Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

In life, there is no gift as overlooked or inevitable as failure. I’ve had quite a few and have learned to relish them,

in every failure a lot of good things will have happened, and we must acknowledge them.

knew if I continued to surrender to my fear and my feelings of inadequacy, I would be allowing them to dictate my future forever.

Tell the truth about the real reasons for your limitations and you will turn that negativity, which is real, into jet fuel.

There’s power in victory that’s transformative, but after our celebration we should dial it down, dream up new training regimens, new goals, and start at zero the very next day.

That forgetting happens the second we give control over our emotions and actions to other people, which can easily happen when pain is peaking.

my refrigerator is never full, and it never will be because I live a mission-driven life, always on the hunt for the next challenge.

when you have no confidence it becomes easy to value other people’s opinions,

Our culture has become hooked on the quick-fix, the life hack, efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort. There’s no denying this attitude may get you some of the trappings of success, if you’re lucky, but it will not lead to a calloused mind or self-mastery. If you

Life experience, especially negative experiences, help callous the mind. But it’s up to you where that callous lines up. If you choose to see yourself as a victim of circumstance into adulthood, that callous will become resentment that protects you from the unfamiliar. It will make you too cautious and untrusting, and possibly too angry at the worl