Lewis Howes

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.

But I realize that you will trap your life if you're not delegating.

You can't self-actualize your life very easily without delegation.

unless you completely simplify your life and do like the cynic diogenes that live in a barrel with a dog and have nothing, no attachment or a Gandhi approach.

So I basically learned at age 27, the importance of prioritization.

Because if you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you, your day is gonna fill up with low priority distractions that don't.

And the distractions that don't are gonna be unfulfilling and distracting to create a frustration

to go back to priority, to get you back to yourself.

Because these are not you.

This highest value is the ontological identity that revolves around is your highest value.

Whatever your highest value is, if you ask anybody, who are they?

They're going to tell you whatever's highest on their value.