Welcome to the sports motivation podcast.

This is your host, Nees Shobo.

This is books and bars.

This is where I break down excerpts from my favorite books,

and I give you my interpretation on them so as to help you internalize it

to basically make practical change in your life in some small way.

Many times, I think we get this from school. We get this

idea that we should take a book and we should read the whole thing and we should retain all of the

information. I've heard some people say, man, I have a hard time retaining what I've learned.

And I'm like, shit, like, who doesn't? Who do you know that can read a book and remember everything that they read?

That would be a person we call it genius, and I don't know too many geniuses.

But my point is, if you get one thing from a book of value, is it worth the $10 that you

paid?

Just one thing. Shit, you could pay $10 for an ice cream cone or a snow cone or a box of juju fruits at the local movie theater. And you won't

complain about that. But for some reason, we think if we didn't remember everything, it was such a waste of our time and it was

such a waste of our money which is complete BS all right so I hope that's encouraging to you and that's

the reason why I started books and bars because I just want to share with you just one just one little

jewel that I took from a book that I was reading or of course from a song that I listened to as well

from the bar standpoint. But today is all about a book and this book is called mastery by Robert

Green. And it's funny because right before I decided to read this particular excerpt, this actually

happens a ton. I should tell you. And I don't know if this is good or bad

that I'm telling me this, but there are sometimes I actually legitimately forget or I don't remember

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