Change Your Life With This Mindset Hack | EP 904

0:00There are two big things happening at one time that I've never done before. I'm going on a book tour for my new book, Make Money Easy, and I'm doing a podcast tour at the same time. It is going to be big, and I'm going to seven cities in 10 days. Get your friends, get your family, bring everyone you know to these cities. I'm coming to Austin, Texas, New York, Boston. We're going to Nashville. Then we're going to Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Make sure to get your tickets right now. Go to lewishouse.com slash tour. Again, bring everyone you know if you're looking to create more financial freedom and abundance in your life.

0:40And you want to see a massive guest live on the School of Greatness show. Get your tickets. I can't wait to see you there. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:58We think that our brain is designed to scan the world and find what's dangerous. And so our ancestors passed that gift on to us. Your lineage passed that gift on to you that they were able to survive. And so how survive way back in ancient times that they could scan the world and find what was dangerous or what was threatening so that they wouldn't be eaten. Then not only was nature dangerous and all the elements of nature, but other humans became dangerous to each other. So now what we've created is the ability, the heightened ability to read micro expressions. and micro expressions are the small squinting of the eyes, the frontalis muscles between the eyes.

1:36And when those squint or don't move, it's a sense of threat, right? Because we don't know what's happening to that from that person. And so if you got this ancient brain that's programmed beautifully to find what's dangerous and we scanned in an undisciplined way, our environment around us, we're going to find dangerous things. And in modern times, we're not chased by saber tooth. The new modern saber tooth are other people's opinions. We're well conditioned from an early age. And this next generation is going to be even more well conditioned, you know, with Insta highlight reels for everything.

2:07My life is better than yours. I'm going to show you. So we've got this real challenge that to pursue a path of our personal best, we have to override our DNA. That's hard to do. So I needed a mentor when I was growing up. I'm thankful. What's up, Gary? Like I'm thankful for Gary. He helped me out in so many different ways, even currently today. One day he says, Hey Mike, I want to introduce you to my mentor. great I didn't know there was such a thing as like a grand mentor like am I ready and so you know it's this moment I said okay here we go but to my surprise it was this small three-bedroom two-bath home and it was well manicured and it was this pleasant like 78 82 year old woman comes out and I was just so pleasantly surprised like okay this is gonna get good because you just had that sense of wise woman and it's the setting that you would imagine the shag carpet was a little bit long, the drapes were just a little bit outdated.

2:59And so we sat at the table and she said, so tell me what you're about. I said, okay, well, um, what, well, the things that I'm most interested, well, okay, let me start this way. And she looked at me and she looked at my mentor and she said, I thought you said he was ready. I am, I am ready. Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no. I want to answer that. And she grabbed my tea and she said, you know, when you're ready, sweetie, I'd like to share this tea with you. So I was like super embarrassed in that moment. Like I thought I let my, my mentor down and you know, it was like this really intense experience.

3:31I didn't know what to do. And so it was this awkward moment, but I knew that I was not prepared to even answer the most basic question. Who are you? I just want to anchor that because I think that that captures what most of us feel like a lot. Most people don't feel like they know who they are. Yeah. And so I had this dramatic moment for me, but I think it's a really important process to go through. But then let's extract one level out from that. The greatest and the most influential people across the globe are very clear about their philosophy. The greatest movers and shakers and change makers are spiritual leaders and political leaders for the most part.

4:05And now we're starting to see business leaders, you know, to do that. What was Confucius philosophy? What was Buddha's philosophy? What was Jesus philosophy? They're really clear. Jesus was more about love and service. Buddha was more about that all people are suffering. And then so let's work through compassion to live with love and kindness. What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s? Dr. King Jr.'s was about equality, you know, Malcolm X equality, totally different tone, totally different approach. Mother Teresa, Helen Keller. What was Helen Keller? She's like, okay, I'm going to go for it. Like I deserve to be educated as well.

4:38She changed the educational system. So the most influential people were very clear why, because they lined up their thoughts, their words and actions to the thing that matters most to them. And that's what a philosophy is about. Everybody already has one. You have one. I have one. Whether we could articulate it at knife point in a dark alley, totally different element. I'll share mine. It's every day is an opportunity to create a living masterpiece. There's optimism embedded in there. There's creative juices embedded in there. And then there's, you know, this idea of a living masterpiece.

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