Lewis Howes

But why?

And the reason why is because it was easier to put it on my mom and my dad than for me to have to do the work.

And so the Eric Thomas that you've seen, the NFL, NBA, commercials, whatever, that dude is the dude that looked himself in the mirror and was like, yo, you owe yourself an apology.

And not only that, you owe yourself correction.

You owe yourself change.

Wow.

You need to be taught.

You need to be trained.

You need to become a better human.

And that was one of the most difficult days of my life was looking at myself and

correcting myself telling myself i was sorry and then moving forward saying now what are we going to do from this point so so so the growth you see is the response to if you are are you are you repentful meaning you're about to change or are you sorry and i'm like no i'm not sorry i want to repent and i want to i want a better version of me because wow what 16 year old should be living in abandoned buildings eating out of trash cans like that's not it's not healthy one

It's not safe in Detroit to be in abandoned buildings walking around.

It's not safe.

And I put myself in so many situations where guns were pulled out on me.

You know, people would break into the abandoned building and take my belongings from me.

It's like, E, what are you doing?

Like, come on, bro.

This version of me had gone all the way and was like, if you don't stop.

So it is.

It is a rock bottom, but...