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

I used to use a lot of words growing up about myself, to myself and to others.

I would say, I'm an idiot, I'm stupid, I'll never learn these things, I'm not smart. I was in the bottom of my class, bottom of four in my class. They used to grade us, or rank us in our, on our classes where I was in school. So I could always see that was in the bottom four consistently all through middle school and high school. So just always, I was just like, I'm never going to be good enough. I'm never going to learn like you guys. I would say these words and built an identity about me to

self that would limit me and to others that would limit me. How much does the identity you've built

for yourself empower you or hold you back? Would say I know that um you know when people

see me on the streets uh I'm fluffy yeah fluffy you know it's very rare that I'll

get you know Gabriel really they'll say fluffy and then like who is it it's

Gabriel Iglesias you know I mean it's all tied together but it's so much easier to call somebody by the nickname. It's an easy nickname. And it's not like it's a different person. It's just it's a nickname that's, you know, it's me. But I am seen a certain way because of the shows and the consistency that, oh, you know, he's the guy that

talks about his son. He's the guy that talks about his friend. He's the guy that, so I'm

limited in the sense that if I was all of a sudden start talking about politics or become,

you know, start venting and being very vulgar being, you know, that, you know, and there are

times when I do want to

vent and I can't on stage because it's not something that goes with, with what I've created,

and it's not going to be well received by everyone. I might hit a few. There might be some people

that will relate to what I'm saying,

but I'm going to ruffle a lot of feathers in the process. And so I have to remind myself,

this is not the place to do that. Right. So because of what I built there, I can't, you know,

I can't be 100 right here. This is not going to go well.

But what about the identity?

What about the identity with Fluffy?

The identity with Fluffy?

No.

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