Welcome back to another episode of The Spartan Way. We're part of the Spartan Up Podcast, umbrella of podcast. We're going to be coming

to you every week. And in this episode, I want to talk to you about something I learned in my early

teens. Nobody taught me to do it, nobody told me to do it,

but it has changed my life.

You ready for it?

You ready?

Here it is.

Read every day.

But I'm going to talk to you about two books that really changed my life.

So in my early teens, I went to the high school library,

and the book I took out was Arnold's education of a bodybuilder.

It was part autobiography, part instructional on training, but the book inspired me so much that I could literally, I get goosebumps and I literally felt like I was there with Arnold.

Arnold was sharing his stories about overcoming obstacles,

being daring, traveling to America

his first time for a bodybuilding contest.

And I would never let anybody else take the book out.

I kept signing it out week after week until I graduated and that book changed my life.

The next book that changed my life, here's where I came up with the rule of just

read two pages a night. I was in California in my early 20s and I went to a Barnes and

Noble and I was intrigued with simply being happy. I wanted to know what

is the secret to being happy. I came across Tony Robbins book. I had heard of Tony Robbins,

didn't know much about him, but I saw the book A Week in The Giant Within.

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