SOG EP 1614 BONUS: How to Know They’ll Cheat on You - Cheating Expert Reveals Warning Signs! - Neil Strauss

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In a thought-provoking interview, Neil Strauss shared profound insights on self-improvement and the challenges of looking inward to confront one's flaws. Strauss emphasized the importance of surrounding yourself with a trusted group who can provide honest feedback, as it's nearly impossible to gain objective self-awareness alone. His innovative approach of forming a "therapy group" with other men and hiring a therapist offers an affordable way to dive deep into personal growth. Strauss' candid wisdom leaves you eager to hear more of his impactful perspectives.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.2	Why is it so hard for people to want to look within and change the things about them that might be broken or that need improvement on?
0:20.0	Why is it so hard for us to look in the mirror and say I need to work on me.
0:24.0	Yeah because it's so much easier to criticize someone else.
0:28.0	It's so easy to look what, I mean look at all of Twitter is people looking
0:31.8	what's wrong with the world and everyone else and then would they do better in that position?
0:36.0	Probably not they'd be defending their own behavior.
0:40.0	So I think it's I think it's really hard and I've worked really hard on it to say I have no control over anyone else and
0:49.4	Before I accuse anyone anything like how what's like how am I contributing here, what's my part in it,
0:56.2	what am I doing, how am I engaging, and how am I trying to control for my own safety,
1:02.4	all these types of things.
1:03.6	It's so hard to grow up and have a perfect set of values
1:07.9	that your integrity with all the time,
1:10.2	especially if you've got trauma, wounds, psychological breaks from childhood that you never addressed.
1:16.3	Right. It's hard to carry those wounds into your adult life and then say,
1:20.0	okay, here are my values, I'm going to stick to them at all times I'm not going to lean into
1:24.4	temptation I'm not going to sway away from my commitments I'm going to honor my word it's
1:28.3	really challenging unless you do the healing work and you can't do it alone because the hard I think the other reason is hard is you can't see yourself.
1:36.7	Nobody thinks they're a bad person.
1:38.3	Like nobody actually thinks they're a bad person.
1:40.6	But some people do really, really bad things and justify it.
1:44.0	Right? They justify it by getting into a story of, well, they had it coming, they did this to me.
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