Evan Britton
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hot Boxin'. I'm Evan Britton. And I'm Mike Tyson. Dude, we got a great guest today. We got a guest... who I'm a big fan of. I heard this guy on a podcast a couple years ago, I think. And his name's Lewis Howes. Great to have you here, brother. Thanks for having me.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
It's beautiful, man.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Do you know about the toad? No.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Thank you. So you know about ayahuasca? Of course. Yeah, yeah. So the active ingredient in there is DMT. Yep. So the toad, from its venom, which they extract and then dry it over a certain period of time, it crystallizes. It contains 5-MeO-DMT. which from the way I understand it is DMT with an extra methyl oxy group attached to it, which makes it like super steroided.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
So it's super charged to your brain. So it crosses the blood brain barrier faster. Wow. And so, you know, it does, you vaporize it. And it does very much the same things as DMT, but it's really the top of the pyramid as far as entheogenic substances. Wow. And so, you know, people are cured of depression and addiction and, you know, are released of trauma and pain. Right, yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And so Mike... So you did it.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Wow. It's been pretty amazing to be on this ride with Mike and it's just crazy amount of wisdom and insight that comes from spending time with this guy?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
What do you call yourself? You're sort of like this new age philosopher. You're a young, great thinker. I appreciate that. Yes. He's written a book. Sorry, let me give you a little more intro. He's written a book, New York Times bestselling author. This book in particular that's on my mind, which is very pertinent to our show, is called The Mask of Masculinity. Wow.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
The universe.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Some powerful. Is he always this insightful? Yeah, he is, man. I mean, and that's just really, to me, why I think I've connected with Mike so much is, you know, through my career in the NFL and coming out of it, this dissolution of ego that's taken place for me over the last four and a half years. You know, ego is just, it crushes you. really, at the end of the day.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And I think we got a lot to talk about there.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Because that's the thing that ties you into all of your desires and ideas about who you are and what you're supposed to be in this manufactured realm that we find ourselves in.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You're never filled. That hole is never full, you know? Not enough women, not enough cars, not enough money, not enough... Accomplishments, press. Not enough consumption. There's not enough to just consume and feed that thing, feed that beast.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, you got to go through it.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Toad life, dude.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Toad life. Oh, man. You really have to cultivate a marriage, man. You have to work at it.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
That doesn't just happen. That disarms them. Always coming back to I love you. I love you. Please, I love you. Remember how much you love them. And remind yourself of it. And for me, it's... It's about taking the energy that I bring into life because we can take our families for granted.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You know, and we fall into just autopilot, you know, programmed mechanisms with our family, especially with an intimate relationship. And so over that time, like what Mike was saying, when that love or that lusty, super hot sex time wears off because it's going to because we are. As human beings, we are chemically programmed into that, especially men.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You are biologically, evolutionarily programmed to procreate and spread your seed. So this is something that we have to battle or at least learn how to hone and control.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You have to come home and you have to create that romance and that love again. You have to remind yourself.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Well, that's why communication.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And communication. That's the third for sure.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And just remember how much you love them.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, that's pretty new for me. Wow. You too? Communication is just, that's a constant practice.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I definitely confronted that coming out of the NFL.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
It was like, oh, wow, now I'm here in this marriage. There's nowhere to go.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, absolutely.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
said that no man would ever say that to me well it's about when it's about when your confront when your woman confronts you with something she's challenging your kingdom she's challenging your masculinity big time She's saying there's something.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
goes back into the circulation.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah. I'm not sure how reincarnation works. You know, do you come back as another human being? What, you know, and why, what person you come back as?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I kill them. Ha, ha, ha. I know, man. I have a new practice. Any bugs, I bring them outside. Because my wife is the same.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
It feels good, yeah. It makes you feel loved. They're grown, too. That's an interesting breakdown of that, Mike. You took it all the way through.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Punter.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You walk through the hall and do it all over again.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
It's possible, but you think about your question, Mike, of Alexander the Great and the thousands of followers, hundreds of thousands of followers he had. And you think about everybody knows Alexander the Great's name, but they don't know Joe Schmo from there. And the case is still that way.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
There are a handful of individuals in the grand scheme of civilizations that leave a mark that perpetuates on and on. And so what you might think is, why does the universe want me to? Why does spirit, why does God want me to come back or need me to come back?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And it's because you carry with you this knowledge that you spread that, like a virus, like a flow of water over humanity, may touch and affect and inspire others to dream and think in this way. And that's why you come back. Because for the souls that are here for maybe the first time need to hear this type of stuff.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Because it takes a lot to wake up in this day and age of technology, hyper-accessibility. Comparison, everything.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, because in our DNA, it's all encrypted and coded into our DNA, into our cells.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Well, in that same token of the, what did you say, Mike? The actions of one of us?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, so in the same vein, the conduct of one, Alexander the Great, is the fate of his entire community, his entire tribe.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
So he is the embodiment of all of those people. It's true. He represents it.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
That's crazy.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Bro. Lewis, what do you have going on these days, man? What are you doing right now? Are you writing any new books?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Nice.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Nice.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Nice.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
So true. Because that doesn't give you anything. No. All of the material success. It doesn't do anything for your soul. You may get five minutes, five years of gratification for your achievements, but it's not going to fill the hole unless you're at peace with yourself, you are in love with yourself.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Good stuff, man.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
There's a lot of homeless people around L.A. You live in L.A.? I live in West Hollywood, yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, and on my side of town in NoHo, North Hollywood.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah, it's really bad. But, you know... I try to acknowledge them at least. That's good. You know, I feel like those people are so beaten down that if another soul can just acknowledge their existence, that lifts them up to some extent. Yeah, that's true. Just smile and say, hey, I hope you're doing well. Amen. You know, God bless you. Good luck to you.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
And you have to be willing to always see the light. It's so hard when you feel like you're suffocating, though.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Good, man. This is fun. What do you think, dude? We have a ball in here. This is a great conversation.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I think about it every day.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
You know? Interesting. Fear keeps us alive. Fear is a friend of ours. You have some realization. Yeah. And then you go. Should we wrap this up? Sure. Why not?
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No.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
This is powerful. This is awesome. This is beautiful. Big Mike. Hope to see you again. Appreciate you, man. Thank you. This was beautiful meeting you, man. Mike, amazing episode, brother. Hey, wait, where can people find you?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Man, well, we'll have you on again, and we'll go deeper on success and greatness. I think it's awesome, man. I appreciate it, man. Appreciate you.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yes. Very ancient. Knights slaying the dragons. Yeah. You know, going out on a hunt.
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Yeah, he's a legend.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
I had no family like that, no. Dang. What do you think about that, Lewis? Why do people, what is the thing about bullying? Is it that we're programmed to gain superiority over others?
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
It's the ultimate endeavor to have to reinvent yourself. And everyone has to do that. All the time. All the time. Every couple years, it's almost like you have to. All the time. Shedding skins. Letting go. Transforming your mindset and your thoughts. Yeah.
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Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Mike, I've heard you talk about this a lot, but how did you feel being so honest and vulnerable about your experiences? Was that the first time you had really done that?