Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. This is your host, Niyu Shobo. This is books and bars. I break down excerpts from my favorite books. I break down bars from my favorite songs. I've definitely broke down some bars from songs that haven't been my favorite songs or even from my favorite artists, but bars that I believe pack a lot of power in them, a lot of

knowledge, and I like to break it down and analyze it for myself, for you guys to listen.

So you can agree with my take or not, but either way, this is how I see it, and I suggest that

you also digest what you read in such a way that allows you to be able to take something from it.

All right?

So today I'm breaking down a book and I'm going to be breaking down a lot of excerpts from

this book.

And I'm not sure why I haven't done that yet, honestly, because as much as I talk about

this book, you would think that I would.

So we're going to go ahead and start.

This is an excerpt from 50th law and there are countless

countless excerpts. It was funny. I have about probably about five copies around my house.

And if you look at my closet, I have a stack of brand new books, 50th Law copies, because I give these away frequently because it is

just one of the most important books that I've read, that has had a huge impact on me. And

one of the times at which I was discovering or listening to the 50th Law was when I was a firefighter.

So after playing football, I was really struggling, didn't know what I wanted to do next.

After a couple years, I decided, you know what, I'll become a firefighter.

And I became a firefighter pretty fast, and it was pretty cool, right?

But then while becoming a firefighter, I was also exploring more and more of what I could

offer, what I could offer to the world, what it is that I wanted to do because I knew that I wasn't

really called to be a firefighter in this life. It's not like that was my calling in this life, right?

And so I was exploring. I was listening to books, reading and things, and I also started my

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