Before you start a goal - let's take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you're suffering.
Interpretation
Addressing insecurities is crucial before pursuing goals, as they can hinder progress when faced with challenges.
In this quote, David Goggins emphasizes the importance of confronting and managing our insecurities before embarking on any significant goals. He suggests that when we push ourselves to achieve difficult objectives, our hidden doubts and fears often resurface, especially during challenging times. By taking the time to acknowledge and work through these insecurities, we can fortify ourselves against the struggles we may encounter on our journey to success.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage resilience in students.
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that.
I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.
Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.
I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
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