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

One of the superpowers in good anxiety that comes from your own anxiety.

This is a beautiful example that you just told me is the superpower of empathy.

For yourself or others? First for yourself and recognizing it in yourself and then giving it out to

others. Because just as you described your journey, a lot of our own anxieties have been with us since we

were little. Same anxiety over. They stay for decades. For your lifetime sometimes. What was

yours? So I have many, but the one that I talk about here is shyness and kind of social anxiety.

And I've learned because I'm a teacher and because I want to become an author, I've learned

the skills not to have those kinds of anxieties, but I was painfully shy as a young girl.

And even into college, I found myself in social situations and wanting to join and not, you

know, feeling comfortable or even in class.

And so I realized that that has become my superpower as a teacher because I know when I'm

standing at the front of the classroom.

Shinesis is a superpower.

My shyness.

Why is that?

Because when I'm standing at the front of the classroom, there are always those students that say, oh, I know the answer, I know the answer. And I know that there's many more that want to talk to me, that want to show me what they know, want to have that interaction, but can't do that. And so what do I do? I make sure that I am there 15 minutes before. I stand there. I talk to the students before. I stay after class.

Anybody that wants to come up for a casual conversation where you don't have to be the one raising

your hand. And I didn't even realize it until I wrote this book, that that is a superpower of

in-class empathy. And I have that particular form of empathy because of my particular form of anxiety, my social anxiety.

And so imagine the 90% of people that have their particular form of anxiety.

They know what it feels like.

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