Book 📘83 Completed😊: Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
David through his personal story shares an idea of becoming what are truly capable of. Irrespective of our past, we can take control of our life at any moment and change everything for good.
This is one of the best self-help books I have read in recent times. The book captures pain David has gone through, especially physical pain and what he had accomplished in armed forces, and in multiple ultra- races and records that he has set.
He has poured his heart out in book sharing everything he learnt and encourages to embrace pain and use it as fuel rather than shying away from challenges and give in at the slightest sign of difficulties.
Few 🔑 Points –
• Accountability Mirrors – David encourages to be hard on self while taking inventory of present situation, take complete ownership and get to work. If you are fat, call yourself out. You need to change it, no one is coming.
• Everything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life’s dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end.
• Cookie Jar Concept – Tapping in the feeling of past wins, achievements, success, blessing, feeling grateful for everything so far in life can help us ride through any tough time.
• No matter what you or I achieve, in sports, business, or life, we can’t be satisfied. Life is too dynamic a game. We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.
• We are all fighting the same battle. All of us are torn between comfort and performance, between settling for mediocrity or being willing to suffer to become our best self, all the time.
Few 📌 Quotes –
1. Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn.
2. You can tolerate doubt as a backseat driver, but if you put doubt in the pilot’s seat, defeat is guaranteed.
3. The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst.
4. The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.
5. Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.
