Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

by Cameron R. Hanes

The true art of a full life is to minimize those moments when your inner bitch wins the battle and maximizes your ability to rise and grind.

The vast majority of us will leave this life like an unfinished canvas—a dim shadow of what we could have been if we had dedicated ourselves to mastering the mind, and consistently forcing the body into action.

It is a very rare person who can lie down at the end of a day with full confidence that they have done their absolute best, and an even rarer person that can do that consistently, day after day, year after year, until the days of laziness and self-pity are but a distant memory, drowned out by the years and years of action and discipline.

In his world there are no days off. Days you are not getting better are days wasted.

Cam Hanes quotes is “Nobody cares, work harder.”

LIFE IS NEVER MADE UNBEARABLE BY CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT ONLY BY A LACK OF MEANING AND PURPOSE. – VIKTOR FRANKL

It’s not talent; it’s drive. It’s not raw ability; it’s endurance.

AVERAGE EFFORT YIELDS AVERAGE RESULTS.

Don’t ever prejudge who can and cannot make an impact in your life. Even the most unlikely of people can turn out to be instrumental in your journey.

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”

I learned more than thirty years ago that, with extraordinary effort, I could experience above-average results

I am not blessed with insane talent. My secret is time. And I’ve been grinding for years to get where I am at.

“Cry in training, laugh in battle.”

What sets me apart is my ability to suffer.

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

Emiliano Zapata: “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”

Under Armour’s Anne Bonney. In an email before the race, she advised RFP—Relentless Forward Progress.

adversity and shattered dreams were great teachers.

“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.” —Malcolm Gladwell

Victory only comes through weathering the unpleasant and the distressing and the dismal.

Sleeping in and sick days and satisfaction with life don’t equal success in my eyes.

“They don’t make statues of critics.”

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”