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

My entire childhood, I had a sense of deep loneliness, deep insecurity, loneliness, worry, fear that no one was ever

going to like me and no one was ever going to love me.

And I'm assuming that it was a number of the instances I experienced in my life, the number

of stories, the number of things I witnessed and experienced

that built a story in my mind that no one's going to like me or love me.

When I started to have friends, as a teenager in high school, I started to still feel a sense

of loneliness with people around me and people liking me.

I still felt a deep sense of loneliness and the need me and people liking me. I still felt a deep sense of loneliness

and the need to get people to like me. And I took it upon myself to overcome that challenge by

spending a lot of deep alone time and falling in love with myself and falling in love with like

who I am and writing letters to myself,

taking myself out on dinner dates, but alone, movies all the time to the point where I said,

you know what, I really enjoy my own company.

I don't need to feel good around other people anymore.

And it's a bonus.

I love people still, but it's like, I love being alone. Yeah.

But it took me having kind of the vision to break this mold.

It took me like creating challenges for myself, like experiencing deep pain of, you know,

figuring out how to love myself.

What are your thoughts on loneliness? Why do people feel lonely in general?

And what do you think is kind of the root of loneliness? Yeah, I love that, first of all.

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