There's nothing more devastating to your quality of life, if you will, your sense of meaning,

your ability to impact others than victim mentality. There are people who are victims. They are

victims. There's no question they are victims. They're victims of injustice. That's right.

But they refuse to see themselves as victims. That's so good. And those people

just succeed. That's right. They just get out of it. And it's amazing to me. And then there are people

who you could, they have all of the luxuries that the world can possibly hand them. They have all

the talent and the skill, but they believe they are victims. And they simply destroy their lives.

Yeah. So to me, it's that mentality regardless of what you experience that predetermines whether or not

you're going to enjoy this life and have an impact.

Hey, everybody, Dr. Axe here.

Welcome to the Growth Lab podcast.

Today we have an incredible guest and a close friend of

Donald Miller. Donald is the founder of Business Made Simple and Story Brand. He's a New York Times bestselling

author. And I've respected Donald for so many years based off of his incredible, the incredible things he's put out there both in business,

spiritual life, how to grow personally. And Don, excited to have you on the show today.

Yeah, great to be here. I'm glad you had me. Cool. We're going to talk about a lot today.

I want to start off, though, getting into how many of your books change my life. And I don't say

that sort of haphazardly. I remember reading one of your books. It's a million

miles in a thousand years. And literally after I read that book, I remember I was with my wife.

We were in the Caribbean. And I read the book. And I told, I turned to my wife and I said,

this book has literally changed my life. And she said, well, why? And I said, you know, it's making me rethink

my life as a story. And so if somebody were to read my life as a story, like a book,

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