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Dan Lok Show

How To Stay Strong When You Feel Powerless

Dan Lok Show

Dan Lok

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Management

4.9825 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

This powerful exercise will show you what it feels to be powerful, as well as what it feels to be powerless. Listen to one of Dan’s students share their experience doing this powerful exercise.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Make a fist, make a fist, make it strong.

0:05.0

When you apply pressure, you're gonna apply pressure slowly. You're gonna do it gradually.

0:26.6

And Ponti B, you try to resist. Do your best to resist. My name is Drew Alem.

0:43.6

Hi, Drew.

0:45.4

So my partner was Trey Pierce from season one.

0:49.4

And when we went through the exercises, the first time I was just super fucking Ruby.

0:55.8

Like, you're not putting my arm down. It's not happening.

0:58.9

And he tried to, he was like, blew into, in the face.

1:01.8

And then the second time, when we were doing it again, and we got more into the, your powerless, your weak, I started to really feel those feelings again that I was

1:17.6

holding back and see for you know the turmoil I was going through in the middle of this year

1:22.2

of losing my father. And then it was the emotional feeling of being next to him on everyday basis

1:30.8

and not being able to save him, knowing that nothing that we can do can save him. And that

1:43.0

that feeling made me feel weak and powerless.

1:46.5

And when Trey had tried, it was effortless.

1:50.3

My arm just caved in, and as soon as that happened, it just broke out in tears.

1:54.6

And as much as I tried to be strong, and I know a lot of us try to be strong all the time,

1:59.6

when we dig deep down into the things that

2:02.6

emotions or lower self that hold us back,

2:05.6

it's really hard to move forward because we're focusing on the things

2:09.6

that are holding us back.

2:11.6

And I know that if my father could look at me now,

2:15.6

he's going to want me to push forward. He knows that we're

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