Name: How To Get Addicted To Hard Work - David Goggins
Uploaded: 2025-11-25T12:33:48.000Z
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You talk about performance without a purpose.

So, like, for instance, let's say you have no races.

Let's say you have no classes, no nothing.

You know, people need to have purpose to get up, they need purpose to perform.

You need to get to a point in your life where there's nothing on the docket.

There's no, I'm going to get into school to be this or that and still perform to the highest level.

Because what people don't get is one day that thing's going to come up.

And if you're not constantly performing without purpose, you're not going to be ready when the time comes.

It's this magical thing, purpose, that we're all looking for.

But what's funny about it all is that we need these things to perform.

But we don't take a second to realize the purpose is always there.

There may be another purpose, like being a SEAL or going to college or whatever, but

So if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something, you don't care enough about yourself.

And that's what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself?

Because that is the number one purpose in life, is to better oneself.

So that's the only purpose I fucking need.

So the reason I get up every day, even though there's no race or there's no school, there's nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself.

You wake up on the morning, it's cold, it's wet, it's dark.

You've got no cartilage in your knee, you've got shitty shorts.

I need you to keep talking about what you were just saying.

I know every motherfucker ain't gonna do what I'm gonna do.

I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there.

What you just said, that brings Joy to my life right there.

Because I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch, refuse to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper, to go further.

It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak.

Most people don't want to go to that extra mile.

Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks, it's miserable, it's lonely.

You talk about that you were kind of, you know, lonely by yourself.

Well, that was one of the things that is so surprising about growing up through difficulty, you know?

Growing up as a lonely kid, what you realize is a lot of the things that you feared or hated or embarrassed about as a child end up being the genesis of the things that you're most proud about as an adult.

So the fact that you can work and thrive in solitude gives you the opportunity to be able to move to America and start a podcast or decide to do Hell Week three times in a row, or it doesn't matter how long or dark the course is, you're just gonna stay.

The fact that you were forced to be vigilant and to assess people, to work out what's going on when you became an adult allows you to detect the vibe and the energy of whoever it is that you're speaking with and know that this person's someone that I want to hang with and this person's somebody that I don't.

All of the things, in fact, I would go as far as to say, there's not one thing in my life that I see as a pure advantage that doesn't have a dark side to it that came about at some other point as well, right?

So one of the reasons that I spent so much time as a kid in my bedroom listening to audio tapes being because I didn't have anyone to play with, right?

Only child, little bit sort of unpopular.

So I'd be in my bedroom listening to audio tapes, and

we'd go to the library every two weeks and we'd take the tapes back and we'd get new tapes, and

I bring them and listen to them again, right?

But you roll the clock forward 20 years, and what's the 20, 23 version of an audio tape?

A Lot of the things that you love and value in yourself in adulthood are the light side of something that you were ashamed, fearful, disgusted by when you were younger.

Yeah, I mean, I think that comes from overcoming.

A lot of people, you know, wonder, how did you become this?

When you were this kid, you overcame things, you fought them, and now this is what happens.

You become very, very powerful when you overcome yourself.

All those things you once cowered from, you were afraid of.

When you face them eye to eye every day, you now become a person who has a great podcast.

Let's say that there's someone listening who resonates with what you're talking about.

You know, they've been through trauma, they've been through hard times, but

they keep breaking promises to themselves and they're struggling to get off the couch and they're having a pity party.

How can they stop feeling sorry for themselves?

And it starts off with, you have to have pride in yourself.

There's something about you, whether it's your last name, whether it's just the smallest thing.

And if you have no pride in yourself, I can't give it to you because you're always going to compromise, you're always going to fold, Always.

That's why when people said, you know, way you can do better than can't hurt me.

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