Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. This is books and bars where I break down excerpts from books that I'm reading, my favorite books, books that I'm exploring, and I give you the wisdom and insight behind the words that I read. And I give you my take. And sometimes books are relatively easy to interpret. Sometimes they're more harder. Today is from Ralph Waldo

Emerson, a famous philosopher, and Ralph Waldo Emerson is probably one of the most quoted

philosophers. And also, for me, I'm not going to lie, just one of the more difficult to read.

Not in a bad way, though. Because he makes perfect sense, but he just says things in such a way

that really makes you like, it's like eating something that's so rich, you have to eat it slowly.

You can't just eat it fast. And that's what his writing is like. So I want to break down a clip or

a piece from self-reliance in other essays, then it's pretty much just a compilation

of essays. So he has like pieces of writing that he's done and they're compiled. But one of the

things that I talk about a lot, you hear talked about a lot, is this, and you know it because

you are probably very much influenced by other people's opinions of you.

You are a human being like I am.

I care about what you think.

You care about what other people think.

We all do.

And if we don't check that, if we don't know how to deal with that, if we don't know how to manage that

fear that we have of other people thinking a certain way of us, we will be very, very,

what's the word, constricted. We will not be very free. We will not be very successful. We will

have a lot of anxiety. So you got to find out a way to deal with that.

So when I read this, this was very, very powerful.

So let's just get into it.

So he says this, what I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

This rule equally arduous in actual and an intellectual life may serve for the whole distinction between

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