Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. It's another episode of bars, man.

This is a powerful thing I'm about to read to you all real quick. This is from Felix Dennis, How to Make Money, the 88 Steps to Get Rich and Find Success.

This book, along with his other book, How to Get Rich, are very, very important reading,

not just for entrepreneurs, but for anybody living his jungle lifestyle. And he speaks that language,

trust me, just in terms of being completely self-reliant, valuing control, living life according to how you want to live

your life, which can be different depending on who we are. But at the end of the day, how do you want

to live your life? Because this is your life. Are you the king and or queen of your respective jungle?

Or are you just some peasant in somebody else's kingdom. So I'm going to read you

this man and I want to talk about what that means for you all because again he's speaking directly

to the entrepreneur but this is for anyone especially you as an athlete as well. All right. So check this

out. This is on page 154 in the book How to Make Money just in case you guys already have it or about to get

it. It's a chapter 55 on shortcuts. He says this, you idle wretch, you believe in your folly

and your pride that there are shortcuts to wealth. Oblivious to your own sloth, you seek for

a magic bullet to slay the vampires of poverty that suck your blood each night.

You are a fool. You will curse those who succeed. It was never your fault. Was it?

Fate was always against you. You searched as hard as you could, yet found no bullet, silver or otherwise, and are now reduced

to scavenging the bitter fruit of charity, either from individuals or the state. I have seen you in

many guises, many places, and now I find you here in this bookshop, leafing quickly through the

preceding pages, looking for yet

another shortcut, hoping you won't have to buy my book but will be able to extract the marrow

of it without cost to yourself. You miserable worm, you will learn nothing and you will never be rich.

Know this. Your path through life will be a torment of wrong turnings and shortcuts to blind alleys. Prophesied by poets and philosophers down the ages,

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