Can’t hurt me – David Goggings

INTRODUCTION
DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE AND WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF?

I’m sure you think so, but just because you believe something doesn’t make
it true. Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.

Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. In every town, in every country, all over the
world, millions roam the streets, dead-eyed as zombies, addicted to
comfort, embracing a victim’s mentality and unaware of their true potential.
I know this because I meet and hear from them all the time, and because
just like you, I used to be one of them.

I had a damn good excuse too.

Life dealt me a bad hand. I was born broken, grew up with beat downs, was
tormented in school, and called nigger more times than I could count.
We were once poor, surviving on welfare, living in government-subsidized
housing, and my depression was smothering. I lived life at the bottom of the
barrel, and my future forecast was bleak as fuck.

Very few people know how the bottom feels, but I do. It’s like quicksand. It
grabs you, sucks you under, and won’t let go. When life is like that it’s easy
to drift and continue to make the same comfortable choices that are killing
you, over and over again.

But the truth is we all make habitual, self-limiting choices. It’s as natural as
a sunset and as fundamental as gravity. It’s how our brains are wired, which
is why motivation is crap.

Even the best pep talk or self-help hack is nothing but a temporary fix. It
won’t rewire your brain. It won’t amplify your voice or uplift your life.
Motivation changes exactly nobody. The bad hand that was my life was
mine, and mine alone to fix.