Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Niyosobo. Today is books and bars, and I'm going to be reading an excerpt from a Napoleon Hill book. Napoleon Hill is the author of Think and Grow Rich. That's the book he's most famous for. He is a famous American philosopher of success. Basically, the father of self-help, if you ask me. He's the OG that really inspired all

these other dudes to do what they do, including myself. His books have very much influenced me

and are staples in my everyday reading habits, literally. Every single day I listen to either

outwitting the devil or thinking grow rich

um and this is a book i just came across that napoleon hill wrote called how to raise your own salary

and it's actually a back and forth he had with Andrew Carnegie uh who was a mentor of his

and inspired him a ton as well um and i want to read a very short clip from this,

and I want to expand on it because of how important it is.

All right?

So in this book, basically the premise of this book, obviously,

is how to raise your own salary.

And they're giving advice to people who want to move up in their jobs,

get paid more, and ultimately, you know, be entrepreneurs and such as well. And there's a ton of principles in here that are just classic, timeless, and so very practical.

But one in particular stood out, and I feel the need to talk about it.

So let me read it.

Talking about self-discipline.

So Andrew Carnegie says, self-discipline begins with the formation of constructive habits, especially the habits

connected with food, drink, sex, and the use of one so-called spare time. Generally speaking,

when a man gets these habits under control, they help to regulate all of his other habits. And you'll

observe that the mastery of the eight principles of this philosophy we have

mentioned provides a man with everything he needs to shape his habits so they serve him

constructively so he talked about this a certain number of habits that man must master in order to develop

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