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“In a society where mediocrity is too often the standard and too often rewarded,” he said, “there is intense fascination with men who detest mediocrity, who refuse to define themselves in conventional terms, and who seek to transcend traditionally recognized human capabilities. This is exactly the type of person BUD/S is meant to find. The man who finds a way to complete each and every task to the best of his ability. The man who will adapt and overcome any and all obstacles.”
The instructors used our suffering to pick and peel away our layers, not to find the fittest athletes. To find the strongest minds.
Yes, all the abuse I’d experienced and the negativity I had to push through challenged me to the core, but in that moment I stopped seeing myself as the victim of bad circumstance, and saw my life as the ultimate training ground instead.
Very few people even bother to try to control the way their thoughts and doubts bubble up. The vast majority of us are slaves to our minds.
The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated. That’s why I loved PT in BUD/S and why I still love it today. Physical challenges strengthen my mind so I’m ready for whatever life throws at me, and it will do the same for you.
It’s also imperative that you find it because in every failure there is something to be gained, even if it’s only practice for the next test you’ll have to take. Because that next test is coming. That’s a guarantee.
There is no finish line, Goggins. There is no finish line.
If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up.
It means scheduling your life like you’re on a twenty-four-hour mission every single day.
No matter who you are, life will present you similar opportunities where you can prove to be uncommon.
It’s about wanting it like there’s no tomorrow—because there might not be.
It meant being one of the best and helping your men find their best too.
No matter what you or I achieve, in sports, business, or life, we can’t be satisfied. Life is too dynamic a game. We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.
We need to surround ourselves with people who will tell us what we need to hear, not what we want to hear, but at the same time not make us feel we’re up against the impossible.
In life, there is no gift as overlooked or inevitable as failure.
because in every failure a lot of good things will have happened, and we must acknowledge them.
Luck is a capricious bitch. It won’t always go your way, so you can’t get trapped in this idea that just because you’ve imagined a possibility for yourself that you somehow deserve it.
my task morphed from trying to achieve the impossible into working toward an inevitability.
The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.
