Lewis Howes

You're the most extreme of everything that could be even known, the most virtuous, the most vicious.

When you can embrace all of that, then you're not going to be distracted by people's opinions.

But as long as you're disowning any of those, the world on the outside will run you and you'll have evoked potentials instead of spontaneous potentials guiding your life.

So there was a concern in my 20s, what will people think?

Or what would happen if I did this?

And that gradually kind of became less of a priority, if that makes any sense.

Because I realized that I could have the whole world against me, but the question is, do I have my soul against me?

My soul being the state of unconditional love in my most authentic state.

And you're going to be liked and disliked no matter what you do.

I tell people you're only going to grow to the level of embracing of the hero and villain.

So if you can embrace this much hero, but only this much villain, you're only going to grow to that level.

You have to be able to be liked and disliked by the same number of people.

And if you can do that, I mean, Donald's a good example of that.

Donald's got a billion people liking and disliking him, at least, maybe 4 billion liking and disliking him, who knows?

So because of that, he's probably on every newspaper in every country every single day, his influence.

How well can you embrace and own all your parts?

Any part you're disowning is emptiness.

Any part that you could ever imagine in anything that you don't own is your emptiness.

41 years ago, I was about 30 years old.

And at the time, as I mentioned earlier, I went to the Oxford English Dictionary.