Il est l'heure, enfoiré.

I would like to ask you, are mentally strong people born like that, or do they become it? I think it's both. I think some are born with a genetic peculiarity. It's not my case. And most people, when they get to the point where they idealize me, is that they forget the first four chapters of the book. They forget, you know, as they read, they start to forget the beginning. They discover that I'm starting to run on broken legs and all this bullshit. They are like, oh my god, the record of the world of traction, and this and that. Bastard, don't forget the first three, four chapters when I couldn't even read. When I was in high school, every time I was called a nigger, or my father beat me so violently that I started to be afraid of every asshole who populated this planet. I was afraid of everyone. I had to reinvent a human being. I sat at home for so many fucking nights. Broken. Broken, not only physically, but mentally, spiritually. Like, you see this picture we have here? With all these words on it, like charity, family, and all this shit. I was looking at this yesterday and I was like... Fuck. I had nothing of all this. Mental resistance, strength, power, all that. Dude, I had nothing of all this. But now, I took a step back and I realized. I invented this asshole. I remember when I was fat, weak, deformed, miserable. And I visualized this new human being in my mind, who didn't exist. And I was like, that's what I want to be. I want to be this guy. I want to be this man, able to do exactly what I'm doing today. And you have to... If you're not born like that, this mentally strong person, you can create her. Whether you're a woman, a man, whatever you are. You can do it. But while you're creating this person, you have to be able to refuse foreign contracts. You have to be exactly who you are every day of your life. And never pay attention to all those who will try to put sticks in your wheels. And who will tell you that you don't do things the right way. I was always afraid that people wouldn't care. I mean, like when you get beat up like they did to me. I was constantly lying. I wanted to be accepted and loved so much. And all those bullshit that I created at least 50 different characters. No matter what you like, I like it too. Just, do you want to be my friend? Let's just be friends. And that's how we get lost in life. Okay, so what do you say to the girl or the guy sitting in this audience who has some predispositions and who is trying at all costs to be loved by some or by the greatest number? If you don't overcome this, you're doomed. Because what's going to happen is that you start creating a whole bunch of characters who are not even yourself. So you, you never understand who you are. You are never up to your dreams, your ambitions. You live up to those around you. The people you love so much, that you want to imitate, who you want to look like. You live their dreams. And so you lose your power. The ultimate power is to belong to yourself. And it sucks to do what I had to do to get here today. It wasn't fucking funny. There was nothing darker where I went to get where I had to get to succeed. Now on the other hand, if you come from a model family, you have to be aware of it. You have to realize, like, fuck. There are people like David Goggins who have nothing. Nothing at all. And I have all these opportunities in front of me. And I'm still a loser. I'm nothing. So what does that say about me? The conversations are very similar. You have all these opportunities and you have taken no advantage of them. I'm at the bottom of the hole. And it could take me a lot of time to get to where you are today, to your starting line. The most important thing in all this is that you have to go. There is always a block. There is a barrier in your brain. There is a barrier. And you have to find a way to eliminate this barrier in your brain. My greatest barrier was my father. And once I removed this barrier, I became free to think. And once I felt good in my skin, I was free to take action. I had never felt good in my skin. I had never felt good about myself. As soon as I got to something, the demon resurfaced and put me back in the cage. If you don't go back to... Like, I'm a runner. Let's say I have pain in my left knee. Most people would focus on this fucking left knee. But often it's your right hip that's the problem. And it's the same in life. You have to decode what disturbs you mentally. Go back to the source. Go to the origin of the problem. Is life suffering? A part of life must be painful. And people hate that. When I post about suffering, there's always this new community that only takes kindness, gentleness, rest. And they're like, Oh my God, what you're saying is horrible. No, what we're saying is that suffering, if you know what to do with it, and it can be related to all the worst things I've been through in my life. My two heart operations, all the insults, the nicknames, everything I've been through. If you learn to take this bastard and tell him, Because I know you can take me so far. And if you look at life as it is, as a training ground to know what you belong to, where you have to go. Suffering is a reality of life. And if you consider suffering in the right way, it's a great tool to strengthen your mind. You can see suffering like, Oh, why me? It's shit, God, to complain to you all day long. But you can also see it like, Okay, bastard, you're testing me now. Every time I'm depressed, that I go through moments of depression, I say to myself, oh, wait a second. It's a test. So you have to be aware of all the signals, all the signs that are given to you by the world. One of them is that if you feel bad, it's because you're going through a test. How are you going to perform in these conditions? That's all. Suffering is part of life. When you run, you run for hours. Days. So, what are you thinking about during these fucking days? What are you thinking about? Oh, man. I'm listening to audio books. No, none of that. There's no music in his ears. No music. What are you thinking about then? Honestly, a lot of things. But I can... Listen, you know, Stephen Hawking, a brilliant spirit, isn't he? In a wheelchair. One of the smartest men of all time. I have a very different spirit from most people. I'm able to realize that I'm going to be here for 70 hours. I take part in races sometimes that are so fucking long. I become a robot. A real robot. I'm serious. I know, you're probably thinking I'm crazy. No, I become a robot. I don't think. I have nothing at all. So, my cookie jar. We forget how strong we are in difficult times. And the cookie jar is a bit like a Chinese cookie. You put your hand in this fucking jar, you take out a Chinese cookie and you read what's on it. What we do in life is that we've all been through suffering. We've all been through difficult times. And we got through it. But when we're in the middle of suffering, that's what our mind does. We think in the present. And we find no strength in this present. My God, I'm going through a cancer. I'm going through this, I'm going through that. What I've learned to do in difficult times is to take a step back and give myself the decision of a second. When things get really difficult, I say to myself, hang in there a little longer. You were one of the only black kids in a completely white school in which you were treated as a negro absolutely every day. You learned to swim by yourself, to read, to write. You've been through three fucking weeks of hell. You've surpassed yourself at the Ranger School, at the Delta Force Elections twice. You've run 320 km at once, 400 km at once. You've run 7 km and we laughed about it. Everything is relative. You were suffering. You've had a cancer. Three fucking times. And you're still here. It's a fucking cookie, man. So you go into your mental cookie jar, you take out this shit and you read it. I've lost my brother. Cancer. Not once. Not twice. Three times. And I'm still here, damn it. The rest of your life, it's only a part of your life. So what I do when times get hard, is that I force myself to remember that I'm a fucking warrior. I've gained 134 kg twice in my life. So every day when I prepare my running shoes, I hate running. People don't want to believe it. Fuck you. I hate it. So here's what happens. Every day I wake up, I get out of my fucking bed and there are my shoes. My t-shirt, my shorts. It depends on the weather. There are days when I wake up and I stay in front of these fucking shoes for hours. I start walking in my house and I tell myself I'm not going to run today. Today I'm not going to do this shit. I don't need to do it. I've already done all this. I don't need this shit. I've already done all these weeks of hell. I've already kicked my ass for decades. But that's when I start thinking. I have 2.3 million followers on Instagram. It's not just about you in the forest anymore. It's not just about Ranger School anymore. It's about your difficult childhood and everything else. You have an obligation. Not to yourself. But to all those who are affected by what you do as a human being. Even if no one knows what I do. Even if no one is filming me or I don't know what. I am a virtual trainer on the mental level. Because now there are a lot of people who say to themselves Today Goggins is doing it. So you have to do it too. And if I wake up one morning and I don't do that I become this David Goggins who lied about what he wanted to be. So the thing that makes me move forward every day and it's my mission in life. I mean, I didn't choose it. And I hate what we are doing even right now. It's always keeping this fucking cap. You do everything you have to do every fucking day of your life. Why? Because you know exactly what it does not to be a man. I lived that too long in my life. So that's what makes me move forward. I understand. Because the truth is that from a financial point of view you probably don't need to do that. So why? Why do you turn around and take this responsibility? When you say to yourself, hey, I don't want to run today. But I also know that I have 2.3 million people who follow me. I have a lot of people who are interested in the question. You don't need to do that. You could move away. So why do it? Because I know it's the only place where growth happens. It's the only place. I will never forget when I was younger and that I lived in this apartment that cost us $ 7 per month. It was dilapidated, everything was messed up there. And I wanted... I only had one pair of jeans. And every time, I will never forget this period. You know, a little before the start of school, people go shopping, don't they? A week before, two weeks before, maybe a month before. We didn't have the money for that. So this famous pair of jeans, whose inside of the pocket was green. The inside of the pockets was green. And I wore the same pair of jeans every day. So what I did once the following year came, is that I cut the front of the pocket so that the green would appear. And I bought a new pair of jeans. All I wanted was money. All I wanted was a beautiful car, a beautiful house. As soon as I had the fucking money to do it, I realized that it was bullshit. That's why I don't have a car, I don't own a house, I don't own any material goods. And you will see me wearing the same fucking clothes every day. What I realized is that all I've ever wanted in my life was to be able to look at this bastard in the mirror of responsibility and be proud of him. When I understood that, everything else was gone. So yes, you need money to succeed, you need money to live, you need money. Money buys a certain form of happiness because without it, we are miserable. But once I realized it, it meant nothing to me. What makes you the happiest? Achievement. Achieve things that I thought impossible to achieve. Because, you know why I don't smile most of the time? Because there is this feeling in me that no one or very few people have. Very few people have. Because when you come from where I come from, nowhere, and you build something from nothing, it's a feeling that stays with you all along your fucking days. And that's what allows you to be who you want to be in front of anyone.