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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
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Some stuff I don’t agree with but good for motivation and inspiration. The storytelling was really good though
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wow, what an amazing book. i knew about david goggins through my boyfriend, and never really got the hype. but learning about his childhood & background, what he’s been through, really brought clarity to my mind and every time i read more, i understood him more and the hype too. i love the challenges that are spread around the book as it gives the reader a chance to change his/her life too. insane what this man has done, i can’t wait to read his other book. 100% recommend to read this !!
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This book was truly inspiring. It made me lace up my sneakers after months in the closet and hit the roads. It makes me want to hone my mental toughness to wield as a weapon. It helped me set a goal and make a plan for a long time dream of mine. I’ll definitely be rereading this book many times.
You can only read anger for so long and then you have to move on.
Listened to the Audible version of this book which is a bit of a podcast too. It was... interesting. Definitely motivating in different parts, but Goggins has at least one kid who is just mentioned in passing once and never again. I get not wanting to reveal too many details about one's personal life or trounce on the privacy of family members, but if you're writing a memoir about overcoming severe child abuse and you've brought a child into this world, you might want to mention the emotional and psychological struggles involved in becoming a healthy parent and partner. Like, we get that he can run for such a long time, and do so many pullups, and that he looks so so buff, but... he doesn't even mention the birth of his first child. Just that hearing that his ex was pregnant with his kid contributed to him realizing that he needed to financially provide for that child. We literally never hear about the kid again, and nothing about the emotional pressures of being a husband and father after surviving physical and emotional abuse, and watching his mother be abused by his father. His different wives are mentioned a few times, but his emotional connection to them is never really explored, and most of the time they're mentioned it's about their role of practical support in his ultra races. His focus on being the best he can be comes across as very narrow--it's about athletic and career achievement, not on being the best dad or husband he can be, at least not in this book.
The book has useful information on how to achieve professional and personal goals (athletic pursuits, leadership, academic growth), but nothing about non-collegiate relationships. And nothing about truly healing from abuse. This is fine, I'm still glad I listened to it, and it's a reminder that no matter what great feats we achieve personally, it doesn't substitute for healthy connection. He talks about how vulnerable it is to open up about the abuse he faced as a child, which is real. As someone who has also experienced childhood abuse though... it's a lot easier to talk about what was done to me than to talk about how it's impacted the way I've treated my peers and partners as an adult :/ Deeper bravery and vulnerability would take a bit more self reflection and openness about his relationships and how he sees people (esp. women and his own kids) imo.
Resiliency isn't just about being hard. Hard things are often fairly brittle. He literally talks about coming to realize the importance of physical flexibility after years of exclusive focus on strength and power, but never talks about the importance of relating to people in a non-professional setting in a flexible and "soft" way. Adaptability, true resilience, complete courage, requires us to to be both firm and yielding at different times in our lives.
I read this book at the same time I read "No Mud, No Lotus," and it was cool to read 2 books about the importance of embracing suffering written from very different perspectives (a well known Buddhist monk and a Navy SEAL). This book is about not letting pain stop you, while NMNL is about embracing suffering with tenderness and awareness. Ironically, it felt more like Goggins was using physical pain to run from emotional/relational pain. I'd recommend reading NMNL as a balanced viewpoint if you read "Can't Hurt Me."
The book has useful information on how to achieve professional and personal goals (athletic pursuits, leadership, academic growth), but nothing about non-collegiate relationships. And nothing about truly healing from abuse. This is fine, I'm still glad I listened to it, and it's a reminder that no matter what great feats we achieve personally, it doesn't substitute for healthy connection. He talks about how vulnerable it is to open up about the abuse he faced as a child, which is real. As someone who has also experienced childhood abuse though... it's a lot easier to talk about what was done to me than to talk about how it's impacted the way I've treated my peers and partners as an adult :/ Deeper bravery and vulnerability would take a bit more self reflection and openness about his relationships and how he sees people (esp. women and his own kids) imo.
Resiliency isn't just about being hard. Hard things are often fairly brittle. He literally talks about coming to realize the importance of physical flexibility after years of exclusive focus on strength and power, but never talks about the importance of relating to people in a non-professional setting in a flexible and "soft" way. Adaptability, true resilience, complete courage, requires us to to be both firm and yielding at different times in our lives.
I read this book at the same time I read "No Mud, No Lotus," and it was cool to read 2 books about the importance of embracing suffering written from very different perspectives (a well known Buddhist monk and a Navy SEAL). This book is about not letting pain stop you, while NMNL is about embracing suffering with tenderness and awareness. Ironically, it felt more like Goggins was using physical pain to run from emotional/relational pain. I'd recommend reading NMNL as a balanced viewpoint if you read "Can't Hurt Me."