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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
Hard work pays off. Sometimes you fail. Move forward.
I took a lot away from this. Thank you David.
I took a lot away from this. Thank you David.
challenging
dark
hopeful
fast-paced
I reserve my 5 star ratings for books I know I will read again. This might be my new bible.
Similar to other reviewers, I have two main takeaways from this book:
1) The amount of crap David Goggins has overcome in his life is nothing short of amazing. The abuse, racism, learning disability, unstable home life, and physical challenges that he's surmounted through sheer determination and hard work are truly inspiring and have certainly challenged me in my own life to look at my struggles and see a way around them. I literally find myself saying things like "If David Goggins can do all that, you can finish this project."
2) David Goggins is insane. Some of the needless hardship he's put himself through just to challenge himself is simply masochistic. He's literally put himself in unneeded life-threatening situations for the sake of personal satisfaction when any sane person would've found a smarter way around the problem. Some of the chapters go like this:
"One night I decided to sign up for a marathon the next day without any preparation. I showed up with nothing but a warm glass of chocolate milk and only had hiking boots for running shoes. At the end I was dehydrated, fractured both my feet, had kidney failure, and had to spend a week in the hospital, but at least I finished the race!"
1) The amount of crap David Goggins has overcome in his life is nothing short of amazing. The abuse, racism, learning disability, unstable home life, and physical challenges that he's surmounted through sheer determination and hard work are truly inspiring and have certainly challenged me in my own life to look at my struggles and see a way around them. I literally find myself saying things like "If David Goggins can do all that, you can finish this project."
2) David Goggins is insane. Some of the needless hardship he's put himself through just to challenge himself is simply masochistic. He's literally put himself in unneeded life-threatening situations for the sake of personal satisfaction when any sane person would've found a smarter way around the problem. Some of the chapters go like this:
"One night I decided to sign up for a marathon the next day without any preparation. I showed up with nothing but a warm glass of chocolate milk and only had hiking boots for running shoes. At the end I was dehydrated, fractured both my feet, had kidney failure, and had to spend a week in the hospital, but at least I finished the race!"
I kept seeing this book mentioned over and over again as a must read…
And I finally took action and bought it.
I highly recommend it AND even more do the audible version as he includes so much additional insight.
And I finally took action and bought it.
I highly recommend it AND even more do the audible version as he includes so much additional insight.
Not as bad as I thought it would be.
The confirmation bias is strong in this one tho.
The confirmation bias is strong in this one tho.
adventurous
inspiring
medium-paced
Not what you’d expect. This isn’t David Goggins telling you to lock in for 400 pages, it’s a brutal description of an extremely harsh life that led to a man pushing the boundaries of what the mind and body is capable of. Unironically really inspiring stuff
One of the best books I've ever read, an unbelievable story that has changed my life for the better.
Listened to the audiobook of this. Interesting format where Goggins and his ghost writer, Adam Skolnick, talk about the book in podcast form between chapters. That being said, the format did get extremely repetitive and predictable after a while. As other reviewers have mentioned, it was a bit too much of Skolnick marveling at Goggins, when the story does enough of the talking on its own.
Love David Goggins and all he stands for. I think he'd be the first to say that not everyone needs to be nor should be AS extreme as him, but his story is a good reminder that we can all dig a bit deeper than we think from time to time.
Love David Goggins and all he stands for. I think he'd be the first to say that not everyone needs to be nor should be AS extreme as him, but his story is a good reminder that we can all dig a bit deeper than we think from time to time.