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A review by ajsterkel
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
2.0
My book club read Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind And Defy The Odds by David Goggins. The author is a very intense human. He grew up in poverty with abusive parents and transformed himself from an overweight, unmotivated young person to a tough military dude and one of the world's top ultramarathon athletes.
This book would have been a fabulous memoir. The author is fascinating. He has an amazing ability to stay so focused on his goals that he's able to push through physical pain and mental exhaustion. He's proof that you can achieve anything if you are willing to make huge sacrifices and work yourself to death. I appreciated learning about his childhood and his military experience and how he stayed mentally strong during stressful situations. He's an impressive guy. I agree with him that humans are stronger than we realize.
The memoir parts of this book are great. The self-help parts . . . not so much. The author enters 100+ mile endurance races without doing much research or training. He runs until his legs break, his kidneys fail, and his heartrate goes wonky. He nearly dies at the end of the book because he hasn't been taking care of his body properly! He keeps making the same mistakes over and over and doesn't seem to learn from them. I don't see his behavior as inspirational or aspirational.
This book is proof that stubbornness and arrogance can push you through challenging short-term goals. It left me wondering how you're supposed to achieve long-term goals if your body stops functioning.
This book would have been a fabulous memoir. The author is fascinating. He has an amazing ability to stay so focused on his goals that he's able to push through physical pain and mental exhaustion. He's proof that you can achieve anything if you are willing to make huge sacrifices and work yourself to death. I appreciated learning about his childhood and his military experience and how he stayed mentally strong during stressful situations. He's an impressive guy. I agree with him that humans are stronger than we realize.
The memoir parts of this book are great. The self-help parts . . . not so much. The author enters 100+ mile endurance races without doing much research or training. He runs until his legs break, his kidneys fail, and his heartrate goes wonky. He nearly dies at the end of the book because he hasn't been taking care of his body properly! He keeps making the same mistakes over and over and doesn't seem to learn from them. I don't see his behavior as inspirational or aspirational.
This book is proof that stubbornness and arrogance can push you through challenging short-term goals. It left me wondering how you're supposed to achieve long-term goals if your body stops functioning.