CAN’T HURT ME

by David Goggins

This book revolves around the story of an extra ordinary man David Goggins who is an ultramarathon runner, athlete and motivational speaker. He is retired US Navy SEAL and is a former USAF Tactical Air Controller. He has not achieved all of this in easy. His life is a journey of hardships that he faced and earned him all of this. His journey starts from an over-weight and depressed soul to record breaking athlete, inspiring and motivating person.

1st Lesson: ACCOUNTABLITY MIRROR;

Set goals for yourself and make yourself accountable for them daily. Tell yourself to work hard to get the results. Be truthful to yourself. If you are fat you tell yourself that you are fat. Stand in front of a mirror and tell that person that he has to run whatever the circumstances are. He is fat now but if won't be one day if he takes the action. Whatever your goal is, you need to hold yourself accountable for the small steps it will take to get there. Self-improvement takes dedication and self-discipline. The dirty mirror you see every day is going to reveal the truth. Stop ignoring it. Use it to your advantage. A person needs always to be honest with himself than with anyone else.

2nd Lesson: 40% RULE;

The second lesson is the 40 percent rule. During running David experienced that when he was completely exhausted a motivational song could push him even harder. It is a phenomenon that our mind puts limitations on our body and we just reach 40 percent limit of our body while exercising. And we can increase that limit by training our mind properly. Whenever you are completely exhausted just divert your mind somewhere else.

3rd Lesson: CALLOUSED MIND;

The 3rd mind lesson David told us is to callous your mind. When doing some heavy work with shovel all of you have seen your hand skin calloused. That calloused skin relieves us from more pain. Same case, if we put our mind to limits it will be calloused and will have more immunity towards pain itself. For this you have to leave your comfort zone. First of all, make small goals that you can easily do and start doing until they make you uncomfortable and that’s the start towards achieving calloused mind. The more you make yourself uncomfortable the more productive self you'll make in the end.

4th Lesson: TAKE SOULS;

This lesson is especially meant for depressed people. Whatever is depressing you or creating suicidal thoughts in you, just remember all this is a mind game. You have given that coach, boss, teacher or even your parent, your soul. You just have to take a step further and clinch their souls.

5th Lesson: PLANNINNG SMALL TO ACHIEVE BIG;

If you want to achieve big than start with the smaller goals. This will create your temperament and will make you achieve more. If you have to start a bonfire you will start from small pile of hay. You will fire it and these sparks will fire your bigger logs. Same is the case with your goals, the success of small goals will give you big victories. The human mind and body can achieve a lot more than most of us think possible, and all that starts in our mind. Start small to achieve big.

6th Lesson: EMPOWERMENT OF FAILURE;

And last but not the least, if you fail, always remember that you are just one step closer to success. Most wars are won or lost in our minds. Learn to relish your mistakes, if you do the forensics, you'll find clues about where to make adjustments and how to eventually accomplish your task.