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

I was working with a professional actor and had like an experience while I was preparing this

monologue from Long Day's Journey and tonight and it was for it clicked in in a special way and I realized later it was the first time I experienced flow and all these emotions came out and the words came out in a way that I hadn't really planned it and it was connected to my relationship with my own father and it just like became something explosive and

and this teacher or actor you know he sort of was the first one to really encourage me in the way where he said like

look you could do this for for a profession if you want to and and then it just caught on like a virus in me

and I became completely obsessed.

You're what, 18, 19, 20?

21.

Really? So you really didn't get to do any theater or acting?

No, I was in a TV series when I was 10 years old.

Okay.

So I had a childhood experience of acting.

And then that kind of fell to the wayside. I just did that and had a childhood experience of acting and then that kind of fell to the

wayside. I just did that and had a childhood experience of it. And then that kind of disappeared.

But I did have a relationship to the profession in a way. And I think that's why even in this

kind of low state that I was in, the idea of acting, the seed had been planted even like at an

earlier stage. Yeah, and so then I started like applying for this theater school and

and then eventually I didn't get in right away. I think I got on the fourth attempt.

Wow. Then, like, this nervousness just caught on again and it attached, and this like these,

this kind of chatter and these negative thoughts, like, latched on to that with a vengeance. And then I was dealing with it every time I went on stage,

every time before, as soon as I heard the audience chatter,

like the audience murmur, like my mouth would like filled with water,

...