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Real happiness starts the moment you stop running from the truth about your own suffering. Check out the full episode: https://lewishowes.com/podcast/krishna-ji/ Krishnaji, co-founder of One World Academy, told Lewis that all inner suffering comes from obsessive self-centric thinking. Get fired, and the real pain is rarely the job hunt. It is “who is this guy to fire me?” and dreading what you will tell your family. He shared the story of a student diagnosed with stage three cancer who kept asking why God was punishing him. Once he saw he was only thinking about himself, the suffering lifted while his family focused on his treatment. He was cured. Krishnaji says the freedom is automatic once you see the truth. Nothing else has to happen first. Next time you feel that spiral, ask yourself who you are really thinking about. You may feel lighter as soon as you answer honestly. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When your relationships all fall apart at the same time, the common denominator might be you. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/2000DM Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness, goes solo here to share the season when his life was all about him. He got injured as an athlete and asked why this was happening to him, then made money and still felt empty. Then every relationship he had broke down at once, from business partners to romance. Lewis finally saw who the common denominator was: “I can't blame everyone anymore, because I'm at the center of all my problems.” That honesty is why he turned down The Lewis Howes Show and named it School of Greatness, so the light would fall on other people. When you ask a good question and then stay quiet, people show you their soul. Look at where you keep asking “why me” and turn that energy toward someone else. Service is the fastest way to relationships that take you further than your ego ever will. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

To lift a grandchild at 80, you need to be in the top 1% for health right now. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1529DM Bill Perkins, the investor and gambler famous for planning to spend his money down to zero, told Lewis about the day his doctor, Peter Attia, asked what he wanted from the last decade of his life. Bill said he wanted to carry his grandkids around. Attia told him that meant being in the top 1% for health today. Bill thought he was already in great shape. He admits he was delusional, the same way he was in his late 20s when he bought half a Lamborghini at a charity auction without even liking cars. He puts it bluntly: $300 million at 70 is useless. So build a plan to spend it on what fulfills you while your body can still enjoy it. You will finish this one thinking about your next workout and the trip you keep putting off. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Inner peace is the room you make in your mind so stress can pass through without running your day. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1999DM Yung Pueblo, a writer who meditates two hours every day, told Lewis that you can't buy that kind of calm. Success won't save you if you can't handle what's happening in your own mind. His practice starts on a heavy morning. Be honest that the tension is there, then say it out loud to whoever is closest, the way he tells his wife, “I'm feeling a little heavy today.” Stress you ignore spills onto the people you love as arguments nobody needed. After a 60-day silent retreat beside people with decades of practice, he saw it plainly. Every time he fights change, he creates his own stress. The next time pressure shows up, you can name it out loud and let it breathe until it fades. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Your body may be reliving your worst trauma 50 to 100 times a day without you even noticing. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1540DM Dr Joe Dispenza, an author and researcher on mind and body healing, told Lewis that trauma freezes an image in the brain and the feeling follows it into your body. Every replay keeps you in emergency mode, with no energy left for repair. The way out is a new inner event, a moment of gratitude or freedom felt so strongly that you start paying attention to a picture of your future instead. Dr Joe says that emotion signals your genes differently, and he points to research where people reduced inflammation in four days. Your genes are “just a library of potentials,” he says. The feeling you practice decides which ones get read. Next time the old replay starts, try to catch it early and hold a different picture of where you are headed. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Comparison will convince you you're failing when you're right on time. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1998DM Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness, goes solo in this episode to talk about watching friends get married and buy houses, or build businesses fast, while you feel stuck. He's blunt about it: you're putting their 10 or 15 years next to your first two, and that's an unfair fight. Lewis remembers being broke in his mid-20s, sleeping on his sister's couch and working an unpaid internship in Columbus, Ohio. On one of their walks, a mentor told him, “Money comes to you when you're ready for it.” About a year later the money started coming, and Lewis saw that he would have blown it if it had come any sooner. So stop measuring yourself by someone else's timeline. Keep putting in the work, and let go of the expectations that have been hurting you. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Generosity might be the smartest business strategy you are not using yet. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1584DM Chris Anderson, the head of TED, told Lewis he doesn’t believe in some karmic deal where giving makes the universe send you money. What he does see is that generous people attract the best talent, because great minds want to work for a cause. Tesla gave away its patents to recruit great engineers. Chris would go further and publish Coke’s secret recipe, then offer a $10 million prize for a version with less sugar and launch it as the People’s Coke. His challenge for any company is a retreat with your most creative people and one question: what is the craziest thing we could give away? Pick one thing you guard tightly and ask what it could do for you out in the open. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Your limiting beliefs might be the reason the same wall keeps showing up. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1692DM David Ghiyam, a spiritual teacher who has coached people around the world, told Lewis about a founder whose compa nies all fell apart at $10 million in revenue. Lawsuits hit and employees quit, and David traced it to one hidden belief: he didn’t feel he deserved more. Then there’s the competing kind. A business owner stuck at $5 million for years hated managing people, so part of her was hoping a million dollar client would say no. As David put it, it’s like having the parking brake on with your foot on the gas, wondering why the car won’t move. You’ll want to look at the place where you keep stalling and ask which part of you is pressing the brake. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Your self-belief got buried under someone else's story, and the gold underneath never went anywhere. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1997DM Robin Sharma, author of The Everyday Hero Manifesto, told Lewis about a towering Golden Buddha in Thailand that monks covered in layer upon layer of soil to hide it from invaders. Years later, a passerby saw a glimmer of gold shining through the mud and started digging. Robin says that is us: a kid left off a best friend's party list, or told “you sound terrible” in biology class, carries that wound for a lifetime. As Robin puts it, “Your daily behavior is always matching your deepest beliefs.” If you don't think you can find love, you will never ask the person out. So pick the old story you are still rehearsing, and scrape off the first layer. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Three shared meals a week can protect your kids’ health more than any diet plan you could buy. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1484DM Shawn Stevenson, who has spent over 20 years in the health field, told Lewis that family meals work like a shield. In the research he shares, kids who ate with a parent just three times a week had lower rates of obesity and eating disorders. Shawn grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, without ever seeing what health looked like. He spent years trying to change the wider culture before he found that change works best when it starts at his own table. He also points to IBM workers whose stress climbed once their jobs started eating into dinner at home. You will want to open your calendar tonight and block off three meals with the people you love. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if every rejection was just someone telling you exactly what to fix? Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1996DM Comedian Katt Williams, who once sold door to door, told Lewis that sales taught him to collect nos on purpose. Knock on 900 doors, he figured, and 90 yeses will come. The shift came when Katt decided a no only meant he hadn’t done a good enough job. Maybe it was how he stood, or the look on his face when the door opened. He carries that into comedy. “The audience is never wrong,” he says, so he rehearses a joke 35 times in the mirror and tests it in 100 cities before it ever reaches a special. The next time you hear no, ask what it says about how you showed up. Then go knock again. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The best longevity foods might be the ones you keep walking past at the grocery store. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1583DM Dr. Michael Greger, a physician who tracks the research on diet and life expectancy, told Lewis that beans and lentils are tied to the biggest lifespan gains in the Global Burden of Disease Study. His reason is your gut: the good bacteria live on fiber, and most of us are starving them. Ounce for ounce, walnuts pull ahead of every other nut. Michael says a palmful, about 10 halves a day, is enough, because the benefit levels off after that. He calls refined grains terrible for us, and he wants you adding real food until it crowds out the junk, which makes up over half of American calories. Grab a can of lentils for tonight and keep a handful of walnuts on the counter for tomorrow. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if guilt was never the thing keeping you good? Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1995DM Dr. Patric Gagne, a diagnosed sociopath, told Lewis she lives without shame or guilt. What keeps her in line is an internal code built on logic, and the amount of harm she chooses to do is zero. She once stole from a cruel woman and handed the item to a stranger on the street. It felt so good that she saw the slippery slope right away. Patric traces that urge to a deep sense of unfairness, one that started in kindergarten when she learned Santa was a lie. She argues that if guilt is the only thing stopping you, you have no real control. You will start asking why you actually do the right thing, and whether your reasons would still hold if the guilt went quiet. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The story that you are a slow learner might be the only thing holding your brain back. Check out the full episode: https://lewishowes.com/podcast/jim-kwik/ Jim Kwik, who has spent two decades teaching people how to learn and remember, told Lewis about the head injury that left him feeling broken as a kid. It took him two extra years to learn to read, and by college he was ready to quit. Then he pushed so hard he passed out in the library and woke up in the hospital two days later, down to 117 pounds. A nurse handed him tea in an Einstein mug: the same level of thinking that created the problem won’t solve the problem. Jim stopped asking why he was slow and started asking how to learn faster. Within 60 days, it felt like a light switch went on. Ask yourself which story about your own mind you have been calling a fact. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You don't have to wait until your fear is gone to start moving toward the life you want. Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1116DM Scott Barry Kaufman, the psychologist behind the sailboat model of human needs, told Lewis that Maslow never drew a pyramid at all. Scott sees your needs as one vessel: the boat keeps you afloat, and the sail is what moves you. When you're short on safety, you start screaming for it, and that gap quickly drains your connection and self-esteem too. Scott calls it the insecurity cycle. Patching the holes only gets you from negative 50 to zero. Growth starts when you open the sail, even nervous, the way Scott was driving six miles in a suit for the first time in a year. Pick one place where you've been waiting to feel safe, and choose exploration there anyway. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.