BARS: Focus on yourself (Advice from Floyd Mayweather)
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
With so many distractions and ways to numb your pain, it is becoming harder and harder to lock in and build the skill nesessary to dominate.
In this episode, I break down advice from Floyd Mayweather on how to embody the "selfish" mindset that you need to dominate your sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | It's your host, Nees Showbo. |
| 0:05.5 | This is bars. |
| 0:06.6 | And before I get into the bar, man, here's the thing. |
| 0:10.4 | Right now, and I can say this pretty confidently more than ever. |
| 0:15.8 | Right now, more than ever, it is become increasingly easier to focus on things that just don't matter. |
| 0:29.2 | Now, I'm not trying to sit up here and act like in 2022, human beings are less evolved than |
| 0:35.3 | we've been in the past. Human beings, I'm sure, since the beginning |
| 0:38.8 | of time, have found ways to distract ourselves, to find ways to procrastinate, to find ways to |
| 0:45.0 | pleasure ourselves when we should really be focusing on growth and evolution. I'm sure human |
| 0:53.9 | beings from the beginning of time love to gossip, love to talk shit about |
| 0:58.8 | other people. |
| 1:00.6 | You study any sort of evolutionary psychology. |
| 1:03.3 | You know why we as human beings value the opinions of others. |
| 1:08.5 | But the reality is right now, with as many things that you have at your |
| 1:14.2 | fingertips designed brilliantly, brilliantly to distract you, it is more easy than it has ever been |
| 1:24.4 | in order to be distracted and in order to waste time on shit that doesn't matter. |
| 1:30.9 | And that is why today's bar matters. |
| 1:35.4 | Because you're going to hear directly from the mouth of Floyd Mayweather, |
| 1:39.5 | a goat, literally undefeated. |
| 1:42.3 | At this point, I'm sure he's close to a billion in terms of what he's worth. |
| 1:48.1 | And he's going to show you why you need to focus on yourself. |
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