Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. Today is Books and Bars. I'm breaking down excerpts from my favorite books, bars from my favorite rap lyrics, sharing with you the wisdom, the knowledge, the game that I extrapolate from the books, from the bars. Today is a book, a very important book, a powerful book by Les Giblin. It's called

How to Have Confidence and Power with Dealing with People. I'm pretty sure I've broken down an

excerpt from this book before. If I haven't, we're going to do that today. So this is a book

that was written, I think, in the 50s or 60s. It's a classic, similar to like a

think and grow rich, one of those early classic self-help or personal development books that

really laid the foundation for a lot of the books that we see here and for a good reason, because

one of the things I love about books like this is how practical

they are and how much they inspire action in me.

I can't explain all the way why I think it's just a certain simplicity of writing that they

have.

I sometimes, I don't know how you are.

I mean, you know, nowadays I feel like there's a lot of books that use a lot of science, scientific evidence to back it up and studies and research. And that's

certainly valuable, certainly valuable. Sometimes though, honestly, when I get too much of that,

it just starts to feel like, like, like, just because there was a study done, you know, at Harvard or Yale, that to me,

my common sense tells me that doesn't necessarily give me everything I need to believe

this premise.

So what the Napoleon Hills did is not use as many studies.

And by the way, studies are important, obviously.

And they do a lot to reinforce the belief and obviously prove what someone is teaching.

But there's just a practical way that Les Giblin, Napoleon Hill, speaks that really resonates and it inspires a certain

common sense muscle to be activated that I like. So anyway, let me read you this part from

how to have confidence and power and dealing with people. And let me share with you what I

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