Lewis Howes

He is a psychiatrist, a Harvard-trained physician, and founder of Healthy Gamer, one of the fastest-growing mental health communities in the world.

How do we improve our self-identity if our identity is holding us back?

We were just talking maybe for the last hour about our lives and challenges we've overcome and what we're up to in our lives.

And one of the things that I really care about here on the School of Greatness is helping people unlock their potential.

Okay.

Helping people live more meaningful, harmonious lives.

Helping people be on mission in their lives.

Having healthier relationships in their lives.

And really...

living from a place of peace rather than pain.

And everyone's gone through pain.

Everyone's gone through some type of trauma or suffering or sadness or loss or grief.

And some of these things shape their identities.

And I truly feel that our identity is

Shapes our view of the world, and it can either support us in creating the life we want, or it can keep us stuck in feeling more traumatized, victim, and things like that.

And I'm curious, how do we improve our self-identity if our identity is holding us back?

You mentioned that it's serving you in certain ways, but it may not be empowering you to live your fullest potential.

So I'm a loser or I'm not beautiful or I'm ugly or I'm stupid.

Right.

This identity that we speak and believe to ourselves shapes the way we view the world.