Turn Your Flaws Into Your Strengths | Robert Greene EP 136

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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http://www.lewishowes.com/mindset2023 - Order a copy of my new book The Greatness Mindset today! Robert Greene, Best-selling Author shares the process to changing your mindset around your flaws and how to use them to your advantage. Check out the full episode: https://link.chtbl.com/1024-pod Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.6	If you feel like you're not living your most authentic life, not leaning into your purpose and not living the life that your future self would be extremely proud of, I've written a new book called The Greatness Mindset, and I think you're going to love this. Through powerful stories, science back strategies and step by step guidance, The Greatness Mindset will help you overcome all the different challenges in your life to design the life of your dreams and then turn it into your reality.
0:35.5	Make sure to click the link in the description to get your copy today.
0:42.1	Everybody has a dark side. It comes out in ways that you're not even aware of. You know as a child, we had a lot of powerful emotions that we couldn't control. We'd be kind of mean, aggressive.
0:54.9	But also we'd be very loving, which is true as well.
0:57.5	It would be a full range of things.
0:59.1	And then you learn as you get older.
1:01.0	Robert, you can't hit people in school, stop that, don't be like that.
1:06.2	Don't play those practical jokes, it's bad, people don't like it.
1:09.2	And you get older and older and you start repressing those kind of feelings that are very natural to you
1:14.5	because we all have aggressive impulses. We love our parents but there's also a side of
1:19.3	this that doesn't like them. We resent them. It's natural, but we have to repress all that because
1:25.2	we have to be good social animals. We have to be good little kids. We have to be little
1:29.3	angels at school. We have to be angels at work, all this pressure, like I've got to repress all that, I've got to be this perfect person,
1:37.4	I've to be someone who pleases who's very nice, blah, blah, blah.
1:40.2	And then when you're 28, you start becoming addicted to alcohol and you don't know why.
1:44.4	You start getting really angry, you have anger issues, you yell at people, you don't know why.
1:49.2	You're like a 45 year old person with a very steady profession. You leave your wife and you run off with a 19 year old
1:56.5	destroying everything that you've built. The dark side has come out because you've repressed it
2:01.2	instead of dealing with it.
2:03.1	So the idea was you need to understand your dark side,
2:07.0	confront it, and make it work for you.
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