Goggins argues that when your mind tells you that you're "done," you have actually only tapped into 40% of your true capability. The Accountability Mirror:
How does one bypass the governor? Through . Goggins details running on broken feet (the infamous Hell Day at BUD/S) and finishing a 100-mile race with a kidney infection. He admits this is dangerous. However, his argument is that by surviving the “pain barrier” repeatedly, the mind’s threshold for what constitutes an emergency rises. The pain does not go away; the relationship to the pain changes. The mind becomes “calloused” like skin that has been rubbed raw and healed thicker. Can-t Hurt Me by David Goggins -.ePUB--.AZW3-