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

Failure is not the enemy. Your ego is. People don't fear failing. They fear looking like a failure. And there's a big

difference there. They don't want to see, they don't want other people to see them fail.

They don't want other people to say, ah, I knew he couldn't do it. I knew she was going to make

a mistake. She looked silly trying to do that thing.

He, that didn't really work well for him.

I can laugh about it with my friends now behind his back.

People don't fear failing.

They fear looking like a failure.

They fear being seen as not enough.

They fear the judgment of other people.

They fear disappointing other people. They fear disappointing other people.

They fear not living up to an image they created or some expectation that other people had

on them. It's not failure that stops people from growing. It's ego. It is not failure that

stops people from growing. It's ego.

And many people live their entire lives inside of this cage of like, I am only going to do something that I know will be accepted by others.

I'm only going to do this thing because I don't want to be laughed at or humiliated or made fun of.

And the moment I stopped pretending I had it all together

that I was this confident person when really I was insecure, that I knew these things when really

I didn't know anything. The moment I allowed myself to stumble and say, I don't know, I don't have

the answers. The moment I failed over and over again and didn't take it personally

or didn't beat myself up like I did for most of my life, and I said, this is all just part of the

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