What It Takes to Be Great | David Goggins & Dr. Andrew Huberman
David Goggins shares his mindset around how he confronts daily friction, challenges misconceptions about his lifestyle, and reveals the intense dedication required to achieve greatness from adversity.
David Goggins is a retired Navy SEAL, highly accomplished ultramarathoner, best-selling author, and influential public speaker. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast.
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Honestly, Hormozi saying that ‘all champions are broken’ and Goggins saying that ‘it’s easy to be great nowadays since most people are weak’. It’s like a switch was finally switched. People say Goggins goes too far without realizing that they themselves are not going far enough. Any change is better than no change. Or like I always say: 1 is better than zero
Any change is better than no change? (S)imp.
S/o Hormozi
I’ll say this. This will lead to burnout for a lot of people. Some say it’s necessary but just know that: it has long term health effects. Time needs to be spent well
@@calender3721how do you know that it will affect you in long run what hurts the most is watching the fire inside you die
@@calender3721not if you do it the smart way and build up. I’ve constantly had people say you can’t train heavy every day of the weak, yet here I am doing it. I love training but hate it at the same time due to my injuries and illness. But I keep going because I tell my body what to do not the other way round. I train smart my body is in pain anyway, what matters is distinguishing the difference between that pain and the pain from going too far. The way I train is different to Goggins I personally wouldn’t train his way as it doesn’t interest me or suit my goals, I can’t have a huge amount of muscle or keep growing muscle doing his training.
What I like the most of goggins message is that he doesn't present success as a formula. Is a every day struggle and he still on that same path. You can't buy it, sign it, or read it. Definitely is more about constancy than motivation
David Goggins talks directly to people's soul.
Due to mental health and drugs i found myself homeless in Canadian winters. Would stay up a week walking all night to stay warm then go sit in library all day. Beat that and now i know i can do anything.
Glad to hear, Keep Going! 👍
How is it going now for you ? That's so inspiring
@@Success2.0CD mentally amazing, physically still catching up but it's going good overall thx for asking!
That's tough, bud . I'm Irish, so I know all about hard winters . I also know what it is to have nowhere to go , sleep . I hope you're in a better place now ..
Nothing can stop you.
Goggins runs with broken achile tendons, he trains with cracked bones. He became a savage. He made me want to train everyday for one hour. It does'nt seem much but i started at 55 and i am 56 now. People start ti think i am crazy and i am just beginning and i want to do this for the rest of my life.
Give Goggins a ton of props, but he REALLY nailed it with social media. Been off it for 3 years and I love it!
I feel so happy every time I hear him say merry Christmas 😊
He is right about judgmental people online. They love to be hate, send death-threats and relentlessly criticise others without respecting the fact that we are all human and trying our best.
Not using social media puts you way above normal people. Just one move: delete your socials. No exercise, no diet, no “going goggins.” Just delete. You’ll feel so much better. It’s a huge boost. AND THEN you’ll automatically have extra time for what you know you need to be doing.
Growth lies on the edge of comfort. You gotta put in the work people aren’t willing to do. I found this to be true in my life. Worked hard in the gym and building my content business while balancing everything else in life. It’s not easy and I just started, but it’s so rewarding
Dr.H- What does it take to be great?!? Goggins- Just be Great, No Excuses...Stop Making Excuses and Do Great things ALL THE TIME!!!
Summary FRICTION DRIVES GROWTH - David believes that friction, difficulty, and adversity are necessary for growth. He intentionally seeks out challenges and discomfort to push himself. OBSESSION AND EXTREME DEDICATION ARE REQUIRED TO BE GREAT - According to David, most people underestimate what it takes to achieve greatness. It requires relentless obsession, discipline, and near single-minded dedication. DAVID'S CHILDHOOD HARDSHIPS SHAPED HIS MINDSET - David suggests that his struggles as an overweight, insecure child who faced racism planted the seeds for his extreme drive. The "haunting" of his difficult past motivates him. DAVID FIGHTS CONSTANTLY AGAINST HIS OLD SELF - Even with his success, David feels he has to constantly battle against his old weaknesses creeping back in. He never feels he can relax or turn his intensity off. JUDGMENTS FROM "NORMAL" PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATING - David gets annoyed by people who haven't made the same sacrifices judging and criticizing his extreme approach. They underestimate what it takes to achieve what he has achieved.
Did you write this using ai? It looks like it honestly
Thank you, now I don't have to hear all the Fs!
That’s a keen observation! 🤔
I love this!! It spoke to my spirit!! Let's get it done!!!
My heart goes out to him listening to the hell he went through. 😢Unbelievable turnaround. May you continue to prosper. ❤
This is the best ever video ever I've watched the way says that this cannot be experienced by everyone And you cannot explain it to someone that is so real of a guy and says if u don't want to do u can go home merry Christmas, He is so real buit ❤you're changing my life and I can make it now
David leaves no stone unturned.
He is the very embodiment of the Marianne Williamson poem. Thank you, Goggins. ❤
God bless David Goggins. A national treasure.
BEST PART!!!!!! 2:10
00:03 Friction is essential for growth. 01:14 Achieving greatness requires extreme dedication and effort 02:37 Developing a mindset for greatness 03:53 Achieving greatness with constant discipline and a conqueror's mindset 05:13 Overcoming hardships can lead to extraordinary transformation. 06:33 Facing challenges and feeling overwhelmed 07:50 Overcoming challenges is a continuous and personal journey 09:06 Resisting pressure to join social media Crafted by Merlin AI.
where have we come when you need to timestamp 10 min video
Also needing AI assistance to do it
@@HiddenKeyElement Levels to this madness
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Dude spiting bars on this one!
Sending kindness and love to Andrew Huberman
And goggins
Mr Goggins, I hear you, the battle starts every day, as soon as I open my eyes. I know every day I will win, but I also know I have to take that first step into ring, even thou I know I will win, one still needs to begin, so as to claim that win. I think that first step in the morning taken with hope, is where people don't make it. For one needs to train one's brain, to get through the pain, and a win every day one will always gain. You just need to believe !!!
He never stops fighting inertia
Best comment
Ill never get tired of hearing Goggins talk
Ill tell you what made you great brother, yes sure what you are saying it right too. You pushing your body and mind to its extreme and doing stuff that is considered hard among an average individual is definitely a huge factor in where you stand today. But do you realize that most people do that with their life in their own ways? Do you realize that almost every common man or an average individual does it too? They work 9-5 or even 9-9 almost every weekday to become who they are and achieve what they want to do. However, they all fail or adjust to what they have and live a simple life by giving up on all the dreams. Now, to say why you are GREAT* I think you are great because, first of all you chose what you want to do...this is point 1. 2 - No matter what you chose to do, you never harmed anyone willingly/intentionally(In the sense doing something bad/harm even tho you know it is very bad). You just blindly did what you wanted to do without caring what others would think of you and sent it all the way without harming anyone. GOD sees THIS* Gods sees your efforts and also sees that you do not mean any harm to people who might even be talking trash about you(Infact, you praise those people who talk trash about you). Most people do not even do step 1, they are stuck in a life which their parents want them to live* They are stuck in a life where they do not want to be* They are all stuck in a life because of a fear of failure* They are scared to do things*. This is probably the majority..(Who convince themselves that the life they live is enough and they can never be something) and give up. And then there is a minority that tries and fails, I think they fail because they do wrong stuff or the stuff they do is harming others indirectly or directly and sometimes even harming the earth in many ways. These people might see success but not like you or even people greater than you. I would say you aren't that smart, you aren't that crazy or insane nor have you created something huge for humanity. All you did was push yourself and your body for years like a fuking maniac. This itself made you one of the greatest. I mean almost every fitness guy in almost every major city knows you. This level of GREATNESS can't be achieved simply... The sole fact of you believing in god says that you feel the hand of god in your life. Trust me, I feel it too sometimes... But I think that is only happening because you mean no harm(even if you come across as rude and many other things) But God knows that you mean no harm to anyone and want to mind your own business and try and do good as much as possible( tell me I am wrong :) ). Also, you are the One Punch Man of our Reality. IFKYK.
I would love to teach piano to David to see what it comes out of that lol. Probably he would be better than me in one year.
Or may be in one month! 😋
I have been playing for 20 years so one month is more than enough for David. Agreed!!! lol@@gagankatariaakagaganastic1180
stay hard!
2:30 powerful
People love to hate but hate to love
Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts,
david goggins and steven pressfield MUST do an interview together. Resistance UNLOCKED lol
Let's not forget, Andrew's guest and colleague at Stanford, Dr Robert Sapolsky, said there is no such thing as free will, no such thing thing as overcoming, no such thing as becoming great or gaining discipline or mustering any sort of grit or strength to triumph at anything in life. He said with full confidence that all inspirational stories are determined in biology and that human effort means nothing and can have zero influence on life. Therefore David Goggins should not be looked up to because his achievements were already determined for him, and a criminal should not be looked down upon for the same reason. But does that sound sane?
The only thing about free will people miss, is that if you can abstractly represent free will, you can neurologically change in response to that, that is you can build yourself to respond to the representation of the "will", but then why would will represent itself if it is purely outside human control? That doesn't make sense to me. Now I agree that "being" is so far rooted in biology that there is virtually no "you" as a free entity, because there is too much history in your body's architecture to really distinguish you from any other entity before you, but we don't act that way, and I am not sure what would happen if people would act this way. Human effort cannot mean nothing because it is that same human effort that is recited in the oldest of stories, and is deemed meaningful. I believe there is a will within because the brain constrains the world almost infinitely such that you can act, and because the world you can perceive is a model partly computed by your neurobiology, and partly by biologically independent structures, there is a way to act and it is on a spectrum with respect to outcomes determined in your neurobiology. But I don't believe these neurobiological system just fire upon request by a will, it partly get activated by novelty, which is outside of you, but how you represent that in within will, and you as in the you that is conscious can decide how to act if your will can be represented through novelty. It's hard to say if there is much willing in habits, since the brain turns off substantially when doing a task well known with an expected outcome.
@@liviu445 "you can build yourself to respond..." But Sapolsky says this is not true, because if there is no free will in the sense he means, there is no building of any sort you can do because what you can do or not do, including building yourself in any way, has determined for you even before you were born. By the way, I do not agree with Sapolsky. I actually think he is insane.
@@thepath964 free will argumebts verge on insanity, because if true, it's scary, because every bad habit is you, and we will never know, if false, it means we were slaves to the world, the world that isn't human, the world before human, but not before beings.
If there is no free will then we definitely live in a simulation where someone or something already determined our lifes. I like to think that's not the case. I think we all make our own choices but of course a big percentage of what happens to us we have no control over.
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I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. -Friedrich Nietzsche-
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Wearing socks to bed
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I am the greatest 🦾🦾🦾
I will STAY HARD,
The only thing more barbaric about pain is wanting more of it 😮
Fuckin 🔥🔥🔥🔥
you dont be great, you just be yourself
Bro greatness is subjective , i feel goggins has to call himself great , otherwise he wud kill himself
You can believe in god but with those stoic values he won’t believe in you, unless all the strength you have is prayed for and borrowed from god. Areté and believing in the bible don’t mix.
1 Corinthians 10:13; 🛟 Ephesians 4:20-32; 1 Corinthians Chapter 4 - “theatrical spectacle” 🎭 and Ecclesiastes12:11-14📚
I find it interesting that he says he hates social media for judging him right after he calls all people on social media fat, lazy, normal everyday people.. I think people use hate and judgement to prove to themselves that they are better than others. It is indeed very, very difficult to really accept people as they are, acknowledge those who do valuable things and simply stay away from those who do harm without harming them back.
is he wrong? he is doing great things because he's not an average social media addict
He didn't say all people on social media. He said THOSE people. Not surprising, though you don't have any listening comprehension. Typical social media NPC.
@@JesusChrist2000BC He used generalization when talking about people on social media, of which you are also part right now, as you're trying to discredit my capabilities, when you could've brought a better argument.
@@1eV There are many people out there doing great things with their lives, who still use social media. There are also those who are good at things without showing others on social media. I don't believe social media use causes stupidity, addiction or failure to accomplish things in life. Succes or accomplishments in life are only matters involving dlligence. He is doing things as he pleases, not necessarily because he is not using social media. He just decides he wants to do those things. There may be a correlation, but there is no causality between not using social platforms and being good at something. He could've also been good at something without being visible on the internet, so without you even knowing he exists.
@@andreearuxandra4633 you should. No man is doing truly great things(not average things) while using the social media just like the average joe.
"im normal" nahh i dont think so buddy
What does goggins actually do that even matters ?
He changed his life. Can you say the same thing?
His passed “HELL WEEK” test ,twice. I doubt you can stand for an hour😅
Firefighter?
Self mastery and teachers others how. How’s your life going?
He motivates unlike you!
Falling asleep and you gotta get up to piss
no, just live your life as you want, nobody can tell you how to do it, if you die fat or lean doesn't matter, you are dead anyways, don't waste your time, enjoy the life as far as you can. 😂
No, that is not the reason why God created you, gave you life, and gave you countless blessings.
@@The__seif ooh, maybe I wasn't there when he was saying that to you 😂
@@ArowanaNFTs it is just the fact whether you believe it or not
@@The__seif how come, what you say is a fact and what i say is not a fact? 😂
@@ArowanaNFTs are you atheist ?
Or be born Elon Musk if you can do that.
I wish he was able to express himself without constantly resorting to swearing
What is this man doing ? He JUST RUN AND OBEY ORDER, there is nothing creative in this man action. And did he win anything ? He is far from an example, the only thing he does is enduring physical suffering with sport. No creativity, no team management, no discover, no innovation, no risk taken I don't understand why people listen this guy
It's interesting that you asked what it is that he did or is doing? He has done in his life what probably 99% won't ever do because they are weak with a victim mentality. How many people do you know who have overcome what he has and achieved what he has? There are millions of people who have done great things who will never be recognized or "win" things. Winning something doesn't define "success." Winning something for recognition can be as arbitrary as the people giving these awards out. Actors win awards because they are the most popular. The Pulitzer prize is given out base on what the group judging likes. Winning a game can come down to a call made by the referee. Winning an art prize is completely subjective, as are books. All these are creative endeavors and yet winning an award only says someone likes your work, not necessarily that it's great. He has discovered how to overcome adversity to make himself resilient. In order to be at the level he is at, he has to know how to team manage and be creative. He probably has taken more risks than most people out there. The reason you don't understand why people listen to him is because your definition of creativity, discovery, risk taking is very generic.
What does Lebron do?
He changed his life for the better. Have you?
Cry somewhere else! Stop being triggered because he hurt your feelings by speaking the "truth." He has 10 million plus followers and changed those million people lives. He even stopped some from suicide.. What are you doing with your life ? Again, cry somewhere else
I think your comment perfectly shows the misunderstanding our society has of what a success in this game called “being human“ actually is. All the things you listed are based on achievement in the external world. Those can be taken away from you by life at any moment. Someone who TRULY understands this will naturally aspire to become someone who is completely untouched by anything that life throws at them. So the greatest achievement and success any man or woman can achieve is to truly master themselves. He chose the path of physical hardship to get the job done. The reason people are respecting him so much is because those who are on this path and understand the challenges of that kind of life know how incredibly difficult it is to handle life the way David is handling it. For a mind that is always looking for something to be gained it is very hard to understand why one would do all these things without any reward/result/value. But that’s exactly the point. The only result a man like David is looking for is to conquer himself. And deep down no matter if we are courageous enough to look at it or not: That’s what everybody wants. Complete Freedom within yourself no matter what kind of external situation you are facing. Becoming a master of life.
Neither of these guys are great.
Why do you think that is?
Can’t stand David goggins cursing.
Evidently you can, after all youve heard enough to have an opinion. If you really couldnt stand it youd just dip out and not say a word.
@@thesocialistsarecoming8565 3 months ago I posted this haven’t ever listened to him since or much before. if I didn’t care I would dip out. Cursing is disgusting. For a man who is so focused on “excellence” he sure doesn’t speak like it.
@@bryanutility9609 youve never met many ex military have ya?
@@thesocialistsarecoming8565 Joxko Willink, Chanel Sonnen, & Patrick David are 3 ex military famous public figures who do not curse like trash as part of their persona. You embarrass yourself with such low standards.
@@bryanutility9609 "youve never met many ex military have ya?" Just had to repeat the question because it still fully applies here in spite of the 3 people youve seen on youtube that dont even necessarily fit your description. Afterall, for all you know they just dont curse when recording and 'swear like sailors' most of the rest of the time 😂
All good except for the F word
It does not take anything to be great since most of society is lazy. Stay hard,