31 David Goggins Quotes That Will Change Your Mindset
Stay hard!
David Goggins is an ultra-marathon runner, triathlete, ultra-distance cyclist, and motivational speaker. He’s also a retired United States Navy SEAL and former USAF Tactical Air Control Party member who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Goggins had a difficult childhood and adolescence. According to him, his father was abusive and violent, which made his mother divorced. At the age of 24, he makes $1,000 a month working as an exterminator. He’s fat, weighing nearly 300 pounds. Not comfortable with his life, he decides to become a SEAL.
In struggling with his fears, doubts, and insecurities, he develops a strategy for becoming the person he wants to be, establishing a brutal training plan and going on a rigid routine. He participates in the most brutal ultra-endurance events where he sets new course records; he also holds the world record for the most pull-ups done in 24 hours. Goggins credits his transformation to his mindset.
In the process of overcoming obstacles, he becomes a motivational speaker. For him, “motivational speaker” is just his job title. His self-help memoir, Can’t Hurt Me, was published in 2018. He refers in the book to the 40% rule that suggests that most of us only use 40% of our capacities. The Audible version has sat in the Amazon best…
