Reading David Goggins' "Can't Hurt Me" revealed how much untapped potential most people have. The mind acts as a governor, imposing limits on physical performance even when the body can do more. Recognizing and pushing past these mental barriers is where real growth happens.
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Goggins, right? Can't Hurt Me. When I did 75 Hard the first time, that was one of the first books I read. And some people probably outside the military have seen David Goggins and maybe how crazy they think he is, but his book showed me— and whenever I tell people, I tell them not to read it because it shows you how much you have not done with your life, but that's why I recommend it, because it shows like what we're all capable of. And then that led me to the book Endure, which talks about the governor in your mind that limits you physically for how far you push your body, uh, because he learned a lot about that doing all his ultra stuff of like your mind is going to stop you from achieving things because it doesn't think you can make it when your body can. And so I talk a lot about that with the young airmen I work with where they're like, I don't think I can do this