David Goggins is a former US Navy SEAL ultra-endurance athlete and a world record-holder for the maximum number of pull-ups done in 24 hours. He has physically done some of the craziest things in this world, but his life didn’t start all rosy. He often played the victim card, but slowly and surely he started to turn it all around. This is the story of what took David from the depths of despair to becoming one of the toughest men in the world.

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Transcript:
1) Identify with who you want to be.
When David Goggins was on a 24-hour race covering 100 miles, he said it was the highest level of pain he had ever gone through in his life. In the middle of that excruciating pain, he asked himself: “Why are you doing this to yourself?”
What he came up with was a very powerful answer: “Because you are one hard motherf*cker.”

When he was abused at a young age, he would feel weak like a victim. So what he did was he figured out how to become the toughest man alive. He told himself: I am the toughest man alive.

That is his identity, and throughout the book, it’s what he talks about. He does everything in alignment with that identity. So it’s not about starting with what you want to have. You have to start by identifying who you want to be, and that is the most powerful force in human nature.

2) Live through hardships.
The hardships in our life toughen us when we go through them and survive them. They make us much more powerful than if we never faced them.

If you think you had a bad hand in life, you have to own it instead of trying to look for the advantages. Think of how all the pain, challenges, and sacrifices you had to go through have made you much stronger and powerful. Doing hard things makes us stronger. It’s just like lifting weights in the gym. It makes our body stronger. That won’t happen by just sitting around on the couch or eating junk food.

If you haven’t lived through hardships, life will be very difficult for you. You will have no power. You will have no reserves. To find power in everything negative in your life.
I actually have a tattoo on my right forearm about this very concept so it’s fair to say that I agree with David Goggins.

3) The Accountability Mirror.
We need constant reminders of what needs to be done. Otherwise, our brain tends to take the easy path. If you don’t know exactly what you need for the day, you might just go and watch TV or play some games or do the easy things. A great strategy for this is the accountability mirror. Write down what you need to do at the beginning of the day or the day before. When you know exactly what you need to do every single day and you have your accountabilities on your mirror, you’re going to keep yourself aware of them and you’re going to meet them every single day.

Don’t be soft on yourself. Call yourself out if you need to. Own the truth of where you are any day and admit to yourself if you have been taking it easy or slacking off.

4) Callus Your Mind Every Single Day.
In weightlifting, we develop calluses on our palms due to the friction of the weights. The more we lift weights, the more we get calluses. It’s the same with guitar players. They have calluses on their fingertips.

But because of the calluses, we are able to lift more weights and to play the guitar at a higher level. Similarly in life, we have to callus our mind by doing difficult things. There’s no worthy goal without any difficulty. We have to step outside our comfort zone every single day.

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