Stop Your Negative Thinking & Believe In Yourself | EP 911

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

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0:49And 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. If it's a caterpillar walking on a stick, if there's a wall here, right? the victim caterpillar goes oh there's a wall here i'm not gonna do this the achiever caterpillar the make it happen motivation caterpillar goes i'm gonna get over the wall that what's trying to emerge out of me caterpillar goes i think i'll just sit here for a week and do nothing and then it's cocoon forms and eventually it has wings and this thing's a non-issue it's not existent so i've had it before where someone talks crap about me right now the victim caterpillar goes I'm going to leave this.

1:31The achievement caterpillar goes, I'm going to prove them wrong. But the what's trying to emerge out of me caterpillar goes, okay, this thing is here. What illusion, what story am I in for this thing to even be an existing thing? And for me, that shift happened. Comics were giving me crap because it was this positive guy. And all of a sudden I was like, I cared what they thought about me, but something was trying to emerge out of me. So I had to sit and I sat in a hotel for a long time and I felt all this pain in me. And then eventually I noticed my mind was coming up with all these solutions, but I was just sitting on a bed safe.

2:06But my mind was literally fighting for its life for days, but I'm totally safe. And we always are sitting here in a place of thinking, I got to fix this problem. And we're actually in fight or flight, life or death mode when we're totally safe, almost the entire life. So at one point I saw my mind was doing this and I realized I'm not my thoughts because my thoughts are coming up with this and I was separate from the thoughts. and I realized I'm the one looking at this. And all of a sudden, my entire life story collapsed and I was just this moment. And I stared at a wall for like five hours and I felt totally free.

2:40And I realized I felt a freedom that was even better than who I am is having a number one Comedy Central special or whatever it is. I'm actually this moment only and I felt freer than I'd ever had been. And I flew back home after that and I tried to get my DVD player to play a movie and it wouldn't play it. And then tried a second one. I tried six movies and it wouldn't play it. Finally, the movie Adaptation played. And there's a scene in the movie where Nicolas Cage says to his brother, he goes, in high school, there's a girl you really loved. And she was saying crap about you and you didn't care.

3:10And he said, why is that? And the brother said, because whatever she says about me, she can't take away from me how much I love her. And then he said, you are what you love, not what loves you. And I realized the only reason I had been stressing was I was under the illusion that who I am is what they think about me. How could I be what someone thinks about me? What one person thinks about one person could hate me, one person could love me. Their issues with me have to do with their crap and their childhood and their past. No, I'm not what they think of me. Do I accept what they all think of me?

3:40Do I love them in their hatred of me? And when you go back to your childhood, that's who you actually are. In your natural childhood state, you don't even know about what people think about you. And you know what you want to be. You know you're going to be a singer, a dancer, a comedian. Yeah. You're not thinking about, well, yeah, but I got to consider this or will I sell enough or you just be that. And then society turns us into a consumer. So when I was under the fear of what these people thought about me, I was under the illusion that who I was was what they thought about me. And that was my caterpillar moment.

4:11so I'm excited with every time I have a conflict because I always know that only a story is scared only an old identification is scared like if someone's talking crap about me that only affects me because I think who I am is my reputation but if I get to I'm just this moment then I can handle the lightness or the darkness of everything that everyone else thinks and then I can do bigger things because I'm more in alignment with the entire world versus I'm this zone.

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5:59Thank you.