I was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast recently that has my brain spinning in a good way. maybe just what I needed….
So this guy, Dave Goggins, is a 24 yr old out of shape man who has a full time job as an insect exterminator. Life is not fulfilling for him and he sees a program on TV about the Navy SEALs.
“…I had two options; to either be that 300 pound guy who sprayed for cockroaches and made $1000 a month and at 24 years old knowing when I’m 50 fucking years old, I can reflect on this and think about what guy I never became…or I can totally just suck it up and fail and fail until I succeed. I started recruiters up.I said I’m going to be a fucking navy SEAL.”In that restaurant, I quit my job, left my canister in that restaurant, my spray canister, got back in my Eco-lab truck and I went home and I started working out… I became the most obsessed person on the planet earth…I had to invent a guy that didn’t exist. I had to invent a guy that can take any pain, any suffering, any kind of judgment be called nigger be called whatever the fuck in the world and be able to stand in the fucking room and say, ‘go fuck yourself.’
Fast forward a number of years after he is a navy SEAL and winning all these super endurance contests, and he meets this entrepreneur, Jesse Itzler, who seems to be stuck in his life. After a lunch meeting, Jesse says to David “why don’t you come live with me for a month?” Every day they would do crazy physical and mental workouts. Once David said, we are going to run 4 miles every 4 hours for 2 days straight. When Jesse said, “I can’t do this, I have to go to work”. David responds, “No you don’t, you can work when we are done in two days”. In other words….. What David learned when he quit his job to work out full time as a 24yr old, and what he was trying to communicate to the entrepreneur was that your primary work should always be self-transformation. If you are always focused on self transformation, everything else falls into place.So….I quit my gym membership because of carona. But for the last 4 days, I’ve been doing 1000 pushups a day. I’m sure im going to get asked why my door at work is closed. 🙂
So Jesse Itzler eventually publishes a book that becomes a bestseller called “Living with a SEAL”. The story of how this book came to be is as fascinating. And funny.
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