all of the virtues, you know, the positive qualities that we admire in our heroes.

Those are there and available for all of us freely in the universe at no cost of price except...

Welcome to the School of Greatness! My name is Lewis Howe's former pro athlete

turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message

to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.

Now let the class begin!

So why did you decide to want to start teaching about leadership from the inside out at business school?

How did that come about? First off, well you know there's as always an outer story and then an inner

story, you know, so the outer story is that we do in business school, you know, have an aspiration

for students to also learn how to like engage and have impact, you know, in terms of how do you

inspire people and turn people around in moments of adversity and direct people and shape people

and grow people and in all of that. But you know I felt that shouldn't the journey of that like

leadership aspirin begin from within so that you first start to know how to inspire yourself and

change yourself and grow yourself and direct yourself and advance your own self in times of adversity

in other ways. And so that became the official positioning in all the class that this is

filling a missing core in the journey of someone you know, sparring for the mental leadership.

Sure. That lets let's focus first on getting you to a good place before you then help others get

you a good place. Now the inner story behind that though is that I was very drawn to inner mastery

from a very young age. I remember being about nine or ten when my parents I saw a very significant

shift happen in their life as they started to investigate and pursue kind of like spiritual

growth for themselves. And pretty much around the same time for me these questions started to become

paramount, you know, which is what's the meaning of life and what's my connection with the universe

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