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

When we base our life and our happiness off of the likes, that's when we get trapped.

I grew up feeling very insecure because I was always in the bottom of my class in school.

So I was the youngest of four,

and I just felt like insecure and stupid all the time.

That's what I would tell myself, I'm just stupid.

I can't get this stuff.

I'm not smart in school. So just every year it confirmed how stupid I was and I felt

insignificant constantly and I would get angry because I felt like I didn't have many friends.

My brother was in jail for four years when I was eight years old until I was 12.

And all that led to me being very angry, resentful, and frustrated at people just because I felt like I was getting

picked up.

And that was the story I told myself at least, and so I started to put all my energy and aggression

into sports. I found out that I started to put all my energy and aggression into sports.

I found out that I got to be pretty good.

I was pretty athletic.

So I just said, okay, screw school, I'm going into sports.

And I'm putting all my life and significance into how well I do in performance sports.

So I played my butt off to win.

So when I lost, my self-worth was very low.

So everything involved around, like like I need to train every

single day for hours like I would just go right after school right to the gym and I'm

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