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When your mind is telling you that you’re done, completely exhausted and not able to go any further, you’re only at about 40% of your potential.You need to learn how to harness talent, hard work, passion, and obsession to relentlessly pursue your goals. Out of every one hundred men,” he wrote, “ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. David Goggins shares how he transcended poverty and abuse to become one of the world’s top endurance athletes.

If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work.Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence. Keep fighting when you feel like you’re done, and that’s when you unlock the remaining 60% of your potential. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up. Heraclitus, a philosopher born in the Persian Empire back in the fifth century BC, had it right when he wrote about men on the battlefield.

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