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The School of Greatness

The Real Reason You Can't Stop Self-Sabotage | Dr. K

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Inspiration, Mindset, Business, Success, Celebrity, Education, Greatness, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Relationships, Mental Health, Health, Celebrity Interview, Self-improvement, Fitness, Self Care, Money

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Your identity isn't who you are — it's a story your mind built to protect you from pain, and Harvard psychiatrist Dr. K explains exactly why that story is keeping you stuck. You'll learn a radically different way to think about goals, motivation, and what you can actually control in your mind.

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People will say to me, Dr. Kay, I have no motivation. That's incorrect. You have a ton of motivation. You have a ton of motivation to stay home. You have a ton of motivation to play video games. There is such a powerful drive to return to the couch. So identity shapes motivation. He is a psychiatrist, the Harvard trained physician and founder of Healthy Gamer, one of the fastest growing mental health communities in the

0:21.8

world. Dr. Kay, thank you so much for being here. A loser is an adaptation that our mind forms to

0:27.6

protect ourselves. If I think of myself as a loser, other people will pick up on that empathic

0:32.6

energy, and they will think of me as a loser as well. So a loser never has imposter syndrome. We need to be

0:38.5

defiant in the face of the world. We need to be doing stupid action. Not giving up means being an idiot.

0:43.9

Let go over the possibility of it ever happening. Ninety-nine percent of karma happens in here.

0:48.8

When you have a thought, how do you respond to that thought that is technically in action?

0:53.9

How do we improve our self

0:55.7

identity if our identity is holding us back you know one of the hardest challenges i have is a

1:02.0

psychiatrist who works with like high performers is we were just talking maybe for the last hour about our lives and challenges we've overcome and what we're up to in our lives.

1:17.4

And one of the things that I really care about here on the School of Greatness is helping people unlock their potential.

1:23.3

Okay.

1:23.8

Helping people live more meaningful, harmonious lives, helping people be on mission in their

1:29.1

lives, having healthier relationships in their lives, and really living from a place

1:35.1

of peace rather than pain.

1:38.1

And everyone's gone through pain.

1:40.6

Everyone's gone through some type of trauma or suffering or sadness or loss or grief.

1:46.7

And some of these things shape their identities. And I truly feel that our identity shapes our view

1:54.0

of the world and it can either support us in creating the life we want or it can keep us

2:00.3

stuck in feeling more traumatized, victim,

2:03.1

and things like that. And I'm curious, how do we improve our self-identity if our identity

2:10.4

is holding us back? I mean, my goal and what I try to help a lot of people do is to get

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