Every year, thousands of young men enlist in the armed forces. Some of them have one goal in mind: become part of the U.S. military’s most elite combat units, the Navy SEALs. Many of them train ahead of time, anticipating the hardships that lie in front of them. Even still, well over 60% of recruits drop out of training. This statistic hasn’t changed much since the Navy SEALs were first created in the 1960′s.
No doubt the training is rigorous, the cold is severe, and the stress is beyond what most people have ever imagined. But it typically isn’t the biggest, strongest, “toughest” guys that get to call themselves Navy SEALs. It’s always the guys who wanted it the most, the ones with the greatest mental toughness, the ones who were willing to pay the price to earn the right to be part of the world’s most elite commando unit. In fact, the SEALs like it this way and simply view the attrition rate as a weeding process where the people who aren’t really ready for the task filter themselves out. During Special Operations training, candidates are subjected to a brutally rigorous battery of physical and mental challenges. But one thing Navy SEALs will tell you is that pain does not stop the body. They echo the fact that there’s nothing that can hurt so bad that will stop you from pushing just a little bit more. In fact, the pain and stress forces you to break your life down into small, measurable goals, which you can celebrate, albeit not for long. Simply making it to breakfast on the second week without quitting is an admirable goal. Sometimes you have to celebrate the last step you took on a long run, the last stroke on a long swim, or the next freezing cold wave that ran across your body. These small milestones help prepare you for the next one.
Inevitably, everyone hits a rock bottom point where they just feel like they can’t go any further. And for most, this is where they humbly bow out. Many feel disappointed in themselves, but just couldn’t punish themselves anymore and are glad that the pain is finally over.
But the ones who make it beyond the pain devise an ingenious loophole. They know that if your body simply can’t tolerate the pain, the instructors won’t hold it against you. Lots of guys try to push themselves so hard that they pass out, knowing that they’ll get to lie face down in the dirt for a few minutes until the medics come in and revive them. Surprisingly, they worked harder and pushed themselves further. They’d keep going and going and eventually just work through the pain. Passing out from exertion was acceptable, quitting was not. A lot of guys would hit bottom one day, and think they could finally reach their breaking point if only they pushed a little bit harder. But it never worked. The agony would only increase. But so would their capacity to keep going. Pain, in other words, never actually broke their bodies.
The truth is that they didn’t know what they were actually capable of, so they just kept going, and eventually realized that they can do more than they ever thought possible. They also realize that when they wanted to say “I can’t” they were really saying “I don’t want to”.
Inevitably, everyone hits a rock bottom point where they just feel like they can’t go any further. And for most, this is where they humbly bow out. Many feel disappointed in themselves, but just couldn’t punish themselves anymore and are glad that the pain is finally over.
But the ones who make it beyond the pain devise an ingenious loophole. They know that if your body simply can’t tolerate the pain, the instructors won’t hold it against you. Lots of guys try to push themselves so hard that they pass out, knowing that they’ll get to lie face down in the dirt for a few minutes until the medics come in and revive them. Surprisingly, they worked harder and pushed themselves further. They’d keep going and going and eventually just work through the pain. Passing out from exertion was acceptable, quitting was not. A lot of guys would hit bottom one day, and think they could finally reach their breaking point if only they pushed a little bit harder. But it never worked. The agony would only increase. But so would their capacity to keep going. Pain, in other words, never actually broke their bodies.
The truth is that they didn’t know what they were actually capable of, so they just kept going, and eventually realized that they can do more than they ever thought possible. They also realize that when they wanted to say “I can’t” they were really saying “I don’t want to”.
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