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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
by David Goggins
On the one hand, Goggins doesn’t talk about anything you haven’t already read. As I listened to his story (the audiobook is seriously very very well produced), couldn’t help but think, for example, of Nietzche’s Übermensch (“And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”) or Sartre’s existentialism ("man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards").
That said, Goggins has zero intellectual pretension. Maybe he doesn’t even know of (or gives a f* about) all those smart dudes whose philosophy he kinda follows. What he does offer though is an account of how he worked out his demons by painfully, stubbornly and bravely surmounting his human limitations. He sounds honest.
If I were to pretend to be a serious intellectual, I would rate this book poorly. There were a few things that bothered (the feminist & atheist) in me and that will surely upset anyone “with taste”. But I can’t shake the feeling of having read something special, that might have intrigued Campell: “The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.”
Only this hero is not from the movies or an old religious story. For all his shortcomings (good lord, someone send that kid to therapy already!), heavy cussing and cheesy self-help-style instructions, Goggins actualizes the concept of the hero in a very charming way (did I mention how cool the audiobook is?) while also inviting us to partake in the adventure. Impossible not to feel like going for a run.
That said, Goggins has zero intellectual pretension. Maybe he doesn’t even know of (or gives a f* about) all those smart dudes whose philosophy he kinda follows. What he does offer though is an account of how he worked out his demons by painfully, stubbornly and bravely surmounting his human limitations. He sounds honest.
If I were to pretend to be a serious intellectual, I would rate this book poorly. There were a few things that bothered (the feminist & atheist) in me and that will surely upset anyone “with taste”. But I can’t shake the feeling of having read something special, that might have intrigued Campell: “The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.”
Only this hero is not from the movies or an old religious story. For all his shortcomings (good lord, someone send that kid to therapy already!), heavy cussing and cheesy self-help-style instructions, Goggins actualizes the concept of the hero in a very charming way (did I mention how cool the audiobook is?) while also inviting us to partake in the adventure. Impossible not to feel like going for a run.