2023-03-02
56 分钟I know there is no perfect life and I know that theres going to be adversities and challenges.
And my intention is how can I show up when challenges arise in life or in the world or in societies or my team, and being poised and courageous to take on the challenges from a state of peace and freedom, not from a state of scared, not enoughness and needing to look good because that causes me to be tight and tense under those stressful situations.
So thats the goal is to keep refining who I am internally and emotionally so that I can execute externally.
So when you hear the term greatness, what do you think about for many people, images of world class athletes, innovators, performers, leaders of industry or arts come to mind.
You know, the best of the best in any field, those who push harder than anyone and everyone else and succeed on a scale most can only dream of.
But what if that's not actually greatness at all?
What if greatness was more about how you show up in your life and lead with service and humanity?
That is the argument that my old friend, New York Times bestselling author, host of the School of Greatness podcast, and founder of Greatness.com, lewis Howes, makes greatness.
According to Lewis, it's about service to other people in the pursuit of your dreams, making sure that everyone wins around you while you're winning, and empowering people around you while you grow and succeed as well.
So driven to fill an intervo Lewis spent much of the first 35 years of his life on this relentless quest to be the best in the world at whatever he said yes to.
And I've known Lewis for something like 15 years now, so I have seen that part of both his journey and his struggle.
He was so driven to succeed and did in fact end up performing at astonishing levels, building a tremendous business, representing the United States on the global stage as an athlete, and checking all those societally ordained success boxes, until he realized he was being driven almost entirely by his own sense of woundedness and pain.
And all the external accomplishments weren't healing any of it.
In fact, it was making him feel worse than he wanted to feel, which led him on a quest to find out how to not just pursue, but also really reimagine and reclaim the very notion of greatness as something profoundly more rooted in expression and generosity and service.
After years of attempts to fill that void, he learned about what he calls pursuing holistic greatness, which is about service to others and growing in a meaningful mission.
And he has been dedicated to understanding and studying, living and embodying it ever since.
Lewis really believes that success alone, by society standards, it won't bring joy.
But we must also fulfill a sense of inner peace, free ourselves emotionally and mentally, and have clarity on what the direction is we want for our life.
Only then can we live our highest version of ourselves and the best version of ourselves.
And many of these ideas are detailed in his new book, the Greatness Mindset.