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

For me, ambition was never the problem. I was the most ambitious, laziest person you're ever going to meet 15 years ago.

And it was realizing, wait, just because I'm lazy by nature doesn't mean I have to be lazy in actuality. Like, I can actually get the discipline to develop real drive to acquire those

skills. So when I met the guys that are now my partners, they put me into a scenario where there was a

very real world consequence, both positive and negative, for living up to the acquisition of skills.

And that environment, that gladiator pit that I ended up

stepping into is the business world. And the great thing is when you're no longer an employee and it's your

business and everything you have is on the line and if the business fails, you lose your house,

like that that's real. It's real to you in a way that it's not to an employee, right? Because now

there's a real consequence that goes beyond, well, I have's not to an employee, right? Because now there's a real consequence

that goes beyond, well, I have to look for another job, right? This goes into, I could lose everything if I can't solve this problem. Now, that can scare you away and keep you wanting to be an employee where it's a little bit safer, or that can be wildly motivating to you. That was interesting to me. So I wanted to be able to say, the harder I work, the better result I get. And they gave me the opportunity to plug into business where that became true. If I could solve these problems, if I could build a better product, if I could market a better, whatever, that better results came. And so there was like now a connection between how hard I work, the skills I acquire, and the reward

I get. And that was all I needed. And then for me, being in that loop allowed me to do things

like the gym. So when did you discover your new values and one of those values? Personal and then

business and they intertwine? For me, they're totally connected. 100% and that's by choice because for a long time

they weren't connected. The way that I got the value system was truly looking at what works. I believe

that the purpose in life to be great, you have to acquire as many skills as you can that have

utility and then put that utility to the test because now you can see did I

actually get the skill that I thought I got did I get the result from that skill that I wanted and you can

judge both what skills you need to acquire and whether you have effectively required them and business

like that is the closest thing to say MMA fighting, right? MMA is you want real-time feedback

on whether you're learning and getting good at something. Let someone whose sole intent is to

take your head off come in and test whether you can defend a choke or defend an arm bar. It's so

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