Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast.

It is your host, Nees Showbo.

This is Books and Bars.

Today I'm breaking down a book.

This is a book.

I can't remember how I fell across this book.

But I really enjoy books like this, written by highly successful people.

This is actually written by Henry Ford, who is obviously the man who invented Ford. So that's a pretty big

deal. I would agree or I hope you would agree. And he, Henry Ford, is writing a book about

Thomas Edison. So Thomas Edison and Henry Ford had a relationship. They knew each other.

And Henry Ford decided to write a book entitled

Edison as I know him. Now obviously Thomas Edison is famous for inventing the light bulb

amongst several other things. He's patented and designed so many, so many groundbreaking

things that we use still today.

Very, very important man in history and a mysterious guy as well.

So this is actually a quote from Thomas Edison in this book.

And Thomas Edison is describing how he became deaf.

So he said, I was delayed in waiting on some of my newspaper customers, he told me, and the train started ahead. I ran after it and caught the rear step,

nearly out of wind and hardly able to lift myself up, for the steps in those days were high.

A train man reached over and grabbed me by the

ears and as he pulled me up, I felt something in my ears crack and right after that I began to get

deaf. The earboxing incident never happened. If it was the man who injured my hearing,

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