Shadowing Practice: You vs You 2.0 - David Goggins Motivation - Learn English Speaking with Video

If I could instill one piece of advice into all human beings, it would simply be to believe in yourself beyond,

you know, without a doubt, believe in yourself.

And don't rely on anybody to believe in you.

Don't rely on anybody to push you or make you better.

Believe in yourself and only yourself and allow

that human being to make you a better person judge yourself against no one

but yourself there is no there you're you're racing against no one

but yourself and when you continuously think that you're when you compare yourself to other people you are losing the race

it's like this race is you against you man

so don't get caught up in all this bullshit out here the social media

and this is where i'm at this is what i'm doing this is how great i am

fucking leave all that shit behind man worry about yourself worry about what you're doing

and worry about where you're going

and only where you're going to be your best self there's something inside you

that the brain is the most powerful thing the mind's most powerful thing

that we have it's not your phone it's not the computer it's not anything it's your mind

and if you can tap into

that you can come from the from the daggone roots of hell and become such a great seed

a powerful seed that can grow into some great daggone garden

and people don't get that it's all up here the power

and the magic's up here what are you willing to give up everything

and when people come to me with

that kind of mindset i can work with you

when you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing

and give everything that's who i want to work with

because now I can mold you into exactly who you want to be how bad do you want this

if it's as bad as you want to live or breathe

or sleep whatever hell it may be I can work with

you a lot of people most people don't want it that badly

which is why they always ask the question how did you

get to where you are do you know how to do it you know exactly how to be you

or how to be me you don't want to do it

so we read a bunch of books nowadays as as humans

we we want to find out how to be someone else what we don't do is we don't go

inside so literally turn yourself inside out read the book

that says like we're writing a book every day of our lives

but we never read that book so what I would challenge this young man

or young woman to do is you have to look inside

of yourself to see what you really want what are you passionate about we use these words

and these little phrases of only the strong survive

and all this other crap they're all just words i get

so tired of hearing people just talking like right now someone

may think god is just talking you don't know me so

when i speak i speak from passion i speak from experience

i i speak from suffering i had a starting point

and the starting point was this very scared immature fragile kid

but through figuring out this fragile kid I found out well shit through all this fucking muck

and shit this can come out the other end person has 4030 pull ups who runs miles

and miles and miles at a time

but we all have these abilities not just to run

and do pull -ups but these abilities

that once we go back into our dark holes

that a lot of us have a lot of us come from you know insecurities a lot of issues

but we don't want to visit that place

place is scary place is something

that we want to forget about i had the courage finally to go back in there

and organize that get it organized in my mind and figure out you know where to start from

so but the journey led me to the so -called superhuman stuff

that i do now yeah

so a few years ago I used to work on an ambulance

and we pull up to some horrific car accidents

and we had to assess the scene and we had this golden hour

that golden hour is very important we had to get people loaded in the ambulance

and get in the hospital every morning of our lives we were in

that golden hour we are assessing the scene of our own

personal lives are we fat are we lazy do we not want to accomplish anything in life?

You have to assess yourself.

After you assess yourself, you have to formulate a plan.

That plan is to fix what the fuck is wrong with you.

If you don't do that in life, you will continue to lay there and die and rot away.

So make sure you do one thing for yourself in life.

Make sure you save yourself.

Assess yourself and fix the problem.

Stay hard.

We put a governor on our brain, and the second we get to that governor, our bodies start doing this.

Oh, this sucks.

This is uncomfortable.

No, no, no, no, no. Let's go this way.

Let's stop.

It starts giving you all these questions that we cannot answer.

If you can't answer the questions your brain's asking you, you quit.

If you have the answers to those questions of why the hell am I out here, and you give it a quick answer, the brain starts shutting up.

Because it knows why we're doing what we're doing.

i started figuring these things out in my life

so we have this governor on our brain

and how you start pushing past

that governor start realizing your brain has the tactical advantage over you why

because it knows your insecurities it knows

when you're lying it knows your fears knows everything about you i was haunted

so we all have these voices in our head we like to not listen to

the one that comforts us and keeps us nice and warm

and cuddly and gives us cookies and milk at nighttime

and we like that voice that voice the one we want to always hear

which is why people don't like to listen to me a

lot some people do some people don't the only thing

that changes you is being real

so basically you know i had to have the courage to go back in it

because nothing was getting done i kept on going to

that nice cuddly voice in my head saying you know what

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you don't need to do this that's too much work man you've earned this you deserve this and

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that mentality got me to 297 pounds fat out of shape

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to me a loser to me making a thousand dollars a month

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and making a ton of mistakes

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because mistakes happen on the easy side of life you take

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the easy road the easy path there's a lot of mistakes

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over there the hard journey you don't make too many mistakes over here

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because it's too hard you don't want to repeat it so it's challenging

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self -talk and visualization are the two keys to my success i believed for that last time 19 miles

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i was indestructible because i took myself in

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that chair crapping up my back peeing blood on my leg shin splints stress fractures i use all

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that for motivation versus negativity i use it for on a

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base i i said to myself who on this earth would still be going right now you are you are

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you gotta be the hardest on the planet is it true i don't give a at that time

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it got me to the finish line of

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that race i believed it i believe it today i believed it enough to where my body said

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He's not gonna stop and That's I took all the negative things.

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I need to go to the hospital this and that

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and I use all Who the hell would even think about taping stretch fractures up you did

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All those things I use for motivation you don't want to break open

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that that callus That

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that scar on your mind you want to break no you have to break it open let that blood flow

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You have to let blood flow in your brain.

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You have to let all that stuff flow out.

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All that toxic stuff that you have trapped in there has to start flowing out now.

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So, like he said, you are doing this to yourself.

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Yes, people may have helped you get there, but it's now on you.

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That's a painful truth, though.

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It's a painful truth.

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Painful truth.

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Like all those people in high school and everything else, they don't know how you're going to end up.

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So you got to make sure

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that you constantly are rewriting your book you have to constantly rewrite your book every day of your life

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so i can't make you do it in order i have the time

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or energy to force you into that place that i know you have to be to do it

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there's no luck in this game and it may be a little bit of luck

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but the luck happens after you bust your ass

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and you put yourself in that lucky situation luck doesn't happen you put yourself in

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that situation where luck might fucking happen and that's what people don't know

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but to get there luck ain't gonna happen you have to put yourself in

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that situation man it takes a lot of work i want my mind to know who's in charge

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so for the better part of 26 years my mind was in charge of me yeah

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which is why i made all these horrible decisions once you

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take control of your mind you start making decisions for yourself

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versus your mind making decisions for you what they do in

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hell week is they design hell week to find your flaws

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and they do a really good job of

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that it's 130 hours of continuous training you make it two hours of sleep

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and they beat the out of you and find everything wrong with your mentality

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and then they start hell week and that's the beauty of it

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and for me I'm not some not no nasty God -given

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guy you know I don't have a great bit of talent in anything

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so what got me through horrible times was the dark side

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was I created my name is David Goggins I created Goggins Goggins is the guy

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that can take anything you put in front of him you want to break my motherfucking legs

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so be it I have a way of going to a place I could in

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that race where all the pain and suffering

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that they put on top of me in hell week i will reverse

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that pain and suffering and i will take your soul

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so every instructor

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that put me through buds my job what drove me was i wanted you to go home

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that night after you beat the living out of me

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and i smiled in your face i wanted you to feel worse than i did

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and you were going home to a nice warm bed with your wife

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or your kids and a nice meal

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and I was still out there in the grip suffering for

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another hundred hours I want you to think about me knowing

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that I'm comfortable being very un -fucking -comfortable

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and I want you to think about

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when you went through fucking hell week how uncomfortable you were

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how bad you wanted to quit knowing I'm not thinking

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that fucking way and whenever those things start like right now I'm scared to death up here why

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when I was in sixth grade i was in the play

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and i stood up for a whole bunch of white people

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that probably didn't you know i was being judged in my mind scared the out of me

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and i stuttered severely bad i knew i stuttered bad my line was this long it's like hello

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or some and i stood up for everybody i was like this

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and i walked off stage so when i walk up in 1 ,200 people, it's still there.

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My mind's telling me, go, run off the stage.

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I have to tell my mind something different.

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I have to remember my resume, what I've been through, that all of you in here are just as fucked up as me.

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We post our real life never on Instagram.

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We post the life that we want to have out there.

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That's not me anymore.

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I'm going to tell you exactly about me, who I am, that's how you get better, that's how you fix yourself, that's how you grow.

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I'm going to move on real quick to the very end of my story.

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I could be up here for a long time, but I need some questions.

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I did everything I talked about up here.

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I ran 205 miles, I ran 7 ,000 miles in 2007 to raise two million dollars for Special Operations Warrior Foundation.

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Thank you.

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I did it all with a hole in my heart, the size of a dime.

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we have two voices in our mind

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and boy i know they're fucking true i've heard them i hear them now

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and they're real there's that one voice

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that voice i used to love to fucking hear

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that we love to hear it's that soft motherfucker that soft motherfucker voice that says sleep the fuck in

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it's okay it's that coddling voice you want to be hugged

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and nurtured and all that shit

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that says it's gonna be okay well there's another motherfucking voice

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that wakes you up in the middle of the night it's not your girlfriend it's not your boyfriend it's

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that demon fucking voice

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that whispers in your fucking ear it says get up motherfucker

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you're not fucking good enough you gotta work fucking hard you haven't put enough time in it's

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that voice you want to run away from it's

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that voice you don't want to fucking hear but guess what it's

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that voice you need to fucking listen to stay hard listen to the whisper you know and

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that these aren't just words i say this is how i

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have to live like these are conversations i have with myself

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and i say it everywhere i go the most important conversation

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when you have with yourself yes you live with it every single day

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but most of our conversations are not the right ones they're not the ones

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that are going to push us to the place we need to go they're the ones

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that are going to keep us sitting

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in that toxic environment that you've helped create and everybody else helped create

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and you just live in it you live in that muck

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and that conversation just plays in your head

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that becomes you basically a lot of us aren't prepared for life we get up willy -nilly

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and it's hope life is going to happen it is going to happen

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but it's going to happen with the prepared mind or an unprepared mind.

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Most people attack life with an unprepared mind.

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What I do is I try to account for all things that could happen, might happen, probably will happen, and then the unknowns.

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So basically, I can't account for everything, but I do know there could be some things that come up in life that you need to be ready for.

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I know for a fact I'm not going to want to work out tomorrow.

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Therefore, I'm preparing my mind for that.

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I don't want to do that.

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I know tomorrow will come with some difficult decisions to make.

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It may come with getting a phone call saying someone died.

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This happened. That happened.

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I'm always preparing myself, not in a morbid way, but just like, look, man, be ready for life.

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Don't let life just start attacking you left and right.

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Make sure that you start to build a mental armor

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so then you're ready for life and that comes with a very physical way

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and the physical helps out the mental

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so one big thing is accountability you have to start with yourself

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so what happened in my life was we started to get

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i call it like the rucksack a rucksack is a pack

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that you carry in the military

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and you put all your stuff in your radios your food your water all

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that stuff you have to carry in the military that's your

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rucksack it's a backpack pretty much as you're growing up we

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all have a backpack most of ours hopefully is empty you know

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and what we put in it is all the crap we go through in life

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that's what is in the backpack for the civilians

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and we carry it around with us

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so what you have to start doing is realizing

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that no matter where you're at in life my dad abused

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me you know learning disability stutters immaturity insecurities self -doubt

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so much crap on top of me

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so much stuff i lied a lot to create friends so people so much stuff was in my backpack

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no one's coming back to help me so it starts with

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that person in that mirror you have to realize you are on your own now

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and whatever else you believe in i don't care what you believe in

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but on earth it's a very lonely journey

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and it starts with the accountability mirror I'm looking at saying

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hey my dad who beat the hell out of me is

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not coming back all these things are coming back I have to face myself

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and you have to own all those things

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that people may have done to you now it's yours you

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got to own it it's yours now to fix the problems

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that people did to you it makes no sense it's not fair I get it

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but if you live in

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that what was me mentality of guess what my dad did

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this to me my mom just did to me people who

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bully did this to me you're going to always live right

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there you have to figure out ways to move forward

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because you're not coming back it starts with the mirror i call it the accountability mirror in the book

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if you can dream and not make dreams your master we all have dreams i had it when i was younger

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So I figured the best place to make those dreams come true are in isolation.

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So I walked into isolation as Dave the Goggins, but I walked out of isolation as Goggins.

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When you become a savage, it's in isolation.

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When you train for a big MMA fight or just a boxing match, you don't stay outside of isolation.

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You go in isolation And that's when your mind changes That's

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when your focus changes Your dedication changes Don't use this time

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to fuck up your mind Use it to gain strength Gain focus

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Isolation is the key To strengthen your mind Come on a savage

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 274 sentences and 3258 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:10. The speaker talks at a natural 179 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
isolation noun	/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/	The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
assess verb	/əˈsɛs/	To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.
mirror noun	/ˈmiɹɚ/	A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
suffer verb	/ˈsʌfɚ/	To undergo hardship.
backpack noun	/ˈbæk.pæk/	A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when…
painful adjective	/ˈpeɪn.fl̩/	Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
scare verb	/skɛɚ/	To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
accountability noun	/əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/	The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for…
mentality noun	/mɛnˈtæləti/	A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.
insecurity noun		A lack of security; uncertainty.
horrible adjective	/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/	Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
courage noun	/ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/	The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
versus	/ˈvɝsəs/	Against; in opposition to.
rely verb	/ɹɪˈlaɪ/	To trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
toxic adjective	/ˈtɒk.sɪk/	Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come back verb		To return to a place.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get up verb		To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
stand up for verb		To speak or act in support or defense of (a person, a cause, a belief, or the like).
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
give up verb		To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to work · used to love
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've earned · have trapped · I've been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was haunted · being judged · be hugged

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 79 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: sixth /sɪksθ/, breathe /bɹiːð/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, accountability /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like isolation, assess, mirror.

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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