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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 69 - People Pleasing Is Hurting You: Lewis Howes

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this moment, Lewis Howes lays down exactly why you need to stop being a people pleaser if you want lasting and deep relationships. What Lewis teaches us is that real relationships come from someone loving us for who we are, not from who we’re pretending to be. Any act or pretence we put on about ourselves will inevitably get found out. So you have to come as yourself, for better and for worse. How do you find an authentic way to express your true self? Let Lewis explain…

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You just described the reasons why you're trauma that made you a people pleaser.

0:07.2

And what's really interesting is when you told me that you were a people pleaser, I couldn't

0:12.2

believe that.

0:13.2

I'm like, what, you big tough athlete man, people pleaser, care, you know what I mean?

0:17.2

But it just, it goes to show that trauma in us is kind of agnostic to our masks or

0:25.3

absolutely.

0:26.3

And I, when you told me that, because we had a little bit of this conversation just

0:31.1

a hint that when we met in Dubai, I realized that I had been a people pleaser, but I never

0:35.8

thought I was in all of my relationships.

0:38.4

I think the significant reason why they failed is exactly what you've described.

0:42.9

I've gone in trying to compromise everything.

0:45.6

Oh my God.

0:46.6

For love.

0:47.6

Just to keep the peace, keep the love.

0:50.6

Just to keep them and try and keep them happy with me.

0:55.1

And in the short term, that day, fine.

0:58.2

You go any kind of mid to long term time, and it's resentment, it's sourced and anger,

1:04.0

exhaustion, arguments, a weight.

1:06.7

So exhaustion man.

1:08.2

You know, I take full responsibility for every relationship I've chosen and been in and

1:11.4

stayed in because I could have gone out of any relationship at any moment, but I was afraid

1:18.5

and I lacked the, really the self-confidence to step away because I was afraid of losing

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