Books and Bars: Obsessed by Grant Cardone
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The idea of balance is a myth and an illusion, and guys like Grant Cardone get it. The question is, what lie have you been telling yourself that has prevented you from aiming for greatness in EVERY category of your life? Listen to this episode where I break down Cardone's philosophy and why it makes so much sense.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. Today is a book as we break |
| 0:06.4 | down books and bars. That means I'm going to be taking a book that I've recently read or that I've |
| 0:10.7 | read in the past and I'm going to be sharing with you just a, just a gem from it, highlighting to you |
| 0:16.5 | the breakthroughs that I get from reading and sharing some of those with you and attempts |
| 0:21.0 | to number one get you to read more because reading is fucking amazing, man. |
| 0:26.5 | You can learn shit fast from reading. |
| 0:29.8 | And also to, you know, share it with you so that you can maybe borrow it, borrow that |
| 0:35.3 | breakthrough right now. Because I hope to articulate |
| 0:38.4 | it in such a way that gets you to see it and actually feel it, not just read it. Because how many |
| 0:42.8 | things you just read and it's like, oh yeah, that's nice, but you don't internalize it because |
| 0:46.4 | maybe someone hasn't broken it down for you. So I'm going to break this shit down for you right now. And this book is from Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone. |
| 0:58.8 | Grant Cardone is, he wrote the 10X rule, one of my favorite books ever. |
| 1:01.2 | And he's a beast. |
| 1:03.7 | He's an absolute beast right now in sales. |
| 1:06.5 | He's probably the leader in the industry online. |
| 1:08.0 | He's killing, man. |
| 1:08.9 | And I love the dude. |
| 1:09.9 | I love his philosophy. |
| 1:27.5 | I love how he thinks. It's very different than a lot of people. He's very aggressive. He's very no nonsense. His ideas go contrary to what, you know, the, you know, a lot of people say, let's say. And not to say that a lot of people are wrong. But I love that this dude has his own philosophy. and I happen to agree with the shit, and let me explain what it is, and he explains it in this |
| 1:32.2 | book. So this book is obviously called Be Obsessed or Be Average. So the premise of this book |
| 1:37.1 | is that to get what you want, you need to be obsessed with the shit. Like, you need to be fanatical. |
| 1:42.7 | You need to have a deep desire, a burning desire to just |
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