Stop Proving Yourself To Others & Start Owning Your Worth | Lewis Howes

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Howes reveals why proving yourself to others is a waste of energy and shares the mindset shift that helped him stop chasing validation and start owning his worth. Discover how alignment—not performance—creates genuine magnetism in relationships and life.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:08.7	I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy.
0:12.5	And if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in
0:17.3	your life and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make
0:22.1	it easier. You want to make it flow. You want to feel abundant. Then make sure to go to make
0:26.5	moneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is going to help you
0:34.1	transform your relationship with money. This moment moving forward.
0:38.6	We have some big guests and content coming up.
0:42.7	Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode of The Daily Motivation Show.
0:50.0	You don't need to prove your worth.
0:52.8	You just need to own it. I used to chase because I wanted to prove myself. I don't know if you know if this is familiar with you, but I really wanted to prove myself growing up. And this came from many wounds, memories that created meaning in my psyche and in my nervous system.
1:11.8	Memories of being picked last.
1:13.7	Memories of girls making fun of me when I was younger and kind of tall and goofy looking
1:17.8	and all those different things.
1:20.0	Memories of me being, you know, in the bottom of my class and not being able to read and write
1:24.8	in middle school when they tested me and having tutors all through middle school, high school, and college, just to learn how to read and write while kids would make fun of me.
1:33.3	Memories of just whatever, different challenges. Kids getting in fights with me, kids stealing things from me, these different kind of wounded memories that I never learned
1:45.6	how to heal. I created meaning from them that I was not enough. I had guilt and shame around who I was.
1:52.5	And so with that meaning I created, because every memory, we either can create a meaning from it,
1:59.3	and that meaning is stored in our nervous system.
2:02.1	So I used to chase everything to prove myself, to prove that the kids wrong, to prove the
2:09.5	people that picked on me wrong, people that picked me last in games wrong, to prove teachers
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