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

I'm curious, did you ever feel alone yourself growing up? And did you ever feel alone 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.

I love to talk to people.

I find great interest in other human beings.

So it's very easy for me to talk to others.

But I felt it was very, very difficult to feel like I belong anywhere.

Really?

Absolutely.

And I think that's something that I've struggled with, frankly, most of my life,

even though I have good friends.

You know, I learn a bit more about this sentiment year over year,

and I found that a large part of that, especially growing up,

was due to my upbringing being very different than my friends.

I grew up in a more like cultural, religious, strict household than most of my friends did.

So things like staying out late, sleepovers with boys, going on trips, those were not things

that I was really allowed to do or were common practice for us.

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

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

And I also missed out on a lot of like the bonding experiences that they might have been

able to have that I wasn't allowed to experience. Being culturally different from people and not

finding many people similar to you makes it hard. You want to fit in, but you in a sense will

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