How To Stop Comparing Your Journey And Start Developing Greatness | Eric Thomas
The Daily Motivation
Lewis Howes
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm gonna be real. This is why it took me 12 years ago to 40 degree because I never went to college for college. I went to college for Didi. Wow. That's why I went to college. And so once I got to college and we got married, I was like, yo, I got what I wanted. And she was like, okay, we're going to have to do this again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't be with you if you don't finish what you start. Wow. So like I had to go handle this business and get. And I started just speaking career, you know, in the middle of that as well. This is, There's a lot of like pressure for people to accomplish certain things by certain agents. |
| 0:41.2 | But it took you 12 years to graduate college, right? |
| 0:44.4 | So you're in your 30s or whatever. |
| 0:46.0 | 30, absolutely. |
| 0:46.7 | And then you're 44 when you got a PhD. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.7 | What do you say to some of the younger generation that feels like they're a failure if they don't accomplish things by 20 or 25 that they feel like they're supposed to accomplish? |
| 1:01.0 | So here's where I went with that. |
| 1:03.0 | One of the dangerous things is the outside, inside theory. |
| 1:06.5 | It's dangerous. |
| 1:07.7 | Because what you're doing, whether you know know or not you are comparing your journey and |
| 1:12.7 | your life to somebody else's journey and somebody else's life like you don't even have let's just |
| 1:18.9 | be honest you don't even have the right context to do that you don't know why they're doing what |
| 1:23.1 | they're doing you don't know like what their strengths and weaknesses are so you compare yourself to somebody |
| 1:28.4 | that may have strengths that you don't have like they're not they're nowhere near who you are yes |
| 1:33.5 | and so you're comparing yourself so this is why I believe for those of us who finally get it it's the |
| 1:38.6 | inside out like everything we do starts from the inside and then from there there, we kind of say, oh, okay, |
| 1:45.0 | I see my boy, Louie, he's doing X, Y, but I'm not doing it because you're doing it. But I'm calling you, you're kind of saying, E, and the industry, this, and so I'm using the information you're giving me to build my journey. Not I'm trying to be you. And so what I realized was, yeah, there's some kids that can come and graduate in four years because they took K through 12 series. |
| 2:04.2 | Or. you. And so what I realized was, yeah, there's some kids that can come and graduate in four |
| 2:01.2 | years because they took K through 12 series. Or not to be disrespectful, there's some kids that can |
| 2:07.4 | come and graduate for four years because they're going to get a job. You can't come and graduate |
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