Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

by David Goggins

If you have worked for thirty years doing the same shit you’ve hated day in and day out because you were afraid to quit and take a risk, you’ve been living like a pussy. Period, point blank. Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize, so you don’t die a fucking pussy.

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.

And never forget that all emotional and physical anguish is finite! It all ends eventually.

Lone Survivor,

your mind will spin, and that’s when those questions become toxic. If you aren’t prepared in advance, if you allow your mind to remain undisciplined in an environment of intense suffering (it won’t feel like it, but it is very much a choice you are making), the only answer you are likely to find is the one that will make it stop as fast as possible.

I understand the temptation to sell short, but I also

know that impulse is driven by your mind’s desire for comfort, and it’s not telling you the truth. It’s your identity trying to find sanctuary, not help you grow.

but I also knew that was my pain talking. My true potential was still undetermined.

When you find yourself having frivolous conversations or becoming ensnared in activities that don’t better you in any way, move the fuck on!

Life will always be the most grueling endurance sport, and when you train hard, get uncomfortable, and callous your mind, you will become a more versatile competitor, trained to find a way forward no matter what.

Joe Hippensteel.

The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.

You wake up with them, you walk around with them, you go to bed with them, and eventually you act on them. Whether they be good or bad.