Gary Brecka
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Reading that book flipped my entire perspective on everything.
And it wasn't the fact of, like, the stay hard, woo-woo bullshit is not what drew me to Goggins.
It was the, if you go and you read those first three chapters, he was abused.
His father was an abuser.
Like, they were poor.
They were, it was him and his brother.
I related to...
I'm like, how in the hell did this guy write a book and go through this?
And I'm like, who am I?
I'm like, I'm like, that was me.
Like, like I, I, that happened to me.
I'm like, and this guy's writing books and is one of the most well-known runners of all time.
I'm like, and at that point in my life, I hated the military.
I was making excuses.
I was still drinking.
It was post COVID.
And I was in like, at that point I was still drinking.
I was, you know, just, I still just wasn't a good person.
I wasn't where I wanted to be.
So what I did is I am not a great reader or writer.