“We are all guilty of allowing so-called experts, or just people who have more experience in a given field than we do, to cap our potential.  One of the reasons we love sports is because we also love watching those glass ceilings get shattered.  If I was going to be the next athlete to smash popular perception, I’d need to stop listening to doubt, whether it streamed in from the outside or bubbled up from within, and the best way to do that was to decide that the pull-up record was already mine.  I didn’t know when it would officially become mine.  It might be in two months or twenty years, but once I decided it belonged to me and decoupled it from the calendar, I was filled with confidence and relieved of any and all pressure because my task morphed from trying to achieve the impossible into working toward an inevitability.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me