Can’t Hurt Me: Audiobook Review
David Goggins has achieved a lot. Regardless whether those achievements are relevant to you or sound senseless (4000 Pull-ups?), the physical exertion and capabilities he’s achieved are astounding.
I’m a couch potato myself and went inside this audiobook thinking that yeah, I probably wouldn’t benefit much from that aspect, since I’m rarely motivated much by physical activity, but when I’ve completed, I realise that I was wrong. Not that I’m going to jump off my seat and join and Ultra-marathon, but rather I’ve learned now two things from the book:
- You can apply the same perseverance doing physical work, towards study and intellectual activities.
- You need to be physically fit to have a clear mind, in the sense that physical fitness correlates to mental strength.
The first point serves to motivate (David Goggins hates the word motivation, and uses the word obsession) me to be more active AND to be more diligent in improving my technical knowledge. He said about not putting anything that should be done today, to tomorrow and that’s what I should do.
The second point reminds me when I was cleaning the recent Commonwealth athletes village, where I saw quite a lot of the athletes have books in their room. I remember also that the average books read by Olympic athletes are also higher than the nation’s average. Point is, these athletes aren’t dumb. And training your body will only improve your mind only, and not the other way around. The adage brain versus brawn seems ridiculous now, and David Goggins has helped me to shift that mindset even more.
This audiobook is very long (17 hours) and almost double the normal long ones. This is because the writer and Goggins have interludes in between with commentaries and even challenges. I appreciate the effort and it seems to work in making the audiobook even more interesting.
Overall a worthwhile book/audiobook to consume.
