Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Shobo. This is another episode of

books and bars where I'm breaking down excerpts from my favorite books, bars from my favorite

rap lyrics, so as to impart some wisdom and knowledge to you from these books and bars

in my own way, in my own interpretation. There's obviously several ways to interpret things,

and what I always value and what I always love is hearing certain people's takes on maybe

some of the same books that you've read, but that person has a different take. All right, so this is a

classic book. It's called The Richest Man in Babylon, and it's on the title. It says the most inspiring book on wealth ever written.

It certainly is inspiring and it is on wealth. It's one of the fundamental books that you should

read if you wish to increase your wealth. It's in story form and there's a lot of parables and

things. And it's a pretty fun read. And it has a lot of parables and things and it's a pretty fun read and it has a lot of

tangible practical tips and principles sound principles upon which to build wealth right so who doesn't

want to become wealthy we all say we want to be wealthy to a certain degree or at least i'm sure all

of you listening do at least you all say you want to have some sort of financial freedom, et cetera.

And in it, he breaks down some key fundamentals, right?

And so one of the fundamentals was increase thy ability to earn.

So what I want to do is read to you what's written here.

And then I want to explain to you why why I felt this was so important that I wanted

to break this down for you. He says, as a man perfecteth himself in his calling, even so doth his

ability to earn increase, aka as a man perfects himself in his calling, his ability to earn increases.

He goes on to say, in those days when I was a humble scribe carving upon the clay for a few

coppers each day, I observed that other workers did more than I, and they were paid more.

Therefore, I determined that I would be exceeded by none.

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