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Sports Motivation Podcast

Bars: Mastering the art and science of "balance" (Wisdom from The Hagakure)

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Sports, Business

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Balance is a difficult thing to master, no matter the realm in which you are looking to create it. Often times we take too much of an extreme approach. In this episode, I use the wisdom of the Hagakure, Kobe Bryant, and a classic Christmas movie to all drive home the same point. #BARS

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. It's your host, Niyushobo. Today's another episode of

0:04.7

bars. It's where I break down an excerpt from a book, a lyric, from a song, something that

0:10.8

stuck out to me that I want to give you my take on because I believe that it will help you

0:15.2

shift your mindset. Mindset is everything. How you look at things, your perspective.

0:39.5

And I don't mean always having positive perspectives. I mean having perspectives that actually allow you to navigate your way through this jungle and get what you want. Being able to be in alignment with yourself, not be in conflict with either yourself or nature for that matter, the way that things are.

0:40.5

You want to make sure that your perspectives match, that you have the proper mindset.

0:45.3

And that's what this is all about.

0:47.3

All right.

0:47.7

So we're coming up on Christmas time, and funny enough, I am not tired of the Home Alone movies.

0:59.7

It's the one set of movies, Home Alone 1 and Home Alone 2, that I personally never get tired of.

1:06.1

And I'm glad because my kids always play that movie.

1:10.6

And they've been trying to play that shit from like August.

1:13.6

Sometimes it'd be June and Tocci's trying to put on Home Alone.

1:16.6

I'm like, come on, man, you got to respect Christmas time.

1:20.6

But I watched Home Alone so many times and there's a part in Home Alone that really stuck out to me when I watched it just this last time

1:30.1

and that corresponded so beautifully with something that I was reading was really a book that I'm always reading.

1:37.8

I got several copies of it around the house.

1:39.5

It's called Hagakou Re.

1:40.8

And it's the book of the samurai.

1:43.1

And it's a very, very powerful, powerful metaphor that Kevin McAllister, the main character

1:50.2

in Home Alone used.

1:51.7

So for those of you don't know what Home Alone is, it's one of the best Christmas movies

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