Your life is what it is due to the choices you’ve made. These choices stem from your own nature.CHANGE YOUR NATURE!

Introduction

David struggled at school and did not learn as fast as the other kids.So he cheated.

Chapter 1: I Should Have Been a Statistic

This story – your story – is full of excuses for why you should not succeed. So, they will fuel your success.

Challenge #1

If you suck, tell yourself you suck. That’s ok. You’ll just need to work hard now, in order to lose weight or not suck.Call yourself out!

Chapter 2: Truth Hurts

Whatever your goal is, you need to be honest about where you are on your path, and what you need to get done.

Challenge #2 

Whenever he’d cut a workout short because he was tired, he’d go back to the gym to do the entire workout again. He could not be dishonest with himself.

Chapter 3: The Impossible Task 

<ul><li>Write down all the things you don’t like to do or that make you feel uncomfortable.</li><li>Highlight those which are good for you.</li><li>Go do one of them. Then do them again.</li><li>Do something that sucks every day.</li><li>Once it becomes comfortable, go further.</li><li>The more you make yourself feel uncomfortable, the stronger you will become.</li></ul>

Challenge #3

He learned that everything in life is a mind game. No matter how bad something is, the pain eventually stops.Taking Souls is a game you play with your own mind by forcing yourself to overperform so that your enemy is surprised – your enemy has “his soul taken”.During the SEAL training, he learned that all pain is finite. Smile at it. It will end eventually. Victory is about bringing your best when you feel your worst – and not quitting.

Chapter 4: Takings Souls 

The only way to turntables and earn respect in competitions is to show excellence.And the only way to be excellent is to work harder.Achieve what your opponent/superior could never do themselves.

Challenge #4 

The calloused mind enables the brain to tap into the sympathetic nervous system which energizes you.You should push the hardest when you want to quit the hardest. This is how you train your calloused mind.

Chapter 5: Armored Mind

<ul><li>He rejected his past, hence he rejected himself.</li><li>The only way to accept yourself fully is to go back to your past and identify all of the moments of weakness, and label them as just that: weakness.</li><li>Only when you recognize you were weak, can you then accept it and move forward.</li></ul>

Visualize an obstacle, and imagine overcoming it.

Challenge #5

<ul><li>A quarter into the race, he wondered why he was getting himself into these situations.</li><li>At the seventieth mile, he took a break, his body on the verge of collapse.</li><li>To help, he remembered all the pain he went through in his life, tapped into his sympathetic nervous system, and went back running.</li><li>You need all of the hope you can have. David calls his memories of pain and victory, his “Cookie Jar”.</li></ul>

Chapter 6: It’s Not About a Trophy

Write down all of the obstacles you have overcome, all of the small and big victories, and the pain you had to go through to succeed.Fill up your own Cookie Jar.

Challenge #6

<ul><li>Each time he pushed the boundaries, he was surprised to see how far he could go.</li><li>Goggins believes that shortcuts to pain are nonsense.</li><li>The only way to do more and better is to go beyond your perceived limitations.</li></ul>

Chapter 7: The Most Powerful Weapon

<ul><li>The human body is like a stock car. We can go very fast, but there is a governor preventing us from reaching peak potential.</li><li>Our governor is in our mind, and if we remove it, we can achieve anything.</li><li>The only way to remove it is not to listen to the voice telling you to quit.</li></ul>

the governor

Your mind is wired to tend towards comfort, not performance.

Your mind is wired to tend towards comfort, not performance. The way to change that is to callous your mind, meaning, chasing pain!

CALLOUS YOUR MIND, CHASE THE PAIN!

<ul><li>When you’re tired, acknowledge that this is your governor of pain talking.</li><li>You are not as tired as you think you are.</li><li>Keeping this in mind will help you keep going.</li></ul>

fuck govenor!

Another obstacle is friends and family. Often, they drag us down, which is why you should use your Cookie Jar when this happens – it is a great system to remind yourself who you are.

friends and family

Keeping an open mind will help you keep going. Of course, it’s easier to keep an open mind when you are chilling on your couch than when you’re suffering.

Open mind

<ul><li>Remove your governor. To do so, reach a point when you are super tired, and push just 5 or 10% further. Then repeat. </li><li>Life is a mind game. </li><li>The only person you are competing against is yourself.</li></ul>

Challenge #7

When students asked him if they could one day run 100 miles like him, this is what Goggins would tell them.The only way to master your mind and kill the governor is to get addicted to hard work.

Chapter 8: Talent Not Required

When something goes wrong in your life (like an injury), don’t just stop. Adapt. If you play piano and hurt your right hand, practice with your left hand meanwhile.

This is a three-week challenge during which you will take control of your schedule.first week,observe your work.Identify where you wasted time and trim it.For week two, build a schedule by blocks of 15 minutes.Do one thing at a time, and focus on it recklessly.Optimize and refine in week three.

Challenge #8

<ul><li>Every day, he started back to zero.</li><li>This mindset helped him keep on soaking knowledge because it meant that nothing was ever finished. There was always more to do, and further to go. You whether move forward, or backward. But you never stagnate.</li><li>Most people don’t push themselves at all. Among those that do, most stop pushing when they reach their goals. Only the very few never stop pushing. </li></ul>

Chapter 9: Uncommon Amongst Uncommon

If you want to become uncommon among uncommon, you will have to stay great – meaning, never rest.

Challenge #9

Goggins learned that failures are great, because they contain the data you need to succeed.

Chapter 10: The Empowerment of Failure 

<ul><li>Think about your last/biggest failure. Write everything that went right from your failures, then write about how it affected you.</li><li>Then write about the things you can fix to avoid failing again.</li><li>Then prepare better, and make another attempt.</li><li>If your failure happened 25 years ago, that doesn’t change anything. Write that report.</li></ul>

Challenge #10

What if. When you attempt to do something difficult, a lot of people will discourage you for it. But what if you could pull it off? What if is the ultimate answer to anyone that had ever doubted you.

Chapter 11: What If? 

After fighting all his life, he had found peace.He understood that pain had unlocked in his mind a doorway to “a beautiful silence”.

What if YOU CAN?

What if you can succeed ? when everybody else doubts you! DO NOT STOP WHEN YOU'RE TIRED, STOP WHEN YOU'RE DONE!

Can't Hurt Me is an autobiographical account of how Goggins went from complete failure to becoming a Navy Seal and acclaimed motivational speaker. The essence of the book is "Push to the end, and when you're there...push further."

Can't Hurt Me Summary - David Goggins - Aure's Notes

Meditation is your birthright. It's your natural state. It requires no one, needs no thing, and has no technique.If something requires a guru, a mantra, or a teaching, it isn't universal, and it won't free you.

We say that we want peace of mind but what we really want is peace from mind.

“No technique of the mind will free you from the mind.”

All chases, whether flow, drugs, beauty, thrills, orgasm, or devotion, are attempts to escape from the mind. Meditation is the direct path.

In an age of mental gluttony, meditation is fasting for the mind. Before paying a therapist to listen to you, listen to yourself. Before clearing your inbox, clear your mind.

Just as the sky rains when the clouds are heavy, and the body sleeps when the limbs are tired, meditation arrives when the mind is calm.

Prepare for meditation by sitting quietly in the morning, with eyes closed and back upright, in any comfortable position that will minimize movement.

Sixty minutes are easier than thirty, as it takes time for the mind to settle down. Sixty consecutive days are needed, just as it takes time for the body to go from unfit to fit.

Realize that at this moment, you are the only person in the world and there is no one to instruct you, praise you, or judge you.

Make no effort for or against anything. Whatever happens, happens. Surrender to yourself in the moment. Resist nothing and reject nothing, including the urge to resist and reject.

Meditation is not going through thoughts but rather letting thoughts go through you. The thought “I am meditating” is also a thought.

Meditation isn’t holy or spiritual or magical. It’s literally nothing.

No focus, no mantra, no dharma, no chakras, no Buddhas, no gurus, no gratitude, no scripture, no temple, no music, no gadgets, no apps are required. Some may be helpful, but eventually all will have to be left behind. Start simply, because that's where this all ends.

There are many meditation methods, but "no effort" is the universal method. Every creature at all times can choose to do nothing.

There's no need to get up to record a thought. If the idea was good, it’ll come back. If it doesn’t come back, it wasn’t that good.

Meditation is a single player game. There is no point in comparing to other meditators or to even your own previous meditations.

If meditation was easy, you’d do nothing else.

The point of meditation is not to become "a meditator" - in reality, there's no such thing. If it doesn’t bring lasting and effortless change, drop it, before it becomes another struggle and another chase.

There is nothing to say and nothing on offer. No one is taking you anywhere, selling you anything, or making you promises. Reading or talking about meditation will do nothing for you.

Ignore all advice on meditation, including this thread. “Meditation is good for nothing. That's why you do it.” - @amirmotlagh

The closer you get to the truth, the more silent you become inside.

The ability to be content and at peace, by yourself, is freedom.

I like naval's approach to meditation a lot, its very practical.

Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing: Naval Ravikant

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science

And it might be covered by science!The supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses might be explained by Quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects may be spatially separated. This leads to correlations between observable physical properties of the systems.Einstein named it spooky action at a distance with effects demonstrated through real physical experiments.

Telepathy might actually exist

By admitting this phenomenon is real, we are admitting that our reality is full of particles that have instant, faster than light connections.Think about it a little bit.Our brains are parts of the universe and they are also made of particles that should obey the general laws of physics. Which are the implications?Imagine two separate brains with each one of them containing a particle from a resonating pair.This can create simultaneous and identical effects for these brains. One thought from a brain can influence a thought from the other. Actual science allows that.

Nature allows pairs of particles to  simultaneously ‘vibrate’

Quantum entanglement refers to any kind of particles, not only ones located within brains or experiments.Did you happen to see or hear about coincidences with a very low probability to be just that?The odds of winning the Lotto 6/49 jackpot are one in 13,983,816 for every single ticket. The odds to win it twice are one in 13,983,816 x 13,983,816. An unimaginable number. But it happened to Jason Brown.The strange phenomenon of two things happening in the same time, two people thinking or doing the same thing simultaneously without one knowing about the other could be backed by science!

Some coincidences could be non-random

To better explain reality and why is happening what is happening.

MyStash

What is meditation? Meditation is the power which enables us to resist all this[slavery to nature]... [One] should be able to say to his mind, "You are mine; I order you, do not see or hear anything", and the mind will not see or hear anything -- no form or sound will react on the mind... Next, the mind must be made to quiet down. It is rushing about. Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up... Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am, as it were a slave to the mind... Meditation is the power which enables us to resist all this.

Mind

How is it (meditation) to be attained? In a dozen different ways. Each temperament has its own way. But this is the general principle: get hold of the mind. The mind is like a lake, and every stone that drops into it raises waves. These waves do not let us see what we are... Let it be calm. Do not let nature raise the wave. Keep quiet, and then after a little while she will give you up. Then we know what we are.

Lake

Meditation is the focusing of the mind on some object. If the mind acquires concentration on one object, it can be so concentrated on any object whatsoever... the practice of meditation even with some trifling external object leads to mental concentration. But it is true that the mind very easily attains calmness when one practice meditation with anything on which one's mind is most apt to settle down.

object

Imagination is the door to inspiration and the basis of all thought. All prophets, poets, and discoverers have had great imaginative power... The three great requisites are:First. Purity, physical and mental; all uncleanness, all that would draw the mind down, must be abandoned.Second. Patience: ... the gain is sure if you have patience.Third. Perseverance: Persevere through think and thin, through health and sickness, never miss a day in practice... (continued next)

Imagine

(continued from last idea)After bathing, sit down and hold the seat firm as a rock, that nothing can move you. Hold the head and shoulders and the hips in a straight line, keeping the spinal column free; all action is along it, and it must not be impaired... then think of the whole as perfect, an instrument given to you by god to enable you to attain Truth... take a long breath through both nostrils, throw it out again, and then hold it out as long as you comfortably can. Take four such breaths, then breathe naturally and pray for illumination.

We have to seize this unstable mind and drag it from its wanderings and fix it on one idea. Over and over again this must be done.

Again

The easiest way to get hold of the mind is to sit quiet and let it drift where it will for a while. Hold fast to the idea, 'I am the witness watching my mind drifting. The mind is not I.' Then see it, think as if it were a thing entirely apart from yourself.

Take some holy person, some great person whom you revere, some saint whom you know to be perfectly non-attached, and think of his heart, that heart has become non-attached, and meditate on that heart; it will calm the mind.

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.

Flame and heart

*Fun fact*My name Anirban means the eternal flame, a flame that cannot be extinguished.

Meditation is still an ideal to me, which I strive for every day. I have learnt a little, I hope to continue learning from the practice.

The idea of Meditation by Vivekananda

<ul><li>You are going to die, but don't fear death, fear leading a life unlived.</li><li>Use the fact that you could die anytime to create a sense of urgency that will propel you forward. Love harder, work harder, be more grateful that you are alive than ever.</li><li>Don't be a waste of oxygen, potential, resources, and space. Do you want to be in your death bed and all your what ifs and unexecuted ideas be there looking at you with a disappointed face?</li><li>Seize and cherish every moment of your life. YOLO.</li></ul>

Don't Fear Death

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Can't Hurt Me Summary - David Goggins - Aure's Notes

Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing: Naval Ravikant

Telepathy might actually exist

The idea of Meditation by Vivekananda

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