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“The whole time out there, I just never let the thought of quitting cross my mind. And it’s always how I’ve been in life. Everything I’ve been through, I’ve never been like, I can’t do this. You just have to find something to look forward to in the moment. And even if there’s not, you just have to remind yourself, like, this won’t last forever. It’ll be over soon. So I didn’t even let that thought cross my mind. I just told myself, like, you just have to keep going. You’re not going home. I would keep telling myself, like, you, Colin, there’s no chance that you’re going home. So don’t even think about it. One of the hardest moments or just… concepts for me is heights. Like I just do not like to be all the way up there. It’s, it’s completely a psychological thing. … Even when I’m struggling, I’m very good at remembering why I do things and, and, and what I stand for. And I think for me, it was so important to show people that despite everything I’ve been through and despite the horrible childhood I had, um, that I can, I can still push through and I’m strong and I’ve used all of those horrible things as excuses. to show myself and to push myself and to come out on top of things.”
–Collin Gosselin on how overcoming adversity helped push him through his toughest moments on Special Forces, via the Casual Chaos podcast with Gia Giudice
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