How To Overcome Self-Doubt & Achieve Success | Gary Vaynerchuk EP 226

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show.

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0:54When are the moments that you doubt yourself the most? Because I know you're extremely confident in yourself. but are there moments and what are they and how do you get through it when you have that doubt in anything you're doing? One of the weird things I do is I don't, I'm in a funny place now where I'm not putting myself in a place where I doubt myself. And so I always wonder, is that like not challenging myself or is that like staying in my lane? But there's nothing in business that makes you doubt yourself. Is there a situation that you could see? Like you've spoken in front of 50 ,000 people.

1:23That's not scary. At this point in my career, I've been in the room with everybody. All the big leaders, every billionaire, every CEO. That's right, that's right. I'm of the clock. Yeah. I belong and to be. You're confident too, yeah. I'll be very frank with you, I think I'm better. I think when it's all said and done, I win this generation. I think Elon and Zucks and the Uber guys, I think a ton of people make more money. I'm convinced now that nobody will make more money and help people make more money than me in this generation. I will win. In that game, yeah. In the game that I like. Which is winning personally and winning helping other people.

1:58I don't think I'm gonna be touched. I spend an enormous amount of time trying to make my audience awesome out of the selfishness of the legacy not to get them into a top of the funnel to buy my book or my sneaker. I ask for it but I have zero vulnerability or expectation. But I absolutely think I'm gonna win the game as made most because it's keeping score. I mean, it's part of the equation. But I'm not driven by that. Basically, I'm thinking about bringing the most value I think it's mindset and strategy. I used to not like the motivational version of me. I've gotten much more comfortable in the last 18 months because I'm like, huh, if I didn't think of it as motivational and I thought of it as strategy, because mindset's strategy, right?

2:42Being insecure is a mindset. It was put into you for a million different reasons. Figuring out how to get out of that hole by who you surround with, how you think, what you do. Insecurity is the biggest poison in our lives. Lack of self-esteem is why people do everything bad. What's your insecurity? What is my insecurity? My insecurity is probably my insecurity. I don't know if this is an insecurity. This is gonna be very weird for a lot of people who don't know me. I hate being disliked. Which is a really funny insight because the way I act in public and in my content shows a huge willingness to be disliked.

3:20But I only think of it simply as if you really break down my content and my ethos and who I am, I'm willing to be disliked in the micro. I'm willing for you to not like me because I'm suffocating you and you don't like that I put you into a corner, but you're gonna love me in three years. I don't wanna be disliked because I think there's no reason to. I hate cynicism and hate so much and being associated with it would really upset me. There is something that's really interesting to me which is I really know that I mean nothing. There's some, I think the biggest reason I'm willing to spit authentic is because I don't think so highly of myself.

3:56Meaning I'm not insecure. Me saying your business stinks, even with all my business things, I still think is just one dude's opinion. Too many great people who've won so much in things have told me I'm not gonna win and that I've won that I know I'm the same. And so I think one of the reasons I'm willing to spit is like my opinion's still my opinion and like, you know, take it with a grain of salt.

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