SUMMARY: Can't Hurt Me - Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

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NOTE: This is a summary of Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins. This summary is not meant to replace the original book but to serve as a companion to it.

 

Want To Learn How David Goggins Turned His Life Around Despite Devastating Tragedies? Then Keep Reading!

 

Tragedy is a part of life. While most successful people are able to come out of them seemingly unscathed, we are left to wonder, "What do they have that I don't?" In this book, Goggins talks about his life story and his fight to turn his life around.

When life gets tough, the tough gets going! But, sometimes, everything just seems like it's falling apart… especially when you become your own worst critic! Learn all about the tips and tricks that you need to adopt in order to rise from the ashes. Today could be the day you become the self-made success you've always wanted to be!

Since we can't stop bad things from happening, this book will teach you how to circumvent them.

 

You will learn how to:

1. Become a successful, tough-minded individual who looks tragedy in the eye without flinching
2. Make the most out of the resources you have without draining yourself
3. Take accountability for your shortcomings and work around them
4. Use pain to fuel your drive for a better life
5. Analyze your failures and learn to never repeat them
6. And many more!

The better, more successful you are ready to be unleashed!

 

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Disclaimer: This comprehensive summary is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins and does not share any affiliation with the author or original work in any way or form and does not utilize any text from the original work. We encourage purchasing BOTH the original book and our summary as your retention for the subject matter will be greatly amplified.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vivid Read Summaries
• Release date: Jul 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201594374

Book preview

CHAPTER 1: I Should Have Been a Statistic

Challenges

Everyone has challenges in their life, and this chapter is about identifying those challenges in order to understand the effect they have had, because that’s the only way to overcome them. David’s story is of a tragic and abusive childhood, told in explicit detail. David Goggins was born in 1975 in Buffalo, New York, to Trunnis Goggins and his girlfriend, Jackie. Trunnis was a brutal man, who regularly beat his common-law wife and two sons, Trunnis Jr. and David. He had purposely refused to marry Jackie so that she would have no claim to any of his property should she decide to leave him. He forced the three of them (the boys and Jackie) to work late into the night, every night, in his shady business, and the slightest mistake or even a glimmer of defiance would provoke a cruel beating.

As the abuse became more brutal and life-threatening, Jackie made the difficult decision to leave Trunnis. David was just eight years old at the time, yet he jumped at the opportunity to get away from the father he hated. Though he was free from the abuse, the damage was done. It would take David many more years to finally face the demons produced by these early experiences. And, the difficulties were not over for Jackie and David (Trunnis Jr. returned to live with his