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

Do you ever think about identity or do you just tie it towards kind of your values,

your self-confidence and your belief system or do you think about identity in a different

way? That's an interesting question. No one's ever asked me that. But I think identity is a lot of

things. It's being proud of who you are and your heritage, right? Knowing who you are so important,

knowing your history. That can be as simple as knowing your family.

For me, as African American, there was a time where it wasn't easy to be African American.

Maybe it wasn't easy to be proud of who you were.

So different kinds of people have different experiences that could make it more challenging or less challenging to be proud of who you are.

Or depending on where you are, you might get teased because of who you are.

Right.

So first of all, it's just embracing unapologetically who you are and what you look like.

This is me.

This is what you get.

This is my brand.

You know, sometimes that joke is like, you knew what brand you were getting when you entered this, you know?

And you still decided to come.

Just knowing who you are and not having to apologize for it.

And I think that's so important, knowing what you like and what you love.

I think if you don't know who you are, I think get out there and experimenting,

try new stuff. Expose yourself to new things. Maybe you aren't in the right calling for your work.

Maybe your identity will be easier to know if you're doing something that you love. I think continually

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