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🗓️ 20 June 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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This is a slept on classic that I have read 3 times over already in the last 3 months. It's written by an Ancient Samurai Warrior and in this b+b episode, I break down a powerful excerpt that speaks to me on many levels.
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0:00.7 | Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. |
0:03.1 | This is your host, Nees Chobo. |
0:04.7 | This is another episode of books and bars where I break down bars, I break down books, |
0:08.9 | and today will be a book. |
0:11.3 | A book that I believe, can I call it a classic? |
0:14.7 | Well, it certainly is a classic text. |
0:17.1 | I don't know exactly the year this was written. |
0:26.6 | It's an ancient text. by Yamamoto Sunetomo. And it's called Hagakurei. |
0:28.6 | And it's written by a samurai. |
0:32.6 | And it's basically rules for how a samurai must live. |
0:35.6 | And it's kind of written in the same light as Art of War |
0:39.0 | by Sun Tzu, short little passages, right to the point. And this particular, I have two translations |
0:46.9 | of it and I actually like this one better. This is the one that's translated. In case you're |
0:51.1 | looking to buy this book, it's the one translated by William Scott Wilson. |
0:55.1 | The other one is good as well. I just like this one better. And let me read to you a passage |
0:59.6 | that's on page 34 and I want to go into it. All right. So this is what he says. In the words of the |
1:06.3 | ancients, one should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths. Lord Takanobu said, if discrimination |
1:13.6 | is long, it will spoil. Lord Niochige said, when matters are done leisurely, seven out of ten |
1:20.7 | will turn out badly. A warrior is a person who does things quickly. When your mind is going hither and thither, |
1:27.9 | discrimination will never be brought to a conclusion. |
1:30.8 | With an intense, fresh and undelaying spirit, |
1:33.8 | one will make his judgments within the space of seven breaths. |
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