Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. Today is books and bars where I break down excerpts from my favorite books, clips from my favorite rap songs, and I break down the bars. Today I'm breaking down a book. And this book is called How to Be Free, an ancient guide to the Stoic Life. And it's by Epictetus, who is a famous, one of the more well-known Stoic philosophers.

And when I got this book, I thought it was going to be something different than what I already had.

But it wasn't.

And I wasn't disappointed by that.

But I'm saying this because I want you to understand,

I feel like this is a book, the Enchiridian, I think that's how you say it.

And there's a great book called The Art of Living by Epictetus, which is basically an interpretation

of that same book that he

wrote or it's a collection of his essays or speeches or whatever. Basically, his philosophy.

But anyway, this book called How to Be Free is basically that book. And then it's also

written in pretty sure it's Greek. Right. And it has it on the left side. So it's just basically

both interpretations. So anyway, I say that because if you already have the N. Carridian

or the art of living by Epictetus, those will do. But this is a clip from that. So let me break this down. And I want to

really get into, I want to get into this. This is really important because I feel like it's kind of

like the Bible. You read it. And it's really easy to take a very direct approach to the

interpretation. But it's important to like really sift through

it and decide what it means for you.

So here's what he says.

And this is on page 23 if you are reading from the same book.

Look, I feel like I'm in church, you know, when the pastor says page number.

Anyway, if you want your children and your wife and friends to survive,

no matter what, you are silly. For you are wanting things to be up to you that are not up to you,

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