There's No Magic Pill to Success | David Goggins & Dr. Andrew Huberman
00:00:00.000 | I'm not teaching good side of life.
00:00:05.340 | So I had to figure out a way when I came on in 2016 of teaching you what life
00:00:11.140 | really is for the majority of us is hell.
00:00:14.780 | And so while people love to show you the cars and the house and
00:00:19.740 | the vacations and shit, all that's good, all that's happy.
00:00:23.380 | I'm gonna show you the side that I know most of you are going through.
00:00:28.820 | And people hide very well.
00:00:31.340 | I don't want to hide anymore.
00:00:32.780 | I hid for 24 fucking years.
00:00:35.540 | That's why now I told you, we can talk about whatever you want.
00:00:37.940 | Because as human beings, the first thing we have to learn,
00:00:43.420 | I also stuttered real bad growing up.
00:00:45.300 | So if you hear me stutter every now and then,
00:00:47.180 | it's because that was part of my life also.
00:00:50.060 | So it's funny, human beings want to show you the best side, and
00:00:55.300 | they want to hide the worst side.
00:00:57.180 | For me, I'm gonna teach you how to be vulnerable.
00:00:59.620 | Cuz that's the only way you fix yourself.
00:01:03.140 | You don't fix yourself by coming out here and me selling you some fucking books.
00:01:06.980 | That's why I don't have them, I forgot them.
00:01:09.020 | I'm glad people got something from the book.
00:01:12.220 | I want you to learn that the only way you grow is how to look at yourself and
00:01:20.780 | say, okay, like I did, table longer than this.
00:01:24.460 | What the fuck I have to do to get somewhere?
00:01:27.020 | There was nothing good on there, nothing.
00:01:29.940 | Yeah, I love playing basketball, I left that out.
00:01:32.420 | That's something I love to do.
00:01:34.300 | I don't care about that, that didn't make the fucking list.
00:01:37.460 | Cuz the list that I had to live by was the very list that was to get me
00:01:41.540 | at this table with you, to talk to you,
00:01:45.300 | to the normal human beings which I once was, about how you can get somewhere.
00:01:51.460 | And how it looks, looks very ugly.
00:01:55.380 | There's no fucking passion, no fucking motivation, there's no, my God, man,
00:02:00.540 | I fucking, this is, no, it's every day of your life just doing.
00:02:05.500 | No passion, no discipline, no motivation, all these words, I hate people,
00:02:12.420 | I hate that so many people fucking use these words now cuz it's watered.
00:02:16.460 | It's someone sitting in a room by themselves and
00:02:19.260 | they figure themselves out and say, God, this is gonna fucking suck.
00:02:24.460 | Where's passion when you're 300 pounds?
00:02:28.140 | Where's the motivation when you can't read and write?
00:02:30.820 | Where is it?
00:02:31.940 | So how did this happen?
00:02:33.780 | I just fucking did, I just did.
00:02:37.180 | I said, maybe at the end of this journey, there'll be something there for me.
00:02:39.860 | If not, I can read, if not, I'm 185 fucking pounds.
00:02:46.340 | There's no magic potion, there's no, let me wake up and look at some shit, no.
00:02:53.100 | All those words are overused, they're bullshit, it's all bullshit, just do.
00:02:59.780 | You're living, how do you wanna live?
00:03:02.380 | How do you wanna die?
00:03:03.860 | How do you wanna fucking be remembered?
00:03:06.380 | That's it, that's it, period.
00:03:11.380 | >> The word haunted is ringing in my head.
00:03:14.180 | >> Yep.
00:03:16.380 | >> I think it's such a powerful word.
00:03:18.540 | >> Yep.
00:03:19.500 | >> Because I was about to say, it seems like a huge part of your process,
00:03:23.940 | maybe the entire process is it's all stick, no carrot.
00:03:28.100 | You talk about the carrot, the positive thing, and
00:03:30.300 | then there's the stick, the thing you're trying to avoid.
00:03:32.220 | >> Yep.
00:03:33.060 | >> Feel like it's, the way it's landing for me is, it's all stick and gas pedal.
00:03:40.140 | >> That's it.
00:03:40.820 | >> There's no carrot.
00:03:42.380 | You're not imagining, when I'm a paramedic, when the book is published.
00:03:46.380 | And obviously you set those goals and you make those targets.
00:03:48.740 | >> Yep.
00:03:49.260 | >> But it's all stick.
00:03:50.540 | >> All stick.
00:03:51.900 | >> No carrot.
00:03:52.540 | >> Think about that.
00:03:54.980 | I'm waking up right now, studying, I have a test tomorrow.
00:03:59.740 | I already passed the fucking test.
00:04:00.860 | Think about that.
00:04:02.940 | Every day of my life, that's what I must do just to retain what I learned.
00:04:08.260 | Four hours plus a day, I go through and do that.
00:04:12.820 | There's no stick, or there's only a stick.
00:04:16.900 | There's never been a carrot.
00:04:18.660 | Which is why, when I speak to people,
00:04:21.900 | I have to figure out a way to resonate with them.
00:04:28.660 | Because all I want to say to them is, let me teach you the real life.
00:04:35.300 | How it really is.
00:04:36.060 | The reason why you're a loser, and the reason why you're not fucking making it.
00:04:40.140 | And the reason why you're trying to go through all these,
00:04:41.900 | I go to all these fucking conventions.
00:04:43.420 | Speak all the fucking time.
00:04:45.460 | I look in the fucking audience, and these people sign up, sign up, sign up.
00:04:50.060 | Fucking every year, go to convention.
00:04:52.020 | Thinking they're gonna learn something fucking different.
00:04:54.100 | No, you're lazy, you know exactly what to do, exactly what to do.
00:04:59.380 | Cuz even me, in my state of, I can't read or write, I knew exactly what to do.
00:05:05.100 | It just sucks doing it.
00:05:09.060 | It sucks to do it.
00:05:11.260 | It sucks to wake up every morning of your life and say, God, man, I'm not smart.
00:05:17.300 | So guess what I gotta do?
00:05:18.380 | I gotta study the same shit that I got one of the highest scores in the nation on.
00:05:24.540 | And do it again, do it again, do it again.
00:05:27.700 | It's not just there, it's not just there permanently for me.
00:05:31.780 | So yeah, it's all stick, it's all stick.
00:05:36.580 | The only care that you have is like, maybe, maybe.
00:05:43.060 | Cuz whenever I take these tests that are real hard, in the back of my brain,
00:05:47.220 | it's like, there's a good chance you're not gonna make it, Goggins.
00:05:50.820 | This ain't you, bro, this ain't you, you weren't born like this.
00:05:56.580 | This ain't you, the real you, bro, study all you want to.
00:05:59.700 | But the second that fucking computer comes on with 150 questions, this ain't you, man.
00:06:06.100 | Somehow, comes back, I passed, I passed again, passed again.
00:06:11.820 | But that real me back here every fucking time is saying, that ain't you, bro.
00:06:17.700 | That ain't you, and I have to outwork that voice.
00:06:23.740 | When I'm taking that test and I get to a question, I don't fucking know the answer.
00:06:27.380 | I'm like, fuck, man.
00:06:28.380 | And then say, I told you, man, that ain't you, you're 300 pounds, man.
00:06:34.660 | You sit at home, you figure out how to do your hair, that's what you do.
00:06:38.300 | How to come to school with the reverse baldness when you're 16, that's you.
00:06:43.860 | So there is no get out of jail free card.
00:06:48.620 | This is why I say stay hard.
00:06:52.340 | Because when you weren't given the gifts,
00:06:54.820 | the only thing you can do in life is stay hard.
00:06:58.780 | And I know people cannot stand me, they can't stand this talk.
00:07:03.860 | This is all you can do, there's no magic pill or a magic potion.
00:07:11.740 | All you can do is outwork the man that God created or woman in you.
00:07:18.140 | And what that looks like is unfun.
00:07:21.460 | That's why I said, do not do a documentary on me.
00:07:24.060 | Because people will not see the truth.
00:07:28.460 | They will see what they wanna see is, I don't wanna live like that, good, good.
00:07:34.300 | And you will live exactly the way you live now, questioning who you are,
00:07:38.740 | wondering what is possible, wondering what you are capable of doing.
00:07:43.380 | That's how that looks, or you can be me, which, am I happy?
00:07:47.300 | I don't know, never thought about it, don't really care about it.
00:07:51.820 | Cuz all I really cared about was when I looked in that fucking mirror,
00:07:54.180 | I saw a piece of shit.
00:07:56.340 | Happiness wasn't on the mirror at 16, or I was 300 pounds.
00:08:00.340 | It wasn't like, I'm looking for happiness.
00:08:03.140 | No, I'm looking at myself in the mirror and say, all right,
00:08:05.860 | motherfuck, you did it again today.
00:08:07.100 | You're a bad boy, cuz that shit sucks.
00:08:11.460 | I have about a couple minutes of that, when I got the carrot.
00:08:15.980 | The second I lay down to go to bed, the carrot's gone,
00:08:18.940 | because I'm waking up all through the night to check the work I did that day.
00:08:25.380 | Did I get this drug right?
00:08:26.380 | Did I get this right?
00:08:27.220 | Did I get that right?
00:08:27.980 | What did I do?
00:08:29.980 | My God, fuck, I'm already losing it, it's a stick.
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