Juno Award winner Afie Jurvanen was jolted out of his comfort zone after reading David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me
This interview originally aired on Jan. 16, 2021.
Afie Jurvanen is a singer-songwriter and musician professionally known as Bahamas. The Ontario-born, Nova Scotia-based artist is known for albums Barchords, Bahamas is Afie and Sad Hunk.
Jurvanen's Sad Hunk won the 2021 Juno Award for adult alternative album of the year.
He dropped by The Next Chapter to talk about the self-help book he is currently reading.
"Right now I'm reading a book called Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. He's a motivational speaker, an endurance athlete. He trained as a Navy SEAL and he had a very hard childhood — he had an abusive father and grew up with a single mother in poverty in Indiana. He transcended all that by taking on these huge physical challenges. He calls it 'callusing the mind.'
"There's something in there that I really relate to. It's all about training your mind to overcome these obstacles — because so many of the obstacles in life are self-induced.
It's about realizing that there's this incredible potential in all human beings.
"Your approach to life — and how you manage stress, manage responsibility, manage expectations — a lot of the methods that he discusses, I feel like I can apply those to my life, whether it's professionally or in my personal life, in my marriage and as a parent.
"It's about realizing that there's this incredible potential in all human beings. His solution is often to choose adversity and that can be at odds with so much of modern life. So much of modern life is about being comfortable."
Afie Jurvanen's comments have been edited for length and clarity.
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