Exerpt from Can’t Hurt MeĪt this point, David often describes the deep frustration he felt over living a purposeless and lowly life hitting him all at once. He bared his yellow teeth and lunged at me. I considered my options on my way to the dumpster to trash the rodents, opened the lid, and found a live raccoon, hissing mad. I needed fresh air and more time to figure out how I was going to clear the restaurant of vermin. I left my canister in the kitchen, grabbed the sticky traps, and burst outside. Roaches landed on my shoulders and my head. I’d hit the motherlode of cockroaches and the worst infestation I ever saw on the job for Ecolab. I brushed it off, and craned my neck to see a storm of roaches raining down to the kitchen floor from an open panel in the ceiling. Within seconds there was a skittering across the back of my neck. I didn’t know it yet, but I’d found their nesting column and when the poison hit they started to scatter. I shook my head, got down on my knees under the sink, and sprayed up through a narrow gap in the wall.
Inside, there were more dead rodents-a mouse and two rats-on the sticky traps, and roaches in the garbage which hadn’t been emptied.
I checked the traps outside first and found a dead rat. Much like his comfortable life being “interrupted” by the Navy SEAL show that awakened his desire to experience greatness, he encountered a situation that was just as much an “interruption” to his comfort-but this time, he experienced an unusually amplified version of the nightmare he would have endure for the rest of his life if he gave up: This is my life.’” ( The Joe Rogan Experience #1080)ĭavid describes what happens next as akin to fate or divine intervention. He describes himself feeling so discouraged at that news that he began accepting his current situation again as an overweight pest exterminator with only mild comfort to look forward to: “‘I can’t do that.’ I grabbed my chocolate shake and went back to ECOLAB. That feeling of defeat got even worse when he found out that he didn’t score high enough on the ASVAB test to qualify for the Navy SEAL program, and would need to take it again in 5 weeks. However, when it came to the seemingly impossible task of losing 106 pounds in less than 3 months, he essentially gave up. He even worked up the courage to begin studying for the required ASVAB test. He found a recruiter that provided him an opportunity to join the Navy SEAL reserves. He called up Navy SEAL recruiters in order to see whether they would accept him as a a candidate. After David Goggins created a plan to overcome his terror and brokenness in order to experience the feeling of victory he saw portrayed on the Navy SEAL television show he was miraculously exposed to, he wasted no time in putting that plan into action.
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