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

I've been playing a lot of tennis and I'm on this like USDA tennis team and we compete and stuff like that and taking lessons with this tennis teacher named Zach Kliman and he's here in LA and we actually interview him in Geography of Bliss and he said like

Every mistake you make like you know you've got a clear ball and boom you hit it in the net or something like that like

grieve it grieve the loss grieve the loss the miss the miss grieve the miss

really and he's like feel it and then you're through it and then you're on and then you're like

okay what can I improve next time and then you're on to the next thing

but if you skip the grief you can get stuck you can get blocked in a kind of like

a muscular self-will but there's something about like, oh, I got it, I got it, okay, what did I do?

Oh, I took my eye off the ball or, oh, I didn't go low to high or I got ahead of myself.

You know, just keep breathing.

Okay, I got this one. And then you're back and you're ready to go.

You understood how to grieve when you were rising in the fame with the office and kind of those years with those seasons.

Did you understand grief?

How did you process frustration, pain, anger?

Not very well.

Yeah, I didn't process it very well.

I had a lot of addiction issues in my 20s and went through drug and

alcohol phase, porn phase, kind of anything that could kind of help me cope and

help kind of medicate discomfort and pain I used for a long period of time

until I really have been in active like therapy and recovery for a good while now and

it's so interesting because when you choose to be

an actor you're signing up for disappointment so if you're an accountant not

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