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The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Pop star Jason Derulo shares how he maintains drive and humility amidst fame by never getting complacent. He advises staying hungry, knowing success is fleeting if you don't keep climbing. Derulo describes overcoming doubts after initially coasting post-pandemic by realizing his childhood dream wasn't fully realized yet. Leaving his label to go independent motivated him to prove himself, scoring hits that drew labels back. Though rejection stung, it fueled Derulo to show his talent and regain control as both artist and label partner. He shares how reaching new heights takes embracing low points, staying hungry and blocking out negativity.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:10.4	I feel like there's a lot of people when they get money, fame, success, eventually they crumble.
0:17.1	Or they don't own to manage it or their ego gets too big or they start treating people poorly or just
0:21.7	they kind of climb and then they fall. Yep. How have you learned to be like consistently climbing
0:27.5	while also maintaining your sanity, your inner peace, your, you know, self-love and self-care,
0:35.4	as opposed to letting it all get to you too much where you crash and burn.
0:40.3	I think people stop and smell the roses too much.
0:43.3	Like, we know the roses are beautiful.
0:45.3	We know they smell great, but we're on a path, we're on a journey.
0:48.3	Life is a journey, and it's a life journey.
0:51.3	There's no destination because we can always be better. We can always be
0:54.7	greater. We can always be a better version of us. And what happens is their first steps are usually the great ones, right? When you're hungry, you don't necessarily know where your next meal is coming from. You're down in the dumps. You don't like how people are treating you. You want to be better in life. You want to have this, you want to have that, you want girls to look at you a different way.
1:14.0	You know, you want to be better in life. You want to have this.
1:11.0	You want to have that.
1:11.7	You want girls to look at you a different way. You know, you want to drive nice things, boom, boom. But then when you arrive and you get those things, even though it may be temporary. When you get them, it's like, oh, I'm good. I'm lit. I made it. And then you take a deep breath and you're like, oh, yeah, this life, this is what I've been waiting on.
1:31.5	This is, but what you're forgetting is success is never owned.
1:37.6	It's rented.
1:39.2	There's somebody hungry always.
1:41.4	There's always somebody younger, hungrier, more talented, more driven than you are.
1:46.7	So they're not going to stop coming. That competition doesn't stop coming at you. Just because you've
1:52.1	arrived here doesn't mean there's not millions of people just on your neck in waiting on that
1:57.9	slot to open up.
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