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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
by David Goggins
I really enjoyed listening to this book, I thought the podcast/audible book format was a little different although the narrator's voice annoyed the hell out of me but I persevered a la David Goggins. ;).
Firstly this is an excellent story, the feats this guy finished were incredible. His childhood sounded horrific and I don't have a clue what he went through but the fact that he didn't go down the road of petty crime and living a wasteful life was just the first in a long line of decisions that you could only admire. He took his failures, embraced them, learned from them and went back into the fight guns ablazing.
Besides his time going through all his special forces training which was fascinating, I was more interested in his endurance races and triathlons and while I am not even in the same country as this man when I comes to being an athlete I have done a 70.3, Pikes Peak Ascent and a couple of marathons. (When I did my 70.3 I was never proud of the fact that I completed it because I didn't do it in the time I wanted. I training incredibly well but the one thing I couldn't control (the weather) went from a lovely 60 degrees to 90 with 85% humidity and it killed me. After listening to him I can now say that I am okay with my time. I trained for the event and I finished. I didn't quit). His tales of the endurance races he has done were fantastic but he never seemed to learn much from each of his previous races, especially when it came to nutrition and how to fuel himself. As a soldier I would have thought he would have used salt tablets and knew the need for them in a warm/humid climates. i.e. Hawaii.
While his story is about his life as a soldier, his races and how he is mastered his mind he doesn't really touch on his personal life when he did it doesn't seem as successful as his professional one. I wasn't surprised that he has been divorced twice. It would take a very strong person to live with someone so obsessed, I think that person would have to be just as obsessed with helping him succeed.
I liked at the end he mentions the successes of his brother and his mother, who must have instilled some of that drive in him given all that she has accomplished as well. I like that he didn't waste anymore pages/time on his father, a man doesn't deserve to lick the shit from his son's shoes.
One thing before finishing, I wanted to know has he every answered the 'Why' in the things he does.
Firstly this is an excellent story, the feats this guy finished were incredible. His childhood sounded horrific and I don't have a clue what he went through but the fact that he didn't go down the road of petty crime and living a wasteful life was just the first in a long line of decisions that you could only admire. He took his failures, embraced them, learned from them and went back into the fight guns ablazing.
Besides his time going through all his special forces training which was fascinating, I was more interested in his endurance races and triathlons and while I am not even in the same country as this man when I comes to being an athlete I have done a 70.3, Pikes Peak Ascent and a couple of marathons. (When I did my 70.3 I was never proud of the fact that I completed it because I didn't do it in the time I wanted. I training incredibly well but the one thing I couldn't control (the weather) went from a lovely 60 degrees to 90 with 85% humidity and it killed me. After listening to him I can now say that I am okay with my time. I trained for the event and I finished. I didn't quit). His tales of the endurance races he has done were fantastic but he never seemed to learn much from each of his previous races, especially when it came to nutrition and how to fuel himself. As a soldier I would have thought he would have used salt tablets and knew the need for them in a warm/humid climates. i.e. Hawaii.
While his story is about his life as a soldier, his races and how he is mastered his mind he doesn't really touch on his personal life when he did it doesn't seem as successful as his professional one. I wasn't surprised that he has been divorced twice. It would take a very strong person to live with someone so obsessed, I think that person would have to be just as obsessed with helping him succeed.
I liked at the end he mentions the successes of his brother and his mother, who must have instilled some of that drive in him given all that she has accomplished as well. I like that he didn't waste anymore pages/time on his father, a man doesn't deserve to lick the shit from his son's shoes.
One thing before finishing, I wanted to know has he every answered the 'Why' in the things he does.