Lewis Howes

similar, that grew up in a similar way, that the people that would like pick on me and bully me, it's like I wanted their approval so bad that I would do anything to try to be friends with them.

And one of my memories that I've shared before on my podcast,

is when I was a kid, I really didn't have that many friends growing up.

I was like youngest of four.

I really struggled in school.

I was really tall and kind of goofy and gangly looking.

I was in the special needs classes.

And so I just kind of always got picked on and made fun of and,

It just didn't really feel like I had the best childhood, but you know, this is not a sob story here, but this is just me and my internal insecurities around being around my classmates and my peers growing up in school.

And I remember I really wanted friends.

I was like, no one wants to hang out with me.

No one wants to play with me.

There's my own like sad story, right?

And a lot of it was just me and my story.

But I really didn't feel like I had any friends.

And I remember there was these two kind of cool kids who created this club.

And I was like, I really want to be in this club.

I was probably like eight or nine years old.

And they said, okay, there's two ways you can enter the club.

And the club was essentially them hanging out after school, like playing video games in one of their parents' basements.