Do You Need The Dave Goggins Or James Clear Approach To Motivation?

Can’t Hurt Me by Dave Goggin and Atomic Habits by James are two popular self-help books with different approaches to motivation and developing habits.

Goggins shares his story of going from a 300-pound pest killer to becoming a Navy SEAL, completing the Badwater Ultramarathon and setting the world record for most pull-ups in 24-hours. Goggins introduces us to ideas such as the ‘40% rule’, ‘callous your mind’ and ‘taking souls’.

His approach centres on pushing yourself and learning to become comfortable being uncomfortable, because we underestimate our true capability.

Clear shares his idea that habits are the compound interest of self-improvement and that we should focus on making small changes that accumulate over time. Instead of focusing on the outcome, we should invest in the process that will get us there.

His approach is more progressive and negates the many failures people have had when they try to make changes.

If both of them were to be your running coach, Goggins would be to run until you can run no more, while Clear would have you run for one-minute today, two minutes tomorrow and so on.

Both approaches have merit for different people. Some people will push themselves on the run and be…