High Performance Secrets from David Goggins

Summary

One of the most exciting stories published in the last decade is about someone who weighed 300 pounds (136 kg) when he intimately understood that his purpose in life was to become a Navy Seal. His name? David Goggins. Meet the pest fumigator-turned-Navy Seal-turned-endurance-athlete-turned-Guinness World Record Holder and learn the High-Performance​​ secrets that allowed him to achieve & sustain such a transformation.

Transcript

David Goggins holds the key to the fulfillment of your genetic potential.

Hello Everyone, Leon Castillo here. CEO & Founder of Selfmastered and today I want to break down the two secrets that David Goggin has leveraged to become who he is. If you learn this and apply this, your life will radically transform.

So David Goggins is a guy who are 24 years old, was 6'1 waited 300 pounds and worked as a pest fumigator. Four months later, he weighed 190 pounds and was in BUDS training at Navy SEAL school. He did this by understanding two core principles of high performance. This has been this his secret for too long, and today, I'm going to unveil it.

And the first secret is the importance of teleology. Theology is a Greek words that is composed of "Telos" = "goal, objective" and Logos "reason". And it implies that we need goals to reason in the world to make sense of who we are to get meaning in our life. And this is what Aristotle already knew. He said that the man is a teleological creature. And David Goggins understood that by committing to something greater than oneself, two incredible things stop happening.

The first is that when you are chasing something that is way beyond your current level of your abilities and possibilities, you start facing new fears, and those new fears imply summoning your best self, to be able to face them, it teaches you how to troubleshoot in the face of uncertainty, how to break problems, fears, obstacles into manageable chunks that can be covered by again, summoning in your best self by being 1% of 4% better every day. And that meaningful path that you select impels you to a whole new level of functioning, and you start deriving meaning from the journey that you have embarked upon. And as you become better, as you become more informed, as you start seeing things that you didn't see before because you are changing, your life will become more meaningful.

So that's the first thing that happens when you commit to something that is way beyond your control: you start facing your fears in a radically new manner. And this transforms your relationship with your inner self with that dark side that some people don't want to face. And the only thing that happens is when you are operating in a different environment, and you are under a different conditioning, evolution has taught us and there's plenty of biological evidence of this, that new adaptations are triggered. In other words, doing things that you haven't done before, especially if they push you outside of your comfort zone is guaranteed to help you tap into that genetic potential that you haven't been able to manifest until this point.

David Goggins didn't know that inside of the 300 pound pest fumigator there was 190 pounds Navy Seal. How would he know? In order to prove it, he needed to test it. And as you become better as you face new problems as you awaken that genetic potential, you will start to be able to face your darkest fears to look into the abyss and be unable to sustain its case. And this is how over time you trigger what we call a Selfmastered Evolution by looking at your bottlenecks by understanding exactly what it is that you do not know how to do or don't want to look to. That's how you grow. So that's secret #1. Goal setting or teleology holds the key of a new you because it allows you to fulfill your genetic potential by forcing you to face threats and fears and problems and obstacles that you hadn't face before.

That secret #1 and secret #2 is that in order for this to work, you need to commit. Commitment is what makes everything work. Commitment to that path is what turns failure into feedback is what allows you to always get back on track when you have been momentarily defeated in the arena and Goggins proved this time and time again because because he took him three times to go through seal BUDS training, because he injured himself in the first two times, because he had committed to that transformation, he was able to eventually pull it off. Additionally, when he wanted to test himself in Badwater, which is a ultra endurance event, that is invitation-only he accessed, he entered the San Diego ultra marathon with just 24 hours without preparation and managed to complete it, because he had committed to finish Badwater, he found a strength to eventually achieve his goal.

Remember this, it is absolutely important. So now is the time to ask yourself, if you believe your performance isn't high enough, if you believe there's more potential that you're not capturing: ask yourself whether you are chasing something that is actually meaningful to you. That is way beyond your current scope of your abilities and possibilities, so that it really pulls you forward.

And #2, are you actually committed to the thing you're trying to achieve? Do you intimately care about the goal so that everything else becomes irrelevant, and you can test this because if every time you have a problem, you have failure, you confront the fear, you do not push through, then maybe you're not that committed.

So I leave you with this idea. If you really care about what you're trying to build, because it was really bigger than you have ever achieved before. And you commit to it, you will naturally evolve into that high performance version of yourself. If David Goggin was able to transform from 300 pounds pest fumigator to 190 Navy Seal, in just a mere three months of gruesome training, you can surely surmount the problem that you are now facing.

But remember, you need to have a goal you need to commit to it. But what would actually make or break your performance is the systems that you are able to create in your daily life to always be motivated to always be focused, to always be in control to have low emotional variance, be high energy and actually track your performance so that you know how to course correct effectively. And this is what we help our clients, entrepreneurs and professionals alike do in just eight weeks. If you want to become part of our incredible community. You know where to find us. See you in the next video.