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

I'm curious about your perspective on money.

You started making really good money in your late teens, early 20s, more than 99.9% of people in their late teens and

20s in the world probably. How did that affect you? And what is the dark side of making money

for someone who's really young? Well, I don't want to act like it's such a detriment, you know?

Yeah, because, I mean, I started streaming when I was in high school

didn't make much. In college, was still in debt for like two years. And then it started taking off.

And then maybe two, three years after that, I started making significantly more, like more than what a doctor

makes.

And then for like two, three years, it was much, much more that I could have ever imagined.

So initially, it was really just like step by step.

Like, I'm just looking to have like a part-time job, basically. I can make a little bit of money here while studying engineering. Cool. Then I was like, wait, if I focus on this for a couple months, I can pay off my student loans. Cool. And then, frankly, for me, my dream in life was always to make six figures. And I really felt like, at that point, I was like, okay, I'm good.

But it felt like the expectation in life is to optimize that.

So when you see the opportunity, right, it's like, go for it, go for it.

But at some point, it's like,

you don't really realize what you're sacrificing or if you should keep going for it. And I think

there were a lot of times where I just put like my health and my mental on the back burner because

I was so fixated on like, I need financial stability. And just like with anything else, it just becomes a

habit, almost like addicting. It's like, okay, you need to focus on this. And I just, I lost sight of,

again, like, what do I want? What actually makes me happy? There was such a scarcity sentiment.

Yeah. I mean, even with content creators, it's like you don't know where your career is

going to be in a year or two. Right. What if the algorithm changes? What if they cancel my account?

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