Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. It is your host, Nees Showbo. Welcome to today's episode of Books and Bars. I'm breaking down another book. And this is a very, very, very powerful book, very slept on book. It was actually referred to me by Trevor Moad, Mental Conditioning Coach or the Alabama Crimson Tide to the Seattle Seahawks to several

other big time players, organizations, et cetera.

He's definitely a heavy hitter in the game.

And he recommended this book.

And when he did, I never, I hadn't heard of this.

Or I hadn't known that this person had wrote a book. And this he did, I never, I hadn't heard of this, like, or I hadn't known that this

person had wrote a book. And this person is Michael Johnson. So Michael Johnson in the 1996

Olympics won the 200 and the 400 set world records in both and predicted his success by

wearing the famous gold track shoes, or spikes, if you will.

And he had actually failed four years earlier in the Olympics or failed to reach his goal.

So anyway, in his book, it's called Slaying the Dragon.

It's an awesome book.

I believe it's one of the best written by an athlete of its kind.

So it's an autobiography, but more so a book on the principles of success as he sees them.

And he goes very much in depth in his story, and it's very, very powerful. And there's one

passage in particular that I read very often and that

had a really, really big impact on me because I think before this, I'd never really heard an athlete

lay this out in this way to me before. That was very powerful. So he was talking about overcoming the

fear of failure, all right? And I'm just going to read it and I'm going to tell you what I think

about it afterwards, but it's very powerful. He said, when people say they're afraid to fail,

that's often what they mean. They're wildly, irrationally afraid of catastrophic failure.

To overcome it, you must do in theory what I did in life. Look catastrophic failure right in the

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