Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your host, Nicky Shobo. Today is books and bars, and I'm going to be breaking down a book.

All right. So in books and bars, I basically break down either excerpts from not necessarily my favorite books, but books I'm reading, books I'm exploring.

Because I am someone who doesn't just read books that I really enjoy. I actually don't always

enjoy reading. Sometimes reading sucks. Sometimes the book is boring, but guess what? It contains

information that is very valuable to me in the context of accomplishing something that I want.

So I do it anyway, much like working out. Sometimes lifting weight sucks. Sometimes

squat day sucks. Sometimes it's fun. Sometimes I don't feel like it. Sometimes I don't feel like

running. Sometimes I don't feel like stretching, but it's important. So today, I'm breaking down a book.

And I am someone from the school of thought. Before I break down this book, I want to explain why I'm even reading this book. So I'm someone from the school of thought like this. So, for example, if you come in my office, you'll see a big-ass picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger, right? No, I'm not like an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan or like, you know, I just love his movies. I mean, he has some

cool movies, I guess, but what Arnold Schwarzenegger represents is an extreme version of something

that I want, right? So the picture that you'll see is he's glaring at you and he's just

shredded up. I mean, the dude is just swore. Now, obviously I want to be some, or not necessarily

obviously, but I want to be some version of him in terms of swall. I don't want to be that big,

but I desire to be, you know, lean, trim, muscular, fit, all of those things that he is, right?

But also he represents extreme results in other

areas as well. Super, super successful. Has reached Demner, every goal he set for himself and is very

much an extreme version of success in that way as well. You'll also see other pictures. You'll see

Kobe Bryant. You'll see Tupac. You'll see Kobe Bryant. You'll see Tupac.

You'll see Dane Dash, Frederick Douglass.

Now, I'll bring this up because if you have a goal you want to accomplish or a problem you want to overcome, it's far more effective to find people who have just crushed that goal or who have overcome way worse problems.

Instead of, if you're trying to earn money, instead of going to the guy who's earned,

who earns a little bit more than you, why not go to someone who earns 50 times more than you?

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