بخش 05

Yeah, it’s sucks. Really bad. Oh really really bad.

But we all live on this side of suffering. On this side, this nice box that’s very comfortable that we know when everything is going to happen.

We’re in it, it’s good. We know how everything’s going to turn out. It’s those few people who are willing to go on this side of suffering, and once they get through that, ask him how he feels now.

His mind, how far he grew in that short period of time, during that typhoon, during that storm, he finished that race.

He grew so much more than a normal person, because we was willing to go outside himself, because on the other end of suffering is greatness. It’s not over here.

So a whole bunch of us, we put ourselves in this great box, and in that box, there’s no suffering in it. So what we do is we shelter ourselves from greatness.

So for me, for instance. I was 300 damn pounds at one time in my life. Sprayed for cockroaches. Made $1000 a month.

I was living in that box. I would sometimes look over the box and I saw hell, suffering, storms, avalanches, tornadoes. I don’t want to go over there.

But I knew if I can get through that shit, mentally, on the other side was a 185-pound person who was a Navy SEAL, went through Ranger school, only person to do this, only person to do that, only person to do this. But that’s through all of that shit.

All of that shit I had to go through. So you peek over the box, and you go back in, and you say, oh, I’m okay being 300 pounds, making $1000 a month. I’m okay over here.

Because that hurdle is suffering.

Suffering.

And when you’re willing to go past suffering and see that suffering is one of the best ways you can grow, that you can overcome, because you can suffer for the long term.

You can suffer slowly, or you can go through pain and then experience what’s on the other side.

Yeah, on the other side is where you start to really start your journey. People think they start their journey because they’re born.

No, there’s a lot of people in graves who have lived 100 years and have never started their real journey. Your real journey starts when you go outside that box and you start climbing mountains, and start climbing mountains, and you think you’re at the top of the mountain.

You go down the other side of it thinking, I’m here, and you look up, fuck, there’s another fucking mountain. And it goes on. And it goes on. And it goes on.

And just when you get ready to quit, you crest that final mountain, you get down, and you look, and there you are, and it starts to make sense to you then.

It doesn’t make sense to you until you get outside that fucking box. I’ll talk to so many fucking people, and what I say is not for everybody.

So many people don’t have any clue on what the fuck I’m saying because they’re in this box. And it’s their brain.

The mind’s a very powerful thing. It has a tactical advantage over you all the time. It knows your fears. It knows your insecurities. It knows where you don’t want to go.

So it will guide you away from that. And that’s why the mind will always win until you reprogram it. It will always win until you fucking reprogram it, because the mind controls you.

Why is that? It’s your fucking mind. It’s your mind. Because all those things that happened to you in your life. All those bad things. All those things that you blame other people for.

They’re now yours to own. You got to figure out a way to reprogram your mind to get outside the box.

And so three things folks, for those of you who are taking notes and paying attention, three things I got out of what David just said.

And I’m just connecting the dots between everyone else we have brought on to this show. The first is that study from Google. Suffering makes us better people.

The best performers in fricking Google were the ones, were young people who had gone through some pain in their life.

And when you look at life like that you see that sometimes pain can be a gift. Pain makes us who we are. And people who have gone through suffering, they come out of that, and they can bitch, and they can whine, or they can look back at that suffering and reflect upon what they learned. And it seems that that’s what you did.

Right.

Right, so there is an advantage on the other side of that dark tunnel. Now the second thing is that when you put yourself through suffering, it changes your self-identity.

When you willingly put yourself through suffering. That’s what Jason did when he ran that Spartan Race in the typhoon, because for the rest of his life, you know, someone could dump him.

He could be put down by someone else. He could have self-doubts. But he’s the fucking guy who ran a Spartan Race in a fucking typhoon, right?

That’s right.

And that identity will never leave him because it’s true. So when you put yourself through something like that, you’re earning a badge, right?

You know how when you were in the military, you would get all of these badges. That’s a badge. And that badge, no one can ever take away from you because that’s your story, and that is something you, that’s something that’s going to hold you up from all the other shit that you go through in life.

Now the third thing that I wanted to share is I was interviewing Marissa Peer.