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Jay Shetty Podcast"DO THIS To Quickly Get Out Of A RUT TODAY!" | David Goggins & Jay Shetty
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
David Goggins and Jay Shetty on Studying Suffering, Taming the Mind
- Goggins argues that people should visit their suffering, failures and scars for an hour a day, a practice he calls the live autopsy, because the answers to why they are stuck lie within them.
- He explains that the brain protects you from fear and pain so much that it blocks growth, and that you must take control of your mind rather than let it steer you toward comfort.
- Drawing on his three Hell Weeks, Goggins says the way to endure overwhelming suffering is to shrink it to the present moment and to shift focus onto the people beside you.
- Both men warn about burnout, with Jay describing losing his voice for six months as a monk and Goggins describing losing five years, and Goggins says to heed the inner voice and neglected disciplines as signs to stop.
- Jay offers the Vedic image of the mind as an undisciplined child and the intelligence as a parent, and Goggins agrees that age alone brings no growth unless you go back into the scarring.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasVisit suffering deliberately instead of living in it
Goggins compares it to working out: you spend about an hour a day with your pain and past failures, then learn from them rather than staying there all day.
Trying to forget painful memories blocks growth
Goggins says people stuff scars under a rug, and by avoiding them they keep repeating the same mistakes; lifting the rug is where growth starts.
Stay aware that revisiting the past can become an excuse
Jay notes that people can slide into complaining, criticizing or using the past as a crutch, and Goggins says he does the same but stays aware of it mid-conversation.
Break overwhelming suffering into the present moment
Goggins says the brain can't handle 130 hours of misery but can handle 'right now I'm in the Pacific Ocean and it's cold,' so he avoids thinking even an hour ahead.
Focusing on others can ease your own pain, but not as a permanent default
Goggins used caring for his boat crew to forget his own misery, yet says relying on it constantly leaves the 'lever' rusty and requires recovery and re-oiling.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesDon't wait until you're fucking dead to figure out why you died. Do it while you are living.
— David Goggins
In the scarring are all the answers to why you are on the couch feeling sorry for yourself. They lie within the scars.
— David Goggins
You have to be able to break all these big, humongous, painful things in life down to the smallest molecule 'cause that's all the brain can handle.
— David Goggins
Some people think with age is growth. No, it's not. You have to go back into the scarring to get the growth.
— David Goggins
When the only voice you hear is yourself, you're wrong.
— David Goggins
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David Goggins
guestEndurance athlete, author, and former U.S. Navy SEAL known for extreme mental toughness training and experiences like Hell Week and Ranger School.
Jay Shetty
hostPodcast host and author of "Think Like a Monk," known for sharing insights from his background as a monk.
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