David Goggins: U.S navy seal whose life was filled with hardships, the book covers his story on how he calloused his mind to overcome the hurdles. Whenever you try to do something out of your comfort zone, Mind acts like a governor, a voice that pops up, a big lie that brain comes up with all sort of reasoning so you stay in comfort zone,brain just wants comfort zone and Denial is the best comfort zone. Because brain always tries to simplify things.

Calloused BRAIN

Everyday try to do something uncomfortable even a little so that brain gets calloused instead of getting scared of your fear and insecurities, it will always haunt you, having victim state of mind is waste of time, nothing changes but keeps you in a lopp of problem mindset. Identify week links and challenge them. Dig on things that you know are surely important for you but you are not doing.

Growth Does Not Come From Comfort Zone

When you go past your percieved limit, you will realise how capable you are, most of us give up when we have put only 40% effort and failed, but theres still 60% more effort left. So whenever you feel you have reached your limit think as if you have put only 40% effort and theres still 60% more. This gives second wave of energy

40% - 60% Effort 

Whenever you feel you have reached your limit and path ahead seems difficult then use cookie jar method.Make a list of all your achievements and put it in imaginary jar and when you think you have reached your limit, take out a cookie and remember what you accomplished, it can be even a small achievement, remind yourself about how it felt. This will enable you with second wave of energy

Cookie Jar Method

We dont rise to the level of expectation, but we fall to the level of training. When failed dont say it is not meant to me, but try harder. Train more. But not at the cost of health, be in state of ‘Peaceful but never satisified'Goggins took several ultramarathons of miles both with and without preparation, there was a stark difference, do not consider anything for granted , do the homework.

No TRAINING VS TRAINING

Constantly recheck the map you are heading, and know overconfidence can kill. Identify where you are heading and never ignore knowledge coming your way due to your ego. Once reached the destination dont let the ego think you are the greatest because somebody out there who is at next level. You are your only competition. Peaceful but never satisfied.

Check The Flow Of Your Direction

Biggest motivation and inspiration comes from the story of goggins in the book itself as your read more than the important lessons mentioned above. I recommend reading the book.Its time to break some of your limits.

Biggest Lesson Is From The Story Of Goggins In The Full Book

Goggins used to listen to Rocky Balboa's(boxer) music to pump him up with energy. Music activates various parts of the brain, reminds your brain of the state you were in when you had listened to the song.

Having A Song To Energize You

Inspires you with the story of David Goggins : U.S Navy seal about how he overcame his life full of hardships and how he motivated himself amidst uncertainity and achieved greatness by breaking the limit set by the mind and inspires you to break the limiting beliefs you set for yourself by coming out of comfort zone. The book is complete story of his life and I summarized some lessons to be learnt from the book.

New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America. In this curse-word-free edition of Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

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New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America. In this curse-word-free edition of Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

David Goggins is an American ultramarathon runner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, public speaker, and author. He is a retired United States Navy SEAL member who served in the Iraq War.

David Goggins

Can't Hurt Me

Have you noticed that every morning, you brush your teeth almost the same way, your actions are almost automated, the way you brush, the way you keep it back and also your actions you do after brushing. Why? Read next

Habit Chunks, Adding New Habits And Keystone Habits

Habit Chunks are group of habits that are almost automated inorder to reduce making decision by your brain. These are repeated behaviors.Basal Ganglia:Part of the brain that gets activated while habits are turned on and decision taking is reduced

Habit Chunks

Ever been into trap of same negative sequence happening and you falling into same trap of negative loop automaticaly, yes there can be sequence for your emotional habits too.

Emotional Habit Chunks

Brain needs reward to do things( dopamine should be released for any action or motivation to even do any task)What if you can sandwich your new habit in between your pre existing habits such that the new habit is also percieved as something easy in between them.

Adding New Habits

I found it really difficult to setup an exercise routine until I read the book power of habit, all I had to do was find some activities that I considered rewarding (in my case was drinking cup of tea while reading books)Added the exercise routine just before drinking tea(the reward)I did not worry about loosing weight and focused on routine as I knew loosing weight would be a by-productI also added additional reward of having a cold showerAnd once I did, Now its almost automated, when its time for exercise I dont have to force myself to do so, my brain knows after the exercise is the reward.

How I Added Exercise Routine

Is a habit due to which multiple habits are chained as chunks. Its the master habit due to which all other habits exist.Break the Keystone habit and you will find rest of the habits dissociated.Example:Developing an identity that you want to be a fit personAnd you start controlling your diet, due to which you feel more energetic and you are finding there are lot of changes going on due to one decision. You start working out and find you are more active etc.Can you make a keystone habit yourself ? Something to find out yourself.

Keystone HABIT

These ideas helped me to know the importance of habits and to add or remove any new habits.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives. With a new Afterword by the author “Sharp, provocative, and useful.”—Jim Collins “Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good.”—Financial Times “A flat-out great read.”—David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity “You’ll never look at yourself, your organization, or your world quite the same way.”—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious look at the science of habit formation and change.”—The New York Times Book Review

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives. With a new Afterword by the author   “Sharp, provocative, and useful.”—Jim Collins   “Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good.”—Financial Times   “A flat-out great read.”—David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity “You’ll never look at yourself, your organization, or your world quite the same way.”—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious look at the science of habit formation and change.”—The New York Times Book Review

Charles Duhigg is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times, currently writes for The New Yorker Magazine and is the author of two books on habits and productivity, titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business and Smarter Faster Better.

Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit

You are going through some non external problems which you think all day. You constantly worry about it all day. It has been days, month and years, You pray to god always to help you, but you see no signs of that. But you continue worrying so much you have forgotten how it felt before.

How Would You Behave If God Eliminated Your Problem Next Day

For a minute close your eyes and think about how would you behave the next day when god blesses and solves your problem.After a long time god finally agreed to eliminate your problem(non external). The next day you would not have any idea of your problem. The thoughts about your problem would have completly forgotten. That would mean you would not have any thoughts about it. No thoughts would mean no sentences and words used to construct the sentence. Can you feel how would it feel tomorrow right now

Think.

How about not using those words and sentences which has become your daily talks. How about completly banning those sentences and words. How would the thought be created without using those sentences and words. With no thoughts about it whole day how would you remember the problem( non external), if you do not remember the problem today and continue daily where will it go

What If You Try Today Even Before God Blesses You.

Non external problems are increased multifold just by thinking about it again and again in the forms of thoughts.In neuroscience, its "use it or loose it", more you use it more the pathways are strengthened. You cannot supress the thoughts directly, but you can ban the words and sentences you use to create those thoughts, closely observe and not down the common words you use thats related to you problems. With practicing these with discipline you would notice the decreased intensity just after few days.

Be Careful Thinking About Your Problems.

What if god helped you.

The above sentence is a powerful sentence that can have a great impact on your life. How often is it that everybody does self talk and fill the above blank with negative words. I am a kind of person who is not confident. I am a kind of person who does not have courage.

"I am a kind of person who ____"

Think what thoughts are made up of, words.Thoughts are made up of words and sentences or in other way, the sentences you use are your thoughts. When you keep saying the above sentence in a negative way, neural pathway strengthens which makes your subconious mind believe and reinforce what you are saying. Think of it like everytime you tell that sentence in mind, you are feeding the neural pathway .The more you say the more it strengthens. Less you say, more it weakens.

Thoughts  = Sentences Power Of Words

Its a choice now! You decide you want to reinforce the negative sentences and strengthen it . Subconsious mind gives you more proof of what you have told it. If you have made your subconious mind believe in above sentence, more you will find and more the focus will be next time when you are in the similar situation.Its a loop.

You Decide You Want More Or Less Of It.

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I am a kind of person who ____

I recently solved a 3×3 rubix cube for the first time ever. I know many people have solved it , but for me it was something which I had already tried n number of times applying my own logic and had given up. I had tried and failed solving it many times without realising or completely unaware of an easy solution to solve it. Yesterday, I challenged myself that every day I would spend an hour for atleast 2 months approximating the time It would take to solve such a complex thing. Read what happend next.

Is It Hard Or Lack Of Right Knowledge.

With the challenge in place, I immediately searched youtube for possible solution which I had already done in the past but every time I would find some videos which were just complex or I just believed it was just a fake video. But luckily, I found the right video this time which provided the exact knowledge which was required to solve. That was it.It took me just 1.5 hours to go from "Not Possible at all" to "This was easier than I can think off"

One Right Solution Vs Million Wrong Solutions

With just solving it two more times, I was able to solve the rubix cube all 6 sides under 11 minute which is great for someone who thought it was damn hard.From "Not Possible at all" to "I could solve it under 11 minutes"

Under 11 :11 Minutes

Persistence - the most important quality every one needs to cultivate.But persistence combined with the right knowledge is what is really required.I would not have solved the cube even if I had tried million times using my own logic (old way). One should always try to learn from the knowledge which already exist in the world first rather than trying it and failing 100 times. It is not required to reinvent the wheel.We need to really put a lot of efforts in finding if solution really exists.

Solutions To Problems

Similarly,One should try to know from those who have solved the problem or achieved something through hard ways, to benifit from them, rather than being stubborn about finding your own ways.Sometimes the solution to problems exist always, you just have not found out the right knowledge to solve it while some people have already mastered it.Read books, its the easiest way you can directly have a conversation with someone who has mastered something.

Follow Someone/ Something Who Has Already Done It.

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Is It Hard or Lack of Right Knowledge.

Major distortions of mental visionRead more.

Mental Nearsightedness And Farsightedness

The person who is mentally nearsighted is apt to over-look objects and possibilities that are distant. He pays attention only to the problems immediately at hand and is blind to the opportunities that could be his by thinking and planning in terms of the future.You are nearsighted if you do not make plans, form objectives, and lay the foundation for the future.

Mentally nearsighted

On the other hand, the mentally farsighted person is apt to overlook possibilities that are right before him.He does not see the opportunities at hand. He sees only a dream-world of the future, unrelated to the present.He wants to start at the top rather than move up step by step--and he does not recognize that the only job where you can start at the top is the job of digging a hole

Mentally Farsighted

Your success, health, happiness, and wealth depend on how you make up your mind! One side of your mind has positive mental attitude and the other side has negative mental attitude. A positive attitude will naturally attract the good and the beautiful. The negative attitude will rob you of all that makes life worth living. By helping you recognize the important person that you are and making you believe that you can change your world, this book helps you discover and unleash the power of your mental attitude.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

What is Identity ?A Belief that you are something or you lack something or as the person that you see the world as.How Identity is going to affect your life and how belief system comes into picture.Let us see how Identifying youself in different ways affect you either in positive or negative way.Read more.

How You Identify Yourself Has An Effect On Your Life.

Negative IdentityAs and when you identify yourself as a negative identity, you are strengthening your belief system as you are that identity. The Neural Pathways in you brain gets stronger and stronger as you identify yourself more and more.For example - Ever identified yourself as someone who is not confident.Every time you identify as a person who has low confidence, you are strengthening the pathways that makes it a dominant path in your brain. This makes you more negative.Note: Neural pathways are brain structures responsible for thought processing and functioning of your brain and body.

How Identity Can Affect You

Considering yourself as a positive identity even in the situation where you are not, would be better .Here is how:Every thought you think has an effect on how your neural pathways gets structured. In psycology there is a rule "Use it or loose it" . More you think, stronger the pathways gonna getNeuroplasticity : Ability of the brain to modify its structure at any age.By combining both, you can modify your identity into a positive one.Consider yourself identifying someone as Calm, on repeating this, your brain starts believeing it and reject anything which is against this belief.

Positive Identity

Now you know how your thoughts can make your identity strong. Its up to you to choose your identity now. Will you continue considering yourself as weak and strengthen this identity?.Or consider yourslef as someone who is more on the positive side and stengthen the other pathway.

Stop It Today And Now

In the book As A Man Thinket by James Allen, the author says " A Man does not get what he wants, but what he is "Visualize yourself as the identity you wanna be as if you are already that identity, rather than wanting to become that identity.Wanting something creates lack, and this strengthens the identity of lacking and lack is negative in itself.Instead focus on visualising yourself as you have already become the identity.Visualising youself as a calm person will strengthen the network and makes your brain believe itOnce this is done , brain will reject anything which is against this belief.

How To Visualise An Identity

What Do You Identify Youself As?

Remember goal is a One time thing. If you find yourself waiting for your goal to be achieved, there is a high chance you would loose your interest on what you wanted to achieve and discontinue doing it once you achieve it.Example - Setting a goal of running 100 meters in 15 seconds.Example - Having a goal just to finish reading a book.

Goal Is A One Time Thing.

Focusing solely on goal, Once you achieve it, you would now find that you have got nothing else to do.Dopamine - A Chemical harmone that excites you to achieve something, to chase it, but not after you get it.

What To Do Next?

Fall in love with the process and focus on one small step at a time. Even when you would have attained your goal, you would have fallen in love with the process that you would still continue doing it.In the example above - Fall in love with the process of training, improve small steps. You can win several times.You will find that you would still want to continue even after you achieve your goal.

Focus On The Process

When you set the big picture of a goal in your mind, your brain gets overwhelmed by the things that needs to be done to attain the goal.This can demotivate you and you might backoff.Do this instead.Break the GOAL into small steps.FOCUS on ONE step at a time and CELEBRATE each step.ENJOY each step as it is your goal, forget rest of the things.To reach a mile you need to take steps in feet.To create an ocean you need tiny drops of water.After completing few steps your brain would now be motivated enough to achieve more as there is proof to your brain that you have come a long way.

Can't Hurt Me

The Power of Habit

What if god helped you.

I am a kind of person who ____

Is It Hard or Lack of Right Knowledge.

Chethan Bhandarkar