might have been tougher than what
that external thing was. But you've got to bank on
the things that never break. And truth never breaks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's why I always you know, if you
listen to us, and I hope that you listen to
more than one podcast, you will hear so much reference
to principles. That's why you always go to principles because
you know that principles are how God created an orderly world.
Speaker 1: And Galatian sixty seven, God will not be mocked. Yeah,
A man reaps what he sews.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of your favorites. And it's so what
we're saying is it's my daily encouragement. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, I faced off position every day and you know
what I'm you know what I'm standing on.
Speaker 2: I'm not standing on.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm gonna show you one day, Right, I look
at my enemies, And I say, I look at in
the eye.
Speaker 2: I say, God will not be mocked. Right, I know whose.
Speaker 1: Team I'm on. I know what I'm standing on. Right,
gravity may look like it's going against me. God will
not be mocked. I didn't say Garrett will not be mocked,
right said God will not be mocked.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the word of God is truth, man, That's
what we're saying.
Speaker 1: And so that's I mean that this first lesson is
seek truth, stand on what's true, sometimes sometimes living right,
sometimes telling the truth, sometimes having character sometimes like sometimes
these things look like you are throwing yourself into a ditch. Yeah,
And this is just those moments where you're bouncing on
the trampoline or your enemies bouncing on the trampoline.
Speaker 2: They look like they're flying for a moment, Yeah, for
a moment.
Speaker 3: Let me let me do what I do real quick
to you before we move on to number two, because
I think you said some things and I I you
gave the analogy of bouncing on a tramplin, which is
a very simple one.
Speaker 2: And you but you.
Speaker 3: Talked about what your one of your filters for truth
is would it be true in every context?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Like you talk about you take it to the extreme. Now,
if you're seeking truth, you may like grasp that and go, okay,
I need to have truth. We are in a world,
especially if you spend any time on social media really
just any where where people find it's basically a widget world.
They find something, they find that hacks I know how
to get like that, and it seems to violate principle.
Speaker 2: You know what happens to hacks.
Speaker 3: They disappear, they get patched. Yeah, that's exactly right. They
for a time, and then.
Speaker 1: You've got to look at all these you know, dudes
selling you their success program on the internet and understand
their success platform is going to last for about six
months before it gets patched.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: Because I mean I think, I just think in our lifetime,
I think about some of the people who are like,
I'm going to become an Amazon seller and that's going
to change my life, and for some people it did.
Speaker 1: And then don't don't be shot like Amazon's superpower, right, Okay,
Amazon is superpower today. Do not be surprised if in
our lifetime we see Amazon disappear, right, which sounds insane.
Sounds insane to people.
Speaker 3: Go back to the eighties and say that to people
about J. C. Penny and Sears and they would have said,
you're crazy. Well, the world changed, and that's what you're saying.
It's like, so you may be like, well, that means
I can't trust anything. No, the more you begin to
know the word of God and you know what's actually
principally true, the less you get caught up in things
that have a temporary impact, you start to be good.
I think that's really what it is. You begin to
separate eternal from temporal and you start to identify temporal
things a lot more because so much of what's growth
hacks of whatever. It may be thirty days to get
you insert whatever you want, or this guy on the
internet says he knows exactly how to get me what
I think I want, which is money for my business.
Speaker 2: And then you sit there and you go, oh, well,
you know, you get all upset.
Speaker 3: Or it works for a time and then you hope
that it works forever, but like, what works now won't
work in five.
Speaker 2: Years if it's not based on principles. And that's what we're.
Speaker 3: Saying, Like, sometimes you can be seemingly beating the odds,
is what people would say like, oh yeah, I beat
the odds, okay, But like the great thing about odds
and statistics is what you know is the more you
have the more the more numbers, and the more times
you have and repetition of it, the more that the
statistics statistics become accurate. And so what we're saying is
temporal and eternal, right, and I want to put some
meat on that for people to actually be able to
apply it. That's what you're saying. Truth over pressure is.
It's like, what's true is always true, So seek truth.
Ak begin to identify what's eternal principally true based on
the word of God as opposed to what's temporal. Worldly
wisdom seems to have an element of efficacy but won't last.
Speaker 2: Is that fair? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So this first one is just about truth over pressure,
and the lesson is seek truth. Continue to seek truth.
And the more that you can find truth, the more
you can stand on it, the more the voices inside
you is going to be stronger than what's outside of you.
The second one, right, and that's what all these are.
This is, Okay, how do I make the voice in
me stronger than the voice that's outside of me? The
second one is about endurance versus results. Okay, what endurance?
What is endurance? Well, it's one of the keys to
winning at life, right, says James Chapter one. Right, maturity
comes from endurance and perseverance. And that maturity is you
lacking nothing in life. I think that's a place that
that is the title. Everyone who's listening to this show
would like to have lacks nothing. Yeah, right, it's a
great place to be. Well, it doesn't come. You would
think the more results I get, the less I'll lack. Yeah,
that's what you would think. But it says that endurance
is the key to lacking nothing. Not gaining more. Is
not how you like nothing. Who you become is how
you like nothing right, become someone right. And this is
one of the things that I've talked about that Nick
loves the What like my approach to challenges to life
isn't how do I know the answer to every problem?
Is become someone who can answer any problem. This is
endurance versus results. I'm not seeking how do I win?
How do I get the victory? Become someone that can
run any race?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: When you continue to practice and develop endurance, well, whatever
you go through And this was one of the things
that I like. I put this on Seal training when
I was going through it, I said that everything that
I want in my life is on the other side
of this. It wasn't what I meant by that. Wasn't
that being an Avy Seal means everything to me?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: It meant a lot to me. But I also knew
that running this race was practiced for my next race.
I had to get the endurance and the perseverance here
so that I could have it in the next place.
Because what I'm teaching myself here isn't to chase after
these goals that like I'll do something, you know, being
a having a Navy Seal trydent that is a shiny object.
I was not chasing the shiny object. I was chasing
the growth into the development.
Speaker 2: Instead.
Speaker 1: If I can make it through this process, what other
process is going to be able to challenge me? I know,
if I can do this, I can do anything else. Yeah,
And this is pursuing endurance instead of pursuing objectives. When
you continually practice the processes in your life, then you're
preparing yourself to overcome anything. Right, practice, seek endurance, seek
to grow, enjoy these challenges. That's how the voice inside
like what will get you off track is chasing after
the results, because when you pursue that and you don't
get them, you don't know who you are. When you
pursue perseverance, when you pursue growth, when you pursue strengthening yourself,
everything you're going through, the harder it hits you, the
more you enjoy it, the more you know you're supposed
to be there. That's how the voice inside of you
gets stronger than the voice it's outside of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so good. Gee.
Speaker 3: I think we get fixated on results, a really practical
one And this was actually something that I was thinking
through for myself recently. Is I decided that I got
to get down the old lean up again because I've
been in bulk mode. So I've decided to switch again.
Speaker 2: Which is good. I'm about to get on that myself.
There you go.
Speaker 3: Now, what do I want is I want to get
down to my body fat percentage as fast as possible.
Right when I'm fixating on results. And I was sitting
there and I was kind of like going through looking
at my most recent scan and I was like, you know,
I'm sitting there talking to myself, I was like, you
know what I need to get really good at? I
had Kobe in my head, love the process, and because
I was actually listening to one of our podcasts while
I was doing the Basic Discipline training, which I can't
say enough how good that thing is.
Speaker 2: I know it's self indulgent.
Speaker 3: It sounds self indulgent because we wrote it, but I'm
going through it as you know, a listener, and I'm
just like, I'm getting takeaways even though I helped write
the program with you know what I mean, it's so good.
So anyways, as I'm going through, I'm like, you know
what I need.
Speaker 2: To get really good at? Gee. I don't need to
get really good at being like.
Speaker 3: Man, I can't wait to think about how my abs
are going to look or what lean or I need
to get really good at enjoying eating the way I
need to eat today. I know exactly how many macers
I need to get, how many calories I need to get,
what I need to do today, And I need to
get really good at just in going winning the day
and not even think about where I'm going, because when
you get fixated on results, you then start to go like,
how do I get there as fast as possible.
Speaker 2: Aka, how do I take the shortcuts?
Speaker 3: And you're not. That's not an endurance thought process. That is, man,
Once I get my tried it, that's the finish line. Man,
that's you're in trouble. Yeah, you're in trouble. But we
all fall into that because we know what we want
so bad. But when you start to actually want the
process and you want to learn and you want to
like not because like the thought process, like, well, how
can I just get through this? No?
Speaker 2: How can I learn to love what I'm doing? Well?
Do this sucks?
Speaker 3: It sucks being hungry? Yeah it can, or you can
start to get really good at it.
Speaker 2: Does becoming a winner suck? No, it's wonderful. Next point? Yes, right,
So this last one was Endurance Results number three. Here
it's a doozy.
Speaker 1: It's about evidence over affirmation. Okay, but a lot of
people will seek and we talked about this in the
last episode where like, this is one of the things
I'm I'm, I'm it's not people think. You know, I
just enjoy poking people and enjoy being a harsh people.
Now I just care and I know what works, and
I know how to build people and so I'm not
going to give you the sugar that you want. The
sugar is making you weak. Affirmation is sugar, right, it's
you like, oh oh, now that they see who I am,
that must be who I am. That affirmation makes you
weak the more you seek external validation. Well, think about that.
The whole point of this is, like, what makes you great,
what makes you strong, is that the voice inside of
you is stronger than the voice outside of you. What
is affirmation, It's giving weight to the voice outside of you.
It's one of the most dangerous things that you can pursue, right, Like.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, they see it.
Speaker 1: If you listen to like great champion players, quarterbacks, baseball players, golfers,
listen to them in interviews, the guys who are like
the goats, like the real greats they like get they
get frustrated almost by validation from the reporters, Like they
shrug it off, like it is annoying to them. And
that is the strength of their internal characters saying like,
don't listen to that voice. And then the only time
you'll see like, really these champion players get upset and
interviews is they don't care if they're spreading lives about them.
They don't care. These guys give zero weight to the
reporters voices. But you'll see them get angry every once
in a while when they're saying something like, these guys
care about their audience, and they care about the people
who want to be like them.
Speaker 2: They care about.
Speaker 1: Because all these great golfers, all these great football players
had people that they looked up to when they were young.
And they'll call out these reporters every once in a
while like you're spreading lies, right, right, because they care
about what the young people that are wanting to be
like them are listening to. What is so important, right,
is not that you care like and the point I
was making there with these great athletes in interviews is
they don't care about affirmation at all. But they do
care about is these private evidence points. Okay, what is evidence? Well,
you've like you have proved private victories. And this evidence
is the things that you've done with yourself over and
over over again to show yourself and tell yourself who
you are. Right when you seek that evidence, like and
it's personal and it's private, it's what are you saying?
My voice is more important? Like nobody saw this. I'm
going to go out and do this to prove it
to myself. If you went back and watched me from
like the time I was seventeen till the time I
went into the seal teams, you would have thought I
was a psychopath. I was doing stuff that nobody is watching,
out there, doing it by myself, just for me. What
was I doing. I'm telling myself who I am, right.
I wasn't asking for anybody to see it. And that's
where you know my dad likes to tell the story
because he's I wasn't doing it for anybody to watch.
Most of the time I was doing it early in
the morning. My parents are watching me, just because it
made them nervous. I'd get in the I'd get in
Texas and January when the water is you know, thirty
five degrees forty degrees in my pool. I'd sit in
there for thirty minutes until like I'm about to pass out,
and then climb out of the water, go for a
run to warm myself up, and then come back and
do it again.
Speaker 2: What was I doing. Nobody's watching.
Speaker 1: My parents were sneaking a peek through the window, trying
to make sure I didn't die out there in the pool.
What was I doing. I was creating evidence for myself.
I'm telling myself this is who I am. So when
I and what I didn't even know this at the time, right,
because all I'd watched was a Discovery Channel documentary about
seal training. I didn't know how cold the water was
in the Pacific. You know, I couldn't have. I didn't
Now kids preparing for seal training, they're asking their AI
how much long do I need to stay? And you know,
what's the water temperature out there? Okay, how long? What
kind of training process do I need to do to
make sure that I'm strong enough.
Speaker 2: I wasn't doing any of that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know jack about the water temperature. I thought
log PT was every single day I haze the crap
out of myself, teaching myself this is who you are.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what the program was going to be.
You know.
Speaker 1: I make fun of sometimes I make fun of these
guys who get into like a depth program, delayed enlistment program,
who were in there for like six or seven years
with a seal mentor preparing. I was like, man, you
guys went through like extra buds, But I put myself
through buds right, I just didn't have I haze the
crap out of myself, not looking for someone to tell me,
not looking for a ceiling instructor or other people in
my class is like, oh man, this guy's are great,
this guy's gonna make it. I was trying to tell myself,
you're gonna make it.
Speaker 3: Huh Okay, I was because I was going to ask you,
I'm glad that you said that. I was going to
ask you what the difference was between evidence and affirmation
because a lot but whose voice?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 3: It's personal evidence because for some people the affirmation is
their evidence, And what you're saying is that's wrong. If
other people's affirmation is your evidence, then that's not real evidence.
Speaker 2: But when the evidence is you.
Speaker 1: Again, that's why I was going back to, Like these
guys with the reporters. You'll see them get chirp up
when the reporters make an identity statement of you this
or like, you'll hear these guys come back real hard. No,
I know exactly who I am, right, Like what your
your words are worth nothing compared to my words? Yeah,
and that it's the champions mentality. Yeah, I've built my
I've built my words your words are worth nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the old I heard from Tony Robbins this,
so I'm just gonna give him credit. But he says,
you get rewarded in public for what you've spent thousands
of hours.
Speaker 2: Practicing in private. Yeah, and that's it.
Speaker 1: What it like truly like, ask yourself, why why would
someone else's voice be worth more than yours? You're giving
more you so you what you're saying is their opinion
is worth more than yours. It's a it's dangerous, yeah,
right when you like, when you seek that affirmation, like,
think about what you're seeking. You must know more about
me than I know about myself. And when you when
it's the opposite, how do you think you feel about
affirmation like this is I don't want that. It's worthless
to me. I know way more about me.
Speaker 3: Than you do. Yeah, now, and I want to I
want to highlight that because you could take that what
you just said from a place of pride. But the
very first thing you said was truth is to seek
truth and truth is the word of God. So everything
that you think and you know about yourself is coming
from a place of knowing your father.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's You're right, it could. It certainly can become prideful.
It's a man in the arena mentality. Yeah, for sure,
you've you've never tasted the blood in the sand, right,
you know nothing. Right, I've been, I've been in this arena.
I know that I know my words are at least
worth more than yours. Now, the man in the arena
will give credit, will give credence to the words of
another man in the arena. And we could talk about
semantics there, but really this is just the dynamic of
evidence versus affirmation. And if you give more weight to affirmation,
you're taking away the strength of your own voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very good, all right, she was number four. Last one.
Here is thoughts versus feelings.
Speaker 1: Okay, doozy, you can do this. But most of the
time where feelings come from is something happens to you
and it evokes a feeling and you can't I'm not
saying that it's impossible that you can sit you know,
you can go sit in the sauna by yourself quiet,
nothing's happening to you. You're not experiencing anything, and you
put yourself through an experience that creates a feeling. But
most of the time, right, if you think about like
the strongest feelings you've ever felt. The first time you
ever felt that feeling, it was something from the external. Yeah, right,
And so feelings are sparked from something that's happening around you.
Speaker 2: Thoughts come from inward.
Speaker 1: Right, most of the time, thoughts don't come like they're
not sparked from something on the outside. It is this
internal process. And so this is it's a different form
of internal voice versus external voice. There's the battle between
your thinking, which think like, my feelings are not who
I am. My thoughts are who I am. It's not
as a man feelth, it's as a man thinketh. As
a man thinketh, so is he as a man? Feelth
will take you away from your thoughts. And so it's
really is the battle between your thoughts and your feelings.
And you have to have a strong enough mental identity,
a strong enough thought identity that when you get counterpoint
counterpoint feelings, that your thoughts have more weight to overcome
those feelings. Whenever you get angry and you lash out,
your feelings overcame your thoughts, your thoughts.
Speaker 2: No, I should not lash out on anger. Your thoughts
know what is.
Speaker 1: Right, right, I don't feel my way through Scripture Right
and Romans, Chapter twelve, Verse two doesn't say let your
feelings be transformed. It says let your thinking be transformed.
Speaker 2: Correct. Now, there's a big part of that.
Speaker 3: I think, Well, you know your feelings are revealing your
thoughts because when something happens, and like you said, you
lash out in anger, something in your thinking was incorrect there.
But what you're talking about here, you're not talking What
you're talking about is the thoughts that materialize over time
and that grow and solidify, as opposed to like your
feelings screaming at you in the moment, like his feelings
come at you. Go, oh baby, listen, you've got to
do this now.
Speaker 1: When you when you get the desire to sin, is
it a feeling or is it a thought?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah, I would say it's private word feeling. Most
of the time it's a feeling. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And how do you overcome, right, how do you overcome
that temptation to sin?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: It is an internal thought process. Now, that is a
dialogue with the Holy Spirit. That's a dialogue with yourself.
It's a dialogue with God. But it is when I
when I am tempted to sin, it is my internal
words that take me away from that. What did Jesus
do when he was tempted? He quoted scripture? Yeah, very good, right,
he did so good? Right he it was it was
word and thought that overcomes the feeling of temptation.
Speaker 2: That's so good. And that's that's internal versus external. Very good. Gee,
I mean that really is. It's principle over comfort.
Speaker 3: I mean one of the things I was thinking about
is it's it's logic over rationale, which we touched on briefly,
and I want.
Speaker 2: To quickly people think those are similar, but cover.
Speaker 3: Yeah, logic is truth based and from our man knows,
logic is math, right, yeah, it's listen from though webstern.
Logic is the art of using reason well in our
inquiries after truth.
Speaker 2: It's it's as stupid.
Speaker 1: It's as stupid as the crap we've heard in recent
years of saying math is racist.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's rationale, right right.
Speaker 1: That's people saying, well, I feel like because I see
this and this happens, and I feel like that's this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because because rationale is opinion based, it's explaining why
you did something.
Speaker 2: It's a detail with reasons.
Speaker 3: So like people will say, like, well, this it was
logical I had to do this because of that.
Speaker 2: And you go, well, hang on a minute.
Speaker 3: What you're doing is you're you're basically you you're explaining
why you did something that's not what you did was
not necessarily based on truth.
Speaker 2: And that was the difference. Is logic.
Speaker 3: Logic is truth based right, like it's it works no
matter what. It's like what you said, it's principles over
over pressure. And so you're where's your rationale? Is you
just going like, well, this is why just because you
had a good reason why, Like, well I ran that
red light because I needed to get my son someplace.
Will you rear ended somebody and killed someone? Well, yep,
but I didn't mean to. Well, your rationale was solid,
but your logic was not right. And and so like
it doesn't it doesn't matter what you intended to do.
And that's where that's where this can be hard. But
that's what we're saying when we're saying thoughts of we're feelings.
Speaker 1: So this is this is these are all of these
These are the battles where you're what's and and they're
they're similar, but they happen on different battlefields. These are
all the battles of where you're inside has to be
stronger than your outside to really overcome, to really walk
in greatness in life is that you must stand on
truth and truth. There's no amount of pressure that can
break truth. It cannot be broken. That's what truth is.
And durance versus results. This is understanding the more like
the harder it gets that like Rocky superpower is how
Hardy can get hit right, and he realizes, like, this
is how I win. I just continue to persevere. I
just continue to keep going. This is run your race, right,
run the race that has been set out for you.
This is the path that life has put you on.
It didn't say win every race, is said run your race, endure, persevere.
That is, as James chapter one says, the like how
you achieve maturity and greatness in life that you continue
to endure, that you continue to persevere. You have to
win the battle of evidence versus affirmation. That it's giving
more strength to your voice versus the strength of the audience.
It's being the message versus listening to the audience. It's
caring more about what you say than about what others say.
And it's the danger. It's the danger of affirmation. The
more you prize them for affirmation, the more you're taking
away weight from the power of your own voice. And
then the last one is thoughts versus feelings. Understand like
feelings is where temptations come from. Feeling is like the
ext Like feelings happen through your biology, like Oh I'm tired,
Oh I'm I'm feeling weak, Oh I'm hungry. All these
things they turn into feelings. They don't turn into a thought.
Think about hunger. Is it a feeling or is it
a thought?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: When you get hungry, there's not a data line in
your brain that says need seven hundred calories.
Speaker 2: Right, it turns into a desire.
Speaker 1: And it is only through your thoughts that you process
that feeling and say, here's what I'm supposed to do
with that. So win these battles internally, so you can
win the battles that God puts you on the earth
to fight.
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Speaker 2: That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3: Thank you again for listening. Go out there, think better,
and live the impossible. See again soon.