Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your host, Niyosobo. This is Books and Bars, special

Wednesday episode where I give you guys excerpts from my favorite books, or I give you a bar from one of

my favorite rap lyrics, because I love rap. I love hip hop. I think there's a lot of wisdom in it.

And it's like listening to great philosophers over dope-ass beats. But today is not going to be a rap lyric. Today is going to be an excerpt from one of my favorite books. And this book is by Robert Green. And it's not the book that you think. It's not 50th Law, which happens to be my top three favorite books of all time. It is another book from Robert

Green who has written several classics, and this book is deep. I'm talking about powerful,

powerful, powerful, powerful stuff. It's called the 33 Strategies of War. And he basically,

I love the way he framed it, right? But it's really not about war. It's really about how to accomplish a goal.

Because if you think about it, it's about strategy to accomplish a goal.

Goal, when you set a goal for yourself, what you now have is obstacles, which are battles, right?

And the war becomes, how do we accomplish this goal? And so

he breaks down these strategies of war. And I want to read you an excerpt from this chapter. This is

called, it's chapter number four, and it's called Create a Sense of Urgency and Desperation,

the Death Ground Strategy. All right. And so it's called the death ground strategy.

And he has some keys that he breaks down for how to create this sense of urgency.

So let me read this part and I'm going to give you my interpretation of this, all right?

So he says, keep yourself restless and unsatisfied.

Napoleon had many qualities that made him perhaps history's greatest general, but the one that raised him to the

heights and kept him there was his boundless energy. During campaigns, he worked 18 to 24-hour

days. If necessary, he would go without sleep for several days, yet sleeplessness rarely

reduced his capacities. He would work in the bath at the theater during a dinner party. Keeping

his eye on every detail of the war, he would ride endless miles on horseback without tiring or

complaining. Certainly Napoleon had extraordinary endurance, but there was more to it than that.

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