بخش 10

You hit that snooze button, you’ve now lost the war. The one thing you can control, you’ve lost, already lost. So then you snooze. Let’s say you get up at 645 now because you snooze a couple times, a few times. You go in the shower, and now your day’s all late, you’re started, so now you feel a little guilty now, you fucking missed your workout. You go in the shower; you’re running late for work now. So now, all these things you can control, now once you open that door of your apartment or your house, you’re now in the real fucking world. And guess what the real world’s going to do? It’s going to fuck you up. You’ll get to work. The boss may not like you that day. He may be fucking mad. So the whole thing about the jar of fuck, you must win the war in the morning, so then when you go into life, that you cannot control, you’ve already mentally won so many battles early in the fucking morning, so you’re going into fucking war, having already won something, so you’re not going to war defeated.

You’re going to war knowing, I did my pushups, I did my sit ups, I read, I meditated, whatever the fuck you do. You’re prepared for what the fuck life is going to bring you. But most of us, we walk into war with no fucking weapon. And the weapon is this. The weapon is this. We haven’t sharpened it. If you go into a fire, and you don’t sharpen that fucking blade. I’m a wildland firefighter. We use a tool called a Pulaski. If you don’t sharpen the fucking point of that fucking Pulaski, and you start digging in fucking rock, it’s going to be a hard-ass dig. If you keep that fucker nice and sharp, like your mind, every war you go into, you get a better chance of survival. But we fuck up in the morning. We don’t win what we can win. We leave our house a mess. We leave our life a mess. And that’s how our life becomes. A fucking mess. [Vishen] So get those victories straight up in the morning. [David] There’s so many morning victories that we have that we just fucking fail to take advantage of. [Vishen] Could I ask, what do you do in the morning? [David] Every single morning, first thing I do is I get up in the morning time and I run. The one thing I hate the fucking most is running. So if I’m attacking the thing I hate the most, I go home, I put a fucking chip right in the jar, in the mental jar. I fucking won already motherfucker. I’ve already won. I’ve already beat myself. So the only person that you’re fighting every day is yourself. It’s not your boss. It’s not this or that. Yeah, those are all obstacles. A lot of them you cannot, control, those obstacles. But you can control yourself. You can control how you start your fucking day. But we, a lot of us choose not to do that. [Vishen] Now it sounds like you’re talking about, really, embracing the dark side, right? [David] Yes. [Vishen] What do you say to critics who say, look, your lifestyle is never going to make someone happy. [David] So a lot of people read my face, and they say, you’re stoic, you’re not happy, you’re not this, you’re not that. You talk so much darkness. What people don’t understand is that enlightenment, peace, you first, you first must go through hell. You first must go through suffering to find that great peace we’re all looking for. A lot of us want to have, there’s a lot of books out there about this five-steps, do this, do this, do this, get there. No, man, it’s not that easy. To find real permanent peace and enlightenment, you must go into the dark side of who you are. I could have easily just shoved my whole life under a

rug and went straight to peace. Are you happy there? You overcame nothing. You’ve jumped hell. You skipped hell for, you forego this part of your life, you skip it and go right to peace. So you always have this thing back here that’s haunting you, and that’s that darkness. You must go into the darkness to truly find that light that you’re looking for, because that’s what’s on the other side of that. People get it all wrong, man. You have to face suffering. You have to face this dark side, this darkness. And there’s a lot of energy in there. There’s a lot of goodness in there that you can use to find greatness. But you cannot find your peace you’re looking for in yourself until you’ve overcome yourself. We all, like this whole Instagram world. We love showing people this world that we have, this fake world. We show everybody the good side of us. I don’t do that shit. I want to show you how fucked up I am so you can fucking learn. I’m not going to learn from your great big house and your trips you go on, and your beautiful shoes. We all love to see what people have, their nice shit. Show me your ugly shit. That’s where I’m going to learn. I’m going to learn from the dark,