Can’t Hurt Me_ Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

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Second grade in BrazilAnnunciation was a small school. Sister Katherine taught all of first and secondgrade in a single classroom, and with only eighteen kids to teach, she wasn’twilling to shirk her responsibility and blame my academic struggles, oranybody’s bad behavior, on learning disabilities or emotional problems. Shedidn’t know my backstory and didn’t have to. All that mattered to her was that Iturned up at her door with a kindergarten education, and it was her job to shapemy mind. She had every excuse in the world to farm me out to some specialist orlabel me a problem, but that wasn’t her style. She started teaching beforelabeling kids was a normal thing to do, and she embodied the no-excusesmentality that I needed if I was going to catch up.Sister Katherine is the reason why I’ll never trust a smile or judge a scowl. Mydad smiled a hell of a lot, and he didn’t give two shits about me, but grouchySister Katherine cared about us, cared about me. She wanted us to be our very
best. I know this because she proved it by spending extra time with me, as muchtime as it took, until I retained my lessons. Before the year was out, I could readat a second grade level. Trunnis Jr. hadn’t adjusted nearly as well. Within a fewmonths he was back in Buffalo, shadowing my father and working thatSkateland detail like he’d never left.By then, we’d moved into a place of our own: a 600-square-foot, two-bedroomapartment at Lamplight Manor, a public housing block, that cost us $7 a month.My father, who earned thousands every night, sporadically sent $25 every threeor four weeks (if that) for child support, while my mother earned a few hundreddollars a month with her department store job. In her off-hours she was takingcourses at Indiana State University, which cost money too. The point is, we hadgaps to fill, so my mother enrolled in welfare and received $123 a month andfood stamps. They wrote her a check for the first month, but when they foundout she owned a car they disqualified her, explaining that if she sold her carthey’d be happy to help.The problem is we lived in a rural town with a population of about 8,000 thatdidn’t have a mass transit system. We needed that car so I could get to school,and so she could get to work and take night classes. She was hell-bent onchanging her life circumstances and found a workaround through the Aide toDependent Children program. She arranged for our check to go to mygrandmother who signed it over to her, but that didn’t make life easy. How farcan $123 really go?I vividly recall one night we were so broke we drove home on a gas tank thatwas near empty, to a bare refrigerator and a past due electric bill, with no moneyin the bank. Then I remembered that we had two mason jars filled with penniesand other loose change. I grabbed them off the shelf.“Mom, let’s count our change!”She smiled. Growing up, her father had taught her to pick up the change shefound on the street. He was molded by the Great Depression and knew what itwas like to be down and out. “You never know when you might need it,” he’dsay. When we lived in Hell, carrying home thousands of dollars every night, thenotion that we would ever run out of money sounded ludicrous, but my motherretained her childhood habit. Trunnis used to belittle her for it, but now it was
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Page 4 and 5: CONTENTSINTRODUCTION1. I SHOULD HAV
Page 6 and 7: INTRODUCTIONDo you know who you rea
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Page 12 and 13: Skateland, age sixAt around 6 p.m.,
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Page 32 and 33: CHALLENGE #1My bad cards arrived ea
Page 35 and 36: With WilmothShe laughed when they w
Page 37 and 38: suspected that Wilmoth had some sec
Page 39 and 40: even without Wilmoth, we made the m
Page 41 and 42: My only saving grace that week was
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Page 46 and 47: KKK in Center Point in 1995—Cente
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Page 58 and 59: By the time I graduated, I knew tha
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These days Steven Schaljo likes to
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The referee hits six as Rocky grabs
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putting in, and he reminded me to k
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with a dash. There were about thirt
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minutes I got out and started runni
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CHAPTER FOUR4. TAKING SOULSThe firs
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your mindset, which is exactly what
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We’d been in BUD/S for nearly thr
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on. Instead, as the night wore on,
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I took the lead of Boat Crew Two fr
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through it. With a look or a few wo
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pocket to scarf on the beach when t
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Since that night in Hell Week, I’
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green army tent they’d set up on
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view thanks to a four-foot wind swe
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felt because I was there when my Pa
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“Your knee looks pretty bad, Gogg
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Each student had an instructor assi
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my brain that allowed me to flip th
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minutes before came rushing back. I
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a test of how well you are managing
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themselves one minute more.But I wa
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She left me alone, and I sat on tha
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the sharpest sword ever made!***I s
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started caving in on him.“I start
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minutes later, he still wasn’t br
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Our first training run that day was
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bottom, took off their weight belts
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Mom and I at BUD/S graduationOn the
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CHALLENGE #5It’s time to visualiz
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CHAPTER SIX6. IT’S NOT ABOUT A TR
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woods in their goddam tents made ou
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of these things is not like the oth
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Before training begins, each incomi
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design, all I could see were swervi
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They eventually loaded up into two
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mental toughness” he’d ever see
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wide, pulled my ears and slapped my
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Inagaki breezed by me and glanced o
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down and bless my ass. I did this!
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But digging into the Cookie Jar whe
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imagine what I could do with a litt
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CHAPTER SEVEN7. THE MOST POWERFUL W
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me. Once again I’d have to prove
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was all a beautiful blur to me as I
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During my first real deal week of t
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enjoy Hawaii and leave the sufferin
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Darkness descended and left us with
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fear and insecurity, and it uses al
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gained, even if it’s only practic
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was in the laboratory, still in dis
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sapped my confidence. Plus, word ha
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of having to take on an additional
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Although Akos set a fast pace, the
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With Jurek on the hunt, I was inspi
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needles as Kate unlaced my shoes. T
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Valley. Near the end of another hor
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CHAPTER EIGHT8. TALENT NOT REQUIRED
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swims, just two in the open water,
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me replacement water bottles, packe
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The Land Shark was crowned Ultraman
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The trouble we faced as an organiza
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long as they kept an open mind, aba
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I have several stories like that. M
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how I do it too, because that is th
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tightened up that day and at the ha
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Maryland, in a legendary endurance
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“Holes don’t just open in your
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Roger that, I thought, as I dropped
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After second heart surgery
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CHAPTER NINE9. UNCOMMON AMONGST UNC
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SQT graduation (note the blood stai
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women on Twitter; talk about being
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let up. While people were out at ni
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looked the same. Officers lost rank
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capped three separate phases of tra
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The final weeks in Ranger School ar
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ready. This time we all knew we’d
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As far as I was concerned I had my
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Platoon dynamics aside, there was s
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start at zero and screen for Delta
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to relieve the pain. I moved slow,
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CHALLENGE #9This one’s for the un
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Delta. He signed my papers, and aft
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Chosen as Sailor of the Quarter, Ja
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I was beyond confident. In my mind,
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***It was time to go back to being
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Billboard during my recruiting days
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minute, but it wasn’t easy becaus
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system and my upper body was a lump
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short bar, because bending your leg
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the minute. The pain was excruciati
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Emotionally, I was wasted. Not just
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Luck is a capricious bitch. It won
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experimented with all different typ
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percent and hit the point of total
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CHALLENGE #10Think about your most
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drifts were piled much higher. My f
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Toes after Frozen OtterTwo years ea
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high, but part of that was the alti
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adrenals are drained and your body
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from my past and used it as fuel to
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can then be maintained, he said, wi
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the desk at work, especially when I
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became a college administrator. He
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We live in a world with a lot of in
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will be plenty of both I’m sure,
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of my better times in life hanging
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Doc Schreckengaust, thank you for p
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