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

I won't say that I'm not always sort of updating my way of thinking, but the big model of my

life is pretty stable now.

So I would say that

how well the things that I have cobbled together work in high pressure situations. You mean like

your values, your principles, your frameworks for life? How to deal with your emotions? That's probably

the most important one. Like when things are really going haywire,

like how do you center yourself? And I learned very early in my business career that the thing that

because I looked back, there was a bunch of us at awareness technologies that were given the same

spiel. Don't think of yourself as an employee. Think of yourself as a partner. If you act like a

partner and, you know, achieve certain results, watch you make you a partner.

And nobody did it. And so I was just like, why am I the only one that's doing this?

And I realized that my ability to self-soothe was a huge part of that. So other people would get upset. They would derail.

They would take their eye off what they wanted

to achieve because they were frustrated or whatever and I could just bring myself back to center.

Now those are pretty small tests and obviously as things have gone on you start dealing

with big numbers.

You start to realize is this real?

Like is this, can I actually center myself when,

you know, say, hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake? And then it's like, okay,

this still works. And that was very encouraging, very encouraging. Because when you get a test

that's sort of way beyond where you've been tested before, you're like,

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