American retired Navy SEAL — ultramarathon runner — author of Can't Hurt Me — who completed Army Ranger School, Army Airborne School, and Navy SEAL training, and holds the Guinness World Record for most pull-ups in 24 hours — whose philosophy of 'callousing the mind' is the most extreme version of mental toughness advocacy.
Creates the 'callousing the mind' framework — Goggins's argument (that mental toughness is built by repeatedly doing what you most want to avoid, and that most people operate at 40% of their capacity) is the most extreme version of the deliberate hardship philosophy in popular culture.
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