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

Can you teach discipline? The answer is yes. How? You have to have a willing participant.

And if the participants reason why is big enough, if they know I want to achieve X, and the reason why,

the motive for their action, motivation, the motive for their action is a reason beyond just

themselves.

Chances are they will do more to achieve that success than if it was just left up to their own.

But there are some people that are born with incredible drive.

They just have this insatiable drive and they'll just, I'll do whatever it takes for the things that I want.

And there's other people that want things, but they just don't have this insatiable drive.

And this is where, you know, as much as I hated school, I love to use schools in analogies. people that want things, but they just don't have this insatiable drive.

And this is where, you know, as much as I hated school, I love to use schools as an analogy,

in the game of life, whether it's health, wealth, relationships, career, business, spirituality, fun experiences,

you have to decide what level the game do you want to play at?

Is it the great school level, the kindergarten level, the high school level, the university level, the pro level. Because each one of those levels requires a totally different mindset and totally different skill set. They're building blocks on each other, but if you are extremely talented, but you're not prepared to practice and rehearse and drill and fall and fail forward to the next attempt, you will never make it as a pro.

You will never make as a pro business person. You'll never make it as a pro husband or wife

or athlete or a musician. You just never will. So just get used to that if you're not prepared

to pay the price. If you are prepared to pay the price and you have the aptitude and the

talent, now we're talking about there's some real potential here. And what we don't know is,

you know, what's in your heart? Like what is the fire that stirs you, that you wake up,

say, I will do this even when I don't feel like it. I will do whatever it takes to overcome my temptation

for mediocrisy, my temptation for excuses, my temptation for reasons and circumstances to hold me

back, I won't allow those to be in my way. And if you have that within you, you'll achieve

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