Pressure is a privilege. — Transcript

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1. 0:01Everyone much rather prefer comfort
2. 0:04state as opposed to chaotic state.
3. 0:06>> [music]
4. 0:06>> If I had that option, if I had the fork
5. 0:09in the road in life and I don't know
6. 0:10where to go, what path to go, a comfort
7. 0:12path or a chaotic path, you can damn
8. 0:15well bet I'm going down the chaotic
9. 0:16path. Why? Cuz I know that
10. 0:20the path that leads to the creation of
11. 0:22what I want. Nothing grows in comfort.
12. 0:25Nothing but laziness and a lethargic
13. 0:27nature.
14. 0:29>> I tell young men, it's like
15. 0:31find something difficult to do.
16. 0:33You need that. You're not built for
17. 0:36comfort or [music] pleasure. Like if
18. 0:39that comes along, good. Have some sense
19. 0:41and enjoy it.
20. 0:43But don't be thinking that's what your
21. 0:44life is aimed at.
22. 0:45>> So in your brain, when you're feeling
23. 0:48that barometric pressure, it's [music]
24. 0:49like, I got to get this done
25. 0:52or I'm going to fail and I'm not this
26. 0:54project won't happen and [music] and
27. 0:55people will laugh at me.
28. 0:57You work like a fiend. Energy, your
29. 1:00whole body responds, right? [music] Your
30. 1:03blood gets moving. You you accomplish
31. 1:05things
32. 1:07that would normally take you months, you
33. 1:08do it in days because you feel that
34. 1:10pressure. You take away that pressure
35. 1:14and you don't know what to do. So your
36. 1:16brain needs pressure. It needs constant
37. 1:19[music] pressure and stress and pressure
38. 1:21is not a bad thing.
39. 1:23We have this thing where we feel like
40. 1:25stress [music] is bad. It's bad for you.
41. 1:28Bad. You know, you need to relax, man.
42. 1:29You need to chill. Stress will kill you.
43. 1:32No, being bored will kill you. Not
44. 1:35having anything to do will kill you.
45. 1:36It's much more dangerous than stress. I
46. 1:38work like a fiend cuz I'm writing a book
47. 1:41and it's very hard process for me.
48. 1:43[music]
49. 1:44And I'm working far too much, but man, I
50. 1:46love it.
51. 1:47It's fantastic, [music]
52. 1:48right? And it it could kill me. The
53. 1:50stress could kill me. It gave me a
54. 1:52stroke. [music] But I'd rather die under
55. 1:55the stress than be bored and have
56. 1:57nothing to do.
57. 1:59>> And if this path works for you,
58. 2:02then maybe it works better than what
59. 2:03you're doing right now.
60. 2:04Which is I had a lot of pain.
61. 2:07And so [music] I I tried to use it.
62. 2:10I just used what I had. I just you know,
63. 2:12I was just angry. I didn't I didn't want
64. 2:14to fail.
65. 2:14>> [music]
66. 2:15>> And so
67. 2:16I just kept going.
68. 2:18And so there was no like
69. 2:21there just wasn't another option.
70. 2:23And so I think that's [music] like
71. 2:26that's what I would encourage people to
72. 2:27think about. It's like
73. 2:28there just
74. 2:30there's I just didn't
75. 2:31>> [music]
76. 2:31>> I didn't allow another option. Because
77. 2:34the other option was just was just worse
78. 2:36than dying.
79. 2:37>> That's where you find yourself.
80. 2:39You find yourself when you were
81. 2:41the at when you're not comfortable.
82. 2:44When you're not comfortable on a daily
83. 2:46[music] basis. And that's how I start to
84. 2:48grow.
85. 2:49Like I said about the mind, it wants to
86. 2:51put you in that [music] nice 72°
87. 2:53temperature
88. 2:54with with everything right there. It
89. 2:56wants to be in that nice with the little
90. 2:57massage therapist. [music] That's where
91. 2:59your mind wants to be. It doesn't want
92. 3:01to be in Hell Week. In Hell Week I I was
93. 3:03in three of them. I finished two of them
94. 3:05[music] in one year.
95. 3:07Only person ever do that in SEAL
96. 3:08history. What I realized about the mind
97. 3:10is those people who can be in that time
98. 3:13and embrace [music] that time and be in
99. 3:15that moment and not allow the mind to go
100. 3:19to 129 hours on hour one.
101. 3:22It's the control that we don't have in
102. 3:24our minds. [music] It's the control that
103. 3:25you had to have for 3 months
104. 3:27when you're miserable, when you're
105. 3:29suffering, when you're laying on the
106. 3:30floor, when you're doing [music] all the
107. 3:31disciplines it takes to be a monk.
108. 3:33You cannot think about the whole
109. 3:35process.
110. 3:36It will make [music] you it
111. 3:38it will it will make you so
112. 3:41insanely crazy.
113. 3:43It's impossible. It's inhumane what I'm
114. 3:45about to do to myself. You have to be
115. 3:47able to break all these big humongous
116. 3:50painful things in [music] life down to
117. 3:52the smallest molecule cuz that's all the
118. 3:54brain can handle. The brain can't handle
119. 3:57hours [music] and hours and hours of
120. 3:59suffering.
121. 4:00But it can handle right now
122. 4:02>> [music]
123. 4:02>> I'm in the Pacific Ocean and it's very
124. 4:04cold. And this is what I'm doing.
125. 4:06>> For a diamond TO BE PRODUCED, IT HAS TO
126. 4:09GO THROUGH EXTREME PRESSURE,
127. 4:12extreme heat.
128. 4:14AND IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, WHAT MAKES A
129. 4:16DIAMOND A DIAMOND IS THE CUT.
130. 4:19IF YOU WANT TO BE A DIAMOND, YOU MUST GO
131. 4:22THROUGH EXTREME PRESSURE.
132. 4:24IF YOU CAN'T TAKE PRESSURE, THEN YOU'RE
133. 4:26NOT A DIAMOND.
134. 4:28After you go through all the pressure
135. 4:30you thought YOU COULD NOT HANDLE AND YOU
136. 4:32THINK IT'S OVER, THEN THEY TURN on the
137. 4:33heat.
138. 4:35>> Pressure
139. 4:37changes everything, pressure.
140. 4:40Some people you squeeze them,
141. 4:42they focus.
142. 4:43Others fold.
143. 4:47You summon your talent and will.
144. 4:50You deliver on a deadline.
145. 4:53And you sleep at night.
146. 4:56>> [music]