Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Niyushobo. Today is an episode of books and bars, which is a series that I wanted to do, a short series. It's no longer than five, seven, ten minutes tops. But I wanted to share with you books, excerpts from my favorite books and give you my insight on them, give you my take on just some

small piece of what I read in order to inspire you to learn more, inspire you to read more,

but also just give you some practical tips that you can extract and start putting this stuff

into action, all right?

And I also break down bars for my favorite rap songs because I find that there's a lot of knowledge, a lot of depth and hip hop that a lot of people don't give it credit for, especially those who don't listen to it.

So it's my attempt to break that shit down for you and alert you to that and show you how it's impacted my life.

And maybe it can impact yours as well.

But today is a book, all right? Now, this book is very, very special to me and I'll tell you the

reason why. A lot of times, I'm a, first of all, I read a lot and I know you do as well. And one of the

things that I do when I read, I have sort of a philosophy about reading and it's kind of simple. It's like, basically,

there's no, to me, first of all, most books don't cost more than $20. Most books don't cost

more than $10, quite frankly. If you pay $20 for a book, that's an expensive book, right?

Normal, $10. Amazon, you can get them anywhere from $4 to $10. If you have a hard time

buying a book, you don't deserve to be successful. That's what I believe. I also believe

that if someone is very successful and I admire them and they read a book, I should definitely

read it too. I should at least

open it up. I should at least see what it's about. And that means I'm reading and buying a lot of

books. So I was reading a book and I actually can't remember which one. And as I was reading

the book, they mentioned that you should read this book that I'm going to talk about, which is what to say

when you talk to yourself by Shad Helmstetter. Now this is a book in the category that I'll call,

what would I call this category? It's a certain type of category. I know you know what I'm talking

about too. First of all, First of them are small books,

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