Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business

Boxing and the Art of Life

De: Ed Latimore

Narrado por: Ed Latimore

We’ve all got a choice. We can get better at fighting or worse at life.

Every day, we absorb body blows: some glancing, others that knock us to the mat. It doesn't matter how well-prepared or tough you think you are. Everyone, at some point, is hit with a haymaker from life. It's the cost of living. And just like in the ring, opting out of pain is not an option.

In Hard Lessons From The Hurt Business, former heavyweight boxer Ed Latimore takes readers on a journey from his hardscrabble childhood in Pittsburgh's public housing projects to his signing with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sport. With honesty and humor, Ed shares how the discipline of boxing served as his rite of passage into manhood and gave him the tools he needed to overcome his childhood trauma and the demons of alcoholism.

Ed’s story is one of learning the hard lessons of maturity in perhaps the harshest way possible—from the hurt business. It’s a story about finding self-mastery in the face of uncertainty, discovering the power of forgiveness, and embracing pain and adversity to design a life of purpose.

Like Ed says, “How we absorb life's blows and rally through bruised and bloodied rounds shows who we are at our core. We sacrifice, weep, heal, and carry on. In hardship, we transcend.”

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PRAISE FOR HARD LESSONS FROM THE HURT BUSINESS

“There is no other writer quite like Ed Latimore. He doesn’t fall neatly into any of the common categories of influencer or intellectual or thought leader. He has a kind of wisdom that sneaks up on you. The best part about this book, though, is that it really feels like he’s just speaking with you the way he would over beers at a bar—and Latimore has plenty of experience with this, as you’ll come to learn. He dives into topics both dark and light, guiding you, the reader, with a mystifying combination of unforced confidence and deep modesty. How does he do it? The only answer I can come up with is that Latimore has drawn from his skills as a professional boxer and has developed a variety of unique combinations to hit the reader with from about a hundred different angles. This book is a knockout.”
—Rob Henderson, author of Troubled

“Ed Latimore’s jaw-dropping journey as a boxer is a master class in how self-discipline, self-reflection, and never losing sight of the fundamentals are a cheat code for personal resilience. The way he uses all his experiences, both positive and negative, as a way to learn who he truly is and what’s important to him are incredibly inspiring for anyone seeking to live a better life.”
—Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain

“Ed Latimore’s devastatingly honest story makes reading Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business equal parts inspirational, complex, nuanced, and thought-provoking. He carefully explores his most difficult childhood lessons, then takes us in and out of boxing into stories on what it takes to adapt, persevere, and build character in life’s toughest circumstances.”
—Paul Rabil, cofounder of the Premier Lacrosse League and author of The Way of the Champion

“Ed Latimore’s Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business is an extraordinary chronicle of resilience and reinvention. Latimore takes the reader on his journey from poverty, trauma, and addiction to the halls of academia and intellectual triumphs. Along the way he takes us into the boxing ring as he tells his story of transformation and unyielding determination. Hard Lessons is a must read particularly during our age of uncertainty. Latimore is a source of inspiration for us all.”
—Dr. Drew Pinsky, author of The Mirror Effect

Must Read…Life Perspectives

This is not a standard “self help” book but definitely offers a lot of great insight on how to improve your life. This is a captivating story that allows you to understand the author without even knowing him. This book includes a lot of wisdom from lessons in life. It allows you to realize that every challenge, issue and set back in life can bring with it a lot good, if you choose to view it and accept it that way. It lead me down a path to hit the refresh button on a lot my perspectives in my life. Life will hit you hard but are you willing to hit back even harder to better yourself and improve your situation… this is a question I was let thinking about several times during this book.

Anyone Can Change Their Life If The Want It

This is a story of hope like you’ve never heard. A young man destined for a life of hardship and pain, Ed takes you back to what life was like in the projects of the inner city. The challenges that would keep most from aspiring to anything. An addiction that most would never beat. Ed Latimore is the real deal! Clean and sober and highly successful. This story is more than inspiring, it’s life giving. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to be motivated to go after what life tried to take from you.

An Everyday Hero

I was lucky enough to see one of Ed’s you tube videos and thought his audio book would make interesting listening.
It certainly didn’t disappoint. It’s amazing to think someone could go through this much disfunction and abuse and come out the other side a whole and healthy human. The story was definitely inspirational. It gives us hope in a world full of self agenda and leaders with misplaced priorities. I loved it!

Amazing! Couldn’t stop listening!

Fascinating read! It’s like a 1990s gangster movie mixed with Tony Robbin’s level wisdom.

It’s raw, gritty, truthful, brutally honest. A real underdog story. Ed manages to create a new form of storytelling and style that’s never been done before and better than anyone else in the space.

I’ve listened to this twice already and it’s not enough. Now I’m ordering the hard copy.

A compelling story of finding one’s way

Ed is the underdog that we all love to see succeed cast in the setting of his own unique circumstances. We hold our breath when he makes choices. We wince at his mistakes knowing that these are mistakes that we easily could have made. We cheer his victories as if they were our own. We feel his physical pain from boxing and his emotional pain as a young man who is trying to find his way in the absence of parental support or structured guidance. This is not the type of book that I normally read but I am glad that I did.