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Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world.
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Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world.
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Once you put away your phones and your computers and all that we have nowadays, that's great.
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We're up to date.
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You know, but your brain is the only thing you have when you're going through depression,
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when you're going through hard times,
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you're going through death real life you can't Google
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that man you're alone you're alone you may have a shrink
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you're going to you may have a best friend to go into
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but there's 24 hours in the day where you're alone in this brain
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and your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways
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and it wants to control you pull you in these different pockets
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if you can't control your own brain
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and your brain controls you you're you got to tell your brain where you want to go
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and how you want to and how you want to get there.
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You got to control it.
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If not, it's over.
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What existed for me was okay, man.
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How am I gonna make this work?
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And all I knew back then was hard work.
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The only way anything gets accomplished.
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That's all I heard back in those days.
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You got to work hard.
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You got to work hard.
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I'm not getting how to,
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I can't get this paragraph.
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I can't remember what the in this paragraph to pass this test to get in the military.
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Read it again.
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Still not getting it.
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Read it again.
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But if you're not getting it, write it out.
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And that's how I started learning.
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Okay, well, I can't, I gotta write out everything I do.
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And then write it out again,
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and write it out again.
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And guess what happened?
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I got it.
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I got it.
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I can't swim.
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I'm negative buoyant.
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Go back again.
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I can't swim.
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Go back again.
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Go back again.
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Go back again.
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I got it.
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I realize if I keep going back and going back and going back until this just becomes your mind was safe Okay,
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we're gonna figure it out Because he is not going to stop It's not like I'm gonna try one more time.
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No, I'm gonna.
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It's just like alarm clock goes off.
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Boop We're going back.
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I Can't read right we're going back.
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I I gave myself no way out and my mind realized that.
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They said, okay, we're gonna adapt and overcome now.
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Like a lot of people say, trying hard.
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They, your mind knows, man.
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It knows this guy's bull-ing me, man this guy's lying.
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There's no truth behind it.
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When I was in Navy SEAL training,
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people go, how were you there for 18 months?
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The program was only six months long.
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You were in three hell weeks in one year.
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No one's ever done that.
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How did you do that?
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I talk about the new norm.
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When I lived in a $7 a month place I was growing up for a short period of time,
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I loved it.
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I didn't know any different.
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That was my norm.
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Once we moved out of that place,
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we moved to a $236 a month place.
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I was like, I never want to go back to that little piece of shit.
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But if you go back to that $7 a month place,
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and you realize this is where I live,
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this is all I got,
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your mind says, Roger that.
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This is home.
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So when I was going through Navy SEAL training for 18 months
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and going back through all the hard parts over and over again,
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I told myself after the first time,
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I knew it was going to be a long journey there.
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My body was breaking down.
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It was just how it was going on.
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I said, you know what?
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This is my new norm.
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So my mind said, it's like going to work.
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Like you go to work,
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you put your suit and tie on,
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I go into suffering every day.
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day suffering, being broken, duct taping my feet up,
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stress fractures, shin splits, being broken.
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This is my new norm.
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And your mind says if we're not broken, this ain't normal.
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We gotta be broken.
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So then your mind starts to get tougher and tougher and more calc.
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People, how did you run on broken feet?
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Broken shins?
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My mind knew this is how we operate.
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We're in Navy SEAL training.
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This is what we are.
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I became hell and That became my new norm.
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I gave myself no way out.
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There was nothing outside these walls of hell Nothing.
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I became I love God,
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but for a short period of time I became the devil because that was hell.
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I Became I became the boss the owner the CEO of Navy SEAL training.
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That was my mindset and That's how you get through things You put yourself,
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you immerse yourself wherever it is, you become that.
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You become that and give yourself no way out.
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When I was 297 pounds and I was fat as hell trying to be a Navy SEAL,
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the scariest thing in the world to me even to this day was
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that that could have been the rest of my life.
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I thought then I was trying hard.
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That's the scariest thing in the world.
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I thought then 297 pound working for Ecolab spraying for cockroaches making a thousand dollars a month.
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I thought that was me at my 100% potential.
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Come to find out a few years later I wasn't anywhere near that.
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106 pounds less, graduate Navy SEAL training went on to do all these other things.
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Looking back on that, that was me trying hard.
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That's why people got to understand what is in us we have no idea until we start trying hard.
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And I mean really trying hard where you're obsessed with hey this is my new norm.
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My new norm is that wow this isn't always fun.
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It's not always meant to be fun and that's when you know you're trying hard.
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People hear my story and think this guy is sadistic,
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I realized how the brain works.
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I figured out how the brain works.
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I'm a scared kid and that's what gives me so much power.
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I had no foundation and I built this off of just researching the mind.
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The feeling you get is basically invincibility.
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You realize that you can't do it all the time.
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When you need to do it,
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I know I can go to a place that I can live in.
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And when you know that you can run on broken legs
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and you can do certain things that a lot of people can do,
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but they're not willing to do,
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this power, this sympathetic nervous system of fight or flight
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and you're fighting it gives you this charge of energy of
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when you're sitting there at 3 30 4 o'clock in the morning
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and you're duct taping your feet up because they're broken
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and you're doing it by yourself
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and you're going through arguably one of the hardest training in the world
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and these guys most of them are healthy and you're going through it broken
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and you're already at a disadvantage but you're still there,
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you can feed into that and tap into that for a lot of power.
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But if you look at it, well, I'm broken, man.
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I'm not going to make it.
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But if you look at it as,
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man, I'm broken and I'm still here.
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And I'm fighting and I'm going to find a way to get through this because I have no other place to go.
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It gives you a lot of power.
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When things start to suck really,
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really bad my brain
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and a lot of people's brain don't they don't go to
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your dad beating you up your brain says we ain't out of here this is miserable
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so anger goes away a lot of times when you're suffering
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because your brain that says we got to run we got to go
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so that anger is not popping up saying oh I'm gonna show them I want to show those people.
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No. There has to be a much deeper,
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if I say deeper, it has to be down to mineral, mineral soil.
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It has to be down to that nice mineral soil where nothing can burn.
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You can't burn dirt.
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So it has to be down that low that literally is something in you that's at the core of your soul.
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But you But you don't find it unless you spend a lot of time with what you want to be in life.
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I can't give that to you.
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You can't give it to somebody.
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When you find your true passion in life,
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and my passion for me wasn't like,
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oh, I want to be in there.
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I don't give a Navy SEALs,
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Army, I don't give a shit.
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I want to serve my country.
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I cared about, I want to be someone that I'm proud of.
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I want to look at myself in the mirror because I was so disappointed.
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That accountability mirror I talk about,
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I was so disappointed in what I saw every day.
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I wanted everybody to love David Goggins and a lot of people did.
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I didn't love myself but I knew a lot of us want to find peace first.
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Some people say man you always talk about this suffering and pain.
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I'm at peace right now because I went through that.
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You don't find peace first.
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If you do Merry Christmas more power to you.
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More power to you.
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I found peace on the opposite end of finding myself and no one really finds themselves without going through trials,
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tribulations, suffering, accountability.
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And accountability is suffering.
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Being accountable every day for doing right for yourself,
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for the people next to you, it's miserable.
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It's hard.
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So, you know, even the smallest details.

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Why practice speaking with this video?

David Goggins’ motivational talk is an exceptional choice for english speaking practice. His powerful message emphasizes the importance of mental resilience and hard work, which can inspire learners to push through their own challenges. By engaging with this video, you not only gain insight into overcoming obstacles but also expose yourself to authentic language use and emotional expression. This dual benefit enhances your learn english with youtube experience, as you learn to articulate complex feelings and ideas.

Benefits of Shadowing

Practicing shadowing techniques alongside Goggins’ passionate delivery can improve your fluency and comprehension. Shadowing enables you to mimic the speaker, developing your speech rhythm and intonation. Through consistent practice, you’ll find that you can express yourself more confidently and dynamically in English.

Grammar & Expressions in Context

In his transcript, Goggins uses several key structures that are useful for English learners:

  • Imperatives: Goggins frequently uses commands, such as “put away your phones” and “control your brain.” This is a common way to motivate or instruct others in daily conversation.
  • Conditional phrases: He mentions, “If you can’t control your own brain... it’s over.” These conditional statements are essential for discussing possibilities, making them a vital part of crafting effective arguments.
  • Repetition for emphasis: Phrases like “go back again” illustrate how repetition can enhance understanding. This technique not only aids in memory retention but also in reinforcing a point in spoken English.

Mastering these structures will improve your ability to communicate ideas strongly, a useful skill in both personal and professional contexts.

Common Pronunciation Traps

While watching, pay attention to certain words and phrases that can be challenging to pronounce:

  • “Buoyant”: This term may throw off non-native speakers due to its unique vowel sounds. Practice saying it slowly: "BOY-ant."
  • “Control”: The blending of sounds can lead to mispronunciations. Focus on clearly articulating both syllables: "con-TROLL."
  • “Figure it out”: The phrases might feel fast when he speaks them. Work on slowing down initially, then gradually increase your speed while maintaining clarity.

Improving your english pronunciation is essential in these areas, as correct pronunciation leads to better understanding in conversations.

Utilizing this video allows you to not only learn vocabulary and structures but to experience how emotional language can profoundly impact your delivery. Incorporate these aspects into your practice sessions on our shadowspeak platform, and watch your English skills take flight!

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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