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The final thing I want to ask you is, one thing I notice about you is you are unapologetically you.

You are David Goggins, right, and you don’t give a fuck about how anyone else thinks of you or judges you, or how other people show up.

One of my favorite quotes of you is, Do you.

I let you do you, and I don’t judge people. And I’m all about doing you, because I’m fucking going to do me, and I’m going to do me ‘til I’m fucking dead ‘because I earned that right.

That’s right.

Let’s talk about that for a moment.

How do we become so authentic, so real our ourself, right, and we spoke about transformational theorists?

Transformational theorists define authenticity as this.

It’s a decrease in our need for other people to validate us.

It is an increase in our self-worth, and it’s having a clearer personal vision.

Now you embody all of that.

But where is that coming from?

What would be your advice for other people to embody that?

My biggest kryptonite I ever had in my life was caring about what the fuck anybody thinks about me.

Biggest kryptonite, it kept me fucking shackled in my mind.

It kept me so fucking shackled because I cared, oh my God, like, for instance, I guarantee you I’m going to hear a ton of shit about he cusses so much.

Can you say your message without fucking cussing?

If my life coming up was better, I would.

I would.

It would give me a different tone.

It would give me a different reality about what life is.

But it wasn’t that way.

It’s what the fuck it was.

It sucked.

It was hard.

It was difficult.

I overcame it.

The strength I get from truly, like you said, the theorists.

I love theorists, talk about being unapologetic, being authentic, most theorists, I guarantee you man, it’s a word they’re saying.

They go home and wish they could be what the fuck they say.

When you lie a lot growing up, you start to develop a very false reality.

I wanted that false reality to be real.

I wanted to really not give a fuck about people.

I always said it, I don’t give a fuck.

You know, that’s the tough guy coming out.

I don’t give a fuck what people think about me.

I wanted to really be there.

Because at the end of the day, this is how I look at it.

What are people doing for you?

Are they paying your bills?

No.

You’re going to do whatever you have to do to succeed.

They need to do them.

You need to do you.

And the worst thing you could ever do, what makes person shackled, is worrying about, if I sat here and worried right now, during this interview, every word I would say would be thought about.

I would say, oh man, I can’t say that because I’m going to offend them, and I don’t want to offend them.

And I don’t want to offend them.

And I don’t want to offend them.

You can see it in people.

They’re robots.

They’re programmed to say things that are just right here.

When you’ve lived a hard life.

A life that you suffered, a life that you overcame.

No one helped me in this shit.

No one came and fucking helped me out, so why the fuck do I care what you think about me?

No one handed me shit.

I had to fucking invent a way to succeed so I sit in this fucking right now and watch what the fuck I say, because someone’s fucking offended.

What the fuck did I really live for?

What did I live?

I’m giving them all the fucking credit.

No, I created David fucking Goggins.

Yes, God helped me.

But no one

else came to fucking save me, so why am I going to fucking watch what the fuck I say, and care how I fucking say it.

Love that, love that, David.

Thank you so much for joining us on Mindvalley.

Appreciate it.

This is some, by the way, love your passion.

Love your intensity.

I hope you guys enjoyed this.

I was riveted.

And you speak with such passion, it’s exemplary, really.

I appreciate you, man.

Thanks for having me.

David’s book, Can’t Hurt Me.

I just read the opening chapter.

As we’re recording this, the book hasn’t been published yet, but I can tell you, it’s a powerful fricking book.

You want to look up this book.

You want to follow this man on Instagram.

You want to google David Goggins and read and listen to all the stuff out there, because this guy is a kick in the butt to help you become who you really are.

And remember that heaven question.

What would you do on the day you die, when you reach heaven, and you see that list of the man or woman you could be, and you find that you are only 40% there?

And I can tell you, as David said, that ain’t going to be heaven no more.

So watch this guy’s stuff, and let’s jack up that 40%.

Thanks, David.

Appreciate it, thank you.