If You Overthink Everything, This Will Set You Free | Lewis Howes

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0:34Lewis Howes:Why do smart people struggle with manifestation more than people that maybe aren't overanalyzing their lives as much? Well, it's because they live in their head. They're living in their brain and they're thinking constantly. And they're thinking every step that could go wrong. That's typically what it is. They over-worry, they over-complain sometimes, they over-analyze, and they over-stress. And this stress blocks joy. It blocks the ability of you being in your energy, in your flow, in your body, in your freedom. So when you're constantly in your head, you're not in your freedom. You're not in your flow.

1:15Lewis Howes:And that's when genuine things start to come to you. When you over-analyze, and you over question and you try to understand everything, it blocks your ability to manifest. Now, I'm a curious human being. I ask tons of questions. I always ask why, why, why. I piss probably so many people off because I'm constantly wanting to know why people do things the way they do them. But in the last 10 plus years of my life, it hasn't held me back from actually acting. Manifestation is not just about thinking. It's about how you show up. Your energy does not lie. You can know exactly what you want and still not have it because you're not showing up as the person who has it.

2:03Lewis Howes:I love this quote by Ronna Byrne as she talks about this element that keeps so many people stuck in their manifestations. She says, one of the things that trips people up is they try too hard. The universe wants us to have everything and live a full life. It's not a battle or anything like that. The question I get sometimes is, why did you first realize you were living in your head instead of actually moving? And here's the thing. When you overanalyze, stress builds up. It becomes overwhelmed. It becomes a burnout. That's what life feels like. It feels like you're burning the candle on both ends.

2:46Lewis Howes:You're trying to get up early and work hard. You're trying to work late. You're trying to be on and be perfect during the day. You're people-pleasing people. Your energy is in work-hard mode, try to do the right things. It's not in freedom and in flow. And you've got to be shifting it. You know, sometimes I feel like being one of the dumbest people in every room I go in is an advantage to me. When I was younger, it hurt me. It crippled me because I felt insecure. I felt insignificant. I felt like I couldn't accomplish anything because I wasn't as smart or talented as all of my peers growing up in school.

3:25Lewis Howes:Everyone got better grades than me. Everyone could speak better than me in front of the classroom. Everyone had a higher reading level than me. When I went to eighth grade and got tested for the first time, I had a second grade reading level. So my confidence was just knocked down and everyone in the room was smarter than me, literally in school. Everyone was more talented, smarter, and had more confidence because of their results, because of their grades and their ability to work in school. I didn't have that. So I had a false sense of insecurity and I was crippled with self-doubt most of my teens and into my twenties.

4:01Lewis Howes:And it became a point where I finally said in my early 20s that I'm gonna overcome this fear, I'm gonna let this go. I'm not going to be the smartest person and that's okay. I'm not gonna be the most educated person and that's okay. I'm not gonna be able to speak the best in front of public and that's okay. I'm not gonna have the answers and that's okay. And I said, instead of trying to be smarter than other people to fit in, why don't I be the complete opposite? Why don't I own who I am and just bring energy, passion, curiosity, joy, bring all these other fun, unique abilities to life and be present with people.

4:41Lewis Howes:Where most people are worried about what other people are thinking about them, that's something I have for most of my life. I just said, how can I be curious about these people instead? How can I ask curious questions? How can I ask why and be even more interested in them than interested in what I'm trying to say in front of them. And that created a sense of relationship with so many people by just showing up with full passion, full energy, and full flow. And when I learned to break the pattern of overanalyzing, overthinking, or what are people thinking about me? Or why am I not smart enough? Why am I not talented enough?

5:20Lewis Howes:Why am I not good enough and I stopped trying to be the smartest person in the room instead just tried to be the most interested person in the room interested in other people then my pattern changed my pattern originally was I couldn't explain success I couldn't break it down I could I could teach it but I wasn't fully living it I wasn't being it I could see other people but I didn't know how to emulate it. And knowledge feels like progress, but without alignment, it keeps you stuck.

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