Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

QHB's 10 Points of Focus and Summaries

Cant Hurt Me 10 Points:

1. Face and accept your Challenges: Embrace challenges and adversity as opportunities for growth, and don't let a difficult past define your future.

2. Take 100% Responsibility: Prioritize self-reliance and take responsibility for your own life and actions.

3. Stay Hard and Strong: Cultivate resilience by pushing past physical and mental limitations, and don't give up too soon.

4. Make Pain an Ally: Focus on making incremental changes and sustainable progress, even if it means enduring discomfort.

5. Win the Battle of the Minds: Develop mental toughness by overcoming doubt and visualizing success in challenging situations.

6. Remember your previous Hardship and Success: Utilize past successes as motivation during difficult times, and savor small victories along the way.

7. Hard Work is not Easy, But you have to do it: Build self-confidence through discipline, hard work, and consistent effort.

8. Failure is your best friend: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity and maintain control over your mindset and thought process.

9. Don't Stop Growing: Continuously seek improvement and embrace discomfort as a catalyst for growth.

10. Life will always be Hard, But Never Give Up: Approach life with determination and a willingness to pursue goals that may seem impossible to others.

QHB's Selected Book Quotes and Summaries

*** DG = David Goggins (The Author)

=== Introduction ===

# “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.” - DG

# “The bad hand that was my life was mine, and mine alone to fix.” - DG

# “ Out of every 100 man, ten shouldn’t not even be there, 80 are just targets, 9 are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior…” - Heraclitus

=== Chapter 1: I should have been a statistic ===

# “My bad cards arrived early and stuck around a while, but everyone gets Challenged in life at some point. What is your bad hand? “ - DG

=== Chapter 2: Truth Hurts ===

# “Everyone’s opinion of me mattered to me, and that’s a shallow way to live.” - DG

# “Nobody is coming to save your ass! Nobody! It’s up to you!” - DG

# “It’s okay to be cruel to your self as long as you realise you’re doing it to become better. “ - DG

# “Apollo turns to see him still standing. Rocky waves Apollo over. The champ’s shoulders slump in disbelief. The fight isn’t over yet. “ - DG

# “ Thats when i first realised that not all physical and mental limitations are real, and I had a habit of giving up way too soon. “ - DG

=== Chapter 3: The impossible Task ===

# “ This is not about changing your life instantly, it’s about moving the needle bit by bit and making those changes sustainable. That means digging down to the micro level and doing something that sucks everyday. Even if it’s simple as making your bed, doing the dishes, ironing your clothes or getting up before dawn and running two miles each day. Once that becomes comfortable, take it to 5, then 10 miles. “ - DG

# “ We all have areas in our lives we either ignore or can improve upon. Find yours. Doing things - even small things - that make you uncomfortable will help make you strong.” - DG

=== Chapter 4: Taking Souls ===

# “asked himself one simple question during their first dose of surf torture: why am I here?” - DG

# “Everything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life’s drama, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end. That forgetting happens the second we give control over our emotions and actions to other people, which can easily happen when pain is peaking.” - DG

# “Taking souls is a ticket to finding your one reserve power and riding a second win. Taking someone’s soul means you’ve gained a tactical advantage. Life is all about looking for tactical advantages, which is why we stole the Hell Week Schedule. Each of those incidents was an act of defiance that empowered us.” - DG

=== Chapter 5: Armored Mind ===

# “ Why was i here? Why suffer when i could quit and be comfortable again?” - DG

# “ You can tolerate doubt as a backseat driver, but if you put doubt in the pilot’s seat, defeat is guaranteed.” - DG

# “ Those that know speak, and those who speak, well, they don’t know jack shit.” - DG

# “Each and every thought boiled down to the same old simple question: why?” - DG

# “endured thirty minute of extreme pain, talked myself through it, and survived.” - DG

# “Rather than focusing on bullshit you cannot change, imagine visualizing the things you can” - DG

# “ You cant prepare for everything but if you engage in strategic visualization ahead of time, you’ll be as prepared as you possibly can.” - DG

# “ It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, everyday, but if you do, you’ll find that at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life just waiting for you.” - DG

=== Chapter 6: Its not about a Trophy ===

# “It was about how much i was willing to suffer, how much more i could take, and how much I had to give. If i was gonna make it; this shit would have to get personal.” - DG

# “Looking back, every single time i’ve been inspired to do something difficult, i was in a soft environment, because it all sounds doable when you’re chilling on your fucking couch.” - DG

# “Why?! Why are you still doing this to yourself, Goggins?! Because you are one hard motherfucker.” - DG

# “The Cookie jar become a concept i’ve employed whenever I need a reminder of who I am and what i’m capable of. We all have a cookie jar inside of us, because life, being what it is, has always tested us. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success. It doesn’t have to be a big victory either. It can be something small.” - DG

# “You dont drop one hundred pounds in less then three months without losing five pounds in a week first. “ - DG

# “ Your small victories are cookies to savor, and make sure you do savor them.” - DG

# “The cookie jar became my energy bank. Whenever the pain got too much, i dug into it and took a bite.” - DG

# “its to remember what a badass you are so you can use that energy to succeed again in the heat of battle! “ - DG

=== Chapter 7: The most powerful weapon ==

# “It gave me a mental edge, a better sense of self awareness, and a ton of self confidence, which made me a better SEAL instructor. Thats what getting up at the crack of dawn and putting out will do for you. It makes you better in all facets if your life.” - DG

# “The 40% Rule can be applied to everything we do. Because in life almost nothing will turn out exactly as we hope. Imagine you are a boxer, and on your first day in the ring you take one on your chin. It’s gonna hurt like fucking hell, but at year ten of being a boxer, you won’t be stopped by one punch. You’ll be able to absorb twelve rounds of getting beat the fuck down and come back the very next day and fight again. It’s not that the punch has lost power. Your opponents will even be stronger. The changed has happened within your brain. You’ve calloused your mind.” - DG

# “Most of us are motivated as hell to do anything to pursue our dreams until those around us remind us of the danger, the downside, our own limitations, and all the people before us that didn't make it.” - DG

# “GOGGINS LAW OF NATURE: You will be made fun of. You will feel insecure. You may not be the best at all the time. You may be the only black, white, Asian, Latino, Male, Female, Gay, Lesbian or whatever in a given situation. There will be times when you feel alone. Get over it!” - DG

# “I stayed ahead of the quitting mind, answered the simple questions, and stayed in the race, but there was more to be done. …. There is no finish line, Goggins. There is no finish line.” - DG

=== Chapter 8: Talent not required ===

# “We were looking for guys with heart. Men who knew it was going to be hard tomorrow and the day after that and welcomed every challenge.” - DG

# “The lesson: you never know who you’re affecting.” - DG

# “Sometimes, even when you are doing everything right in life, shit storms appear and multiply.” - DG

=== Chapter 9: Uncommon against Uncommon ===

# “No matter who you are, life will present you similar opportunities where you can prove to be uncommon. I recognize them immediately because they are usually that motherfucker who’s all by himself.” - DG

# “Life is too dynamic a game. We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.” - DG

# “Always be willing to embrace ignorance and become dumb fuck in the classroom again, because that is the only way to expand your body of knowledge and body work. It’s the only way to expand your mind.” - DG

# “We can’t control all the variables in our lives. It’s about what we do with opportunities revoked or presented to use that determine how a story ends. “ - DG

# “If you truly want to become uncommon amongst the uncommon, it will require sustaining greatness for a long period of time. It requires staying in constant pursuit and putting out unending effort.” - DG

# “Continue to put up obstacles in front of yourself, because that’s where you’ll find the friction that will help you grow stronger.” - DG

=== Chapter 10: The Empowerment of Failure ===

# “I failed, and I’d failed in front of millions of people. So did I hang my head in shame and misery? Fuck no! To me a failure is just a stepping stone to future success.” - DG

# “You can’t let a simple failure derail your mission, or let it worm so far up your ass it takes over your brain and sabotages your relationships with people who are close to you. Everyone fails sometimes and life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim.” - DG

# “Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn! “ - DG

# “Control your mindset. Dominate your thought process. This life is all a fucking mind game. Realize that. Own it! “ - DG

=== Chapter 11: What if? ===

# “They say it takes sixty-six days to build a habit. For me it takes a hell of a lot longer than that, but i will eventually get there.” - DG

# “I’d lasted just fifty miles, but any humiliation that came with quitting - not something that i was used to - was drowned out by an instinct that something was way the fuck off.” - DG

# “I could not be defined by the abuse i was born into or the bullying that i grew up with. I wouldn’t be defined by talent either, I didn’t have much, or my own fears and weaknesses.” - DG

# “I wasn’t leveraging my life assets towards some new end. No, I was done fighting, and all I felt was gratitude.” - DG

# “The Buddha famously said that life is suffering. I’m not a Buddhist, but i know what he meant and so do you. To exist in this world, we must contend with humiliation, broken dreams, sadness and loss. That’s just nature. Each specific life comes with its own personalized portion of pain. It’s coming for you. You can’t stop it. And you know it.” - DG

# “Its not the external voice that will break you down. It’s what you tell yourself that matters.” - DG

# “Whatever failures and accomplishments pile up in the years to come, and there will be plenty of both i’m sure, i know i’ll continue to give it my all and set goals that seem impossible to most. And those motherfuckers say so, I’ll look them dead in the eye and respond with one simple question. What if?” - DG

=== END OF BOOK ===