And drinking coffee and laughing and smiling [ __ ] I want their [ __ ] faces to go straight up [ __ ] numb so we’re going to do this we’re going to start boat pressing this [ __ ] just take my lead trust me you get energy from it we start throwing this boat up
In the [ __ ] air catching it throw it up in cat we start y can’t her [ __ ] Bo crew too we’re yelling our [ __ ] ass off and we doing it and they make a stop like like like what the [ __ ] like stop I look at these instructors and their faces Lally look
Like someone like just like took their soul out cuz I know where their minds were like they were thinking about themselves like what the [ __ ] just happened man I know me on Wednesday I couldn’t have done that how are they doing it so the rest of the time going
Through hell week it was like we just owned we owned it right BR crew to we we won every single race we were just dominating and um it was a it was a strong boat crew and that’s where taking Souls is uh there’s a few Tak and soul
Stories but that’s one of them yeah and and part of that is learning how to be a leader like when you’re dealing with these alpha males and these huge egos there’s this tendency to just try to outshine the next guy right you tell an example there’s another guy who kind of
Proceeds along that path right and he realizes very quickly that he’s not going to make it because he doesn’t know how to build camaraderie with the other guys right right um talk about Mr dos um he’s a good friend of mine still this day and he went into that place man and
I knew where he was going is is is my third hell week and I knew Sean real well but I knew he was real arrogant he had a serious chip on his should like I do I still do I got to control it every
Now and then it got me in a lot of trouble sometimes but I knew he had it I knew that trip on your should not being controlled it will it will get you [ __ ] up and it and it cost him a lot going through Buds and I saw the look
I saw the look cuz I once had the look when I was going through per rescue school when something got so hard and your mind can’t process the hardness you don’t know the the the the right tools to get through something hard because you never been challenged before I could
Tell he was a super human that nothing ever challenged them but I knew because I already been through h a couple times I knew [ __ ] don’t don’t underestimate that [ __ ] it will it will find a [ __ ] demon and it will bring out some insecurities in you and it did
And I I it was like uh maybe 30 hours in the hell week or something like that I’m looking over at him and I smile at him we’re we’re standing just like this in line and he’s getting his med check a doctor’s looking at him a do it happen
This to be beautiful timing and I’m sitting there I’m getting Med checked and I’m looking at him and his eyes say he’s a thousand yards still looking right through me and he’s getting Med checked and I’m looking at him and and before all this happened I told him I said don’t underestimate this
[ __ ] man he goes I can’t ever see myself quitting [ __ ] Goggins I I go watch out I go watch out I go this [ __ ] will get in your head I go the end is a long way away so we’re sitting there eye to eye and he didn’t
See me I’m right in front of him and I can tell you thinking he has that quitting mind starting up and I look at him I go I told you [ __ ] I told you [ __ ] and next thing I knew man a car pulls up and
Um he he rolled out rings the bell he rings the bell and he quits but um it was a he’s a great human being um hard [ __ ] it it doesn’t make you you know when you quit something like that man it’s a huge lesson learned that I can’t go into anything thinking that
There’s nothing that’s not going to get in my way you got to be prepared for all those obstacles right well on this theme of of the reader being the hero here like what is the what is the Takeaway on the stealing Souls thing because that’s that’s one of the challenges well
There’s tons of takeaways with that one man it’s about finding energy and strength when you have none like a lot of times in life like that situation right there man it’s the worst time of your life there’s energy all around us but we think that we have to have it has
To come externally a lot of times we got have like a TV in front of us watch somebody listen to a podcast listen to a great music a lot of times in life it’s [ __ ] quiet and those are the times when you want to run and hide you got to
Be able to find energy you got to make up games make up tricks make up what ever you can to get to the next evolution of life so taking Souls is just another way it’s not about hurting the person you’re against it’s about finding a tactical advantage in every
Situation you [ __ ] physically can to get to the next you’re trying to inch further to the goal line and you don’t want to what is that goal line the goal line is whatever it is for you for me I want to get through hell week I want to get through hell
Week with with with you know with my head up high being strong I don’t know what the goal line is for everybody my goal line has been very different for most people but you’re trying to find energy and strength to stay in the fight to continue on until you get that second
Wind the second wind is coming whatever the second wind may be for you it’s coming but what happens is we get so stressed out that the end is so far away that we just can’t find another foothold another handhold so we jump off the cliff and we just fall there’s another
One you got to find it so taking soul is the one way to do it well as you as you progress through this this journey that you’re on and you’re winning these victories along the way this idea kind of comes comes upon you which is this drive to be uncommon amongst the
Uncommon right you you mentioned a few moments earlier that you started distancing yourself even from the seals themselves like okay I’ve done this I’ve distinguished push myself amongst these guys like now what’s the next challenge how can I push myself harder like who who you know what are the other
Circumstances I can put myself in to be the hardest [ __ ] on planet Earth which was kind of the driving impulse underneath all of this right right so elaborate on that a little bit so for me that’s why I wanted to become a Navy SEAL I wanted people to push me outside
Of my comfort on every day you know and I thought this was going to be the absolute best platform do that these guys the stories I heard after buds it just gets harder and I didn’t see it that way cuz buds is just to become the
SE that’s right I’m like my God I can’t imagine what the [ __ ] going to happen but what happens to a lot of people not everybody can’t speak for every I know everybody buds breaks people down to the point where you don’t want to be broken down again like that to me that was
Exactly the exact starting point for my journey in life that was a starting point for me for a lot of people it’s the finish line and I didn’t see it that way for me so that’s where I started becoming uncommon amongst uncommon people is where I started realizing that
You put people in a pedestal that you shouldn’t that you you got to get in there yourself and examine people see what it’s really about yourself so once I got in there realized hey these are just normal people yeah they’re a lot better than some they’re able to get
Through I know a lot of people who can get through Navy SEAL training but you know there’s a lot of Mystique behind behind all that stuff and and as you start to go through and you start to break it open a little bit you know a
Lot of hard guys but you know I I want it more I want it more and this this is your strength in certain respects it’s a superpower that you have but it’s also your Achilles heel big time Big Time I talk about in the book a lot too uh one
Thing that hurt me a lot was I thought everybody wanted the same thing I wanted not everybody wants the same thing you [ __ ] want everybody wants to get at 4:00 in the morning and beat themselves and find more about themselves and [ __ ] like that and I thought the seals did
Most people don’t yeah and I thought the seals did I thought that’s what you know cuz every book you read that’s what that’s what everybody does so I I was Hook Line and Sinker so that mentality that I had it kind of put a bad taste in
My mouth you know once I realized that not everybody was like this in the community and I was like you know what man so then I started having chips on my shoulder I had my own little thing I was doing with a couple guys working out on
My own do my own little thing and when you start doing that stuff and you start to drive yourself away from people you know and I was already different as it was you know even if I didn’t do that I already came in being very different
Like I tell people I was a part of the Navy SEAL Teams I wasn’t part of the Brotherhood right and you’re not going out and partying I’m not going out no that’s not me that’s never been me though like if I was in a college if I
Wasn’t a big F I couldn’t be part of a fraternity man I would never join a fraternity ever I like [ __ ] you all man I got my own [ __ ] going on over here man go [ __ ] yourself that’s me I don’t like fraternities
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