🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. Can’t Hurt Me is a book about former Navy Seals soldier David Goggins and his story on achieving results and how it requires to push past your pain threshold.

2. Can’t Hurt Me gives you tools and tips on how to push past your own pain threshold to achieve extraordinary results in your life

🎨 Impressions

The book is pretty hardcore. David Goggins isn’t a normal guy and he makes that apparent from the first chapter. His story is incredible but how he achieves his results is something to awe it. I don’t think I agree completely with his life philosophy that anything you want to achieve in life, you have to go through immense amount of pain, but some of his points hold some solid value.

I think his teachings on building a calloused mind and slowly pushing past your normal pain threshold when it comes to working out and professionally is helpful. I do think that any job or project you want to start, it will require that bit of sacrifice in the beginning.

How I Discovered It

My brother introduced David Goggins to me.

Who Should Read It?

Anyone who is looking to level up their life or who needs the extra motivation to achieve incredible things.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

💡 How my life / behaviour / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book.

• After reading this book, it gave me better perspective on the pain and work it takes to be at the top of the top of your craft.

• I think the book can be a bit hyperbolic with its points, so I took everything with it grain of salt. I feel like you can still achieve incredible results, while also living your life and being able to enjoy it. You don’t have to starve yourself of fun while in the process of trying to accomplish a goal.

✍️ My Top 3 Quotes

• “We all need thicker skin to improve in life. Being soft when you look in the mirror isn’t going to inspire the wholesale changes we need to shift our present and open up our future.”

• “In a society where mediocrity is too often the standard and too often rewarded, there is an intense fascination with men who detest mediocrity, who refuse to define themselves in conventional terms, and who seek to transcend traditionally recognized human capabilities.”

• “In every failure there is something to be gained, even if it’s only practice for the next test you’ll have to take.”