“Price is usually failure”: Former US navy seal David Goggins divulges into importance of embracing failures to make it big in life

David Goggins is as hard as nails and the former NAVY Seal, ultra-marathon runner, and ultra-distance cyclist is unstoppable even after retirement. It does not even seem like he has retired because he works extremely hard to stay fit and writes books on how he got where he is today. His book ‘Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds’ came out in 2018 and it speaks about how he motivated himself and learned how to fail. The multifaceted fitness influencer does not shy away from the harshness of life and teaches people how to be mentally strong.

In a recent Instagram video, he gave profound wisdom regarding how to fail. Most people are scared of failing but he gave a new perspective to this feeling.

David Goggins teaches how to fail

In the latest Instagram video, he decided to talk about how people are afraid of dreaming big and some are also afraid of the work but most of all people are afraid of feeling. In the caption, he wrote a huge note on how to start with one’s dream and start with smaller steps. He wrote, “Dreaming big comes at a price. That price is usually failure.” In the video, the first phrase he said was, “I taught myself how to fail.”

Then he gave his example of how he became a NAVY Seal even after failing the test and having a phobia of water. He said, “When you’re 300lbs and you can’t read or write you’re fu*ed up, do you know how many times you’re gonna fu** fail on that process? So, if you don’t know how to fail there is no victory. I never talked about winning cause I knew the path to winning was gonna be years of failing first. So, I taught myself how to fail properly.”

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He always tries to motivate people as much as possible, giving them a reality check of how life is not always present, but he also told people that a lot of his concepts came to him because he had limited horizons. For Goggins, failure is important, and one must learn how to fail. He previously advised a fan on how to have a path in life and be strong about it.

David Goggins tells fans to find a goal

In a previous video, the athlete and fitness guru was standing on stage when a young man asked him if he was 26 and still did not know where he was going in life. The video was captioned, “The problem is that the majority of people don’t truly know who they are so they search externally for answers. You will always be lost when searching externally to figure out who you are! The hard truth is that most of us know exactly what we have to do, we are just searching for an easier way to do it!”

He went straight to the answer and did not sugarcoat it. He said, “You’re not gonna find it from coming to these fuc*ing conventions. Not gonna find it in a fu**ing book.”  He gave the harsh reality that one needs to sit down with oneself and think about what one wants from life and what one wants to be rather than asking everyone else. 

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Goggins has helped many and will help many more people in his journey. Did his wisdom of failure help you too?