BARS: Time to fight (Wisdom from Mao Tse-Tung)

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Soccer, Football, Basketball, Crossfit, Mindset, Sports, Psychology, Dominate, Business

4.8 • 755 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Many times we paralyze ourselves with thinking, learning and planning...in this epsiode, I break down wisdom from Mao Tse-Tung on the power of dedicating yourself to the fight, when it's time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. And this is another episode of bars. This is one of my favorite quotes. I remind myself of it often. It's in, it's housed within one of my favorite books, The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Green. but it's a quote from Mao Teesong.
0:22.5	And it goes like this.
0:23.6	And I want to explain the significance of it and really use this as a call to action for a lot of you who I believe are allowing excuses to keep you stuck.
0:33.5	All right.
0:34.9	So he says this.
0:36.5	I never read any treatises on strategy.
0:39.4	When we fight, we do not take any books with us.
0:46.5	Now, we live in a day and age, man, where the consumption of information is about as easy as it's ever been.
0:53.5	It's beautiful, quite frankly. You got books,
0:56.5	you got podcasts. Shit, if you like to cook, you can learn how to cook anything on YouTube,
1:04.1	anything. If you live in a, you know, any regular city close to a grocery store, you got access to all of the ingredients.
1:14.6	But the reality is a lot of us spend so much time learning, learning, learning, trying to
1:19.5	figure things out that we start telling ourselves that we need to learn more and I just got to
1:24.9	keep learning this. And we use use as an excuse for inaction.
1:29.6	So the reason why this quote is so powerful is he says we don't when we fight we don't take
1:33.9	any books with us. So does this mean Mao DeSong doesn't study at all or you know actually
1:39.5	doesn't study strategy and war, etc? I doubt that. I'm pretty sure he was a scholar. Pretty sure he
1:47.8	spent a lot of time preparing, pretty sure he spent a lot of time reading and taking in new
1:54.0	information and partaking in the consumption of knowledge. But sometimes it's time to fight. And when he goes to war, he doesn't
2:04.9	bring any books with him. Because that's not the time to be reading. When you play a football
2:11.4	game, like that's not the time to be, you know, fucking reviewing the playbook and shit. It's game time. You do that during the week.
2:20.2	When it's time to fight, we fight. We let loose and we trust ourselves. So what have you been
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