Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. This is your host, Niyushobo. Today is books and bars. It's where I break down excerpts from my favorite books, books that I fell across, that I read, that I feel like you should know about, as well as bars. Bars from my favorite rap lyrics so that I can show you the wisdom in these lyrics. All right. Now, today is from Percy Miller. And if you don't know who Percy Miller is, he's also known as Master P.

All right, he founded No Limit Records. He is a hip-hop mogul. He is also a rapper,

not the best one in the world, and is not known for his rap, but is definitely known for his business acumen.

He's an absolute beast.

He also played in the NBA for a hot second, and he's also an author.

And he wrote a book called Guaranteed Success, and it's actually a book that I didn't

even realize he had a book as, you know, with Amazon nowadays,

man, you'll find, there's a lot of people that have books that you didn't know.

And I absolutely love reading books like this because they take me into the mind of people

like this.

People have overcome a lot, and he certainly has overcome a lot.

He's someone who's came from nothing and built a multi-million dollar empire. He's one of the most successful from a financial

standpoint, one of the most successful hip-hop moguls to ever live, and he is an absolute

legend. Now, I'm going to read an excerpt from this book, from his book, and I really thought

it was powerful, and it's one of the, he called it the seven

hindrances to success. All right. So one of these hindrances, one of the chokeholds that he believes

holds people back from accomplishing at the level that they want is he said comfort,

comfort, which is interesting. So listen, he said comfort comfort which is interesting so listen he said

comfort is the most deceiving hindrance of all it hinders your future successes because it keeps

you stagnant in your present circumstances this is actually another form of wasting time

you fool yourself into believing that you have already fulfilled your purpose in life.

Your false sense of contentment disables you. It prevents you from discovering your maximum potential

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