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

Can you talk about the importance and what you did to just overcome fear after fear and what that did for you, that exercise of overcoming them.

I think the biggest obstacle is a long list of fears, all sorts of fears, known, unknown.

My biggest fears were three. They were my major fears. So I wrote them down. And I said,

you know what, I'm going to overcome these fears one at a time. My biggest fear was

facing people. Now when I say this to the world that, you know, I was scared of facing people, people think I'm being funny. But no. And it's not the fact that I did not want to see people or I just hated people. That's why I didn't want to see them. You know, I was tired of, you know, those remarks like, oh, poor girl. I was

tired of being treated as a patient. Oh, how do you feel? I feel the same. Ask me more about

what I'm doing in life right now. And this, this mercy in their eyes that, oh, poor girl, that really,

you know, that was killing me from within.

And I said, you know what?

I'm going to overcome this fear of facing people.

And, you know, maybe one day they will understand that I'm okay.

I'm okay the way I am now.

I've accepted myself.

So please, you need to accept me too.

And as they say that when you think about doing something

the universe conspires while i was thinking constantly about how can i overcome this fear of facing

people how can i do this i was going to the malls i was doing groceries but that wasn't enough

out of the blue i got a call from tedex the guy said you know, we really want you to come and share your story.

And without missing a second, I said, I'm doing it.

So that's how I gave my very first TED talk.

And in fact, while I was giving the talk, you know, I was sharing my life story with the world.

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