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

We've been told a lie that our memory, our intelligence, our genius is fixed, kind of like our shoe size.

And through my experience of doing this for the past two decades, nothing could be further us from the truth you know people have

unbelievable gifts inside them they're just not shown how I always thought it was interesting

that school would teach us like what to learn like those subjects that important math

and history and science and Spanish the what to learn but that never on how to learn you know how to focus how to concentrate how to be creative how to think for yourself how to read faster

how to how to remember things maybe it should have been the fourth R.

Remember reading, writing, arithmetic, but also recall,

because there is no learning without remembering,

and Socrates said that.

How I got started on this is I actually grew up with learning challenges and a lot of people don't know that but when I was in kindergarten I had a really bad accident and I had a head injury and it left me feeling like I was broken that my brain didn't work and I had these focus issues I couldn't remember things and it took me extra two years to learn how to read and I struggled, you know, privately and then also publicly.

And, you know, when you're at that age, you know, you get very self-conscious.

You know, you become very introverted and very shy, you don't want to connect with people

because you feel like there's something wrong with you and so that was that was my academic life you know I with overwhelm or overload too much to learn too little time

and it stresses you out and you're like why can't I do this why is everyone else succeeding so much

faster and I have to do all that's like not even fair.

So that's kind of early on made you want to then master it since you were having

such a hard work.

I mean I think our struggles really could be some strengths and you know this.

Of course.

You know, like you know when challenge, you know with these kind of challenges come change,

you know and problems become, you know, help you progress.

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