Lewis Howes

And I went and identified every one of the traits inside me because that was my attempt to try to own the parts and have a preemptive strike instead of having to wait till people push my buttons and react with hindsight.

I'd rather have foresight and identify it.

So when I saw that and people would say things about me, I'd go, okay, that's true too.

You know, somebody says, you know, you're this or that.

If I can honor that and see that, I don't have a reaction.

They can't control me.

But if I try to disown it, they can manipulate me.

And I can be influenced by them for fear of losing or gaining or something and get attached one way or the other.

These are the Buddhist attachments that stop people from being themselves.

to look at the last, I don't know, whatever you can remember, say the last week, go back in your memory and remember what you did for the last week or if you can only the last day, that's all right, but remember it.

And if during that day or week,

Keep track of how many times you had negative feelings.

You are a low entropy person.

If you're the average person, you have negative feelings off and on regularly.

As you grow up, it's less and less.

George doesn't make you angry.

You choose to be angry.

You have some sort of fear, and George just resonated with that fear of yours, and you get angry.

So nobody makes you angry.

Nobody makes you upset.