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Today we're going to be talking about how to bring the absolute best, most potential out of yourself at any time.

And, you know, I was thinking about this because I was reading a status a couple of days ago and it was actually from there's a post office put out by David Gorgons.

And I don't know if you know who David Guidance's. If you don't, you should read his book.

And it is called Can't Hurt Me. It's amazing.

In the way I found out about him was about five years ago, maybe six years ago. I read a book called Living with the SEAL, where this guy named Jesse Etzler, who he's a billionaire, his wife is also separately a billionaire. They got married to billionaires, married basically.

And he was at an event and he saw this guy and he walked up to him, was like, hey, you're insane. Will you come live with me? And he came and lived with him for 30 days. And that happened to be David Goggins.

And, you know, the the craziest part about David Goggins is No. One seeing his mindset in the way that he works and then seeing where he came from and realizing that he hasn't always been that way.

So to give you an idea, the way that Jesse Etzler found this guy is he was running a 100 mile race and is basically a one hour, one mile lap.

And him and his friends were doing it together is just like a tag, like one person made another person more, that one person two miles.

And there was a team running one hundred miles. And they had all of the supplies that they needed.

They had everything that they needed with them, the water, the food, all of that stuff. And right next to him was a guy who is literally just running around.

And all he had was water and crackers and he ran. And at 70 miles, he realized there was a lot of issues that was going on his body.

And so he actually found out that he broke all of the small bones in his feet, both of his feet by male 70. And he had liver failure where literally he was literally peeing and pooping blood.

And he's like his you know, his wife was like, all right, you got to give up. And he's like, I'm not going to give up. I'm going to keep going.

I'm going to keep going.

And he ended up finishing the next thirty miles after peeing and pooping blood and breaking all of the small bones in his feet. He finished it.

And Jesse, it's saw this and he's like, I don't know what the hell this guy has, but I need to figure out whatever drive he has of how to get it inside of me.

And what was actually happening is David Gorgons was running his first ever long distance. You never run a marathon.

And he decided to run a hundred miles at one point in time. And the reason was because he wanted to qualify for something called the Badwater 135, which is 135 miles in the desert.

What did he do? This is the reason why he did it was because some of his friends had fallen. He was in the thing as a Navy SEAL, his Navy SEAL and some of his friends were inside of a helicopter crash and he wanted to raise money for their children, for them to go to college. And so he had this drive if he just wanted to finish.

And so he Googled the 10 hardest things to do to raise money. And he trained for four days. Four days is how long you trained for for a 100 mile race.

And then what happened was he did the 100 mile race, realized that it wasn't enough to qualify for the Badwater 135. And so the very next weekend, he ran another 100 mile race to actually get into it.

And it's just when you learn about this guy's story, it's so mind blowing and it's so inspiring to me because it shows you how much a human is actually capable of. But we don't know that we're actually KABE. We restrict what we're fully capable of.

So, you know, he had only done you know, he went into the Badwater 135 and then he placed second in a three day get this three day, 320 mile race, and he cycled to 261 miles in two days on a runner rented bicycle. It wasn't even his bike.

Like when people go into these races, like they have like these 10, 20000 bikes and they train and they train in the train. He rented a bike. And, you know, before training for that race, he had never actually ridden a bike competitively. And, you know, so he's got that that's on his on his list of things that he did.

You know, he also set a course record for the 48 hour national championships, beating the previous record by 20 miles. And he traveled in 48 hours. He ran 200 and three point five miles. Just let that sink in for a second. He ran for 48 hours straight, no sleep and ran for and three point five miles, earning him a spot among the top 20 ultra marathon runners in the world.

They let that sink in for a second. The crazy part about it is that he used to be 300 pounds. He used to be 300 pounds and then something clicked in him and he said, I will not live this life anymore.

He's like, I'm going to figure out a way to get out of this space that I'm in. So what did he do? He signed up for the Marines and they told him that they were that he was too fat and he wasn't able to be a Marine. And he had to he's like, well, how much weight do I have to lose?

And they said he had to lulus literally hundred and five pounds and he lost a hundred and five pounds in two and a half months. To go from 300 pounds to 195, to qualify to go into the Marines, then he went into Buddz, which is considered what's also called Helwig, and he did two whole weeks, actually.

I'm sorry, he did three weeks. One of the ones someone actually died inside of it and he went through it.

He also has a world record.

And I'm not just talking about David Robinson going on and going, oh, I just want to I want you to understand how much a human is capable of to show you how much more we're capable of.

Here's the world record for pull ups in one day. In 17 hours, he did 4000, 25 pull ups.

In 17 hours, you had 4000, 25 pullups. Just think about that for a second. He ran 110 miles in 24 hours with pneumonia. He ran one hundred and ten miles in 24 hours with pneumonia. And the thing about it that's crazy about is he does all of these races and he hates running and he hates biking, which is why he does it. And the reason why he does these things is not because he's weird and he wants to torture himself is because he wants to see what he's fully capable of.

And I want you to think about that for a second. What are you fully capable of?

Do we have any idea what you're fully capable of? Or have you not even scratched the surface, do you want the craziest part about this? You might think, well, this David Gorgons guy, he's just a freak athlete, like he's been blessed with this, you know, incredible lung capacity probably, and all of that stuff.

He also has a heart defect and he had heart surgery on his heart after being an ultra marathoner for a long time.

His heart only works at 75 percent capacity of a normal heart. And he has asthma and he has sickle cell.

Just let that sink in for a second. There's so many excuses that this guy has as to why he should not be the person that he is, why he should not be an ultramarathon runner, why he should not be someone who's in super incredible shape. He used to be 300 pounds. You know, he comes from a place where his father was an alcoholic and beat him, was a kid. He has so many excuses as to why he should not if he wanted to, he could fall back on why he should not be what he is.

But he doesn't allow that to hold him back. Now, I want you to think about this for yourself, how many places in your life are you holding yourself back because of the B.S. stories that you keep telling yourself?

Oh, I come from this family.

This is how I was treated. You know, this is this runs in my family.

So, of course, I'm going to be this way. Just think about that for a second.

How much more could you do if you took away all of the stories that are constricting you and putting you in a box?

Really, though, think about it. You have so much more that you're capable of doing, but you're probably telling yourself stories as to why you're not doing it or why you, quote unquote, can't do it.

What if you got rid of all of your bullshit stories? What if you stop telling yourself, oh, yeah, this is the reason why I'm not going to be good. This is the reason why I can't succeed. This is a reason why I'm overweight. This is the reason why I'm poor. This is a reason why I won't succeed. This is the reason why people keep breaking up with me. This is the reason why I'll never succeed. This is the reason why I can't build a successful business.

The reason why bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. It's all bullshit. None of it's true and none of it has ever been true. It's just the stories that we tell ourselves to keep ourselves in the comfort zone, to not actually push ourselves to see what we're fully capable of.

That's what it is.

What could you do if you got off of your own back and just allowed yourself to do something and really do something big and I mean, dream big and push yourself to be big?

Because if this guy's doing all this stuff with a heart defect that only works at 75, I came and said the word, I'm so blown away, 75 percent capacity of a normal heart. Why can't you do it?

He's no different. He's just a normal person. But you know, what he says, though, is he likes to do things he doesn't want to do because it makes him uncomfortable, and if he can spend his time outside of his comfort zone, he constantly is growing.

And people ask him what supplements he takes and he says he takes he takes a pill of suck it up and washes it down with a can of go hard. That's it.

And one thing that he said that really I think is the most impactful out of anything he's probably ever said.

Is this he says most people live by the 40 percent rule, he says when you think you're done, like when you have hit, if you're going to go on a run and you feel like you're at full maximum capacity, like you cannot go any further, you have hit your capacity in your workout, in your run, in whatever it is that you're doing, you have fully hit 100 percent is what you think.

This is a guy who clearly knows time out, knows how to push the boundaries. He says when you think you're at 100 percent of your capacity, you're actually only at 40 percent. Because of the law, 40 percent and what happens, he says, is that your brain has a mechanism, it makes sense, it has a mechanism to keep you safe. It says, hey, Rob, shut it down. You've hit your capacity. Makes sense because our brain doesn't want us to break anything, doesn't want to get injured any of those things, but if you push past the point that your brain says that you can get to like your full one, quote unquote, 100 percent, you find a whole other level of yourself and you're only 40 percent of what your full capacity is.

And your body has a whole other level that you can't even comprehend once you get into that point.

Now. Think about that for a second, when you think you're at 100 percent, you're only at 40 percent. How often do you even get to your perceived 100 percent? Ever. It's probably not once a week, not twice a week, maybe once a month, once a quarter, maybe not even once a year. So if you're not even living at your full capacity, quote unquote, full capacity, which is 40 percent, what do you normally operating it?

When do you think you've gone fully as hard as you could possibly go in a workout?

Is that only 15 percent of your real true capacity?

What is 40 percent for you? What is 45 percent?

What is 50, 60, 70 percent of your actual real true capacity, not your perceived capacity, but your full capacity?

What does that look like for you?

What does that look like for you? What would it be like if you push yourself past what you think is actually possible, if you went for a run in when you think you're done, you're like, I'm going to keep going? Right.

I know what I was training for a run one time, and I'm not a runner in any sort of way. I actually hate running. But I said I'm going to go from I'm going to start to train myself, to go for a run. And I remember I was going for a run and I there was a point where it clicked and that point clicked in me where it was like the runner's high. And I wasn't even thinking I was just in a zone and my body was moving.

And it was like what happened was I was at capacity, perceived capacity for me. And I was like, I'm going to keep going. I need to get better. I'm going to keep going and get better. I'm going to keep going. You need to get better. And then about ten minutes later, I was still running, but I didn't feel anything and I didn't even feel my legs moving. And I was just going and going and going, you know, so blown away.

I was like trying to I was trying to run two miles, you know, I never run a mile in my entire life. I was trying to run two miles. And I looked down when I was like, done and it was six. I was like, oh, my God, I don't feel like I was even fully in my body for most of that time.

I think that's what he's talking about when you get past the point that you can think you can get past, what if you were to go to the gym today and you think you're done at 45 minutes, you walked out for two hours. What would that look like?

Not two hours with part of you looking at your phone and then talking to your friends and then, you know, going into the steam room. But I'm talking about full two hours straight. If you normally go for 45, what would the next level for you look like in your workout? What would the next level look like for you in your business? What would the next level look like for you and your friendships and your relationships? What would the next level look like for you in your bank account?

What if you were to just fully push yourself past your perceived 100 percent and see what else is out there?

Because we all limit ourselves by thinking that we can't do as much we can.

And then we make it even worse by telling ourselves stories as to why it's not possible to get to that 100 percent or 110 percent or past that.

You know, in one of my favorite things that I always think about when I'm in that and I used to say to myself all of the time when I was brand new and I wasn't the best sales manager, but I just wanted to run the number one office, the United States.

I used to tell myself, the person that I work, Shubert's you the person that where she beats you, the person that where she beat you. And I was like, I'm going to work harder and harder and harder and harder and harder than everybody. And I wasn't the most disciplined person before. I wasn't a hard worker. I had no work ethic before I get into it, but I was able to build that muscle. Willpower is a muscle that you can build.

Maybe you just happen to have a really weak muscle at this point in time. Think about that for a second. Maybe you need to work at that muscle and try to get it better every single day and push yourself to see what the next level for you is. Like for me, I know that I want to try to figure out every single way that I can get to my full capacity and bring out everything that I can to myself.

But if you think about if most people are not even operating at 40 percent. How much wasted human potential is out there? Right. The only thing worse than the pain of hard work is the pain of regret. What would it look like for you if you got to the end of your life? Like, man, I could have done more. I could have seen more potential for myself. And in this full potential, I could have helped more people.

Imagine if seven point five billion people on this planet just fully decided to live up to their potential. There would be no issues in this world.

We wouldn't have to try to figure out a way to go to Mars and try to colonize it because we would fix all of the problems with all the brainpower of the capacity people are really, truly able to get to. The problem is comfort.

Comfort is not only killing everybody that's around us, it's also killing the planet, because we're not we're not growing to our full capacity. We're not going to our full potential. And we're also not helping everyone else around us. Then that true potential as well. There's a few people that are really going at it and trying to become the best they can. And, you know, Elon Musk is one of them is able to do all these crazy things.

What if how many more Elon Musk are out there that are just not doing what they need to do to fully grow into the Elon Musk? They could be. And they're just sitting on the couch or sitting on Instagram and they're just wasting their life away. That how much wasted human potential is out there. And then we have to reflect it back at ourselves and say how much wasted human potential is in me that I'm not bringing out. So what I want you to do is think about this today, and I want you to try to find either today or tomorrow my mission for you is to try to find 100, quote unquote, 100 percent capacity for you.

What that looks like, what that feels like when, you know, your brain is like, ah, it's time to stop. And I want you to see what the next level looks like. I want you to push yourself past what you think you can do.

And I guarantee you'll find a whole other level of yourself that you never even knew existed.

So that's what I got for you for today's episode.

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