If you’re already a fan of Goggins from his various interviews, you might wonder if this book offers anything new. Whenever I cut a run or swim short because I was hungry or tired, I’d always go back and beat myself down even harder.

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. It] kept me on point from then on, and though I was still young when this strategy came through me, since then I’ve found it useful for people at any stage in life. In NEVER FINISHED, Goggins takes you inside his Mental Lab, where he developed the philosophy, psychology and strategies that enabled him to learn that what he thought was his limit was only his beginning and that the quest for greatness is unending.I had hit the wall many times before, and I had learned to stay present and open minded enough to recalibrate my goals even at my lowest. The combination of the superhuman spectacle of his accomplishments and the immense gravity of his words serves as one of the most potent motivational drugs that exist on God’s green earth. You can’t stop it from bloomming in your brain, but you can neutralize it, and all the other external chatter by asking, What if? You wake up with them, you walk around with them, you go to bed with them, and eventually you act on them.

CAN’T HURT ME, David Goggins’ smash hit memoir, demonstrated how much untapped ability we have, but was merely an introduction to the power of the mind. The stories and lessons in this raw, revealing, unflinching memoir, offer the reader a blueprint they can use to climb from the bottom of the barrel into a whole new stratosphere that once seemed unattainable. At first, my goals involved shaping up my appearance and accomplishing all my chores without having to be asked.But through self discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, David transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U. Goggins coined the term “Taking Souls” after motivating himself to push him and his team harder as a means of getting inside his instructors’ heads.