This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 945, the unstoppable power of greeting it all with a smile.

By Ryan Holiday of RyanHoliday.net and I'm Justin Mollick, your very own personal narrator.

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The unstoppable power of greeting it all with a smile.

By RyanHoliday of RyanHoliday.net.

After defeating, facing barely any resistance, the then-raining world champion,

Jack Johnson is unquestionably the best boxer on the planet.

Yet it is 1910 and the idea of a champion black boxer is intolerable to the sport,

so a challenger is found to try and beat him.

That man is Jim Jeffries, the great white hope.

The former champion called out of retirement like some deranged Cincinnati's to defeat this

black menace. In some ways what followed was one of the nastiest and lowest moments in the history

of sports. Johnson is hated by the crowd. They booed and shouted horrible things, 20,000

people in a near-right estate the entire fight. Jeffries' opponent led the charge against Johnson

saying he would, quote, reclaim the heavyweight championship for the white race.

And taunting, quote, I propose to give him the worst beating ever given any man in the ring.

And yet it's also one of the most beautiful moments in sports. Because of how Johnson

responded to it. There's Johnson in the center of the ring in Reno, Nevada with the focus of so

much hatred on him, somehow still enjoying every minute of it. Smiling, joking, playing from

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