The School of Greatness
Mike Tyson: How To Overcome Your Ego To Stop Suffering In Silence & Sabotaging Your Relationships
Wed, 13 Nov 2024
I had the incredible privilege of joining Mike Tyson for a deep, soulful conversation that went far beyond what I expected. Mike shared profound insights about his journey from being driven by ego to finding peace through plant medicine and self-love. We explored vulnerable topics like masculinity, transformation, and what it truly means to be "good" versus "great." Mike opened up about his experiences with family, prison, bankruptcy, and finding redemption through honesty and growth. What struck me most was Mike's incredible wisdom and spiritual evolution – a side of him many haven't seen. This conversation was less about boxing and more about the raw, authentic journey of becoming better men.In this episode you will learn:How Mike transformed from using money to solve problems to learning true communication in relationshipsThe profound distinction Mike makes between being a "great" man versus a "good" manMike's journey from ego-driven champion to finding oneness with everything through plant medicineThe importance of showing up consistently in marriage and family lifeWhy Mike believes the conduct of one person affects the fate of us allFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1693For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Kobe Bryant – greatness.lnk.to/1566SCLindsey Vonn – greatness.lnk.to/1132SCAllyson Felix – greatness.lnk.to/1456SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: What is the focus of Mike Tyson's transformation?
Hey everyone, welcome back to a very special episode of the School of Greatness. What you're about to experience right now is actually an interview I did with the legendary sports icon Mike Tyson. And he's got a big fight that he's got coming up with Jake Paul. And one of the things that I thought was interesting was revisiting this interview.
I actually went on Mike's show, it was called Hot Boxing. So this is an interview that I went on his show. But like I tend to do in most situations, I turned the interview around and started diving deep in asking him questions about his mindset, about his legacy, about how he's reinvented himself after boxing, business, and all these different things.
So I wanted you to dive in deep around the mindset of Mike Tyson, how he thinks, how he started to actually heal some parts of the things in his life that were causing suffering and pain. He talks about transitioning and transforming into a new identity, into a new man. And I'm excited to see what Mike continues to do with his life moving forward. This was actually an interesting test for me.
I've never been drunk or high in my life. And the entire time they were smoking marijuana, in this kind of contained room. So it was actually an interesting test for me to see if I could be present while this was happening on his show, Hot Boxing. So without further ado, let's dive into this interview with the one and only Mike Tyson. What do you understand about the world?
What do you understand about it? And what would you say to your 20-year-old self that just is about to win the title?
I always think about the world now that I'm one with everything, that we're involved with everything. I'm involved with it. I'm involved with the bugs. I'm involved with the ants, the butterflies, the cats, the dogs. I'm one with everything. The cars, smoke, everything. I'm one with it all.
Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hot Boxin'. I'm Evan Britton. And I'm Mike Tyson. Dude, we got a great guest today. We got a guest... who I'm a big fan of. I heard this guy on a podcast a couple years ago, I think. And his name's Lewis Howes. Great to have you here, brother. Thanks for having me.
What's up, Louie? Thank you.
What do you call yourself? You're sort of like this new age philosopher. You're a young, great thinker. I appreciate that. Yes. He's written a book. Sorry, let me give you a little more intro. He's written a book, New York Times bestselling author. This book in particular that's on my mind, which is very pertinent to our show, is called The Mask of Masculinity. Wow.
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Chapter 2: How does Mike Tyson define being 'good' versus 'great'?
Thank you.
Thank you. It was inspiring.
Listen. Evan, my wife, it was supposed to be a gritty, hardcore show, a hardcore guy. It came out like a car. They laughed at my hard, tough life. Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm talking about not having a father. The people broke our left side, ran back to the street. I said, babe, what's going on? What's happening? Why are they laughing? Why are they laughing? She said, it's causing. Keep it going.
Keep it going.
Keep it going. Keep it going. They're laughing. Keep it going. What was the biggest lesson you learned about yourself after that whole experience had finished?
Um... That shouldn't be too hard on myself. I should be more appreciative of what I've accomplished from where I've came from. That's amazing. Are you usually hard on yourself? Absolutely. Why? I don't know, that's all I've ever known, because if I made mistakes, I got harshly, you know what I mean, verbally punished. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You heard some bad stuff. Yeah, of course.
You heard some stuff you didn't want to hear. Wow. So you get yourself numb to that by calling yourself that all the time. I'm a loser, I suck. Yeah, what the fuck are you doing? Are you stupid? You dumb. How could you do that?
Yeah. What do you say to yourself now? What's the conversation you say to yourself now?
Oh, I love myself. I love my kids. Isn't your kids awesome? Aren't you very lucky that you have your wife? What would you be without her? Wow.
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Chapter 3: What role does ego play in men's lives?
The Great Wall of China and all the great temples, all this stuff, right? Where are their names? Where are their names? Gone. That's a crime. Every million of them, their names should be mentioned. That's when they found the territorial soldiers. They had thousands of them, but it was just too many of them.
But they put their names on every one of them with different characters, different soldiers, and they put their names on them. That's cool. And that's the closest that it ever came down when the whole crew got the recognition from China. He made a clay statue of everyone and the lifestyle of every one of his soldiers and his soldiers' horses and stuff and the guns and all this stuff.
Well, in that same token of the, what did you say, Mike? The actions of one of us?
The conduct of one is the faith of us all.
Yeah, so in the same vein, the conduct of one, Alexander the Great, is the fate of his entire community, his entire tribe.
Exactly, exactly.
So he is the embodiment of all of those people. It's true. He represents it.
Nobody ever went that far before. Nobody ever went that far. That must have been crazy. Imagine marching for 10 years. Imagine 10 years, just keep going. Not ever thinking about home. Well, you're thinking about home, but you never know when you're coming back. Everybody had to, they went mutiny on them when we got to India. They said, man, we're not going home. We've been gone for 10 years.
We lost a bunch of people. We got children by other women from other tribes that's in our group now. You know what I mean? It's just, whew.
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Chapter 4: How can one overcome personal suffering and find peace?
what do you say i'm a bad how do you take that you know for me from perspective of humanity how do you how do you take you're a great man i just try to say i don't even know what that means i if someone says that to me i would just say thank you i'm trying to do my best every single day i'm learning every day i'm growing i'm not perfect and uh i just want to help and serve so i just try to absolutely focus on service and i say thank you i'm just trying to serve as much as my my my my
I thought of a great man's man like Gandhi, a man that gives up all his money, gives everything to something. But that don't make him a great man. That's just man don't give money. But that don't make him a good man either. You know, he just value. He has a price, but his price is not money. Might be sex. Might be liquor. Might be drugs. It might be his happiness. You know what I mean?
And all happy people are not good people. You know what I mean? Yeah, you could be doing bad things and feel happy about it. Well, happy people are not good people.
Good stuff, man.
This is fun, guys. It's really good when you see somebody that's in a bad situation and you try to make that situation better.
That's a good person.
That's a good person. You don't have to know him or anything, but to make a situation better.
You could simply smile. You don't have to do a lot to change someone's energy and make them feel better. You can smile. You can say, how are you? It's just your energy, your way of being, how you show up.
There's a lot of homeless people around L.A. You live in L.A.? I live in West Hollywood, yeah.
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