Jen

“Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Then I thought of an English middle-distance runner from back in the day named Roger Bannister. When Bannister was trying to break the four-minute mile in the 1950s, experts told him it couldn’t be done, but that didn’t stop him. He failed again and again, but he persevered, and when he ran his historic mile in 3:59.4 on May 6, 1954, he didn’t just break a record, he broke open the floodgates simply by proving it possible. Six weeks later, his record was eclipsed, and by now over 1,000 runners have done what was once thought to be beyond human capability.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“In the book Run Like a Girl, Mina Samuels writes: We run like girls when we run for ourselves and inside ourselves. We run like girls when we tune out the negativity that might come our”
― Vanessa Runs, Daughters of Distance: Stories of Women in Endurance Sports

“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 want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds