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David Goggins recounts his experience qualifying for the Badwater 135 ultramarathon, highlighting his incredible mental and physical resilience. He describes pushing through extreme pain and injury during a 100-mile race, ultimately using the suffering as fuel to complete the challenge. Goggins emphasizes the power of self-talk, visualization, and reframing negative experiences into positive motivation (“the cookie jar”). He discusses his time in Navy SEAL training and how the grueling “hell week” forged his ability to endure unimaginable hardship. Finally, he introduces the concept of his “dark side,” a mental state where he transforms pain into strength and uses the suffering inflicted upon him as a source of power.

• 🏃‍♂️ 100-Mile Qualifying Race: Goggins details his grueling 100-mile race, suffering from severe injuries and pushing beyond his physical limits.

• 🩸 Extreme Pain & Injury: He endured stress fractures, shin splints, and other injuries, using pain as motivation.

• 💪 Mental Fortitude: Goggins emphasizes the power of self-talk, visualization, and the “cookie jar” of past failures as tools for overcoming extreme challenges.

• 😈 The Dark Side: He describes accessing a mental state (“the dark side”) to transform suffering into strength, using adversary’s attempts to break him as fuel.

• 🏅 Navy SEAL Training: His experiences in Navy SEAL Hell Week are presented as crucial in developing his remarkable resilience.

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