The Psychology Behind Becoming a Navy Seal

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[vicariousjohnson]

“I got nowhere else to go.” Truer words have ever been said.

[Sparl]

"Whoever you were before doesn't matter" is crazy. To some it's highly discouraging to others it is the ultimate motivation.

[Braxtonhawkins]

I feel like rock bottom is always the best platform for greatness.

[SeyhawksNow]

Goggins barely graduated high school and was working as an exterminator when he enlisted in BUD/S. He was far from "accomplished" when he arrived like the video implies. The dude is a real life superhero now because he pushed harder than anyone believed he could.

[dillonholloway]

It’s not that they aren’t used to failing, because you must fail to succeed, but rather they aren’t desperate enough to keep going

[dylanplayshockey]

“WHY ARE YOU HERE, SHRIMP”

“because i’ve got nowhere else to go”

[--]

This is actually very true. I know two guys who did exactly this but, both were college grads and were doing nothing in life.

[punkw]

They have options to fall back on. That’s a big part of quitting when things get tough.

[wiggles]

SEAL training is some of the hardest stuff I've done in CoD

[archducky]

When your reasons are shallow, your resolve is also shallow.

[richardgladstone]

Just don't quit. SEALS are so tough. The water and being cold in the ocean has to be the hardest.

[andnoobs]

“It doesn’t matter what you did before, it matters what you do now” is an insult to people with prior accomplishments, but encouragement to people without.

[pjs]

I washed out of Navy EOD during dive phase in 2014 and one day all the SEAL, EOD and SWCC classes were gathered up for a speaker and all he did was have all the guys stand up that played a high school sport but never made varsity or was a backup for more than 3 years or dropped out of college. He said those guys were the ones to make it thru and he was about 90% correct.

[sterlingarcher]

I saw something similar when I went to college. I went to a pretty selective high school in Southern California. I wasn’t poor, but I also wasn’t rich by any means. And I certainly wasn’t the best student. Parents send their kids there so that they go onto Ivy League schools and a lot of students get athletic scholarships from there every year as well.

Most of the kids who went to my high school and took all AP classes and were members of clubs and whatnot either dropped out or majored in something stupid like anthropology or English (I know this because everyone from my old high school fb class started posting when we were all in our senior year of college).

My conclusion: school just came easy to these kids growing up. Classes are taught very differently in college and when the time came and these kids found the subject matter challenging for the first time, they gave up and picked something easier for them to learn. For me, school was always challenging. And when it became even harder, I had to adapt so that I could get my degree.

[ndAmendmentMF]

We don't need a pure race horse. We need a mule to carry the loads and go beyond the mountain range. 😂

[simonloo]

Yup it the mindset that separate the 2 groups apart …nothing to lose vs everything to lose

[sammckissock]

Mr Ballen is the most gifted and entertaining storyteller i think i have ever heard. I started listening to him a few years ago and its great to see what he had accomplished. As a veteran myself, its great to see a brother find a successful 2nd career after the military. And that goes double for those of us who left after being injured.

[joncarbone]

May the pain of past failure overcome the current pain.

[LifeOfTrauma]

“It doesn’t matter what you were doing before, it matters what you’re doing now” has 2 meaning to 2 types of people.

[theriddlerUSA]

You give a lot of people hope. Thank you for your service and keeping us safe. Congratulations on becoming a Navy Seal. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸