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Goggins, David. Can't Hurt Me. Lioncrest 2018

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He lived in an abusive household, where he (David Goggins), his brother (Trunnis Jr.), and his Mother (Jackie), fell under the abuse of Trunnis Goggins.

Quote: "As soon as our neighbors shut the door or turned the corner, my father's smile morphed into a scowl. He barked orders and went inside to sleep another one off, but our work wasn't done. My brother, Trunnis Jr., and I had somewhere to be, and it was up to our sleepless mother to get use there" (Goggins 16).

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David Goggins, Trunnis Jr., Jackie Goggins, and Trunnis Goggins all ran a skate shop together, but since it was in the past, all money went to Trunnis Goggins; the father of the family. He ran it abusively and excessively.

Quote: "Trunnis Jr. was born in 1971. I was born in 1975, ad by the time I was six years old, the roller disco craze was at its absolute peak. Skateland rocked every night. We'd usually get there around 5 p.m., and while my brother worked the concession stand [...] I organized the skates by size and style" (Goggins 18).

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Link to image: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidgoggins/comments/jsqcj0/david_goggins_father_skateland/

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Since David looked at his Dad the "wrong way", and gave "attitude", Trunnis beat David to teach him a lesson. This left a scar on David's childhood.

Quote: "This beating lasted minutes upon minutes. [...] His evil was too real and my hate gave me courage. I refused to give that [expletive] the satisfaction. I just stood up, looked the Devil in his eye, limped to my room, and stood in front of a mirror. I was covered in welts from my neck to the crease at the knees. I didn't go to school for several days" (Goggins 28).

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#4 Escaping with their Mother to Freedom

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#4 Escaping with their Mother to Freedom

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After all the abuse, cheating, and mental cost from Trunnis, Jackie decided that she wants to leave and takes the kids (David and Trunnis Jr.), to escape. They do this by planning by gaining his trust. Then after the escape from Trunnis' household, they finally had the taste of freedom.

Quote: "Our arrival felt significant, then and now. I was still only eight years old, but already in a second phase of life. I didn't know what awaited me [...] in that small, rural, Southern Indiana town, and I didn't much care. All I knew was that we'd escaped from Hell, and for the first time in my life, we were free from the Devil himself" (Goggins 35).

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Sister Katherine became one of the people that taught Kindergarten education to David and made extra time just to help him get the education he needs.

Quote: "She wanted us to be our very best. I know this because she proved it by spending extra time with me, as much time as it took, until I retained my lessons" (Goggins 37).

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Even after escaping the father's wrath, they still suffered from PTSD from his actions. Even then, poverty still struck them down as well, until David's mom Jackie met Wilmoth.

Quote: "When the money was good, our lives were defined by trauma. Once we were free of my father, we were swept under our own PTSD-level dysfunction and poverty. Then, when I was in fourth grade, she met Wilmoth, a successful carpenter and a general contractor from Indianapolis" (Goggins 45).

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After all the days of David Goggins taking the  bus to school, tragedy struck. He witnessed the gruesome death of a little boy being run over by the bus.

Quote: "I rode a bus to school most days, and my first day back, I couldn't shake a memory I'd buried from the year before. [...] In the meantime, a car pulled alonside us, and a cute, overeager little boy ran toward our bus carrying a platter of cookies. The driver didn't see him. The bus jerked forward. [...] The little boy was about six years old. The cookies were a present for the driver" (Goggins 50).

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David and his cousin Damien, are just out for a stroll until they get crept on by a truck. They get called a racial slur but don't react. They then get threatened at gunpoint, but still no reaction. The people of the truck went off and didn't bother them any longer.

Quote: "Damien eased down the road, while I locked eyes with the gunman and said nothing. He stepped within two feet of me. The threat of violence doesn't get much more real than that. Chills rippled my skin, but I refused to run or cower. After a few seconds he got back in the truck and they sped off."(Goggins 55).

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KKK Event Taking Place Just 15 Minutes Away From His House

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KKK Event Taking Place Just 15 Minutes Away From His House

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After all hope is lost. All dreams taken. David only has one last resort in following his dreams. That was joining the Air Force. He has a family history, in which his grandfather was a cook for thirty-seven years, and until then retired. David felt that he needed that kind of thing to have pride in.

Quote: "I was full of pain, had no real purpose, and if you were watching from afar it would have looked like I'd given up on any chance of success. That I was heading for disaster. But I hadn't let go of all hope. I had one more dream left. I wanted to join the Air Force" (Goggins 61).

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After all the excuses he's made for himself. All the experiences he's witnessed. All the actions he made. He decides that he needs to make a change if he wants to go to the Air Force. From there he made a ritual that he would do, to self-improve himself. He would look in the mirror and criticize himself for what he needed to improve on.

Quote: "'You don't see people in the military sagging their pants. You need to stop talking like a wanna-be-gangster. None of this [expletive] is gonna cut it! No more taking the easy way out! It's time to grow the [expletive] up!'" (Goggins 66).

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After the thoughts of self-improving, David properly trained. He kept pushing towards becoming something better and ran every morning to go to the gym. During one of those runs, however, he came across the same intersection where he and his cousin Damien were threatened at gunpoint. He was scared [expletive], but he ran through it like he owned the road. Once he passed it and was far enough, all his fear about the road disappeared.

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#12 Working in the Air Force, But Not Really

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#12 Working in the Air Force, But Not Really

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After self-improving himself, he finally got in. He passed the test in the Air Force but didn't exactly get the gig he wanted. For Air Force Boot Camp, he got on the wrong side of the Drill Sergeant, thus getting the role of latrine cleaner. From there, he would deal with the many pests, including rats and roaches.

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After going through boot camp, he's finally training for the position he's wanted. Becoming a Pararescue. Only thing is, that he needs to do water training. Sounds easy on paper but there's one thing about David. David can't swim.

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After serving in the Navy, becoming Para Rescue, he still felt empty inside. He gained a lot of weight as well, all until he weighed 300 pounds. He was just eating one time, until he saw on the TV, the training of Navy Seals. It was grueling, hard, and challenging, which was what David saw that he needed. He called and called, but nobody helped him to meet his dream to be a Navy Seal until one answered. He was taken to the center, but due to his weight, he needed to lose it. He needed to be at a max of 197 pounds to be a seal.

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From the bottom to the top, from failing to graduating, David finally achieved one of the steps to greatness. Completing training for becoming BUD/S. From there, he was the 36th African American to complete that training.

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More Info On BUD/S Training David Had to Go Through

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More Info On BUD/S Training David Had to Go Through

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After completing training as a Navy Seal, deploying in Iraq, and completing "Hell Week", nothing seems to be harder than running 101 miles. On top of that, not only did he run 101 miles in one go, he did that without any training or preparation beforehand. This brings in the question, How Would He Have Done If He Had Training Before The Run?

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#17 The Hawaii 100 Mile Known as "The Hurt 100"

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#17 The Hawaii 100 Mile Known as "The Hurt 100"

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After running a 100 miler beforehand, David thirsts for more, as he takes on the 100-mile footrace taking place in the triple canopy rainforest of Oahu. In common places, where the Hawaiians would hunt boars with the traditional bow and arrow, he would run into many hunting dogs throughout the race. Also, keep in mind that this was all on natural terrain, so any wrong step could've resulted in an injury of David.

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The Badwater run is one of the most difficult and grueling runs of all the 100-mile footraces. Not only was it the track, but the heat of the place they run. This place is none other than Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth. Even with little experience, he trained using layered clothing beforehand, giving him the advantage of scoring 5th place out of 90 runners.

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After all the 100 mile races, training all week throughout his entire life through being a NAVY Seal, and donating all money funded to him to those in need, he suddenly has an increase in his pulse. His resting pulse was in the 30s back then, but all of a sudden it's in the 80s. He gets it checked out, to reveal that he has Atrial Septal Defect, meaning he's had a hole in his heart that he's never known about his whole life. The fact that he was able to pull off all the runs, training, and exercise he's kept doing all his life is a miracle. Another thing is that if he hasn't taken this into notice earlier, he would've died suddenly. He quickly recovered later by taking 2 heart surgeries with the second one being effective.

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After becoming a NAVY Seal and achieving dozens of physical feats with a hole in his heart, David decided that he wants to break the world record of most pull-ups in 24 hours. The first attempt he did in a public environment, but he failed because he wasn't used to the type of bar, and wasn't fully focused. On the second attempt, he noticed that the bar was too sturdy, so his hands blistered and his skin peeled, having to opt out due to prevention of possibly dying to rhabdo (over usage of Muscles). But on his third attempt, he's finally done it! He does 4030 pull-ups in 17 hours giving him the world record of doing most pull-ups in 24 hours. He's still thriving and achieving great feats to this day. With all the courage throughout his life, he still smiles at the challenges he has taken in the past, and the challenges he will take in the future. After all the discouragement, racism, and discrimination, this brings into question, how differently would his life had played out all these events didn't line up, from the abuse to a world record?