Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
by Parker · 20 things on NewTwos
- Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.
- Just because you believe something doesn’t make it true.
- Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.
- Call yourself out.
- We avoid what we need to hear most.
- Most of us give up when we’ve only given around 40 percent of our maximum effort.
- It’s simply a matter of stretching your pain tolerance, letting go of your identity and all your self-limiting stories.
- Staying in the fight is always the hardest and most rewarding.
- In every failure there is something to be gained.
- Life is one big mind game. The only person you are playing against is yourself.
- You never know who you are affecting.
- Failure is a stepping stone to future success.
- We need to surround ourselves with people who will tell us what we need to hear, not what we want to hear, but at the same time not make us feel we’re up against the impossible.
- Most wars are won or lost in our own heads.
- In life, there is no gift as overlooked or inevitable as failure.
- Life is one long imaginary game that has no scoreboard, no referee, and isn’t over until we’re dead and buried.
- Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind. One that leads to both peak performance and beautiful silence.
- The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.
- What if?
- You don’t really know what you’re capable of until you put everything you’ve got on the line.