Can't Hurt Me “It’s so easy to be great nowadays, because everyone else is weak. If you have ANY mental toughness, if you have any fraction of self-discipline; The ability to not want to do it, but still do it; If you can get through to doing things that you hate to do: on the other side is GREATNESS ”
“When you think you’re done, you’re only at 40% of your total potential.”
Goggins is the only member of the US armed forces to complete Seal training, US army ranger school and the air force tactical air controller training. He entered BUDS hell week three times in one year and completed it twice despite stress fracture and a hernia. He has served in combat in Iraq and was the bodyguard for Iraq prime minister. He has completed over 60 endurance races such as BadWater Ultra Marathon and regularly placing in the top five and taken home first place several times. He has broke the world record for the most pull ups.
In this, we will go on a journey to discover this man’s incredible life story. Learning about his traumatic childhood and how he was overweight in his twenties. To then an amazing transformation into one of the world’s fittest soldiers, we will see what it takes to be one of the fittest people on the planet. We will find out how Goggins turned his life around to achieve the near-impossible, through his searing honesty and unbelievable anecdotes and how you can emulate his success.
He grow up in a home environment where he suffered from regular beat downs at home and a school environment where he suffered sever racism from a young age. Born in 1975 in New York, he didn’t know the small joys of childhood. Instead, from the age of 6, he, his mother and older brother were slaves to his tyrannical father, who was a self-made businessman, owning a roller disco rink, and his workforce was his family. For almost every night of the week, from age six to eight his father took his wife and kids out to his skating rink where he made them work until midnight.
This routine of school and late night work would be intolerable for any young child, but this was made even more brutal by Goggins father who made life all but unbearable. David was often witness to his father beating his mother with a belt if she disobeyed them. Luckily, when David was eight, he and his mother managed to escape from their tormentor. They went to Indiana but Goggins life did not get easier, he would spend the rest of his formative years in poverty and grappling with the demons of his past in small-town Indiana. After years of suffering at the hands of Trunnis, David developed a nervous stutter. His hair also began to fall out, patches of his skin lost pigment and he turned a different colour. This was all happening because David was suffering from toxic stress.
Goggins was labelled as stupid by some of his teachers, as he was threatened with being thrown out of school and placed in a special needs facility. Unknown to anyone, as David headed into his teenage years, he could barely read. In his teenage years, David still struggled with school and literacy. However, in his late teens, David finally found something to concentrate on, joining the United States Air Force. With the hopes of becoming a military man, David bucked down and taught himself to read, eventually getting accepted into Air Force training. But his path to success wasn’t going to be a smooth one.
His dream was to become an Air Force pararescue, a soldier who specialises in parachuting in to war zones in order to rescue injured pilots. But to complete this training, David would have to complete his toughest test yet, learning to swim. Goggins mother didn’t have the money to get him swimming lessons and he didn’t see a pool until he was 12 years old. This meant that he lacked the sort of swimming ability that was necessary to make the cut. After facing many tough swimming challenges and being paralysed with fear, David took the easy way out, he quit.
By 1999, his hopes of the military had disappeared and he was working in a dead end job, exterminating pests on a night shift and using food as a tool to numb his disappointment. After his discharge from the Air Force, he ballooned from 255 to almost 300 as his eating spiralled out of control.
As time went by he started to accept that in order to be great, you have to get used to facing your fears and being uncomfortable as he says “you must suffer to grow”. This all changed when Goggins saw an documentary about Navy SEALS in training. SEALS are seen as the most elite fighting force in the world and the SEAL training is the toughest in the world, with only the best making it through. Watching the recruits struggle through mud, sweat, and tears, he was transfixed by their mental toughness, determination and their peak physical conditioning. All of a sudden, he wanted to join them more than he had ever wanted to do anything.
After a tremendous amount of mental and physical suffering Goggins came out on top and lived life the way he wanted by facing every fear and attacking all problems. Today Goggins is still testing himself out to the maximum by being an extreme long distance runner.
In this, we will go on a journey to discover this man’s incredible life story. Learning about his traumatic childhood and how he was overweight in his twenties. To then an amazing transformation into one of the world’s fittest soldiers, we will see what it takes to be one of the fittest people on the planet. We will find out how Goggins turned his life around to achieve the near-impossible, through his searing honesty and unbelievable anecdotes and how you can emulate his success.
He grow up in a home environment where he suffered from regular beat downs at home and a school environment where he suffered sever racism from a young age. Born in 1975 in New York, he didn’t know the small joys of childhood. Instead, from the age of 6, he, his mother and older brother were slaves to his tyrannical father, who was a self-made businessman, owning a roller disco rink, and his workforce was his family. For almost every night of the week, from age six to eight his father took his wife and kids out to his skating rink where he made them work until midnight.
This routine of school and late night work would be intolerable for any young child, but this was made even more brutal by Goggins father who made life all but unbearable. David was often witness to his father beating his mother with a belt if she disobeyed them. Luckily, when David was eight, he and his mother managed to escape from their tormentor. They went to Indiana but Goggins life did not get easier, he would spend the rest of his formative years in poverty and grappling with the demons of his past in small-town Indiana. After years of suffering at the hands of Trunnis, David developed a nervous stutter. His hair also began to fall out, patches of his skin lost pigment and he turned a different colour. This was all happening because David was suffering from toxic stress.
Goggins was labelled as stupid by some of his teachers, as he was threatened with being thrown out of school and placed in a special needs facility. Unknown to anyone, as David headed into his teenage years, he could barely read. In his teenage years, David still struggled with school and literacy. However, in his late teens, David finally found something to concentrate on, joining the United States Air Force. With the hopes of becoming a military man, David bucked down and taught himself to read, eventually getting accepted into Air Force training. But his path to success wasn’t going to be a smooth one.
His dream was to become an Air Force pararescue, a soldier who specialises in parachuting in to war zones in order to rescue injured pilots. But to complete this training, David would have to complete his toughest test yet, learning to swim. Goggins mother didn’t have the money to get him swimming lessons and he didn’t see a pool until he was 12 years old. This meant that he lacked the sort of swimming ability that was necessary to make the cut. After facing many tough swimming challenges and being paralysed with fear, David took the easy way out, he quit.
By 1999, his hopes of the military had disappeared and he was working in a dead end job, exterminating pests on a night shift and using food as a tool to numb his disappointment. After his discharge from the Air Force, he ballooned from 255 to almost 300 as his eating spiralled out of control.
As time went by he started to accept that in order to be great, you have to get used to facing your fears and being uncomfortable as he says “you must suffer to grow”. This all changed when Goggins saw an documentary about Navy SEALS in training. SEALS are seen as the most elite fighting force in the world and the SEAL training is the toughest in the world, with only the best making it through. Watching the recruits struggle through mud, sweat, and tears, he was transfixed by their mental toughness, determination and their peak physical conditioning. All of a sudden, he wanted to join them more than he had ever wanted to do anything.
After a tremendous amount of mental and physical suffering Goggins came out on top and lived life the way he wanted by facing every fear and attacking all problems. Today Goggins is still testing himself out to the maximum by being an extreme long distance runner.
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