One night I was crying next morning, I woke up and I was like, I can't do this.

I can't live like this. I'm done. I'm either going to get out of this or die trying.

And I staggered over to my desk and I just grabbed a pen and just wrote down

like this fierce vow. But the vow was not that I'm going to get out of this.

The vow came from nowhere. I was like, I'm going to love myself.

I am Mission La Tiani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest

teachers and thought leaders on the planet. It's got the world's most powerful ideas and personal

growth for my, body, spirit and work. Today we're going to be talking about an idea that's

incredibly powerful. Sounds simple, but the people I know who have practiced

this in their lives have had phenomenal transformation. It's called loving yourself.

Now, the person I'm going to be bringing you today, his name is Kamal Ravikant and he,

this is how he describes himself on his bio. I've tracked one of the highest

basecams in the Himalayas, meditated with Tibetan monks in the Dalai Lama's monastery,

spent three months in the swamps of Georgia, earning my US army infantry patched,

walked 550 miles across Spain, lived in Paris, bungee jumped out of a perfectly good

hot avalune, a fang with some of my favorite authors and been the only non-black,

non-woman member of the black woman's writers group. I've written a novel about love

forgiveness and facing our fears. I've danced a Marine Gay on a hot night in the Caribbean,

kite-served badly, sailed off to the west coast of France, watched double rainbows,

a shooting star, sunrises and sunsets and various parts of the world. I've driven like a maniac

on Highway 1, worn a San Francisco-wide modeling contest, got in drunk on the same vast

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