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The Daily Motivation

Tips for Sustaining Your Authentic Self on Social Media | Pokimane EP 480

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Gaming personality Pokimane distinguishes fitting in, feeling socially acceptable, from truly belonging among people who understand your soul. She recalls always lacking deep bonds growing up due to cultural and religious differences that often excluded her socially. Pokimane explains this fostered a lifetime feeling of never quite belonging, with obligations intensifying that sentiment and loneliness. She shares how bonding online helped, but eventually realized occasional disconnect between fans' desires and her own priorities. Pokimane emphasizes needing self-awareness to reevaluate during burnout, seeking to overlap what she enjoys creating and what her audience craves for sustainable balance.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

I firmly believe that taking charge of your mindset allows you to be in the driver's seat of your life and unlock your potential.

0:18.0

And that's why I'm thrilled to share that my new book is out right now.

0:21.0

It's called The Greatness Mindset. In it you'll learn how to build a

0:25.4

plan for greatness through powerful exercises and toolkits designed to propel your life forward.

0:32.0

This is the book that I wish I had 20 years ago.

0:34.4

It's everything I've learned in the last decade with the research and the science to

0:38.6

help you unlock your mind. Make sure to go to Lewishouse.com slash 2023 mindset to pick up your copy of my book The Greatness Mindset today.

0:49.0

I'm curious, did you ever feel alone yourself growing up and did you ever feel alone

0:58.4

while you were streaming to millions of people? For starters growing up I feel like I was lucky in the sense that I'm a very extroverted person.

1:07.2

I love to talk to people.

1:08.2

I find great interest in other human beings.

1:10.8

So it's very easy for me to talk to others but I felt it was very very

1:15.5

difficult to feel like I belong anywhere really absolutely and I think that's

1:20.3

something that I've struggled with frankly most of my life even though I have good friends.

1:25.2

You know I learn a bit more about this sentiment year over a year and I found that a large part of

1:30.0

that especially growing up was due to my upbringing being very different than my friends.

1:37.0

I grew up in a more like cultural, religious, strict household that most of my friends did. So things like staying

1:44.9

out late, sleepovers with boys, going on trips, those were not things that I was

1:49.6

really allowed to do or were common practice for us.

1:53.7

And so I'd find myself kind of going to school and having some friends

1:58.1

and getting along but not necessarily relating on a very deep or fundamental basis.

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