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{"podcast_details": {"podcast_title": "David Goggins Motivational Speech", "episode_title": "DON\u2019T BE WEAK - David Goggins Motivational Speech", "episode_image": "https://episodes.castos.com/64ca2c3110abe1-37746531/images/96a56a410039ec3881bc15786c23db1b-1691443315-af33eae2-616a-43b5-9f03-e22002c47a3d-38412210-1690736177001-dacd11417faee.jpg", "episode_transcript": " You have to go dark. What I mean by that is you have to be quiet in your mind. Get away from people. We love being around people. We love talking. We love parties. We love all that shit. It's okay to be alone. It's also okay to be unhappy. It's okay to be unhappy sometimes, man. It's okay to say, you know what, man? I'm fucked up. So you gotta go to the truth first. Who are you? Get really accountable. And say, okay, who am I? What's the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind. Figure out. It may take months. It may take years. Figure out your purpose. Figure out what you want to be in life. And then from there, okay, I have my purpose. It may take a long time. No one knows their purpose because it's too loud. Find your purpose. From there, alright, you gotta start planning. People love the planning phase because it's very comfortable. Then from the planning phase, you gotta go to execution. So the execution phase would be all hate because that's where the real work begins. And that's when the failure happens and the failure and the failure. But, you know, that's kind of how you have to do it. I pick these hard things that most people think you can't finish anyway. So, you know, you go out there, you grind, you're alone, you're in your own head. I work best alone. I work best alone. So those are easier. You know, I figured out a way to kind of challenge, you know, kind of challenge your mind. Channel it and challenge it at the same time. And I figured out a way to kind of just become, have an indestructible toolbox in your mind. So those are easier. Where do I see myself? And then I start making these plans and how I'm going to get there. And I don't deviate from that plan. So that's kind of how I do them now. I mean, it's a lot more to it than that. There's a lot of quiet time. I shut out a lot of noise. I only have people in my life that need to be there. If you don't need to be in my life, I'm not about acquiring more friends. I'm not about noise. I'm about, okay, are you trying to go somewhere? You can jump on board. If not, I don't want to hear all your problems. Do you have a solution for your problem? That's what I'm all about right now. So I'm not about whining, bitching, complaining. I'm about, okay, we need to go this way. So that's the biggest thing. There's always a blockade. There's a barrier in your brain. There's a barrier. You got to find out what kind of removes that barrier from your brain. My biggest barrier was my father. And once I removed that barrier, I was free to think. And once I felt good about myself, I was free to put action in. I never felt good about myself. I never felt good about myself. Whenever I would get somewhere, the demon would come back, put me right back in the cage. If you don't go back, like I'm a runner, left knee hurts. A lot of people focus on that fucking left knee. A lot of times it's your fucking right hip. It's about life. You got to figure out what has messed you up mentally. Go to the source. Go to the origin of the source. So that whole accountability mirror, every single thing I've ever done that's in that book or anywhere else was on my own. Everything. My mom worked three jobs. I was raised in a town of 10,000 people where the KKK marched in the Fourth of July parade in 1995. There wasn't a lot of fucking help. My first car got spray painted nigger all over it. And I was so dumb at that time. People say, don't call yourself dumb. I was fucking dumb at that time. That they spelled nigger Niger. Y'all motherfuckers can laugh. I'm with a lot of white people in here. It's okay. And I went to the principal and the principal said, it's all you can tell me. This is what happens, man. This is what happens to me on most mornings. I was 300 pounds twice in my life. So every day I have my shoes laid out because I hate running. People don't believe it. Fuck you. I hate it. So this is what happens. Every day I wake up out of my fucking bed. And there's my shoes. Shirt, my shorts. Depending on the weather. Every day as I fucking wake up, I just look at the motherfuckers for hours. And then I start walking around the fucking house. And I say, I ain't fucking running today. I'm not doing shit today. Nothing. I don't have to. I fucking did all that shit. I need all this shit. I went through all these hell weeks and fucking got my ass kicked all the time and fucking made it. I don't have to do this shit for it. And that's when I think. I got 2.3 million followers on this group. It's ain't about you, you motherfucker. It's ain't about your fucking Ranger school and getting beat as a kid and shit. You have an obligation, not to yourself, but to everybody out there that is touched by what you do as a human being. Nobody knows what I'm doing. No one is videoing me and shit. I am a virtual trainer mentally. Because there's a lot of people out there that say, man, David Goggins is fucking getting after me. And if I wake up one morning and don't fucking do that, I go back to that David Goggins who lied about being who he wanted to be. So my thing that keeps me going every day is my mission in life. Wow, I did not choose it. I'm an introvert and I fucking hate what we're doing even right now. It's to always stay the fucking course. You man the fuck up every fucking day of your life because you know exactly what it is to not man up. I've done that too many times in my life. So that's what keeps me going. They can. And I get that question a lot. While it helps you, it also hurts you to come from darkness because why it's easy for me to sit back and say, you know what? Poopy pants mentality. I want to sit back and let the world take care of me now. And that's what I'm talking about. Don't play sick too long. While my childhood was so messed up, I played sick way too long. And I almost lost tons of opportunities by playing sick because it feels good to play sick. My dad beat the fucking shit out of me, man. I couldn't read. I can't read. You know, when I was a junior in high school, I couldn't read. If you live that life, it feels good for people to, oh, man, you know, that's just David. He's just not real smart. He had a bad life. You get a get out of jail free card. That's nice. This sucks doing what I had to do to get here today. That was not fucking fun. That darkness is there's nothing that dark to drive me to the places I had to go to become successful. On the flip side of that, if you come from a silver spoon family, you have to realize that you get to realize. Fuck. There's people out there like David Goggins who had nothing, fucking nothing. And I've had all this opportunity in front of me and I'm a loser. I'm not shit. So what does that say about me? The conversations are very similar. You have all this opportunity and you've gone nowhere with it. I'm at the bottom of the barrel and it could take me a lot longer to get where you're at for the starting line to be fair."}, "podcast_summary": "The podcast discusses the importance of going into a \"dark\" place in one's mind, where they can be alone and quiet and reflect on their true identity and purpose in life. The speaker emphasizes the need for accountability and self-reflection, urging listeners to figure out who they are and what they want to achieve. They stress the importance of planning and execution, acknowledging that the execution phase will be challenging and full of failures, but necessary for growth. The speaker shares personal experiences and discusses the impact of removing mental barriers, such as negative influences or past traumas. They emphasize the importance of staying true to oneself and not deviating from the path towards one's goals. The podcast also touches upon the idea of being selective about the people in one's life and avoiding unnecessary distractions or negativity. It concludes by discussing the importance of having a strong mission or purpose in life that keeps one motivated and focused, and highlights the different challenges that individuals from various backgrounds may face in their journey towards success.", "podcast_guest": "David Goggins", "podcast_highlights": "Highlights from the transcript:\n1. \"It's okay to be alone. It's also okay to be unhappy sometimes.\"\n2. \"Figure out your purpose. Figure out what you want to be in life.\"\n3. \"The execution phase would be all hate because that's where the real work begins.\"\n4. \"I shut out a lot of noise. I only have people in my life that need to be there.\"\n5. \"You have an obligation, not to yourself, but to everybody out there that is touched by what you do as a human being.\"\n\nTopics to further explore:\n1. Self-reflection and solitude\n2. Finding and pursuing one's purpose\n3. Dealing with failure and perseverance\n4. Surrounding oneself with the right people\n5. Taking responsibility and having a sense of duty towards others."}