Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds Paperback – 10 Dec. 2018

A great life story on how you overcome big obstacles in your life. It does not matter if you have had a bad start in life, you can turn that negative into a positive, with hard work and motivation. Very inspiring.

After reading this I'm filled with a weird sense of gratitude. This is not an emotion I usually have after finishing a book, which speaks to the power of David Goggins’s story.I first heard of Goggins through Joe Rogan’s interview with Jesse Itzler. The anecdotes sounded like something straight out of a Marvel comic book. Superhuman levels of performance seemed mundane to this guy. I then bought Jesse’s book “Living With a SEAL”, which he wrote about his experience of living and training with David Goggins 24/7 for 31 days. I was so intrigued by this character who had Jesse do press-ups between business meetings, sleep on a chair all night and jump naked into a frozen lake in the middle of winter. What drove him? Was he a masochist, a sadist, or both? All the answers are in this autobiography, and they are far more compelling than I had even hoped.Born into a life of unimaginable abuse, adversity and tragedy, Goggins was spiralling towards the bottom, exterminating cockroaches for a living and eating himself into obesity by his early twenties. Unwilling to continue down that path, he made a conscious decision to face his demons, make up for all the deficits he had accumulated throughout his life, and started by losing 103lbs in three months to make it into the Navy Seal teams. That is only the beginning. The rest of his story continues to get even more inspiring as it goes on, written with no punches pulled and an infectious level of passion and intensity that jumps off the page like a thunderbolt.I cannot emphasise enough what an important read this is – in its totality. There is not a dull or expendable sentence in it, and it hooks you in right from the first line. Even the acknowledgements had me a little choked up, and I never even read acknowledgments.Wherever I go in life, I will endeavour to this etch this book into my soul and pass it on to my children and their children.Thank you, David Goggins.

Perfect book. Perfect author. perfect price.Reading this book not only changed my mindset but changed my life. would recommend to anyone feeling lost or without purpose,

The self-help, personal improvement genre has grown exponentially in the last few years and some of the books on the matter have become best-sellers. Some of the best known currently are: James Clear's "Atomic Habits", which counts its sales by the millions; and, possibly, the best book on the topic, Dr Julie Smith's "Why has nobody told me this before", which has topped the best-selling books in many languages for well over a year, and it's still selling strongly - and quite deservedly so."Can't Hurt Me" belongs to that list, even if it's a rather different book - it's much less academic than Dr Smith's opus. It's more of an autobiography, and Mr Goggins uses his shocking life as the background in which he writes his many pieces of advice. It's an uneven book, careless with the prose, very disorganized and the story is full of gaps. And yet it's very, very good.David Goggings is no writer but he knows it and makes no apologies for this. What he lacks in that department he substitutes with spontaneity and warmth (and many, many blasphemies), making it work, so the story reads quite well - so much that in the end the book is as much fun as it contains plenty of sound advice. And in the way, we know of yet another story of a black family in the contemporary America suffering extreme poverty and rampant racism - one can only revolt to read that the KKK was still organizing gatherings - in 1995!In the end, from the almost chaotic style of Mr Goggings, it is impossible not to get at least half a dozen very worthy lessons as simple as they are practical and easy to apply to anyone's everyday life.

I’ve been reading this book towards the end of my 75hard challenge and I don’t think I could have picked a better book. Goggins- what a hero, what a mega star and what a bad mother f****. You deserve the world, glory, pride and more.