November 13, 2025 • 31 mins
In this Impossible Life Shortcast, Garrett Unclebach dives into the “Figure It Out Mindset” — the ability to face uncertainty, obstacles, and confusion with confidence, faith, and resourcefulness.
Garrett breaks down how this mindset separates those who take ownership from those who make excuses, and why learning to figure things out is one of the most valuable leadership and spiritual traits a man can develop.
Whether it’s a business challenge, a relationship issue, or a moment where life feels overwhelming, this short episode will challenge you to stop waiting for perfect clarity and start trusting God while taking action.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
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Garrett breaks down how this mindset separates those who take ownership from those who make excuses, and why learning to figure things out is one of the most valuable leadership and spiritual traits a man can develop.
Whether it’s a business challenge, a relationship issue, or a moment where life feels overwhelming, this short episode will challenge you to stop waiting for perfect clarity and start trusting God while taking action.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- Why “I don’t know” is never the end of the story for a man of God
- How faith and responsibility fuel the figure-it-out mindset
- The difference between problem finders and problem solvers
- How to stop waiting for perfect circumstances and start moving forward
- The power of resourcefulness, prayer, and perseverance when life tests you
Apply for the Mindset Mastery Scholarship by January 6th
Join a group of likeminded Impossible Life listeners in our FREE Skool community by clicking here.
Get the Purpose Playbook by clicking here
Get the FREE Basic Discipline Training 30 Day Program by clicking here
Join us in Mindset Mastery by clicking here
If you're a man that wants real accountability and training to be a leader, click here.
Level up your nutrition with IDLife by clicking here
GET IN TOUCH
Social Media - @theimpossiblelife
Email - info@theimpossible.life
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's impossible. Let me tell you what I believe. It's
your weakness, it's not your technique. Don't think you know.
The Impossible Life Podcast and yes, sitting on a winning lottery.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Second, an idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell
(00:46):
you it's too hard, it's just waiting to be simplified.
Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk. The real truth is this. The
solution to any impossible task starts with this question, if
I had to, what would it take? What would it take?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across at
a man who values three things Jesus, family, and a
storehouse of AMMO. That's right, friends, the former Garrett Unclebuck,
a man who thinks in terms of the eternal and
the zombie apocalypse at all times.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Hey, you know it's okay to have more than a
few more more than a few bullets for your gun.
I did have somebody. I did have somebody ask me
though one time, like, do you have like hundreds of
thousands of rounds? I said, no, I only have about
ten thousand rounds across various calibers. Like most things, I've
(01:51):
thought intentionally about it, and I said, I feel like
that's enough that if I actually need this, I'll either
be dead or I'll have more AMMO than how they
ever need. And they were looking at me like, well,
what do you mean. I was like, well, if that,
if whatever comes to that, I'm probably going to have
a lot of m O because other people have AMMO.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Aka, I'm going to take their AMMO in case you're
not In the case you're not reading between the lines,
I'm better trained and I'm a better shot under pressure
than you, So you know, good luck. Anyways, that was
not the point of that intro, but it's also a
little bit of truth. Like we said all the time,
all right, So today's a tool gee, today's shortcast tools
and Tactics episode and you said something and we actually
put a reel out on it a few weeks ago
(02:33):
that I love. And you were talking about high performance
teams and like you've talked to the guys at Tesla
that you work with now at Union, and also you
were part of a in my opinion, the ultimate high
performance team because you guys have done it across different leaders.
That's the Seal teams. And you said people were disappointed
because it's not like some secret sauce, like everybody in
there has magical powers. It's just a bunch of people
(02:54):
who figure it out. And that so I want to
like launch into the figure it out.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I was having a com there was another There was
another guy in the conversation who was a Seal who
did over twenty years, very well respected in the community.
He's not on Union, but he's he works over at
Bravo Victor with Joe, and we were kind of him
and I were just kind of riffing on the same
conversation of like, yeah, it's really just like a bunch
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of dudes who are relentless and make it happen.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Right, which is like, well, dang, it's because it's like
there goes all the mad like if you could just
learn this one, it's like Buds the Secrets to Budd's
under this rock.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, a lot of people think like, well, I'm not
responsible for being an NBA player because I'm only you know,
six foot one, right, right, It's like if some it's
it's like if someone showed you a mirror. It's like, bro,
you're seven foot six. You've been thinking that you're not eligible,
and actually you're extremely.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Eligible, right? Or are there NBA players who are six
foot one? Yes, there are, They're not They're not common,
but there's been guys that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Are shorter than well, isn't isn't Steph like six three?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He's yeah, he's not tall. I think he's like six
three six, Like if he walked through the airport, wouldn't
be like oh my gosh, Like you know, it's not
like a Shack. You know, Shack goes somewhere everybody knows
because he's shoulders above everybody else. But yeah, I mean
even in our podcast, gee, it's like if I had to,
what would it take? And it's like I love that
you wrote that before we started. Like from there, there's
some things that we got right, right, like, there's a
(04:17):
lot that's changed. Our intro, like we've talked about, has
ever changed, And I don't know that it ever will. No,
I don't think we ever will. But if it had to,
what would it take? That's the figured out mindset? Right,
It's like, Okay, here's what we're doing. Oh, but I don't. Oh,
how are we going to? What about?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What would it take? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So that's the launching off point here, right, that's the
figured out mindset. And you said that it's like one
of these things, like many things, it's like a muscle
that you develop.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, So before we dive into it, because I want
to give this away to people. If you listen to
this show, it means Nick and I care about you
a lot, and this is one of the tools that
I want you to have so badly because man, it
just it makes it's the world is your oyster when
you have this, this mindset and this mentality. But I
will say, the figure it out mindset, it's kind of
(05:02):
you know, many of you are engaged in a thirty
day discipline program right now, and just like discipline, discipline
is not like you have it or you don't. The
question is how disciplined are you? And the figured it
out mindset? It's not like you have it or you don't.
It's really just how much of it do you have?
And so some people have zero which is sad. Some
people have zero discipline, which is sad. And what I
(05:22):
want is to help you get some and then continue
to attain more, like grow in it. And so the
figure it out mindset is something like discipline. The first
you need to possess it, like understand what it is. Okay,
Like this is a tool that I have. And maybe
I'm not like superstar David Goggins discipline guy, but I'm
going to grow in my discipline. And in the same way,
I want you to get possession of this mindset, of
the figure it out mindset and then begin to grow
(05:45):
in it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, and so like you said that stuff that feels
slightly beyond you, right, because this is what will happen.
We all do this. Something comes up and we kind
of go it's very quickly. We kind of do a
an equation in our head. Do I think I can
do this? Right? And a lot of people won't do
stuff that they think there's a chance they can fail at.
(06:07):
I would say because they have a fear of inadequacy
because it's like it's hard to face failure for a
lot of people because you have to if you're tied
to if your identity is tied to whether you're successful
or not, which most people's is, then this is like
a real It's deeper than just like, oh man, there's
something else I need to learn. It's like you're not
good enough and that will crush people.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So you can learn about this from watching other people.
You can also learn about it from watching yourself. Okay,
are there's a listener out there. I'm talking to somebody
when I say this, You're forty five years old, and
you've had your own business for fifteen years, for fifteen
years now, and you're about to start your next business,
and you're thinking about it differently than you did when
you were thirty years old and you thought like, wow,
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starting my own business, that's insane. Right, once you've been
down that road for a little while, it's not as
hard as you thought it was. Right, your measure of
difficulty and really like your domain of problem solving has grown.
You now know how to do things you didn't know
how to do before. And so how I want you
to think about developing your figured out mindset is you're
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going to be reaching for stuff that that feels like
you're reaching over the fence for. And that's okay, do
that reach over the fence for it. Like, you have
your own limitations and I'm wanting you to reach beyond them.
I'm not trying to get you. I'm not trying to
put you in a can and launch you a million
miles beyond. You'll you know what your current capacity is.
But just keep reaching over the fence. And every time
you do, like your fence gets bigger, your territory expands,
(07:31):
and now you have grown in your capacity. Right, So
that's what the figure out mindset's going to do for you.
And you just need to always be reaching over the fence.
But I promise you, like this is I'm just giving
you some story and some thoughts that will help you understand.
It's like growth mindset that you can expand what you're
capable of. So just keep expanding it and never stop. Right,
the stuff that I'm doing today, I'm like a couple
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of years ago, we were doing this podcast a couple
of years ago, and the way that a lot of
you may think of me is probably the same from
a couple of years ago to now. But the way
that I look at myself right now is like, man,
I've grown a ton since a couple of years ago,
and what I'm able to do, what I'm able to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, no, I'd agree with that for people out there
that are kind of like, Okay, what Carrot's saying is like,
you can build belief off of what you've already done.
And this is what's so interesting. I think a lot
of times people do things that are like templates for
how they could become like really pursued the greatness that
God's put inside of them, but they're completely unaware because
they've kind of they've they've just missed what's happened. So
to what Karrot's saying is like your capacity grows as
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you grow, and like we all experienced this. If you've
had more than one kid, remember that first kid, you're like.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh my gosh, like it's example.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It blows you away. Then the second kid whenever they're like,
oh you know they're they're callicky, You're like, ah, no problem,
you know, like you've kind of been through that. Oh
you know, they're they're they're they're cluster feeding. Just you
know it's gonna be rough, but we'll get through it.
I mean, think about your first rent amount, Like for
anybody out there, what you paid the first for your
first rent check felt massive. Now you'd probably kill to
have that, Like you're like, what a thousand bucks? I
(08:59):
would do that any day. And so we all have
these things and you need to stop and go like
you can either take one of two perspectives. You can
go like, oh, well, yeah, but that's inflation or I
made a little bit more, or I'd be discouraged at
how long it took. Or you can go like, well,
if I could do that kind of by default, what
could I do intentionally? Because when you start to apply
this intentionally, it's like, we've got a fifty miler coming
(09:20):
up g in March that we're going to do. And
I'm remembering the lesson from our first hunter miler that
you can't disrespect it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Mention where it is and what it is. Just in
case anybody wants to join us.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I'd love to do that. Gee, if I can.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Remember, it's in March, I don't remember the date, but
it's the Decatur Grasslands fifty milers So Decatur, Texas fifty
mile Run, if any of you would like to come
join us, it's in March. I don't remember the date,
but there's only one grasslands. It's only one. There's only
one Decatur Grasslands in March. So if you would love,
if you want to go, just sign up. We'll see
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you there.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, and let us know that you're coming throughs a
DM or an emailuse. We would love to meet people there.
We've had people come join us before. It's always fun,
but like that fifty mile for some people, they might
be like a fifty mile. I'm kind of this is
just a practical example. The first one hundred mile when
we got destroyed, we learned that you can't disrespect this thing.
So that lesson is still very fresh in my head,
Like I'm starting to run now. But the second but
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the second thing is I'm like, oh, it's only fifty
because I think about thee hundred mile we did in
twenty twenty at the end of twenty twenty three, and
for the first fifty five miles we both felt amazing.
So I'm kind of going well, I said to Rien Yester.
I said, whether this is terrible or whether this is
like as pleasant as that first fifty five miles, I'm good.
Like I'm just like okay, whatever, cause I'm like, it's
only fifty miles. And that's not to sound flippant, but
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I'm just using that as an example of its perspective
of like, well, at least I don't have to go
one hundred, you know what i mean. I'm like, okay,
we'll get this done. Like I'm not gonna have to
be up through the night. This seems like a lot
easier to me, whereas for some people, a fifty miles
would be a mountain. That's just impossible. And so in
each of our lives, we have things that as we grow,
That's what Garrett was saying, as you as you grow,
like the more stuff you solve and you figure out,
(10:57):
the more you're gonna want to solve and figure stuff out.
Let's let's we've got three things that are necessary for
this mindset and three things that will enable you. Because
this really is this is not like a here's the
three step process. It's like, let's piece together some of
the elements and realize what's before us and like go forward.
I would say, it's it's faith, it's growth, mindset that
like of like, yes, this is something that I want
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to grasp. So first thing for the mindset g something.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, so a little bit yeah, yeah, we talk of this.
We're going to cover a few beliefs here, and beliefs
is a huge part of mindset if you're with us
and mindset Mastery, which if you want to grow, if
you want more, if you want to develop your understanding,
I would just encourage. I'm not I'm not trying to
oversell anybody, but if you want more than what you
get out of the podcast, it is a great program
(11:43):
for you to jump in with us and expand your capacity,
expand your understanding of the things we talk about here
in the podcast. The podcast is excellent and free and
it always will be because Nick want to help Nick
and I want to help as many people as we
possibly can. But if you want to just go a
little bit deeper and also get a chance to talk
to us in interact with us, Mindset Mastery is a
great place to do that. Every topic we talk on
(12:05):
in Mindset Mastery, the first thing we talk about with
the topics is the beliefs. And so here's some of
the beliefs that you need for this figure it out mindset.
Here's the first belief believe Number one is the belief
that it can be done. This was in some of
my own story you guys know it who've been around
for a while. When I was beginning to go into
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the Seal teams, I looked at a man, Sir Edmund Hillary,
and I said, this dude climbed Mount Everest when no
one even thought it could be done. That's actually insane. Okay,
Seal training, Yes, it is known as the hardest military
training in the world. However, people do it every year.
It's very different than Edmund Hillary is saying, I'm going
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to climb Mount Everest. We don't even know if it's possible.
I said, well, we know it's possible, and there's guys
that do it every year. I'm not going to focus
on the people who don't do it. I'm going to
focus on Hey, they make a few hundred new Seals
every year. Why can't I be one of them? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Exactly right, you know I was. I'm doing the Dialogue
podcast with Josh Kraft, which if you haven't checked it out,
check it out. It's very different to what Garrett and
I do, but I think people will enjoy it. And
we were talking about poverty, and if you know anything
about my story, when I moved back here from England,
I had a wife, a baby, some boxes, and a
four figure savings and no job and we were living
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in my parents' house. This was in my early thirties,
so I was really crushing it at life. I had
no job and not a lot of money and the
only thing so you go like, well, what would make
you think to do that or that you could? And
he was asking me because I was talking to him
about how broke I was at points in my life
and how I know what it is to have it
be so broke it hurts, And he said, well, what
enabled you get out of that? And I thought about
for a second. The simple thing was belief, and in
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this case, it was belief that when we got back
to America that it was there was so much opportunity
that if I just put myself and applied myself, that
I could thrive. And I was one hundred percent right.
And it's so necessary. You talk about your dad having that,
like being a great believer that problems can be solved,
and how you witness that growing up And I've witnessed
it whenever, like just something simple, like how quickly do
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we give up on something when we've like we're looking
for something in the house, like oh, I don't know
where that hat is or this sweater or this thing
I needed for work, and you look for it for
five minutes and you're like, oh what, you know it's
maybe it's not here. And I've watched you look for
things and be like, it's here. I know it's here.
And it's a whole different thing because if you know
it's there, you don't stop that, and it's like a
little thing that's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, we have a great We don't have to go
back and tell it. We have a great story from
the time we were hunting at rods and I told
a guy who I needed to find something. I said,
do not question this. It is there. You must go
and possess this thing.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah it was. I will always remember that because you
so clearly said, hey, I need you to listen to
me right.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, because he was questioning it. He's like, I don't
think it's here. I'm like, no, I know it is there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And I watched you, literally over a FaceTime call take
all the belief that was in you and just like
shove it across the interwebs into his brain. And guess what,
he went and found it. Some guy had picked it
up and thrown it in a trash bag because the
ground screw was there. They were looking for somebody's his
hearing its Yeah that it was. They left them somewhere
for him to find them. The ground screw found it first.
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And if you would have been like, oh, they're not there,
like some weird must have happened, those things would end
up in a landfill somewhere. As it was, we got
them and they ended up back in Rod's ears. Praise Lord.
All right, gee, So belief that it can be done
is number one. Okay, it can be done. But now
what because man, how am.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I go to do this? Here's the second belief? Right,
And so we talked about and we'll jump back again
here in a second talk about how to build this
what we already mentioned some of that. The second belief
is the belief that I'll figure it out, or saying
it differently, belief that the problem can change. Okay, one
of the great lessons I learned in the Sealed Teams.
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I had a master chief say to me, And I
was like, that that's the sauce right there. I had
a master chief say to me, all complicated problems are
just a bunch of simple problems put together. They were
talking about close Quarter's clearance, because when you get into CQC,
there's a there's a bunch of rules. It really is
kind of like the matrix in the show where like
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everything seems like so complex and then Neo like finally
learns to see through it and sees the numbers behind,
and it's like, oh, I have full mastery control of
this situation. You learn all of there's eisier. You feel like,
what is thousands of rules for CQC. Well, if a
person does this, you're supposed to do this. If this
a person does this, you're supposed to do this. If
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the room has two doors and an open window, you
do this. If the room has two doors, one doors
open and a closed window, Like it starts to feel
really complex, right, and but when you go it all
comes back to like when you first learn CQC, you
go into a perfectly square room with one closed door
in it and nothing else is in the room. Master
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you must master that. And when you master a few
of the simple things. Because as we start to progress,
people start to like their head explode and the master
schieps like, look, dudes, bring it back to the basics, right,
Everything comes back to this like core set of seven
or eight problems. That's all you got to know. And
any other problem you face is just a it's just
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a mix of all these other simple problems that you
do know how to solve. And so once you learn
how to take all those simple problems and put them
in the right order, which is really the additional skill
that it takes understanding which problem do I solve first?
When you put all those together, you look at the
craziest problem, you say, I know exactly what to do.
And so it's the belief that I can figure out
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any problem that I can change the problem that all
complicated problems is just a series of simple problems put together,
and I know how to solve simple problems.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know, man, You've got I feel like that's a
whole podcast. I'm gonna put that in the old ideas bank,
in the proper that thought process of the problems that
we solve repeatedly that end up coming together, Like for
people that are going like Okay, that's great. I've not
done seek you see, which honestly I wish I could
go do CQC just for what you just said. I mean,
maybe I'll never need it, but like I think the access.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'll do some I'll do some some stuff with you.
But think about it this way. Instead of like a
CQC problem, think like, oh, well, like my my business
is really struggling, right right, Well, you have you have
a you have an individual relationship problem, you have a
wrong person wrong seat problem, you have a financial problem,
you have a responsibility problem, you have a customer acquisition problem.
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All of these things are actually if it's just the
one problem, you might know what to do. But when
they're you throw them all together. This is what you
see in junior amateur people as they're learning cqu see
you throw them into this room with like two shooters,
five five unknowns, which is basically think like an answer person,
five unknowns, a couple open doors in overhead mezzanine, and
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they just freeze like I don't know what you do, right,
That's what most people do with their problems. But again,
when you come back, it's like, hey, I know how
to solve this problem. I know how to solve this problem.
I don't know how to solve all these together. But
here's here's I can just cut off this piece of
problem right now. I know how to deal with that threat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But what I love that you said is is because
here's the thought process. If you look at all those
problems at once, like you said, it freezes you. But
when you solve one, the picture changes.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And so like the.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Example we get like imagine, imagine, like you you've got
a bunch of things going wrong in your life and
you're sleeping, like you're sleeping terribly and like so everything
feels harder if you start to sleep better. Shout out
to sleep strips. But seriously, that's why I have the
idy life sleep strips as I'm put, because I know
that most people are playing with like you know, they're
trying to run a marathon on fifty percent juice, And
(19:36):
it's like, if we could just get you to sleep better,
your perception of everything changes. So that's like a simple
one if you solve that one problem. You know, if
you're a sports person, it's like your team's getting blown
out by four touchdowns and you're like this is Hopeless'm
gonna turn off and then there's a pick six, right,
your defense intercepts the ball and runs it back for
a touchdown. Well what happens Now it's only three touchdowns,
but you feel some momentum. The problems changed. So you
(19:57):
went from this is hopeless, we can't do anything right
to like, oh but may and we see this all
the time play out in sports in like a couple hours,
but over your life it's the same thing. It's like,
but I solved this one problem and now it looks different.
That's what we're saying. That belief that you'll figure out
is knowing that anything complicated as a series of simpler problems.
And so that's why it's so important. What's the thing?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
We could talk about this for forever number three.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That's why that's why I'm going to make it a
separate podcast in the top, because I really I have
a lot of thoughts on that.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Well, you know, I love talking about problems, and that's
that's coaching for me. I tell my coaching clients, hey,
bring me your problems. Let's talk about your problems.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But I also know your brain. So this is like
a preview for the episode that we're going to do Eventually,
I know how to prompt your brain and use your
classification skills to put this in a place that I
think will be really powerful. So that's why I'm excited
to tackle that one. Well, I'm looking forward to that
as well. Number three forgear it's free Garrett GPG. So
number one was a belief that it can be done.
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Number two is a belief that you can figure out.
And number three is I'll say this kind of two
different ways. Is either a feeling of responsibility to solve
the problem or relentless hunger to solve it. You've got
to look at this issue, this challenge that you're facing.
I was talking to Nick, how for me, when people
have said like it can't be done, I don't feel
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like I want to prove that person wrong. Here's the
way that I feel about certain problems because I won't
go into it so it would take too long. But
when you look at some of the dreams of my life,
some of the things that I'm most pursuing, I want
to prove something wrong. But I'm not trying to prove
a person wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I feel like this problem that I'm after it is
a dragon in the sense that this mindset that this
way being, it's a blight on the whole world. And
so it feels morally wrong to me that people believe
this certain thing is impossible, and I feel with everything
in me that I must I must overcome this thing,
(21:51):
because what I'm thinking is how many people out there
are suffering because they believe this is true. I know
it's wrong, but I haven't proved it yet, And how
how many people are suffering because they believe this is true.
I must do something about it. And so maybe you're
not going to feel that strongly about a problem, and
not every problem has that level of significance to it either,
(22:12):
But when you get a problem, you've got to feel
like you've got to have some sense of ownership or
responsibility about that problem that's driving you to solve it.
Otherwise when it gets hard, you'd be like, oh, well,
it's not worth it. You've got to have a level
of care for the problem that you feel responsible, that
you feel a stewardship for it, that you feel a
(22:33):
reason to push past. Because when when you try to
do things like this, you'll come to moments where it's like, man,
I really believed and I really tried and it's really
not working, and so it's going to require some faith
in some belief. It's going to test your belief like
do you really believe you're possible it's possible? Do you
really believe that you can solve the problem. And if
you don't have some care, you'll just say like, oh, well,
(22:56):
got up there, slung as hard as I could, didn't hit,
So I guess we'll go home.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, And that's it's important that you have the level
of awareness to know what you actually care about, because
we're not saying like you should manufacture care, but you should.
I feel like it's the more you know God and
the closer you get to Him, you start to value
what God values. And that's the perspective that Garrett gave
when he's talking about like, there's other people that need
to slay this. So those are the three beliefs. Now
here's what will enable you because we don't like we've
(23:21):
kind of hinted at some of these already, h but
like there, there's there's there's things you need to know
to help stir this thought process. And you touched on
a g because you talked about how you know you
know with your CQC example, is a great thing if
you can start with this a basic room, you can
build up from that. What is that that's mastery of basics, right,
and it's understanding the principles.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, yeah, that's so you see for as we you know,
we've we've talked about the beliefs, like here's how you
build this, but like here's how you let's last things here, right,
here's how we want to enable you. We want to
help you train this mindset. So here's three more things
right now. First thing that's going to enable you, that's
going to develop you, that's going to train you, help
you grow, and the figure it out mindset is a
(24:02):
mastery of basics and learning principles. Right, those two things
really empower number one and two of what's necessary for
this mindset. The belief that it can be done and
the belief that I'll figure it out when you master
the basics. Like, okay, think about it. If you had
made if all you'd ever done in basketball is just
shoot free throws, and you had shot You've made a
(24:25):
million free throws, You've done it for a long long time.
And if I took you to the opposite into the
court and put you in the corner and said, like,
you have to make a shot from here. That would
be very hard for you. But you'd also be thinking, like, man,
I've made a lot of shots, and this is just
the same shot I've made before. It's just further The
basketball didn't change, the hoop didn't change. Think about all
(24:45):
the things that didn't change. I'm just further away. It's
the same shot. It's just a little bit harder. And
when you've mastered the basics, you really look at that,
you understand all the things you already know and all
the things that haven't actually changed. If you're not if
you're not a basketball superstar there like, man, like that shot,
that SHOT's insane. There's no way that you can make that.
(25:05):
We mentioned Steph Curry at the beginning. Steph's a great
example of that that I don't remember what it is,
but I've heard it before on what his commitment to
like he shoots baskets every single day. Yeah, I remember
the number, but I it's a ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I sent it to me, Yeah, you sent it to me,
and it was like he ends up shooting like six
figures of three point shots every single year because he
does I think it's something like he has like three
hundred and fifty a day or something like that, or
it might even be more than that, but you sent
to me Tony Robbins covered recently.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, and that's why he can, you know, just
do a pull up shot from half court and make
four out.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Of five, right, yeah, And I mean that's any sport.
Sports are a great place where you see people break
down the things that you're going to be doing repeatedly.
It'd be amazing if you applied that thought process to
your life, Like what are you going to do repeatedly? Well,
you're going to wake up, you're going to go to work,
you're going to look after your family, you're going to
have to exercise, you're gonna have you know, Like, there's
lots of things that are on repeat in our life.
(25:58):
But because we don't have like a scoreboard as such
like you do in a sport, we don't realize it.
But those are those are all the little areas of mastery,
Like how good are you at, you know, getting your
kids ready? How good are you at managing your time?
At scheduling your day? Like these are things that I
think people sail past all the time and It really
is the basics that you can master.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I've talked about it before. If you ever, like watch
me get in my car, I get in the exact
same way to do the exact same same things over
and over again. It's not just because I'm a weirdo,
but it's because I've decided, like, what are these things
that I do literally every day or sometimes multiple times
a day, maybe I should be good at them and
not just like throw throw time away all the time. Right,
also enables me to not forget things I have. I
(26:41):
have a specific routine that I don't have to think
that I'm not spending energy thinking through what to do.
And so mastery and basics and learning the principles we
kind of put these together. And number one, they're not
the they're not the same thing, but each one empowers
the other when you master that. Like learning the basics
of seku See taught me of the principles, Like I
(27:01):
didn't understand them in the beginning, but when they said,
like learn enter this room, do it this way. I'm
just a basic square room with one door. They were
making me master the basics. As I mastered the basics,
then I discovered the principles.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, and I mean the number two is the most
important one. We put it number two just because it
was the order that we were kind of laying things out.
Probably should have put his number one, but it's the
power of God. Like what we never want to be
is to do it yourself podcasts like, that's just because
the whole point is that your God is going to
bring you to a place where you're either going to
already know that you desperately need him or you're going
(27:36):
to find out how desperately you need him, because AKA,
you're going to get into a situation where there's no
way you can do it on your own. And we're
very much good stewards. We're very much like, give God
something to work with. God's sovereign, man's responsible. Your responsibility
is to develop yourself to the best of your abilities,
to navigate principles, to seek God wholeheartedly, like to grow
and be disciplined. That's part of your responsibility. And even
(27:57):
with all that, you're still going to come to the
place where you're like, Lord, I need your race, Lord,
I need your wisdom, Holy Spirit, what do I do? Holy? Like,
help help me guide me? And one of my stories
that I absolutely love.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's the Five Loaves and two Fishes story of Jesus. Right,
they've been out, they've had these people all day, they've
been teaching them, and then at the end of the
day they go, hey, Jesus, probably send these people home.
They got a ways to walk and they're gonna eat.
And he goes, you feed them? I'm sorry, what there's
five thousand people here just in the men. You want
us to feed them? Like, we don't even have enough money?
And where will we go? Akay? He just asked them
(28:28):
to do something that's that's quote unquote impossible for them.
And what does he say?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
AKA? What's in your hand? Oh? Where we heard? We've
talked about this so many times. Gee, Moses, you're going
to lead these people out. I can't do that. I'm this, this,
and this. What's in your hand? And that's the whole point. So, yes,
we want to develop what's in our hand to be
be as prepared as possible, but it's never going to
be the full answer. And that's the whole point. It's
like Jesus is asked, is asking him to feed them,
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and then he's going to show them that it's only
through his power that He's going to do that. That's
going to be your life. You're going to have to,
you know, do things in your family, people that are difficult,
solve big problems for society and business, lead people in
ministry that are utterly broken. And it's going to be
a point if you think you have to have all
the answers, you'll never start. You have to be at
a place where you're like, you know what, I know
that I'm going to figure this out, not by not
(29:13):
by power, but by his spirit, says Lord, Okay, I'm
going to do that because I'm walking step and hand
in hand, step by step with the Lord every single day.
I know his leading. And that's where you're going to see.
In my opinion, some of the greatest things I've seen
I've in my own experience to you as a leader
through Mighty Man, just the stuff we've done, some of
the greatest change I've seen in people. People are like, oh,
remember you said that thing to him, and I will
(29:34):
immediately go you know what I do. Remember you know
what I remember? I remember that something in my spirit
welled up and I spoke to them. Not that was
not that was not from my own storehouse of knowledge.
God put a word in me at the time that
was so full of boldness that it was way beyond
myself and it was the right time. And so I've
seen men that have lost, you know, one hundred pounds,
have changed their lives because of a word in a
(29:55):
conversation that we had, but it was not me, So
that's really important.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And then last piece here, yes, right, So just wrapping
up talked about here's the things you need for this mindset.
You need a belief that it can be done. You
need a belief that you can figure it out. And
you need some level of care, a responsibility, or a
relentless hunger to solve a problem. And then what will
help you grow in developing this figured out mindset is
(30:19):
mastering the BaseX basics and learning principles, understanding the power
of God. Right, God's sovereign, man's responsible, He's going to
do my part. He's going to do his part, and
I just got to do my little, tiny part. And
then here's the last thing. We already mentioned it, but
just put it. Giving you the list is draw inspiration
from some people who have done what you want to
do or have done similar things. It would have been
(30:40):
great for me if I had like my dad or
an older brother who had become a Navy seal to
give make that belief really easy for me. I didn't
have that. I didn't know any before I went to training.
But I looked at Sredmond Hillary's life and I said,
I need whatever that man's got on him. However he
was thinking about his problem. I need to think that
way about my problem. So whether you have a direct
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relation or you just have someone out there it's like,
you know, I want to be like that person. Develop
that in yourself. Understand that that mindset is a mindset
that you can take on, just like we're trying to
give you this figured out mindset. Decide for yourself that
you want everything that God has for you, and you're
going to take this mindset and go become everything He's
created you to be.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
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That's impossible. Let me tell you what I believe. It's
your weakness, it's not your technique. Don't think you know.
The Impossible Life Podcast and yes, sitting on a winning lottery.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Second, an idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell
(00:46):
you it's too hard, it's just waiting to be simplified.
Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk. The real truth is this. The
solution to any impossible task starts with this question, if
I had to, what would it take? What would it take?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across at
a man who values three things Jesus, family, and a
storehouse of AMMO. That's right, friends, the former Garrett Unclebuck,
a man who thinks in terms of the eternal and
the zombie apocalypse at all times.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Hey, you know it's okay to have more than a
few more more than a few bullets for your gun.
I did have somebody. I did have somebody ask me
though one time, like, do you have like hundreds of
thousands of rounds? I said, no, I only have about
ten thousand rounds across various calibers. Like most things, I've
(01:51):
thought intentionally about it, and I said, I feel like
that's enough that if I actually need this, I'll either
be dead or I'll have more AMMO than how they
ever need. And they were looking at me like, well,
what do you mean. I was like, well, if that,
if whatever comes to that, I'm probably going to have
a lot of m O because other people have AMMO.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Aka, I'm going to take their AMMO in case you're
not In the case you're not reading between the lines,
I'm better trained and I'm a better shot under pressure
than you, So you know, good luck. Anyways, that was
not the point of that intro, but it's also a
little bit of truth. Like we said all the time,
all right, So today's a tool gee, today's shortcast tools
and Tactics episode and you said something and we actually
put a reel out on it a few weeks ago
(02:33):
that I love. And you were talking about high performance
teams and like you've talked to the guys at Tesla
that you work with now at Union, and also you
were part of a in my opinion, the ultimate high
performance team because you guys have done it across different leaders.
That's the Seal teams. And you said people were disappointed
because it's not like some secret sauce, like everybody in
there has magical powers. It's just a bunch of people
(02:54):
who figure it out. And that so I want to
like launch into the figure it out.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I was having a com there was another There was
another guy in the conversation who was a Seal who
did over twenty years, very well respected in the community.
He's not on Union, but he's he works over at
Bravo Victor with Joe, and we were kind of him
and I were just kind of riffing on the same
conversation of like, yeah, it's really just like a bunch
(03:20):
of dudes who are relentless and make it happen.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Right, which is like, well, dang, it's because it's like
there goes all the mad like if you could just
learn this one, it's like Buds the Secrets to Budd's
under this rock.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, a lot of people think like, well, I'm not
responsible for being an NBA player because I'm only you know,
six foot one, right, right, It's like if some it's
it's like if someone showed you a mirror. It's like, bro,
you're seven foot six. You've been thinking that you're not eligible,
and actually you're extremely.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Eligible, right? Or are there NBA players who are six
foot one? Yes, there are, They're not They're not common,
but there's been guys that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Are shorter than well, isn't isn't Steph like six three?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He's yeah, he's not tall. I think he's like six
three six, Like if he walked through the airport, wouldn't
be like oh my gosh, Like you know, it's not
like a Shack. You know, Shack goes somewhere everybody knows
because he's shoulders above everybody else. But yeah, I mean
even in our podcast, gee, it's like if I had to,
what would it take? And it's like I love that
you wrote that before we started. Like from there, there's
some things that we got right, right, like, there's a
(04:17):
lot that's changed. Our intro, like we've talked about, has
ever changed, And I don't know that it ever will. No,
I don't think we ever will. But if it had to,
what would it take? That's the figured out mindset? Right,
It's like, Okay, here's what we're doing. Oh, but I don't. Oh,
how are we going to? What about?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What would it take? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So that's the launching off point here, right, that's the
figured out mindset. And you said that it's like one
of these things, like many things, it's like a muscle
that you develop.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, So before we dive into it, because I want
to give this away to people. If you listen to
this show, it means Nick and I care about you
a lot, and this is one of the tools that
I want you to have so badly because man, it
just it makes it's the world is your oyster when
you have this, this mindset and this mentality. But I
will say, the figure it out mindset, it's kind of
(05:02):
you know, many of you are engaged in a thirty
day discipline program right now, and just like discipline, discipline
is not like you have it or you don't. The
question is how disciplined are you? And the figured it
out mindset? It's not like you have it or you don't.
It's really just how much of it do you have?
And so some people have zero which is sad. Some
people have zero discipline, which is sad. And what I
(05:22):
want is to help you get some and then continue
to attain more, like grow in it. And so the
figure it out mindset is something like discipline. The first
you need to possess it, like understand what it is. Okay,
Like this is a tool that I have. And maybe
I'm not like superstar David Goggins discipline guy, but I'm
going to grow in my discipline. And in the same way,
I want you to get possession of this mindset, of
the figure it out mindset and then begin to grow
(05:45):
in it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, and so like you said that stuff that feels
slightly beyond you, right, because this is what will happen.
We all do this. Something comes up and we kind
of go it's very quickly. We kind of do a
an equation in our head. Do I think I can
do this? Right? And a lot of people won't do
stuff that they think there's a chance they can fail at.
(06:07):
I would say because they have a fear of inadequacy
because it's like it's hard to face failure for a
lot of people because you have to if you're tied
to if your identity is tied to whether you're successful
or not, which most people's is, then this is like
a real It's deeper than just like, oh man, there's
something else I need to learn. It's like you're not
good enough and that will crush people.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So you can learn about this from watching other people.
You can also learn about it from watching yourself. Okay,
are there's a listener out there. I'm talking to somebody
when I say this, You're forty five years old, and
you've had your own business for fifteen years, for fifteen
years now, and you're about to start your next business,
and you're thinking about it differently than you did when
you were thirty years old and you thought like, wow,
(06:46):
starting my own business, that's insane. Right, once you've been
down that road for a little while, it's not as
hard as you thought it was. Right, your measure of
difficulty and really like your domain of problem solving has grown.
You now know how to do things you didn't know
how to do before. And so how I want you
to think about developing your figured out mindset is you're
(07:08):
going to be reaching for stuff that that feels like
you're reaching over the fence for. And that's okay, do
that reach over the fence for it. Like, you have
your own limitations and I'm wanting you to reach beyond them.
I'm not trying to get you. I'm not trying to
put you in a can and launch you a million
miles beyond. You'll you know what your current capacity is.
But just keep reaching over the fence. And every time
you do, like your fence gets bigger, your territory expands,
(07:31):
and now you have grown in your capacity. Right, So
that's what the figure out mindset's going to do for you.
And you just need to always be reaching over the fence.
But I promise you, like this is I'm just giving
you some story and some thoughts that will help you understand.
It's like growth mindset that you can expand what you're
capable of. So just keep expanding it and never stop. Right,
the stuff that I'm doing today, I'm like a couple
(07:51):
of years ago, we were doing this podcast a couple
of years ago, and the way that a lot of
you may think of me is probably the same from
a couple of years ago to now. But the way
that I look at myself right now is like, man,
I've grown a ton since a couple of years ago,
and what I'm able to do, what I'm able to accomplish.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, no, I'd agree with that for people out there
that are kind of like, Okay, what Carrot's saying is like,
you can build belief off of what you've already done.
And this is what's so interesting. I think a lot
of times people do things that are like templates for
how they could become like really pursued the greatness that
God's put inside of them, but they're completely unaware because
they've kind of they've they've just missed what's happened. So
to what Karrot's saying is like your capacity grows as
(08:30):
you grow, and like we all experienced this. If you've
had more than one kid, remember that first kid, you're like.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh my gosh, like it's example.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It blows you away. Then the second kid whenever they're like,
oh you know they're they're callicky, You're like, ah, no problem,
you know, like you've kind of been through that. Oh
you know, they're they're they're they're cluster feeding. Just you
know it's gonna be rough, but we'll get through it.
I mean, think about your first rent amount, Like for
anybody out there, what you paid the first for your
first rent check felt massive. Now you'd probably kill to
have that, Like you're like, what a thousand bucks? I
(08:59):
would do that any day. And so we all have
these things and you need to stop and go like
you can either take one of two perspectives. You can
go like, oh, well, yeah, but that's inflation or I
made a little bit more, or I'd be discouraged at
how long it took. Or you can go like, well,
if I could do that kind of by default, what
could I do intentionally? Because when you start to apply
this intentionally, it's like, we've got a fifty miler coming
(09:20):
up g in March that we're going to do. And
I'm remembering the lesson from our first hunter miler that
you can't disrespect it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Mention where it is and what it is. Just in
case anybody wants to join us.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I'd love to do that. Gee, if I can.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Remember, it's in March, I don't remember the date, but
it's the Decatur Grasslands fifty milers So Decatur, Texas fifty
mile Run, if any of you would like to come
join us, it's in March. I don't remember the date,
but there's only one grasslands. It's only one. There's only
one Decatur Grasslands in March. So if you would love,
if you want to go, just sign up. We'll see
(09:53):
you there.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, and let us know that you're coming throughs a
DM or an emailuse. We would love to meet people there.
We've had people come join us before. It's always fun,
but like that fifty mile for some people, they might
be like a fifty mile. I'm kind of this is
just a practical example. The first one hundred mile when
we got destroyed, we learned that you can't disrespect this thing.
So that lesson is still very fresh in my head,
Like I'm starting to run now. But the second but
(10:15):
the second thing is I'm like, oh, it's only fifty
because I think about thee hundred mile we did in
twenty twenty at the end of twenty twenty three, and
for the first fifty five miles we both felt amazing.
So I'm kind of going well, I said to Rien Yester.
I said, whether this is terrible or whether this is
like as pleasant as that first fifty five miles, I'm good.
Like I'm just like okay, whatever, cause I'm like, it's
only fifty miles. And that's not to sound flippant, but
(10:36):
I'm just using that as an example of its perspective
of like, well, at least I don't have to go
one hundred, you know what i mean. I'm like, okay,
we'll get this done. Like I'm not gonna have to
be up through the night. This seems like a lot
easier to me, whereas for some people, a fifty miles
would be a mountain. That's just impossible. And so in
each of our lives, we have things that as we grow,
That's what Garrett was saying, as you as you grow,
like the more stuff you solve and you figure out,
(10:57):
the more you're gonna want to solve and figure stuff out.
Let's let's we've got three things that are necessary for
this mindset and three things that will enable you. Because
this really is this is not like a here's the
three step process. It's like, let's piece together some of
the elements and realize what's before us and like go forward.
I would say, it's it's faith, it's growth, mindset that
like of like, yes, this is something that I want
(11:18):
to grasp. So first thing for the mindset g something.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, so a little bit yeah, yeah, we talk of this.
We're going to cover a few beliefs here, and beliefs
is a huge part of mindset if you're with us
and mindset Mastery, which if you want to grow, if
you want more, if you want to develop your understanding,
I would just encourage. I'm not I'm not trying to
oversell anybody, but if you want more than what you
get out of the podcast, it is a great program
(11:43):
for you to jump in with us and expand your capacity,
expand your understanding of the things we talk about here
in the podcast. The podcast is excellent and free and
it always will be because Nick want to help Nick
and I want to help as many people as we
possibly can. But if you want to just go a
little bit deeper and also get a chance to talk
to us in interact with us, Mindset Mastery is a
great place to do that. Every topic we talk on
(12:05):
in Mindset Mastery, the first thing we talk about with
the topics is the beliefs. And so here's some of
the beliefs that you need for this figure it out mindset.
Here's the first belief believe Number one is the belief
that it can be done. This was in some of
my own story you guys know it who've been around
for a while. When I was beginning to go into
(12:26):
the Seal teams, I looked at a man, Sir Edmund Hillary,
and I said, this dude climbed Mount Everest when no
one even thought it could be done. That's actually insane. Okay,
Seal training, Yes, it is known as the hardest military
training in the world. However, people do it every year.
It's very different than Edmund Hillary is saying, I'm going
(12:48):
to climb Mount Everest. We don't even know if it's possible.
I said, well, we know it's possible, and there's guys
that do it every year. I'm not going to focus
on the people who don't do it. I'm going to
focus on Hey, they make a few hundred new Seals
every year. Why can't I be one of them? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Exactly right, you know I was. I'm doing the Dialogue
podcast with Josh Kraft, which if you haven't checked it out,
check it out. It's very different to what Garrett and
I do, but I think people will enjoy it. And
we were talking about poverty, and if you know anything
about my story, when I moved back here from England,
I had a wife, a baby, some boxes, and a
four figure savings and no job and we were living
(13:24):
in my parents' house. This was in my early thirties,
so I was really crushing it at life. I had
no job and not a lot of money and the
only thing so you go like, well, what would make
you think to do that or that you could? And
he was asking me because I was talking to him
about how broke I was at points in my life
and how I know what it is to have it
be so broke it hurts, And he said, well, what
enabled you get out of that? And I thought about
for a second. The simple thing was belief, and in
(13:46):
this case, it was belief that when we got back
to America that it was there was so much opportunity
that if I just put myself and applied myself, that
I could thrive. And I was one hundred percent right.
And it's so necessary. You talk about your dad having that,
like being a great believer that problems can be solved,
and how you witness that growing up And I've witnessed
it whenever, like just something simple, like how quickly do
(14:08):
we give up on something when we've like we're looking
for something in the house, like oh, I don't know
where that hat is or this sweater or this thing
I needed for work, and you look for it for
five minutes and you're like, oh what, you know it's
maybe it's not here. And I've watched you look for
things and be like, it's here. I know it's here.
And it's a whole different thing because if you know
it's there, you don't stop that, and it's like a
little thing that's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, we have a great We don't have to go
back and tell it. We have a great story from
the time we were hunting at rods and I told
a guy who I needed to find something. I said,
do not question this. It is there. You must go
and possess this thing.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah it was. I will always remember that because you
so clearly said, hey, I need you to listen to
me right.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, because he was questioning it. He's like, I don't
think it's here. I'm like, no, I know it is there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And I watched you, literally over a FaceTime call take
all the belief that was in you and just like
shove it across the interwebs into his brain. And guess what,
he went and found it. Some guy had picked it
up and thrown it in a trash bag because the
ground screw was there. They were looking for somebody's his
hearing its Yeah that it was. They left them somewhere
for him to find them. The ground screw found it first.
(15:14):
And if you would have been like, oh, they're not there,
like some weird must have happened, those things would end
up in a landfill somewhere. As it was, we got
them and they ended up back in Rod's ears. Praise Lord.
All right, gee, So belief that it can be done
is number one. Okay, it can be done. But now
what because man, how am.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I go to do this? Here's the second belief? Right,
And so we talked about and we'll jump back again
here in a second talk about how to build this
what we already mentioned some of that. The second belief
is the belief that I'll figure it out, or saying
it differently, belief that the problem can change. Okay, one
of the great lessons I learned in the Sealed Teams.
(15:50):
I had a master chief say to me, And I
was like, that that's the sauce right there. I had
a master chief say to me, all complicated problems are
just a bunch of simple problems put together. They were
talking about close Quarter's clearance, because when you get into CQC,
there's a there's a bunch of rules. It really is
kind of like the matrix in the show where like
(16:11):
everything seems like so complex and then Neo like finally
learns to see through it and sees the numbers behind,
and it's like, oh, I have full mastery control of
this situation. You learn all of there's eisier. You feel like,
what is thousands of rules for CQC. Well, if a
person does this, you're supposed to do this. If this
a person does this, you're supposed to do this. If
(16:31):
the room has two doors and an open window, you
do this. If the room has two doors, one doors
open and a closed window, Like it starts to feel
really complex, right, and but when you go it all
comes back to like when you first learn CQC, you
go into a perfectly square room with one closed door
in it and nothing else is in the room. Master
(16:53):
you must master that. And when you master a few
of the simple things. Because as we start to progress,
people start to like their head explode and the master
schieps like, look, dudes, bring it back to the basics, right,
Everything comes back to this like core set of seven
or eight problems. That's all you got to know. And
any other problem you face is just a it's just
(17:14):
a mix of all these other simple problems that you
do know how to solve. And so once you learn
how to take all those simple problems and put them
in the right order, which is really the additional skill
that it takes understanding which problem do I solve first?
When you put all those together, you look at the
craziest problem, you say, I know exactly what to do.
And so it's the belief that I can figure out
(17:36):
any problem that I can change the problem that all
complicated problems is just a series of simple problems put together,
and I know how to solve simple problems.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know, man, You've got I feel like that's a
whole podcast. I'm gonna put that in the old ideas bank,
in the proper that thought process of the problems that
we solve repeatedly that end up coming together, Like for
people that are going like Okay, that's great. I've not
done seek you see, which honestly I wish I could
go do CQC just for what you just said. I mean,
maybe I'll never need it, but like I think the access.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'll do some I'll do some some stuff with you.
But think about it this way. Instead of like a
CQC problem, think like, oh, well, like my my business
is really struggling, right right, Well, you have you have
a you have an individual relationship problem, you have a
wrong person wrong seat problem, you have a financial problem,
you have a responsibility problem, you have a customer acquisition problem.
(18:28):
All of these things are actually if it's just the
one problem, you might know what to do. But when
they're you throw them all together. This is what you
see in junior amateur people as they're learning cqu see
you throw them into this room with like two shooters,
five five unknowns, which is basically think like an answer person,
five unknowns, a couple open doors in overhead mezzanine, and
(18:50):
they just freeze like I don't know what you do, right,
That's what most people do with their problems. But again,
when you come back, it's like, hey, I know how
to solve this problem. I know how to solve this problem.
I don't know how to solve all these together. But
here's here's I can just cut off this piece of
problem right now. I know how to deal with that threat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But what I love that you said is is because
here's the thought process. If you look at all those
problems at once, like you said, it freezes you. But
when you solve one, the picture changes.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And so like the.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Example we get like imagine, imagine, like you you've got
a bunch of things going wrong in your life and
you're sleeping, like you're sleeping terribly and like so everything
feels harder if you start to sleep better. Shout out
to sleep strips. But seriously, that's why I have the
idy life sleep strips as I'm put, because I know
that most people are playing with like you know, they're
trying to run a marathon on fifty percent juice, And
(19:36):
it's like, if we could just get you to sleep better,
your perception of everything changes. So that's like a simple
one if you solve that one problem. You know, if
you're a sports person, it's like your team's getting blown
out by four touchdowns and you're like this is Hopeless'm
gonna turn off and then there's a pick six, right,
your defense intercepts the ball and runs it back for
a touchdown. Well what happens Now it's only three touchdowns,
but you feel some momentum. The problems changed. So you
(19:57):
went from this is hopeless, we can't do anything right
to like, oh but may and we see this all
the time play out in sports in like a couple hours,
but over your life it's the same thing. It's like,
but I solved this one problem and now it looks different.
That's what we're saying. That belief that you'll figure out
is knowing that anything complicated as a series of simpler problems.
And so that's why it's so important. What's the thing?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
We could talk about this for forever number three.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That's why that's why I'm going to make it a
separate podcast in the top, because I really I have
a lot of thoughts on that.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Well, you know, I love talking about problems, and that's
that's coaching for me. I tell my coaching clients, hey,
bring me your problems. Let's talk about your problems.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
But I also know your brain. So this is like
a preview for the episode that we're going to do Eventually,
I know how to prompt your brain and use your
classification skills to put this in a place that I
think will be really powerful. So that's why I'm excited
to tackle that one. Well, I'm looking forward to that
as well. Number three forgear it's free Garrett GPG. So
number one was a belief that it can be done.
(20:50):
Number two is a belief that you can figure out.
And number three is I'll say this kind of two
different ways. Is either a feeling of responsibility to solve
the problem or relentless hunger to solve it. You've got
to look at this issue, this challenge that you're facing.
I was talking to Nick, how for me, when people
have said like it can't be done, I don't feel
(21:12):
like I want to prove that person wrong. Here's the
way that I feel about certain problems because I won't
go into it so it would take too long. But
when you look at some of the dreams of my life,
some of the things that I'm most pursuing, I want
to prove something wrong. But I'm not trying to prove
a person wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I feel like this problem that I'm after it is
a dragon in the sense that this mindset that this
way being, it's a blight on the whole world. And
so it feels morally wrong to me that people believe
this certain thing is impossible, and I feel with everything
in me that I must I must overcome this thing,
(21:51):
because what I'm thinking is how many people out there
are suffering because they believe this is true. I know
it's wrong, but I haven't proved it yet, And how
how many people are suffering because they believe this is true.
I must do something about it. And so maybe you're
not going to feel that strongly about a problem, and
not every problem has that level of significance to it either,
(22:12):
But when you get a problem, you've got to feel
like you've got to have some sense of ownership or
responsibility about that problem that's driving you to solve it.
Otherwise when it gets hard, you'd be like, oh, well,
it's not worth it. You've got to have a level
of care for the problem that you feel responsible, that
you feel a stewardship for it, that you feel a
(22:33):
reason to push past. Because when when you try to
do things like this, you'll come to moments where it's like, man,
I really believed and I really tried and it's really
not working, and so it's going to require some faith
in some belief. It's going to test your belief like
do you really believe you're possible it's possible? Do you
really believe that you can solve the problem. And if
you don't have some care, you'll just say like, oh, well,
(22:56):
got up there, slung as hard as I could, didn't hit,
So I guess we'll go home.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, And that's it's important that you have the level
of awareness to know what you actually care about, because
we're not saying like you should manufacture care, but you should.
I feel like it's the more you know God and
the closer you get to Him, you start to value
what God values. And that's the perspective that Garrett gave
when he's talking about like, there's other people that need
to slay this. So those are the three beliefs. Now
here's what will enable you because we don't like we've
(23:21):
kind of hinted at some of these already, h but
like there, there's there's there's things you need to know
to help stir this thought process. And you touched on
a g because you talked about how you know you
know with your CQC example, is a great thing if
you can start with this a basic room, you can
build up from that. What is that that's mastery of basics, right,
and it's understanding the principles.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, yeah, that's so you see for as we you know,
we've we've talked about the beliefs, like here's how you
build this, but like here's how you let's last things here, right,
here's how we want to enable you. We want to
help you train this mindset. So here's three more things
right now. First thing that's going to enable you, that's
going to develop you, that's going to train you, help
you grow, and the figure it out mindset is a
(24:02):
mastery of basics and learning principles. Right, those two things
really empower number one and two of what's necessary for
this mindset. The belief that it can be done and
the belief that I'll figure it out when you master
the basics. Like, okay, think about it. If you had
made if all you'd ever done in basketball is just
shoot free throws, and you had shot You've made a
(24:25):
million free throws, You've done it for a long long time.
And if I took you to the opposite into the
court and put you in the corner and said, like,
you have to make a shot from here. That would
be very hard for you. But you'd also be thinking, like, man,
I've made a lot of shots, and this is just
the same shot I've made before. It's just further The
basketball didn't change, the hoop didn't change. Think about all
(24:45):
the things that didn't change. I'm just further away. It's
the same shot. It's just a little bit harder. And
when you've mastered the basics, you really look at that,
you understand all the things you already know and all
the things that haven't actually changed. If you're not if
you're not a basketball superstar there like, man, like that shot,
that SHOT's insane. There's no way that you can make that.
(25:05):
We mentioned Steph Curry at the beginning. Steph's a great
example of that that I don't remember what it is,
but I've heard it before on what his commitment to
like he shoots baskets every single day. Yeah, I remember
the number, but I it's a ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I sent it to me, Yeah, you sent it to me,
and it was like he ends up shooting like six
figures of three point shots every single year because he
does I think it's something like he has like three
hundred and fifty a day or something like that, or
it might even be more than that, but you sent
to me Tony Robbins covered recently.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, and that's why he can, you know, just
do a pull up shot from half court and make
four out.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Of five, right, yeah, And I mean that's any sport.
Sports are a great place where you see people break
down the things that you're going to be doing repeatedly.
It'd be amazing if you applied that thought process to
your life, Like what are you going to do repeatedly? Well,
you're going to wake up, you're going to go to work,
you're going to look after your family, you're going to
have to exercise, you're gonna have you know, Like, there's
lots of things that are on repeat in our life.
(25:58):
But because we don't have like a scoreboard as such
like you do in a sport, we don't realize it.
But those are those are all the little areas of mastery,
Like how good are you at, you know, getting your
kids ready? How good are you at managing your time?
At scheduling your day? Like these are things that I
think people sail past all the time and It really
is the basics that you can master.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I've talked about it before. If you ever, like watch
me get in my car, I get in the exact
same way to do the exact same same things over
and over again. It's not just because I'm a weirdo,
but it's because I've decided, like, what are these things
that I do literally every day or sometimes multiple times
a day, maybe I should be good at them and
not just like throw throw time away all the time. Right,
also enables me to not forget things I have. I
(26:41):
have a specific routine that I don't have to think
that I'm not spending energy thinking through what to do.
And so mastery and basics and learning the principles we
kind of put these together. And number one, they're not
the they're not the same thing, but each one empowers
the other when you master that. Like learning the basics
of seku See taught me of the principles, Like I
(27:01):
didn't understand them in the beginning, but when they said,
like learn enter this room, do it this way. I'm
just a basic square room with one door. They were
making me master the basics. As I mastered the basics,
then I discovered the principles.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, and I mean the number two is the most
important one. We put it number two just because it
was the order that we were kind of laying things out.
Probably should have put his number one, but it's the
power of God. Like what we never want to be
is to do it yourself podcasts like, that's just because
the whole point is that your God is going to
bring you to a place where you're either going to
already know that you desperately need him or you're going
(27:36):
to find out how desperately you need him, because AKA,
you're going to get into a situation where there's no
way you can do it on your own. And we're
very much good stewards. We're very much like, give God
something to work with. God's sovereign, man's responsible. Your responsibility
is to develop yourself to the best of your abilities,
to navigate principles, to seek God wholeheartedly, like to grow
and be disciplined. That's part of your responsibility. And even
(27:57):
with all that, you're still going to come to the
place where you're like, Lord, I need your race, Lord,
I need your wisdom, Holy Spirit, what do I do? Holy? Like,
help help me guide me? And one of my stories
that I absolutely love.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Man.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It's the Five Loaves and two Fishes story of Jesus. Right,
they've been out, they've had these people all day, they've
been teaching them, and then at the end of the
day they go, hey, Jesus, probably send these people home.
They got a ways to walk and they're gonna eat.
And he goes, you feed them? I'm sorry, what there's
five thousand people here just in the men. You want
us to feed them? Like, we don't even have enough money?
And where will we go? Akay? He just asked them
(28:28):
to do something that's that's quote unquote impossible for them.
And what does he say?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
AKA? What's in your hand? Oh? Where we heard? We've
talked about this so many times. Gee, Moses, you're going
to lead these people out. I can't do that. I'm this, this,
and this. What's in your hand? And that's the whole point. So, yes,
we want to develop what's in our hand to be
be as prepared as possible, but it's never going to
be the full answer. And that's the whole point. It's
like Jesus is asked, is asking him to feed them,
(28:53):
and then he's going to show them that it's only
through his power that He's going to do that. That's
going to be your life. You're going to have to,
you know, do things in your family, people that are difficult,
solve big problems for society and business, lead people in
ministry that are utterly broken. And it's going to be
a point if you think you have to have all
the answers, you'll never start. You have to be at
a place where you're like, you know what, I know
that I'm going to figure this out, not by not
(29:13):
by power, but by his spirit, says Lord, Okay, I'm
going to do that because I'm walking step and hand
in hand, step by step with the Lord every single day.
I know his leading. And that's where you're going to see.
In my opinion, some of the greatest things I've seen
I've in my own experience to you as a leader
through Mighty Man, just the stuff we've done, some of
the greatest change I've seen in people. People are like, oh,
remember you said that thing to him, and I will
(29:34):
immediately go you know what I do. Remember you know
what I remember? I remember that something in my spirit
welled up and I spoke to them. Not that was
not that was not from my own storehouse of knowledge.
God put a word in me at the time that
was so full of boldness that it was way beyond
myself and it was the right time. And so I've
seen men that have lost, you know, one hundred pounds,
have changed their lives because of a word in a
(29:55):
conversation that we had, but it was not me, So
that's really important.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And then last piece here, yes, right, So just wrapping
up talked about here's the things you need for this mindset.
You need a belief that it can be done. You
need a belief that you can figure it out. And
you need some level of care, a responsibility, or a
relentless hunger to solve a problem. And then what will
help you grow in developing this figured out mindset is
(30:19):
mastering the BaseX basics and learning principles, understanding the power
of God. Right, God's sovereign, man's responsible, He's going to
do my part. He's going to do his part, and
I just got to do my little, tiny part. And
then here's the last thing. We already mentioned it, but
just put it. Giving you the list is draw inspiration
from some people who have done what you want to
do or have done similar things. It would have been
(30:40):
great for me if I had like my dad or
an older brother who had become a Navy seal to
give make that belief really easy for me. I didn't
have that. I didn't know any before I went to training.
But I looked at Sredmond Hillary's life and I said,
I need whatever that man's got on him. However he
was thinking about his problem. I need to think that
way about my problem. So whether you have a direct
(31:01):
relation or you just have someone out there it's like,
you know, I want to be like that person. Develop
that in yourself. Understand that that mindset is a mindset
that you can take on, just like we're trying to
give you this figured out mindset. Decide for yourself that
you want everything that God has for you, and you're
going to take this mindset and go become everything He's
created you to be.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Thank you very much for listening. Guys, remember to share,
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appreciate it all. If you want to get in touch,
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You'll find us on there. You can also email at
Impossible Life Podcasts at gmail dot com. If you have
any questions, if you want to get in touch and
(31:43):
find out about Carett's personal or business coaching, that's the
way to do it. Thank you again for listening. Go
out there, think better, and live the impossible. You see
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The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.