Reading on the Joe Rogan podcast an excerpt from "My Sister -- Life" by Boris Pasternak, a poem that Buvaisar Saitiev (one of the greatest Olympic wrestlers of all time) would read before competition. Full JRE episode #1422: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIcQwDkcaWk

If I saw a satire, I would read Boris Barstynak, which is a famous Russian poet, won a Nobel Prize before every match, and he kind of captures that ethic.

I know there's a bunch of Russian people that would appreciate that.

But be alive, alive only, alive only to the end.

Others step by step will follow the living imprint of your feet but you yourself must not distinguish your victory from your defeat and never for a single moment betray your credo or pretend but be alive only this matters alive and burning to the end So this is the end of a poem that represents the fact that fame, most of the poem says that fame, recognition, money, none of that matters.

The winning and losing, none of that matters.

What matters is the purity of the art just giving yourself completely over to the art so like others will write your story others will tell whether you did good or bad others will inspire using your story but as the artist so in the case of Pasternak he's a poet writer that did wrote Dr.


Speaker 0: If I saw a satire, I would read Boris Barstynak, which is a famous Russian poet, won a Nobel Prize before every match, and he kind of captures that ethic. So this is the poem. I'll say it in Russian. Okay. And then in English.

Please. Okay. I know there's a bunch of Russian people that would appreciate that. The translation is a bit crappy. But be alive, alive only, alive only to the end.

Others step by step will follow the living imprint of your feet but you yourself must not distinguish your victory from your defeat and never for a single moment betray your credo or pretend but be alive only this matters alive and burning to the end So this is the end of a poem that represents the fact that fame, most of the poem says that fame, recognition, money, none of that matters. The winning and losing, none of that matters. What matters is the purity of the art just giving yourself completely over to the art so like others will write your story others will tell whether you did good or bad others will inspire using your story but as the artist so in the case of Pasternak he's a poet writer that did wrote Dr. Zhivago the is the art you you

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