This video emphasizes the power of the human brain as the ultimate tool and weapon in overcoming life's biggest challenges. The speaker argues that while technology is beneficial, our brain is the key to truly handling depression, hardship, and real-life issues that cannot be solved by external resources. The speaker shares personal experiences emphasizing the pivotal role of mindset and self-control, emphasizing that you must direct your brain towards achieving goals despite challenges and adversities.

The speaker shares his journey through Navy SEAL training to illustrate the importance of perseverance and enduring hardship. He spent prolonged time in rigorous training environments, repeatedly pushing past physical pain and mental barriers. By immersing himself wholeheartedly in suffering, he changed his mindset to view hardships as a natural state, demonstrating how resilience and adaptability can grow through repeated effort and self-imposed challenges.

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Key Vocabularies and Common Phrases:

1. depression [dɪˈprɛʃən] - (noun) - A state of severe sadness or despondency often causing a lack of interest or hope. - Synonyms: (melancholy, gloom, despondency)

When you're going through depression, when you're going through hard times, you're going through death.

2. buoyant [ˈbɔɪənt] - (adjective) - Having the ability or tendency to float in water or air. - Synonyms: (floatable, floating, light)

I can't swim. I'm negative, buoyant.

3. adapt [əˈdæpt] - (verb) - To make something suitable for a new use or purpose; adjust. - Synonyms: (adjust, modify, acclimate)

My mind realized that. They said, okay, we're going to adapt and overcome.

4. overcome [ˌoʊvərˈkʌm] - (verb) - To successfully deal with or gain control of something difficult. - Synonyms: (conquer, defeat, surmount)

We're going to adapt and overcome.

5. sympathetic [ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk] - (adjective) - Showing compassion, understanding, or sensitivity towards others or oneself. - Synonyms: (compassionate, understanding, empathetic)

This power, this sympathetic nervous system of fight or flight, and you're fighting, it gives you this charge of energy.

6. tribulations [ˌtrɪbjʊˈleɪʃənz] - (noun) - Severe trials, difficulties, or distressing experiences. - Synonyms: (sufferings, troubles, ordeals)

No one really finds themselves without going through trials, tribulations, suffering, accountability.

7. accountability [əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪti] - (noun) - The state of being responsible or answerable for actions. - Synonyms: (responsibility, liability, answerability)

And accountability is suffering.

8. foundation [faʊnˈdeɪʃən] - (noun) - The underlying basis or principle for something. - Synonyms: (basis, groundwork, underpinning)

I had no foundation, and I built this off of just researching the mind.

9. norm [nɔrm] - (noun) - A standard or pattern accepted as typical within a group or society. - Synonyms: (standard, rule, pattern)

I talk about the new norm.

10. immerse [ɪˈmɜːrs] - (verb) - To involve oneself deeply in a particular activity or interest. - Synonyms: (engage, involve, engulf)

You put yourself, you immerse yourself in wherever it is, and you become that.

The Most Eye Opening 10 Minutes Of Your Life - David Goggins

Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world. Once you put away your phones and your computers and all that we have nowadays, yeah, it's great. We're up to date, you know, but your brain is the only thing you have. When you're going through depression, when you're going through hard times, you're going through death. Real life. You can't google that, man. You're alone. You're alone. You may have a shrink you're going to, you may have a best friend you're going to, but there's 24 hours in the day where you're alone in this brain. And your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways, and it wants to control you and pull you in these different pockets. If you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you, you're, you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there. You got to control it. If not, it's over.

What existed for me was, okay, man, how am I gonna make this work? And all I knew back then was hard work. The only way anything gets accomplished. That's all I heard back in those days. You gotta work hard. You gotta work hard. I'm not getting how to. I can't get this paragraph. I can't remember what the f's in this paragraph. To pass this test to get in the military. Read again. Still not getting it. Read again. But if you're not getting it, write it out. And that's how I started learning. Okay, well, I can't. I gotta write out everything I do and then write it out again. And write it out again and guess what happened? I got it. I got it.

I can't swim. I'm negative, buoyant. Go back again. I can't swim. Go back again. Go back again. Go back again. I got it. I realize if I keep going back and going back and going back until the just becomes your mind was safe. Okay, we're gonna figure it out because he is not going to stop. It's not like I'm gonna try one more time. No, I'm gonna. It's just like. Alarm clock goes off, boop. We're going back. I can't read right. We're going back. I gave myself no way out, and my mind realized that. They said, okay, we're going to adapt and overcome. Now, like a lot of people say, trying hard, they. Your mind knows, man. It knows. This guy's bull. Me, man, this guy's lying. There's no truth behind it.

When I was in Navy SEAL training, people go, how were you there for 18 months? The program is only six months long. You were in three hell weeks in one year. No one's ever done that. How did you do that? I talk about the new norm. When I lived in a $7 a month place and I was growing up for a short period of time, I loved it. I know. I know any different. That was my norm. Once we moved out of that place, we moved to a $236 month place. I was like, I never want to go back to that little piece of. But if you go back to that $7 a month place and you realize this is where I live. This is all I got. Your mind says, roger that. This is home.

So when I was going through Navy SEAL training for 18 months and going back through all the hard parts over and over again, I told myself after the first time, I knew it was gonna be a long journey there. My body was breaking down. It was just how it was going on. I said, you know what? This is my new norm. So my mind said, it's like going to work. Like, you go to work, you put yourself soon tie on. I go into suffering every day. Every day suffering. Being broken, duct taping my feet up, stress fractures, shin splits, being broken. This is my new norm. And your mind says, if we're not broken, this ain't normal. We got to be broken. So then your mind starts to get tougher and tougher and more cows, people. How did you run on broken feet, broken shins? My mind knew this is how we operate. We're in Navy SEal training. This is what we are. I became hell, and that became my new norm.

I gave myself no way out. There was nothing outside these walls of hell. Nothing. I became. I loved God. But for a short period of time, I became the devil because that was hell. I became the boss, the owner, the CEO of Navy SEAL Training. That was my mindset. And that's how you get through things. You put yourself, you immerse yourself in wherever it is, and you become that. You become that and give yourself no way out. When I was 297 pounds and I was fat as hell, trying to be a Navy SeaL, the scariest thing in the world to me, even to this day, was that that could have been the rest of my life.

I thought then I was trying hard. That's the scariest thing in the world. I thought then 297 pound, working for Ecolab, spraying for cockroaches, making $1,000 a month. I thought that was me. At my 100% potential. Coming to find out a few years later, I wasn't anywhere near that 106 pounds less graduate Navy SeAL training. Went on to do all these other things. Looking back on that, that was me trying hard. That's why people gotta understand what is in us.

We have no idea until we start trying hard. And I mean really trying hard, where you're obsessed with, hey, this is my new norm. My new norm is that, wow, this isn't always fun. It's not always meant to be fun. And that's when you know you're trying hard. People hear my story and think, this guy's sadistic. I realize how the brain works. I figured out how the brain works. I'm a scared kid, and that's what gives me so much power. I had no foundation, and I built this off of just researching the mind.

The feeling you get is basically invincibility. You realize that you can't do it all the time when you need to do it. I know I can go to a place that I can live in. And when you know that you can run on broken legs and you can do certain things that a lot of people can do, but they're not willing to do this power, this sympathetic nervous system of fight or flight, and you're fighting, it gives you this charge of energy of when you're sitting there at 334 o'clock in the morning and you're duct taping your feet up because they're broken and you're doing it by yourself, and you're going through arguably one of the hardest training in the world. And these guys, most of them are healthy, and you're going through it broken, and you already had a disadvantage, but you're still there.

You can feed into that and tap into that for a lot of power. But if you look at it, well, I'm broken. Mandez like, I'm not going to make it. But if you look at it as, man, I'm broken and I'm still here and I'm fighting, and I'm going to find a way to get through this because I have no other place to go. It gives you a lot of power.

When things start to suck really, really bad, my brain and a lot of people's brain, they don't go to your dad beating you up. Your brain says, we ain't get the out of here. This is miserable. So anger goes away a lot of times when you're suffering because your brain just says, we gotta run, we gotta go. So that anger is not popping up saying, oh, I wanna show them. I wanna show those people, no, there has to be a much deeper. If I say deeper, it has to be down to mineral, mineral soil. It has to be down to that nice mineral soil where nothing can burn to. You can't burn dirt. So it has to be down that low.

That literally is something in you that's at the core of your soul, and, but you, but you don't find it unless you spend a lot of time with what you want to be in life. I can't give that to you. You can't give it to somebody when you find your true passion in life. And my passion for me was like, oh, I want to be, I, navy seals, army, I don't give a, I want to serve my country. I cared about. I want to be someone that I'm proud of. I want to look at myself in the mirror because I was so disappointed. That accountability mirror, I talk about. I was so disappointed in what I saw every day.

I wanted everybody to love David Goggins, and a lot of people did. I didn't love myself, but I knew a lot of us want to find peace first. Some people say, man, you always talk about this suffering and pain, and I'm at peace right now because I went through that. You don't find peace first. If you do, merry Christmas. More power to you. More power to you. I found peace on the opposite end of finding myself. And no one really finds themselves without going through trials, tribulations, suffering, accountability. And accountability is suffering. Being accountable every day for doing right for yourself, for the people next to you is miserable. It's hard. So you know, even the smallest details.

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