SOG EP 1617 BONUS: “Vulnerability Is Scary As F*** But So Worth It” - You Can Heal Through Creativity w/ IN-Q

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In a profound and candid interview, Adam "In-Q" shared his deeply personal journey of self-expression and the vulnerability it takes to bare one's true self to the world. He opened up about the crippling fear of rejection that once held him back from sharing his authentic art and experiences, worried that if people truly knew him, they would never accept or love him. Adam's courage to push past this fear and embrace radical authenticity is both inspiring and thought-provoking. By revealing the raw pain and struggles that shaped his identity, Adam invites listeners to reflect on their own fears and consider what it would mean to live and create from a place of complete freedom. This captivating conversation will leave you craving more of Adam's hard-won wisdom on embracing all facets of yourself without compromise.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	I don't like to compare circumstances I don't like to compare pain but I've had a lot of pain in my life and
0:18.0	Everything that caused me pain is a part of my identity now. So if I reject that thing, I'm rejecting a part of who I am.
0:26.0	Yeah.
0:28.0	And so you have to accept it in order to integrate it,
0:32.0	in order to alchemize it, in order to move on with it.
0:35.0	What's the most painful thing that you've had to overcome emotionally or internally
0:40.0	that maybe it took you a long time to overcome or maybe it just was a really painful thing to overcome.
0:47.0	And you really wish didn't happen in the moment and maybe you still don't wish but you know you wouldn't be the identity you are and the man you are without that pain
0:56.2	I think there's a lot of them that come to mind
1:00.1	I'm not going to share some of them because I'm not ready to put them on display.
1:05.8	You know when I created the Never Ending Now album I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted anybody to hear it.
1:13.7	You know?
1:14.0	I was there, yeah.
1:15.1	Because you were one of the few people that I sent it to
1:18.0	and was willing to trust because of your integrity,
1:22.0	because of our friendship, and because I love love you and I know you've been through real things. Yeah, but it's scary putting it out there a hundred percent. Yeah, I'm taking my own medicine. You know, so I was like all right, let me, I finished this thing, this work of art,
1:35.0	that was like a reflection of my path to self-love and love with a partner through poetry
1:42.0	and this conversation that was very intimate that I had with my
1:44.9	wife and then I was like I don't know that I want to show this to people or even weirder
1:51.2	monetize this thing and leave it open for people to criticize it, to judge it, to
1:59.8	validate it, to compliment it.
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