Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. Today is another episode of bars, and today I'm breaking down a book. This is one of my favorite books. I have several copies around the house. It's called The Art of Living, and it's by Epictetus. Actually, it's a book that's of Epictetus's work that's been translated in a certain way. And the book is called

Art of Living. It's powerful. Now, Epictetus is a stoic philosopher. One of my favorites. There's a few

very popular ones. I'm sure you guys probably heard of Seneca, Marcus Aurelius. I'm a fan of Epictetus.

I love how practical he is and he speaks, or at least his knowledge and wisdom has been

translated in such a way that it's super duper practical.

And that's what I love about it.

All right.

So I want to read this particular excerpt. And the reason why I want to

share it with you is because I imagine, you know, much like me, you know, you're locked in to what

you want to do. You've committed yourself to what you want to do at some level or another. And

sometimes you get resistance. You know know sometimes you have family or friends who

don't understand you a lot of times you in your own mind create resistance because you imagine

that people are saying things about you or thinking things about you and this can sometimes consume you.

You know, so even in recording this podcast, many times I have anxiety about what people are

going to say about something that I said. Yes, I have people who do say things about something

that I said and then a lot of times I imagine it. I think that somebody's going to say something.

And then we walk around overly sensitive to other people's opinions and giving them extra weight.

All right. So this excerpt speaks to that very, very powerfully. So let me dive in.

So he says this, if someone treats you disrespectfully

or speaks unkindly about you, remember that he or she does so from their impression that it is

right to do so. It is unrealistic to expect that this person sees you as you see yourself. If another person reaches

conclusions based on false impressions, he or she is the one hurt rather than you, because it is

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