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

For me, there are three causes of doubt.

Three main things that hold us back that make us doubt ourselves.

The first one is the fear of failure. How many of you just show

hands if you've ever been afraid to fail at something in your life? I think all of us.

Failure, the fear of failure for me is, was never really a thing for me because as an athlete,

I learned early on that you needed to fail

constantly in order to get better. You know when I was shooting free throws early on and I miss

my coach would tell me well you need to adjust your elbow you need to follow through you need to

do this. So failure was actually a mechanism for me to learn how to improve and how to get better and how to achieve my goals.

The second cause of doubt is success.

The pressure that comes with success.

Well, once I achieve something, then I have this responsibility.

Then I have to show up that way all the time.

Then the people expect me to be a

certain way. Or here's one. When I succeed, I leave my friends and family behind. When you started

to achieve something, your friends or your circle of influence that, hey, why don't you come

back, hang out with us? Where are you going? Why are you trying to do that thing?

Like, come chill out with us, you know, play in the land of mediocrity.

But how many of you ever felt like that has happened to you in your life where you just wanted to go after something, but then friends or teammates or peers or even family sometimes will be like,

hey, come back and hang out with us.

You know what I mean? I'll tell you what?

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