Lewis Howes

You deserve to feel peace.

You deserve to feel proud of the life that you're creating.

I want to thank you for being here and investing in your growth and for choosing a path of intention.

And I want to remind you, no one's told you lately, that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter.

So I get how from a zoomed out perspective, we're just like a speck of a speck, right?

But from a zoomed in perspective, especially since so many of us were very engaged in the world and media and social media and politics, it can feel so important in the moment to engage with that world, but also so confusing with everything going on.

So I'm wondering what guidance you have for someone who wants to impact the outside world, wants to do it from a clear place and not get confused.

How do you do that?

David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, said that there's is versus ought.

I found that those were exactly the distinctions between intrinsic drive and extrinsic drive.

If you know what the hierarchy of values actually are, the is, not what they ought to be, the conformity of society's deontological normative ethics, you access your greatest potential.

You can actualize your potential.

People are confronted by their mortality and the anxiety of the eschatological mystery.

And so they create two mechanisms to survive it.

A path of individual heroism, a path of immortality for the individual, or a path of immortality through the collective conformity.

You know, as Jung says, we live in a world that we want to be ourselves in a world that doesn't want us to be.

And we want to make a difference, but we can't make a difference conforming.

We can only make a difference following an individual path.

The trailblazer, the one with the machete walking through the thing and not following a path, but creating a path.

The one that had the dharmic path, not the karmic wheel.