Can't hurt me 01

This is Audible Lion Crest Publishing Presents Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. 

Read by David Goggins and Adam Skolnick. 

Life isn't fair. It's not supposed to be. 

Life is not biased to anyone. It doesn't matter if you're black or white, gay or lesbian, rich or poor. Life doesn't discriminate. 

Once you accept the fact that life is going to fuck you up in one way or another, you can start preparing for it. 

The right mindset is everything. It would be the only thing that will get you through life. Having a can't hurt me mentality will always keep you in the fight. 

You have to be open minded enough to believe that whatever life throws at you, you can overcome. 

I'm about to do is very uncomfortable for me. I'm used to sharing my story on a very surface level, but for the last eight months I drilled deep in my life with Adam, my Ghost Rider. I was forced to go back to the sewer where I once lived in my mind. To be honest, writing this book was one of the hardest things I've ever done mentally. 

Being completely vulnerable and exposed are some of the hardest things a person can ever do. 

We all have a story. You were all about to hear mine. 

Life isn't always fun, so how I talk about my life is raw, real and authentic. 

I was the ultimate underdog. I was the weakest one of the litter, knowing that I had to figure out a way to survive and ultimately thrive. Back then, there was no talk about mental toughness. That shit didn't even exist. You just had to figure shit out. 

I realized at a very young age I was fucked and I had a very long and hard road to hoe without any tools. 

I want to give up more times than I could count, but that voice in my head wouldn't allow me. Being at a disadvantage forced me to create an indestructible mental toolbox, one I couldn't get from theory. It would have to come from practice and repetition. 

I had no peace in my life because I was living a lie. I didn't want people to know the real me. No one wants to tell people they are insecure and afraid. I realize for me to find peace I'll have to face my funcked up life and fix it alone. No one was coming to save me. I didn't want money, fame, or awards or even a patent of fucking back. I was looking for self fulfillment. I was looking forward everywhere. I realized I couldn't find it from an outside source. 

It would have to come from within, and to find it I'd have to be willing to go toward with myself. One thing I figured out along my journey is that you have to believe you are here for a reason, not just floating around Willy nilly. 

I believe the reason I was put here was to unlock the code, the human potential to tell the world you can be born in a fucking sewer and still be the baddest mother fucker on earth. 

Just remember one thing. 

Once you climb out of the sewer and are staying on the road, look around and take pride in the fact that nothing can hurt you. 

Man. 

I cannot wait to get into this right now, man. I'm so happy to be here. It's been a long time coming, Adam. We've put a lot of hours behind this. About what, eight months? Yeah. At least. I think. I think we first contacted. Yeah, about almost a year ago now. Well, I'm excited, man, what we're about to do. 

Is something I don't believe has ever been done before in the audiobook world. We're going to do an audio book. 

Podcast slash radio show. 

So we'll see how it turns out. Project slash. 

And so my name is Adam Skolnick. I I helped David get this book. On paper. It was, it's been a labor of love, but it's also been really challenged because this life to to be able to, to put this life in stark relief for everyone to see and understand and absorb. It's not, it's not an easy process for you. No, not at all. It was the hardest thing I've done, like I said, mentally in my entire life to have. 

Drill down deep in my life. 

And go straight from the surface and go way deep to, you know, to the sewer where I once lived. You don't want to go back there. You know, once you kind of go back and figure it out and overcome things. I didn't want to revisit that place. And doing this book made me, you know, revisit it. And also now I'm telling people, my life, people I don't even know. 

So That's even harder. 

And you asked me to read this because you wanted to universalize your story, because this is not about, you know, hero worship for David Goggins. This is about something else, right? No, this isn't about me. And I'm not the hero here. 

You are the hero. 

So That's why I'm not reading this book. This book. Yes, this is my life. But once again, I'm not the hero. The hero is you. 

So we're going to get into it now. There's 11 chapters in this book. And in between our ten challenges, the principles that David outlines in his book are then encapsulated in these challenges for you listeners to be able to apply them to your life. And that's the whole point of this book. Like like we were just saying, it's all about creating a toolbox for you listeners to then apply to your life. And the motivation will, of course come from David's amazing. 

Story Anything else you want to say to prep these guys for what's about to happen? Yes, like I said in my small in brief introduction was, you know, basically this is about a habit. This, you know, there was no mental toughness class when I was growing up. I had to figure out an indestructible toolbox to get through my life. And what I figured out along the way is your mind has the tactical advantage over you. 

And that's what I'm trying to fix here. For everybody listening to this, your mind has a tactical advantage. So what do I mean there? What I mean is your mind knows your insecurities, it knows your fears, and your mind can only process so much. 

And all that stuff that it takes a long time to process, it starts to filter out so. What that means is pain, insecurities, fear. It wants to get rid of it. It doesn't want to face it. That's the challenge that the mind has no time for. 

So These tools are going to teach you to start facing your fear. Start tripling down on your insecurities, tripling down on your fears, tripling down on your weaknesses, tripling down on being uncomfortable. And that's where you start. 

Becoming, you know, just mentally tough. That's what happens. 

And it comes from ownership, ownership of your life completely. And that's exactly what I'm doing here. And that is the hardest part about my story, Adam, is for me to set the example. 

I have to put all of my shit out there for everyone to see. I have to own my life. 

Situation. 

You were in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you would die without ever realizing your true potential. 

Mission to unshackle your mind. 

Did your victims mentality forever? 

On all aspects of your life completely. 

Build an unbreakable foundation. 

Execution. 

Read this cover to cover. Study the techniques within except all 10 challenges. Repeat repetition will count your mind. 

If you do your job to the best of your ability, this will hurt. 

This mission is not about making yourself feel better. 

This mission is about being better and having a greater impact on the world. Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done. 

Classified. 

This is an origin story of a hero. 

The hero is you. 

Introduction. 

Do you know who you really are and what you're capable of? 

I'm sure you think so, but just because you believe something doesn't make it true. 

Denial is the ultimate comfort zone. 

Don't worry, you aren't alone. In every town, in every country, all over the world, millions roam the streets dead eyed as zombies, addicted to comfort, embracing A victims mentality and unaware of their true potential. I know this because I meet and hear from them all the time. And because, just like you, I used to be one of them. I had a damn good excuse too. 

Life dealt me a bad hand. I was born broken, grew up with beat downs, was tormented in school and called nego more times than I can count. 

We were once poor, surviving on welfare, living in government subsidized housing, and my depression was smothering. 

I lived life at the bottom of the barrel and my future forecast was bleak as fuck

Very few people know how the bottom feels, but I do. It's like quicksand. It grabs you, sucks you under, and won't let go. When life is like that, it's easy to drift and continue to make the same comfortable choices that are killing you over and over again. But the truth is, we all make habitual, self limiting choices. It's as natural as a sunset and as fundamental as gravity. 

It's how our brains are wired, which is why motivation is crap. 

Even the best pep talk or self help hack is nothing but a temporary fix. It won't rewire your brain. It won't amplify your voice or uplift your life. Motivation changes exactly nobody. 

The bad hand that was my life was mine and mine alone to fix. 

So I sought out pain, fell in love with suffering, and eventually transformed myself from the weakest peace of shit on the planet into the hardest man God ever created. Or so I tell myself. 

Odds are you have had a much better childhood than I did, and even now might have a damn decent life. 

But no matter who you are, who your parents are, or where, where you live, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, you're probably living at about 40% of your true capability. Damn shame. 

We all have the potential to be so much more. 

Years ago, I was invited to be on a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I'd never set foot in a university lecture hall as a student. I'd barely graduated high school. Yet I was at one of the most prestigious institutions in the country to discuss mental toughness with a handful of others. 

At some point in the discussion, an esteemed MIT professor said that we each have genetic limitations, hard ceilings, that there are some things we just can't do, no matter how mentally tough we are when we hit our genetic ceiling, He said mental toughness doesn't enter into the equation. 

Everyone in that room seemed to accept his version of reality because this senior tenured professor was known for researching mental toughness. It was his life's work. It was also a bunch of bullshit and to me, he was using science to let us all off the hook. 

I've been quiet until then because I was surrounded by all these smart people feeling stupid. But someone in the audience noticed the look on my face and asked if I agreed. And if you ask me a direct question, I won't be shy. 

There's something to be said for living it instead of studying it, I said. Then turn toward the professor. What you said is true for most people, but not 100%. 

There will always be the 1% of us who are willing to put in the work to defy the odds. I went on to explain what I knew from experience, that anybody can become a totally different person and achieve what so-called experts like him claim is impossible. But it takes a lot of heart, will and an armored mind. 

Heraclitus, A philosopher born in the Persian Empire back in the 5th century BC, had it right when he wrote about men on the battlefield. Out of every 100 men he wrote, 10 shouldn't even be there. 

80 are just targets, 9 are the real fighters and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. 

Ah, but the one one is a warrior. 

From the time you take your first breath, you become eligible to die. You also become eligible to find your greatness and become the one warrior. But it is up to you to equip yourself for the battle ahead. Only you can master your mind, which is what it takes to live a bold life filled with accomplishments most people consider beyond their capability. 

I am not a genius like those professors at MIT, but I am that one warrior. 

And the story you are about to hear, The story of My fucked up Life will illuminate A proven path to self mastery and empower you to face reality. Hold yourself accountable, push past pain. Learn to love what you fear, Relish failure, live to your fullest potential and find out who you really are. 

Human beings change through study, habit, and stories. 

Through my story, you will learn what the body and mind are capable of when they're driven to maximum capacity and how to get there. Because when you're driven, whatever is in front of you, whether it's racism, sexism, injuries, divorce, depression, obesity, tragedy, or poverty, becomes fuel for your metamorphosis. 

The steps laid out here amount to the evolutionary algorithm, one that obliterates barriers, glimmers with glory, and delivers lasting peace. I hope you're ready. It's time to go to war with yourself. 

Anything to add here, David? 

I hope.