Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It is your host, Nees Showbo. Today is another episode of books and bars, and I'm going to be breaking down a book, all right? Absolutely one of my favorite books of all time from one of my favorite authors of all time. You guys have heard me mention him several times. He's actually been interviewed on the sports motivation podcast as well, and part two is coming soon, all right?

So the author, Robert Green.

He has a ton of books.

So which book am I talking about?

33 strategies of war.

Every single Robert Green book is phenomenal, five star.

However, not all of his books have had the same level of impact on me. This book, I've bought

like three copies. It's all around my house. I've read it several times. I made my son read

this book. It's powerful. It's powerful. And although the title might sound like, oh, I'm trying

to be some war general. There are a lot of references to war in this book. However, it's really how to go about the business of winning in this game of life. That's pretty much the theme of this book, because life in many ways is like a war. You have a lot of opponents, you have a lot of obstacles,

you have a lot of challenges, and you have things that you must overcome, and you got to figure how to do it. And he breaks down 33 strategies, and he gives tons of examples from history.

So many. It's just powerful. So anyway, I want to read you a part from this book, and it's

from the strategy number three, the turmoil of events do not

lose your presence of mind the strategy is the counterbalance strategy all right so this strategy

is really all about staying calm and poised under pressure really important um obviously and you hear me talk tons about that on the

Sports Motivation podcast. And what we tend to do is we tend to watch others who have this presence

of mind, right? So we tend to look at an athlete, like a Kobe Bryant or like a, you know, Michael

Jordan or, you know, Serena Williams or just fill in the blank

of an athlete who is Tom Brady, who's very calm and poised under pressure, right?

And we tend to idealize these people and imagine that they have some special clutch gene

or they're very gifted or talented, right? But that's not the case. And let me read

this part from it's on page 32 of you guys are following with me as well. Like I said that like I was in

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