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Hi, it's Robin Sharma, the author of The 5am Club,
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Hi, it's Robin Sharma, the author of The 5am Club,
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and I really hope you're great.
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I hope you are in hot pursuit of your mighty mission.
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I hope you're materializing your primal genius.
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I hope you are radiating positivity to every person you meet.
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I hope you are manifesting your greatest productivity.
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I hope you're living not only a successful life today,
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but a soulful life.
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And in this specific mastery session,
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I'm going to walk you through four truths to grow self-love.
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Now, you may say to me,
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Robin, self-love, we come to you for leadership mentorship.
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Robin, we come to you for elite performance advice.
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Robin, we come to you for your tactics on exponential productivity or building a great company or having service to humanity.
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What are talking about self-love?
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Well, I think in many ways,
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self-love is the starting point to world class.
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And you've never heard me say that before,
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but the way you are in the world is a deep reflection of the way you are with yourself.
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You know, your prosperity and your income is always a reflection of your self-identity.
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Your daily behavior is always a reflection of your deepest beliefs.
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You're not going to go out in the world and represent your highest creativity,
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productivity, and mastery if you hate yourself.
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You're not going to be kind to people on the street,
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smile at strangers, uplift a teammate,
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wow a customer, if you're full of hatred about who you truly are.
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And I think this is one of the missed ideas and one of the missed truths in the world today.
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The doorway to success really does open inward.
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It doesn't open outward.
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And I've seen so many people,
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even some of the people I coach,
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you know, these people, they learn the intellectual ideas to build an empire.
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And I also teach them how they multiply productivity.
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And I also teach them how do you scale your fortunes and build a life of joy,
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peace, beauty, and freedom.
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And yet some of them, here's what they do.
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They tear it all down.
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We get to these amazing results through our coaching together,
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and they hit an inflection point where they start to self-sabotage.
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Maybe they start to drink too much.
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Maybe they start to be rude to the people on their team.
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Maybe they start to pick fights with their significant other.
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Maybe they start to get too distracted by digital media and they start to tear it all down.
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It is a huge act of self-sabotage and I've seen it for so many years working with the best of the best.
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Why does that happen?
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Well, it happens because you will never rise any higher than the way you see yourself on the outside.
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If you don't feel you are deserving of beauty,
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prosperity, acclaim, fame, fortune, impact on society,
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if you don't really feel you deserve it because you feel like you're not enough,
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you really don't like yourself,
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you're suffering from what psychologists call imposter syndrome,
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then you're going to read the books,
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you're going to watch these mastery sessions,
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you're going to go to the courses,
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You're going to do the work,
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but you are going to reach a point where your mindset becomes in conflict with your heart set.
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If you don't know these four interior empires,
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I'm always talking about mindset,
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heart set, health set, and soul set.
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Read about them and learn about them in the 5 a.m club, my latest book.
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But the larger point is simply this.
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Think about this idea of self-sabotage.
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And it all comes from a lack of self-love.
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You know, if as a child,
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you didn't receive appreciation from your parents.
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If as a child you might have received physical love or physical caring,
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but that heart-set need, that need for love and appreciation,
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that need for human validation,
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if you didn't get that from your parents or you didn't get
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that from your teachers or you didn't get that from your early influences,
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well here's what's going to happen.
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You're going to be suffering,
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and I use the word intentionally,
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you're going to be suffering from these heart-set wounds of neglect,
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emotional neglect, and you're not going to like yourself very much.
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And especially in this culture of comparison,
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those wounds are gonna be activated every single day.
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You're gonna walk out in the world and you're gonna look at your device
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and you're gonna see all these people showing you a highlight reel of the lives they want you to think they're living.
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Most of it's just an illusion.
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I was reading recently,
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there is actually a service where you can rent a jet on a runway
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and for 20 minutes you can go to the runway
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and get a photographer to take pictures of you on a private jet and outside of the private jet,
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you know, like this, right?
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And you get to post it on social media.
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And you can hire photographers to take you to all these
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luxury brand stores where you're outside of a luxury brand store and you're like,
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outside of a luxury brand store,
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maybe even if you can't afford the watch or the purse or the shoes,
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or whatever it is.
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What is the point I'm suggesting to you?
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Everything begins within.
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If you don't love yourself,
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then you're gonna go out into the world,
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and in this culture of show business,
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this culture of bling, this culture of comparison,
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this culture of social media gratification,
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you're gonna get activated, you're gonna get pinged.
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Those ancient wounds are gonna get touched on every single day,
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and you're just gonna be miserable.
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And so four truths to help you grow self-love so
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that you build that inner warrior in this place of peace and this huge well of tranquility
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that cannot be disrupted when you go out into the world is really mission critical, right?
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You want to be so strong in your skin,
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so strong in your luminosity,
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so strong in your relationship with who you truly are
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that nothing in the outer world can activate you and diminish your energy and make you feel not enough.
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You know what Eleanor Roosevelt said, my friend?
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No one can insult you without your permission.
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You know what Oscar Wilde said?
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He said, be yourself, everyone else is taken.
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You know what Warren Buffett once said?
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There can never be a better you than you.
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You know what Jack Welch said when he was at GE?
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Do not lose yourself on the way to the top.
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So let me walk you through four specific truths that will help you grow self-love.
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Number one, honor your specialness.
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Honor your specialness.
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Look, we've got billions of people on this tiny planet,
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and yet there is no other person alive today quite like you.
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No one quite like the gifts that you have.
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No one quite liked the way that you talk.
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No one has the same fingerprints.
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No one walks exactly in the same way as you.
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No one has the same hopes and dreams as you.
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No one has had the same sufferings that you have.
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No one has become precisely the same person that you are.
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No one has the same potential you have.
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No one has exactly the same primal genius that lurks at your core,
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that makes you special.
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Now, I'm not suggesting that you fall into what I call Ram Syndrome.
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W-R-A-M, world revolves around me.
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Look, I'm so special, I'm entitled.
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I'm so special, world, give me a great living.
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I see that all over the world.
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We live in this society of great entitlement.
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People don't want to show up early.
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People are not committed to mastery in all cases.
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A lot of people are like,
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give to me, and they become takers from their organizations
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and their marketplaces and their society versus understanding you get from the world what you give to the world.
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But the point on this first truth is,
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honor your specialness, appreciate who you are.
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There is no one quite like you.
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The second truth to grow self-love is to do hard things daily.
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And I want you to think about this one really intimately right here, right now.
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When you get up every day,
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are you on the path of least resistance?
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Someone said to me on one of my social feeds the other day,
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Robin, I've read the 5AM Club,
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loved the information, full of energy to get it done.
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But I need to tell you, it sounds very easy.
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It's much harder to do in real life.
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Well, what is this love we all have in this world we live in of things needing to be easy?
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Society has sold us a bill of goods.
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Everything should be easy.
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We should transform our health with one quick pill.
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You know, a great relationship should happen in a month.
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And if we don't have a magical relationship,
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if we're not all in love and wonder,
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then we should leave the relationship.
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If we're at a job,
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you know, anything that's worth doing is challenging at first.
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And if we're at a job,
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oh, after three months, if it's not the job of my lifetime, we leave it.
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In a relationship, you know,
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if it's not perfect, we leave it.
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if we want to upgrade our health.
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Oh, I've been at it two weeks.
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Oh, you know what?
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It's really hard.
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I need to stop my journey to world-class fitness.
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What's my point?
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My point is simply this.
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Anything great you will ever do in your life is hard.
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And so are you living every day?
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Let me ask you right now,
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in this moment, I am blessed to share with you.
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When you get up in the morning,
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when you go through your day,
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When you construct your evening routine,
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is it all around the path of least resistance?
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Is it all about pleasure?
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Is it all about fun?
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Are you a master of easy?
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Or are you doing what the very few do on the planet today?
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As you know, one of my core brain tattoos is to have the results 95% of the population do not have.
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You've got to commit to doing what only 5% of the population are willing to do.
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and what the Titans do,
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what the virtuosos do, what the exceptionalists do,
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they build their days around the pursuit of difficult things.
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And if you do that, here's what happens.
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You're going to build momentum.
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And if you do that,
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each day will be a platform for growth.
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But even more importantly, how do you build self-respect?
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It's by doing difficult things.
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When you say, I'd like to watch a video in the evening or my favorite TV show,
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but tonight I commit to spending time with my child who wants my attention and who needs me.
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You grow in self-respect.
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When you say, I'm going to get up at 5 a.m.,
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I'm going to run this 20-20-20 formula that Robin teaches and
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that has literally helped millions of people upgrade their morning routine and their energy, productivity, creativity impact.
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You grow in self-respect.
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When you say, I'm not going to coast through my day,
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today I'm going to do something that's going to give me a micro win
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so my work and my craft gets a little better.
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You grow in self-respect.
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If each day you do difficult things
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and make these daily optimizations each day through the doing of micro difficulties you build greater self-respect
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and as you build greater self-respect you fall in love with
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yourself it's a great way to build self-love i mean one
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of the tactics to remember is how do you grow self-love you consistently make and then keep self promises.
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Which brings you and I to the third truth to grow self love.
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Go to the woods.
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Go to the woods.
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We spend so much time in the noise of life,
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we forget about the signal.
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We spend so much time in the frenzy of society,
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we forget about who we truly are.
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I'm challenging you with great love and respect,
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don't just be a producer, be a philosopher.
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Don't just be out into the world, go to the wilderness.
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We are animals, we need to retreat.
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But also, at our core,
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we must spend time in solitude.
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For years I've been teaching a philosophy, the 3S philosophy.
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Solitude, silence, and stillness.
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Solitude, silence, and stillness.
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In this world right now of such digital distraction,
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such social media comparison, such busy being busy.
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We wake up in the morning,
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sometimes there's so many emails, so many notifications.
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We must make the time to go to the woods, physically or metaphorically.
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And when you find that time to practice the three S's of silence,
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solitude, and stillness, here's what happens.
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You remember who you truly are.
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You remember your priorities.
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You can build intimacy and fluency with your primary relationship.
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And the primary relationship, I suggest to you who you truly are.
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You're not your past.
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You're not your weaknesses.
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You're not your false beliefs.
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You're not your hypnosis.
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You're not your genius betrayals.
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When you start to spend time alone in the woods,
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in solitude, in reflection, that's when you can say,
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I am not my wounding.
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I am not my hatred.
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I am not my insecurity.
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I am not my sorrow.
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I am not my fears.
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I am not my stumblings.
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You start to hear the quiet whispers of your greatest self.
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And you start to remember you are luminosity.
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You are a hero.
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You're not a victim, you're a leader.
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You have this goodness within you,
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this deep creativity within you,
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this great power within you that longs to see every day.
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And the more you spend time in the woods alone,
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remembering who you truly are,
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it's like any other relationship.
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You spend time with it,
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you nurture it, you grow it,
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you become aware of it,
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it gets stronger and stronger.
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And then you become this force of nature out in a world of
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so many people who have forgotten who they truly are
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and you stand as an army of one of possibility and leadership and strength.
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Fourth truth to grow self-love is simply this.
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The more people you help,
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the more love you'll grow.
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The more people you'll help,
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the more you will expand.
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If you really want to times 25 your self-love,
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times 25 your commitment to impact.
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You know, Mother Teresa said it really well.
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It's as you help more people,
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you love yourself even more greatly.
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and it's martin luther king jr and i'll paraphrase him he said you know we all can be great
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because greatness is not about education greatness is not about your position
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greatness is not about your past every single day we all can be helpful
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and so each day we all can become great and
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so i found personally the more i shift the focus off of any any elements of fame,
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fortune, applause, getting more likes.
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And the more I obsess and make it this monomaniacally driven mission that doesn't come from the ego,
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that comes from servanthood to help more people through the information I share in the world,
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the more joy I see in my own life.
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the more I pursue helpfulness,
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the more peace I fill up with.
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And this episode is certainly not about me.
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This episode is all about you.
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I just want to share my own personal experience,
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which is the more I get the focus and spotlight off of any personal rewards,
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and really, not only intellectually,
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but emotionally, where real transformation comes from, from the heart set.
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That's why it's so important.
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A strong mindset without a pure heart set is an empty victory.
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And when you do that heart set work so
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that you turn down the voice of the low grade emotions like anger and shame and guilt and sorrow,
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and when you upgrade your commitment to self-love and gratitude and servanthood,
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it's amazing what rewards you'll start to see in your own life.
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So I hope this episode has been valuable for you,
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inspirational, tactical, and I'll see you in the next episode.
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Hi, this is Robin Sharma.
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I invite you to subscribe to this podcast and definitely go over to robinsharma.com for more information,
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tools, and resources on mastery,
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elite performance, and living a world-class life.
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