The Infinite Steps of Success & Redefining What it Means to Win | Tim Grover EP 856

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

0:11You're around the most successful people, you train them. What do people misunderstand about success? I think the thing that people misunderstand about success is they're looking for the easiest way to get there. you know and it's funny how many people books have you read or I won't say promoted but had on your show and everybody goes five easy steps ten steps to greatness yeah well eight steps to this and those steps for success they're infinite they are infinite you cannot count them it doesn't matter how long you've been doing it those steps are constantly shifting you don't know if they're there sometimes you have to trust that the next step is going to be there when you can't even see it and sometimes when you step on that step you go right into quicksand but you got to be able to pull yourself back out of it again so everybody's looking for these steps and there are no steps those steps never never end and you just can't climb steps sometimes you got to crawl those steps and you finally get to the top and everything shifts and you're at the bottom again.

1:29Crazy. What does that mean? Sometimes you're at the top and then you're at the bottom again. Well, you may get to the top and you're like, I'm here. And then you look back down and you look up again. You're actually on the first step. You're on the first step again. And where you thought was the top is not even the top. It's the beginning. It's literally the beginning of where you're supposed to be. And that's when most people just quit. I just like, it just drives me crazy because everybody's like here to look at, I always, people that I do the interview with, I always like to use them as an example because people can relate to that.

2:10All right. You've been climbing steps for how long to get to here? To get there. I mean, since starting this, it's been over eight years, But the journey before then, it was, you know, decades to build myself, to prepare myself for this. And now I feel like I'm just getting started. Right. Exactly. So you have just, right. So all the steps that you climbed just to get started. Yeah. Just to get started. And people don't want to talk about those steps. They don't want to talk about those steps and how difficult those steps are and how many steps that you stumbled on and how many steps you didn't even see.

2:47and how many steps that people placed in front of you and they pulled away. People that you were very close to, people that you knew. People that you thought that were like, hey, these people actually have my back, except, yeah, they did have your back, but they were actually pushing you down the steps. For stabbing you. Yes. No? And it's funny when you talk about those things, when people talk about it, they seem surprised. But you should know that in that path, all those things are going to be there. They're going to be there. Right. It's the obstacles. You know, Ryan Holiday says the obstacle is the way.

3:25Do you think that anyone can become a winner? Your book is about winning the unforgiving race to greatness. Do you think anyone can become a winner? Winning is in all of us. That's what I would say. Listen, and we have wins every single moment. And those are the steps that get us a little closer to what we want. We have a step. Every minute you have an opportunity to win. You really do. But with everything that's went on in the world in this past year, people forgot how to win. People don't even know what a win looks like anymore. What does it look like? Yeah, people don't even know. And so many times a win just comes by because there's a constant change, there's a constant shift.

4:07and now with the paradigm of the way everything is being handled now, you have to look at things completely different. Everybody's waiting for normal. A win doesn't look like what it used to look like anymore. What does it look like now? What does it look like now? For each individual, it's different. For each individual, it's different. For a lot of individuals, it's just like getting out of that routine that you were stuck in for so long. and did the pandemic allow you to say, you know what? Yeah, I was in a routine, but the routine wasn't getting me anywhere. I was in a routine of comfort, and the pandemic put a lot of people in a routine that was very uncomfortable that they weren't used to.

4:53They weren't, but it was a necessity. It was needed. You know, people always wish for this time during this thing that happened. I want to spend more time with my family. And now they have it. Now you have it. Okay? Schools aren't doing a good job with educating my kids. Now you're homeschooling. I'd love to work from the house. Now you're doing it. Now you're doing it. Now you have all these things going on that you wished you had as you thought were wins. And for some people they were. And for others you're just like, no. These are not wins. I do a lot of Zoom stuff at home and I got a cat and I got a very lively dog and you'll see the cat run right across the screen.

5:43Of course, I don't have little kids in the house anymore, but trying to work and have them in the background asking for school help or, you know, they're on their bandwidth trying to study in their school stuff. And winning became a distraction. It became a distraction. and people are trying to balance all these different things and forgot, hey, this is what my win is. You need to recognize what that win is now.

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