Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Niy Shobo. This is another episode of bars.

Man, this is a hell of a bar. I'm about to drop for you all. This is from 48 laws of power.

And it's actually a quote from Balthasar Gracian. And I don't know a lot about this dude, man,

but Robert Green uses him a lot.

But every time he does, man, just bars being dropped.

So this is from law number 34.

And the law is be royal in your own fashion.

Act like a king to be treated like one.

So I want to read this quote to you all.

And then I want to share with you some gems that I took from it and show you how to apply this to your life and whether you're a king or queen. All right. So take a listen.

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude,

and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external precepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the

strictures of external authority.

Come to hold yourself in awe, and you will have no need of Seneca's imaginary tutor.

Man, this is powerful.

Just think, how much time do you spend thinking about what other people think about you?

Wondering. think how much time do you spend thinking about what other people think about you wondering what other people's perception is of you trying your best to fit in trying your best to be liked to be

respected to be seen this is a natural part of being human. But what Baltasar

Gracione is breaking down, mani is saying, look, you have to hold on to your own self-respect.

Pay more attention to your own opinion as opposed to the opinions of others.

Value your own opinion.

So instead of thinking about what somebody else thinks about you, ask your own self,

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