Lewis Howes

Anything you touch

When you know who you are, believe who you are.

I got a PhD.

I don't say that like on the bragging.

I say that because if I got a PhD, that means I could have finished high school.

But I wasn't in school.

I was just there because my mother dropped me off.

I wasn't immersed in it.

I wasn't excited about it.

I wasn't enthused about it.

And so it's like now I'm enthused about life and my life.

And now I realize, yo, your mama don't got no, whatever she did, that was just to get you started.

It's like on the swing when somebody push you and get out the way.

They don't...

The swing doesn't work if that person keeps pushing you back and forth.

It only works if they push you, they get out the way and you do your feet.

And so it's like when I showed up and said, Eric,

The government, the way you come from, your dad not being in your life, your mom being young, that has absolutely nothing to do with why you can't read.

You can't read because you are lazy.

You can't read because you don't take it as serious as you take playing air and metal football.