Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins | Summary & Lessons

Can’t Hurt Me begins with the early life story of David Goggins, he used to be like everyone who had excuses for everything.

He was born with a broken life surviving on welfare, went through a bottom, had an abusive and traumatic childhood, and was badly tormented at school for his nigger identity which he can’t even count.

He became too overweight in his twenties, highly depressed, and has no future ahead due to his way of living which is filled with full of uncertainty. Every night haunted him badly like a nightmare.

The truth is self-help and motivation are crap that works temporarily, and life will again be on the same track as it cant rewire your brain and not be able to uplift your life.

Finally, David Goggins comes up with a mindset as he is responsible for his state of life, no other than him coming to fix it. He started to absorb pain, establish a love connection with suffering and become the toughest and hardest man on this planet.

Let’s break down the Can’t Hurt Me book into the 10 most impactful lessons through bullet points to understand how can an ordinary man achieve such a level of milestone.

• What are the current factors and aspects that limit your growth and success?
• Break out your journal, if you don’t have one, buy one, or start one on your laptop or any device.
• Start writing your dreams, goals, and insecurities on paper and glued them on the mirror.
• If you see someone overweight in the mirror, well, you possess lots of fat.
  Whether it’s a career goal, sports goal, lifestyle goal, or any other goal, you need to be truthful with yourself because the mountain is you for your fate.
• Break down all the steps required to achieve these goals and start tracking the progress day to day, weekly, and monthly.
• Put yourself in any competitive situation and find the best guy on the squad, work on being better always.
• Start Visualizing the things you can achieve in the future and feel what success would look like.
• Make a list of minor failed tasks and try to win them with second, third, or further attempts.
• Slowly start to remove the governor from your brain, and push yourself to do 10% more in a week.
• Most people waste 4-5 hours by involving in a smartphone or anything which distracts them. So identify those hours, utilize them, and increase productivity.
• Greatness is like a flash of oil in a hot pan that evaporates, It is not going to sustain forever.
• If you want to be recognized as Uncommon, sustain Greatness by putting in limitless efforts.
• Write down both good and bad things on paper and how you handled failure, and go back and fix what you can.
  If you face failure again, fight, absorb the pain and work hard with more effort, and continue till you get success in it.

These all challenges mentioned in the book made David Goggins the toughest, hardest, and most uncommon man on earth, he achieved those objectives which no one can think of in a dream too.

If David Goggins can do it, anyone can, what it needs is to just accept the challenges, fight like a soldier and master the mind, defy the odds, demolish fear, and reach the full potential of our body.