بخش 07

But a lot of us are self-talking lies. Without having put in the fucking work. When you get to the time when you need to draw on this self-talk, it’s a fucking lie. Mine’s truth. So where I go to, at mile 75 of a 135-mile race, and I’m broke down, and my feet are blistered up, and I’m all just jacked up. My nutrition’s messed up and I’m cramping, and I’m horrible, worst state in my life. And I have to go another 65 miles more miles, 70, whatever it may be. I take that time, like I talked about being calm, in calming my mind down in hell, because when you’re at mile 75, in the worst shape of your fucking life, your mind spazzes. It realizes, I’m going 135 miles, and at 75 I can barely fucking move. I’m fucked. So your mind says, we’re done. The end is too fucking far away. So you start drawing on all these different tools. The tools don’t fuck work for you if you haven’t put the time in. So what I’m doing now, is I’m calming my mind down before I start self-talking. And then I start to reflect back, on all the years I put in to making myself who I am today. All the hours, all the months I put in for training for that race. All the three o’clock in the morning times I woke up at three o’clock in the morning, and my feet were so fucked up, and I was so just sore from the night before that I’m sitting there just looking at my running shoes like this, and then an hour later I put them on. That’s what I’m thinking about, all those days, all those days to get me to this fucking moment right now at mile 75 where I’m all fucked up. What the fuck are you thinking now? That’s what I’m thinking. I’m thinking that would not be for fucking nothing. We’re going to figure out a way to get through this. And that’s what happens. But the truth comes up. The reality comes up of what I did. If I hadn’t put the time in, if I didn’t have 20 times looking at my shoes when I didn’t want to go do it, and I still did it, it’s the doing it when you don’t want to do it, that is what inches you forward. That is the needle mover. It’s doing it when you fucking don’t want to do it. And this isn’t something you can fucking visit, man. There’s people that want to visit my world and visit this world of, like, the everyday sufferer. They visit it. They get a 20 visits at a fucking gym. Oh, I had a fucking 20 visits at the gym, I’m good. I did a Spartan Race, I did this. No, no, no, no, no, no it’s every fucking day. You can’t visit this world. You’ll get nothing from it. You get a little trophy on the fucking wall. Good for you, man, good job.

[Vishen] Every fucking day, I like that. I like that. [David] You cannot visit the world. [Vishen] Now this reminds me, there’s something else that you speak about, right, and, when our mutual friend Tom Bilyeu was interviewing you for Impact Theory, you spoke about being in Afghanistan, and Tom asked you, like, what do you do when you’re asked to crash through this door, and you don’t know what’s on the other side of that door, four dudes with AK-47s ready to mow you down, or a trigger device that’s going to blow off your legs, and you spoke about how, if you choose to do something, you attack it. Let’s go there. [David] So it was Iraq that I was talking about, but basically, it is having a very violence of action mentality. It is having very a focused mentality. So imagine this, imagine that I’m about to, and this is for anybody. This isn’t just for a soldier with a gun. War doesn’t mean you have a gun. You’re always at war up here. This is to give you an example of mentality. The further you’re away from something, the calmer you are. The closer you get to that, whatever that thing is that you’re about to attack, the more you start to ramp up. So let’s say the door is 20 feet away from me. I’m calm. But I’m single-focused on what I need to do. I’m not thinking about what’s behind that fucking door. I’m thinking about I need to open the door. So I’m reading the door. I’m reading that door, because if I get to the door, and I’m pushing versus pulling, because it may be a door that you have to pull, versus push, now whoever’s behind that door, they know I’m coming. But to even draw it back even further than that, as I’m getting closer to that door, I’m not thinking about wife, kids, family, anything. As you, everything in your life has to start honing in single-focused, hyper-focused on the task at hand. You can’t be this person out here who is, like, nowadays we’re really big on being a