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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
by David Goggins
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This is the second biography I’ve ever read (shoutout Obama) and I didn’t have much expectations for this book. I was familiar with David Goggins and I thought there could be a lesson or two in self-discipline that I could gleam from this book. With that said, this book is very well written and left me feeling like I could run through a wall by the end of it.
As you can imagine, you learn a lot about Goggins in this book even if you know a lot about him already. Of the things I liked about this book, the first thing has to be that it’s 100% written in his voice. It’s very easy to picture him saying all of the things written in this book. Also, it’s well organized and flows smoothly which made reading a chunk of this book at a time quite easy.
The thing that I didn’t expect and really appreciated in this book was how self-aware he is. He’s honest about his fuck ups and the times when he took on a shitty mindset throughout the book. He understands that he is very unusual and that can be very off-putting to people, including in ways may have been detrimental to his personal life career. He owns up to his failures and where he may have went wrong throughout his life. But through it all he emphasizes picking yourself back up and getting after it again, again, and again. It’s this perspective that made me really appreciate what he had to say and the way he sees his life. I personally don’t think a I could life exactly like his and be happy, but I can definitely take some valuable lessons from his life and apply them to my own to make myself a more confident, disciplined leader.
If I had to pick on things I didn’t like in this book it would probably be the hashtags (#canthurtme) and the lack of focus on how his lifestyle affected his love life. His ex-wives come and go throughout the book and I’d be interested to hear what he thinks of himself as a husband and father. But I can understand why he left this topic out considering this book seems to double as a self-help book and this topic doesn’t mesh well with self-help. Other than that, I got more out of this book than I originally thought I would have and plan on revisiting it as I continue to train for my half-marathon later this month.
As you can imagine, you learn a lot about Goggins in this book even if you know a lot about him already. Of the things I liked about this book, the first thing has to be that it’s 100% written in his voice. It’s very easy to picture him saying all of the things written in this book. Also, it’s well organized and flows smoothly which made reading a chunk of this book at a time quite easy.
The thing that I didn’t expect and really appreciated in this book was how self-aware he is. He’s honest about his fuck ups and the times when he took on a shitty mindset throughout the book. He understands that he is very unusual and that can be very off-putting to people, including in ways may have been detrimental to his personal life career. He owns up to his failures and where he may have went wrong throughout his life. But through it all he emphasizes picking yourself back up and getting after it again, again, and again. It’s this perspective that made me really appreciate what he had to say and the way he sees his life. I personally don’t think a I could life exactly like his and be happy, but I can definitely take some valuable lessons from his life and apply them to my own to make myself a more confident, disciplined leader.
If I had to pick on things I didn’t like in this book it would probably be the hashtags (#canthurtme) and the lack of focus on how his lifestyle affected his love life. His ex-wives come and go throughout the book and I’d be interested to hear what he thinks of himself as a husband and father. But I can understand why he left this topic out considering this book seems to double as a self-help book and this topic doesn’t mesh well with self-help. Other than that, I got more out of this book than I originally thought I would have and plan on revisiting it as I continue to train for my half-marathon later this month.