A carved wooden hand gripping a thorny rose stem, with a ripe peach lying next to it on a sage green surface.

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Can't Hurt Me • 2018

David Goggins

It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Goggins says toughness takes more than a strong mindset. It means having the discipline to plan discomfort into every day. He treats suffering as a routine you choose and keep doing, not something you wait for.

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