Jun 15, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min · 15 segments
The Duratus Mind - A podcast exploring all things performance, mindset and motivation. Gaz, a former Special Missions Unit Sergeant Major but now personal coach, opens up his network to try and…
Titch CormackGuestGaryHostSo it was about you testing yourself as to where you could take it.
And this is a common theme.
So again, I've been unpicking this with a few people in elite sport, elite police forces, lads that we've worked with, lads in other units and organizations.
And it's the similar trend that there's this internal message of, well, how far can I take me? And it's that feeling that you're on an upward trajectory as opposed to stagnating any time.
And you sort of can be sat in your old organization, the Royal Marines, and you could sit there quite happily and continue your career progress through the ranks and on the face of it progress.
But are you challenging yourself every single day? Yeah.
I felt similar to you that I wasn't.
And there was this bigger test that I could go.
That was the thing for me that knocked me to want to write.
You want to go do it now.
And a few other key personnel that I knew that friends that had been successful.
And I thought, well, I'm just...
I think I'm almost as good as him.
If he can do it, I can do it.
That kind of helped me.
But for you, it was just that constant...
Did you know people that had been successful?
And one guy, he actually pushed on and took himself off, which was a shame because I think he was really capable.
But I didn't actually know anybody who'd actually gone through and... and got badged at all.
something that's quite common.
Most people have only ever heard the negatives.
So it was about you testing yourself as to where you could take it.
And this is a common theme.
So again, I've been unpicking this with a few people in elite sport, elite police forces, lads that we've worked with, lads in other units and organizations.
And it's the similar trend that there's this internal message of, well, how far can I take me? And it's that feeling that you're on an upward trajectory as opposed to stagnating any time.
And you sort of can be sat in your old organization, the Royal Marines, and you could sit there quite happily and continue your career progress through the ranks and on the face of it progress.
But are you challenging yourself every single day? Yeah.
I felt similar to you that I wasn't.
And there was this bigger test that I could go.
That was the thing for me that knocked me to want to write.
You want to go do it now.
And a few other key personnel that I knew that friends that had been successful.
And I thought, well, I'm just...
I think I'm almost as good as him.
If he can do it, I can do it.
That kind of helped me.
But for you, it was just that constant...
Did you know people that had been successful?
And one guy, he actually pushed on and took himself off, which was a shame because I think he was really capable.
But I didn't actually know anybody who'd actually gone through and... and got badged at all.
something that's quite common.
Most people have only ever heard the negatives.
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