The Accountability Mirror
Speaker: David Goggins
Duration: 02:27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mMbfJNoM9g
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[00:00:00] and that's and that's what I attack I
[00:00:02] attacked myself I'm always questioning
[00:00:05] myself I'm always holding myself
[00:00:07] accountable talk to me about the
[00:00:08] accountability mirror so the
[00:00:10] accountability mirror is something that
[00:00:12] I kind of came up with in high school
[00:00:15] like I said I started shaving my head
[00:00:17] not sixteen mm-hmm and I got caught up
[00:00:19] in trying to impress so many people
[00:00:21] because no one liked me so I developed
[00:00:24] so many different identities
[00:00:25] let me sag my pants you know let me okay
[00:00:29] let me pull my pants up let me let me
[00:00:31] talk this way or act this way or be this
[00:00:33] way or whatever the hell it may be god
[00:00:35] there's so many different things I did
[00:00:36] to try to fit in with so many different
[00:00:39] groups that when you look in the mirror
[00:00:43] that's the one person you can't lie to
[00:00:45] so every morning I would shave my head
[00:00:47] thanking God I reflect back on some of
[00:00:50] the lies I may have told somebody or
[00:00:51] some of the ways I acted I ain't feel
[00:00:54] comfortable doing and I did it to
[00:00:55] impress other normal people the key word
[00:00:59] there is normal everyday people I was
[00:01:01] trying to make other people like me how
[00:01:03] pathetic is that so I did this mirror
[00:01:08] would always tell me my I got my
[00:01:10] reflection to say God you are a pathetic
[00:01:11] man how does that feel every day to be
[00:01:14] this way so I would just start having
[00:01:17] myself accountable how how did I attack today
[00:01:19] how did I attack yesterday and if I
[00:01:22] didn't do something I was proud of I
[00:01:23] write down a sticky note and I would fix
[00:01:26] it so then my senior year in high school
[00:01:30] it was a totally different David godness
[00:01:33] can you give an example was something
[00:01:35] that you wrote down and fixed all right
[00:01:36] there was a lunch table yeah you know I
[00:01:39] wanted to sit the cool guy learns to go
[00:01:40] man I know even though everybody thought
[00:01:42] me [inaudible] on time I wanted to try to act
[00:01:45] like somebody I wasn't so I could fit in
[00:01:47] and I sold my soul to the devil you know
[00:01:51] trying to act like no I'm David [inaudible]
[00:01:54] Goggins that's who I am and so I wrote
[00:01:57] down on a piece of paper
[00:01:58] [inaudible] the table sit by your [inaudible] self
[00:02:02] and that's what I did and guess what
[00:02:04] happened my table became a table people
[00:02:08] started sitting in because a whole bunch
[00:02:10] of people in that lunch room
[00:02:13] so exactly like I did as long as you
[00:02:15] list of things I just write down in this
[00:02:18] fix so I write down to fix it were there
[00:02:21] are things that you look to for role models