The School of Greatness
How To ATTRACT Your Dreams With Your Mindset & Live Your Full Potential
Fri, 29 Nov 2024
Today I have a powerful masterclass on personal transformation, success, and creative entrepreneurship! We dive deep with mindset expert Rob Dial, legendary DJ/producer Steve Aoki, and comedian Bert Kreischer, exploring everything from overcoming self-doubt to building global success through authentic collaboration. Rob shares his journey of turning personal struggles into strength through The Mindset Mentor podcast. Steve reveals how he's built an empire by elevating others and maintaining peak health despite a grueling tour schedule. The episode wraps up with an incredible segment featuring Bert, who breaks down the art of creative promotion and authentic fan engagement. This conversation is packed with actionable wisdom for anyone looking to transform their life or build something meaningful in the world.In this episode you will learn:How to transform your life by understanding and reprogramming your patterns and identityWhy chasing passion before money leads to greater long-term success and fulfillmentThe power of silence and space in discovering your true path and purposeHow to maintain health and relationships while pursuing ambitious goalsThe art of authentic collaboration and lifting others up for mutual successFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1700For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Rob Dial – greatness.lnk.to/1597SCSteve Aoki – greatness.lnk.to/1523SCBert Kreisher – greatness.lnk.to/1453SC 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 main topic of this episode?
Welcome to this special masterclass. We've brought some of the top experts in the world to help you unlock the power of your life through this specific theme today. It's going to be powerful, so let's go ahead and dive in. A lot of people feel stuck with their life and they don't think they have the ability to change. Yeah.
Chapter 2: How can we transform our mindset in six months?
And if you were to give someone a roadmap, what would you do to transform someone's life in six months? So they feel like they actually are seeing change.
Yeah. I mean, I think that first off, that's like probably the best question because that's the majority of the mindset mentors, like steps of all of this, just different podcasts from like, okay, when I, when I wrote the book that I, that I just got out last year, I was like, what do I do? Like, If I look at 1,400 episodes of the Mindset Mentor podcast, what is it that I do?
And it's more than anything else. It's how to understand yourself so you can take action. The original title of the book was The Psychology of Taking Action because I find that so many people have trouble with it. And I had a lot of trouble with it. And so it's interesting. We can look and say, oh, yeah, we both have successful podcasts. It must be so nice to have a successful podcast.
But it's like... There's a lot of fears that come up in doing this. I'm like, we have to put ourselves out there. That's a lot of judgment they can come from it, right? I think the first thing that's probably the most important is what feels right. I don't know about you, but I didn't start a podcast for money. And when you started a podcast, there wasn't any money.
When I started a podcast, there was no money.
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Chapter 3: Why is following passion more important than chasing money?
Five, six years.
There was no money. I didn't even know there was a way to monetize it, right? So it wasn't a money thing. There was a part of me that was like, what feels like the thing that I want to do? And for me, I actually felt obligated to start the Mindset Mentor because the exact moment that it happened, I can tell you exactly what happened. I was in Jason's Deli with my girlfriend at the time, now wife.
And I was sitting there and it was like, it was like a movie where it was like a fever pitch where it was like, I started getting really stressed out, really anxious. I was looking around me and there was all these people that were like yelling at their kids. And they were, you know, just seemed like they were, I don't know if it was reality or if it was just in my head.
And it was like, everyone looked like they were miserable around me. And I was like feeling all of it. And this is like the beginning of 2015. So nine years ago. Right. And I look at Lauren and I go, I think I'm gonna start a podcast. And she's like, what is a podcast? She didn't really know what it was back then.
I was like, I had this microphone, this exact one that we're using, a Shure SM7B, because I'm a musician, so I had the setup. And I was like, I have things, I have traumas that I've overcome in my life that self-development helped me with. And I want to try to, I feel obligated to teach that to people.
and it just felt right which is the most important thing and so like i think the first step is don't ever chase money i heard a quote i think it was from oprah uh where she said follow your passion money comes second money always comes second and so i think a lot of people always go money first how can i make money right now and i think the the thing about it is if someone follows passion
The money might not be there right away, but I think that if you fast forward five or six years, you go, oh my God, I didn't expect it to be this good. You might have some patience, though. That's the problem, is most people want it right now. They want it now. They're real bad with delayed gratification. And so I think the first thing is the feeling. What feels like the thing that you want to do?
And I think a lot of people don't give themselves enough space and silence to be able to think. Like a lot of times we're keeping so busy. We're always on Instagram. Like I recently deleted Instagram completely from my phone.
Everything I run through my team just because I want more silence in my life because I personally believe just from, you know, I'm not religious in any sort of way, but I believe that God, the universe, life speaks in silence. So the more silence I can have, the more clear I can be on what I'm supposed to do.
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Chapter 4: How can silence and space lead to self-discovery?
A lady was in one of my coaching programs one time and she was real depressed and I was like, what do you love? What's a moment in your life where you felt so much energy? And she's like, I have horses and we had special needs children come over to my farm and got to do therapy with the horses. That's one of the most alive I've ever felt.
And I was like, but she goes, and then she goes, but I can't make any money doing that.
And I said,
what if you just had a job that you enjoy, you spend time at, it pays your bills, but it gives you more free time to be able to help these children. And she's like, that feels good. And I was like, there might be something down the road where you might figure in three or four years that it'll make you money. But really what it is, is like, how can I enjoy my life more?
And so for the first thing, I think is the feeling. The second thing for people is you have to understand like you literally have to become a different person. And that's what's scary for people is that I have to be different. Like if I go back to Lewis 12 years ago, you're not the same Lewis as you were because you had to become and mold yourself into a different person.
I feel like I'm a different person as well. I don't think our, my podcast could be where it is now because I wasn't good enough to be here. Right. But years and years and years and years and years of work, 1,400 podcast episodes allowed me to get to the point where I can speak in a way that I guess is better than the way that I used to, or more concisely, more value.
But it doesn't just come like that.
I think that's part of the thing is that you'll see incremental changes, and I truly believe the longer that time goes on, the more I believe in like the Chinese bamboo story, which is you plant the seed, you water it, first year, nothing, second year, nothing, third year, nothing, fourth year, nothing, fifth year, nothing, sixth year, it grows 80 feet in about six months.
They say sometimes you can like literally watch it grow. Wow. I feel like it's the exact same way for success where it's like you have to find the path that you're okay with going down that you feel good about, that you are passionate about. And I feel like eventually the universe kind of comes to your side and conspires with you. If it's like, hey, this is the thing that gives you energy.
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Chapter 5: What steps should we take to change our identity?
You got to wake up in the morning. And I did this for years. Right. I did this for years. I had to wake up in the morning. I did get myself ready. And the whole time I was like, I don't want to go to this job. Like my I remember just one of my bosses just hating this guy. Right. And he was just so rude to every one of the sales reps, all of us. And I had to get myself ready.
I had to get in the car. I had to drive there. I had to walk in. I had to put on a face like I wanted to be there for nine, 10 hours a day, every single day. It takes more energy to go to a job that you hate than to build something that you actually love. And I think that's what a lot of people need to actually start to understand.
And, you know, Alex Ramosi put up a post a little while ago and it was like, most people say they want more free time to build their business, but they have a full-time job. And he said, if you look at it, you have 104 days a year. If you have 52 weeks times two, you have weekends, you have 104 days a year to build the thing that you're actually passionate about.
104 days.
Yeah. And it might take- That's a lot of days. It's a lot of days. That's almost a third of the year. You get a lot done. You can get a lot done in 104 days. And so it's like sometimes you do have to go out of balance to go back in balance. You know, like if you look at like the beginning stage of growing your podcast, there was a lot of hours, I'm sure.
Yeah.
And there's probably a lot less hours now where you went way far this way and now you're way far this way if you want to be that way. And you can go back and forth between it. But I think that people just need to be aware of like, all right, being around this person, do I get more energy? Do I feel like they're sucking energy from me? Doing this task, do I get energy from it?
Do I feel like it's sucking energy from me? Like one of the things, I had a podcast episode come out the other day about how ADHD is a superpower. And this is one thing I think like I hate... some of the words that are used, like it's a deficit is what is like as something is wrong with me if I have it. Attention deficit disorder. Attention deficit disorder. There's something wrong with my brain.
When in reality, if you look at somebody who has ADHD, when they find something that they're passionate about, they have what's called hyper focus. Like they can zone out the entire world. And obsess.
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Chapter 6: How can we identify and change our patterns?
Why do people obsess so much about having results sooner than they, I guess, should have them?
I mean, I think everybody, I get, I do this in my own business, right? Like I'll sit down with my VP of operations and I'll be like, okay, here's the thing that we need to do. And then I get stressed that it's not already done yet. Like immediately I'm like, why did I not know this thing was already here? Like I want it to be done. It's like, it's going to take three months.
I've got to be patient with this thing. Like nobody expects to go into the gym for the first time in a long time, wake up the next morning and have a six pack. Like we know that things take time, but I think that we have been, we have kind of, Not intentionally, but we've been kind of brainwashed to want instant gratification. Like you got that smoothie delivered, right?
You didn't have to leave your house and some guy came to your house and brought you a smoothie, right? And if I want, we had breakfast delivered to us this morning. We ordered it last night and immediately got to our place here. And then so we're used to it where it's like, I don't even have to pick up my phone. I could just say, hey, Siri, what is this thing?
And she can give me information immediately. So we're so used to getting instant gratification. It's kind of been trained in us in 2024. But nothing that is amazing happens fast. Say your wife gets pregnant, right? How ridiculous would it be if you went up to her and you're like, hey, listen, I know it's supposed to take nine months, but I want to go on vacation by the end of the year.
Could you get that done in four or five? She'd smack you if you did that, right? Because things take time. You know, the universe or God builds a baby in nine months. And so it's like, I can make this decision of I'm going to do this thing, I'm going to take the right action, but the universe or God decides how long this thing is going to take until you actually get there.
It doesn't matter how long it takes. What matters is today, am I taking the right action to get me there? One of my first mentors used to say something to me that I say to myself all the time, which is, is what I'm doing right now getting me closer to or further from my goals? If I ask myself that 20 times a day, It just helps me redirect in the moment to get back on path, and it's super simple.
Is what you're doing right now get you closer to or further from your goals?
And I think if you think on that every single day and every single moment, is this thought helping me get closer to my goals? For sure. Is this action, is the food I'm eating helping me get closer to my goals? Is this conversation helping me get closer? Is me scrolling on social media helping me get closer?
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Chapter 7: What role does collaboration play in success?
You know, of course, like, yeah, yeah, like, you know, the secret sauce to pizza and, like, the sauces and the secret, you know, like, yeah, of course, it tastes a little different. But, like, the ingredients are all the same. Yeah. You know? Music's music. It can be made differently, you know?
So, at the end of the day, it's, you know, it's, like, I don't care to hide any of that because there's nothing to really hide. There's no, like, secret in the cakes, right? There is a six-page cake writer that gets sent to promoters so they have to follow because I need that cake to explode all over someone's face. Sure, sure. There's no secret to my production.
And honestly, my music, I want it to evolve and change. So the secret or whatever, the ingredients of my production is always going to innovate and change anyways. And the more people I work with, it's going to change even faster.
You'll pick up ideas. You'll learn something.
Right. And I bring in not just singers to the studio or other producers. I bring in instrumentalists, musicians. I'm like, I want to hear a sax player this time. That's cool. Someone else. I play guitar riff. I'm like, I need to get that played better and different. But here's the base of what I want. And I'll bring in a guitarist that's going to take that to the next level. Wow.
Because at the end of the day, I have to remember, I'm the producer. So as a producer, you're listening for what is the best of all the takes. And the best of all takes, you can't be selfish and be like, they're all my takes. No. No. You know, there's going to be a better singer. I've seen I sing a line. I'm like, I need someone else to sing it better.
You know, or I have like a bunch of different people come into my house. We do writing camps and take different rooms and and we build like the kind of like the mood board of what we're going for over the day. but with freedom to kind of expand and then, you know, just allow everyone to be free.
And then as the producer and the A&R, the ear, which I trust that, then I kind of pick my favorite parts and then go, we're going to Frankensteiner, comp and stein, all these together. Comp and stein's cool. And comp these like ideas into one thing, you know, and then I go, oh, this fits these five different artists I'd like to hit up, you know, and then I do some
outreach right and then you know and like you know it's like most of the time it's like you can't if you hit up like hey manager can you hit up their manager and like yeah they can but like that usually falls on deaf ears like yeah artists artists yeah that starts the conversation because they have to really want it too
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Chapter 8: Why do many people still have a competitive mindset?
It's like, the only way I could feel that more on a consistent basis would be love or in a relationship with that loving feeling. Do you feel like you're missing out if you're not having that love also with one person to celebrate all these things with?
It's true. It's true. Like I do think about that, but I, I'm not rushing it. Yeah. You know, I think when I was, if I was younger, when I was younger, if when I was younger, for sure, I was like, I really need this, have this person. But then that becomes more of this codependent thing that, that I've learned to, to, you know, I understand what the codependency looks like, feels like, and is.
It's not healthy. Yeah. Yeah. And like in a lot of my relationships, they were codependent. Yeah. And it felt so good. But I didn't understand what codependency meant until my last relationship where we got to go to couples counseling and really understand what makes our relationship healthy. How do we sustain through that?
And what codependency feels like because I always ended up becoming that way.
so and once i realized that then you just you you have more self-love and you just you don't need to fall or rush for something that might be unhealthy for you and luckily i have an immense love and relationship with my my mom and my sister and my brothers and my my all my siblings we have a great loving bonding relationship that I get fueled from that.
And I see them consistently, like knowing that my mom is around the corner from me and from my house. I see her, we have lunch together, dinner. We hug, we talk, and we just, and we feel the embrace. Like that's already, I'm so lucky to have that. That's like a really big part of, like really big core of my love bank. So I'm so fortunate to have that consistently. That's beautiful, man.
That's really beautiful.
One of the things that inspires me about you, many things, but one of them is how you promote yourself. I wish I could learn this art because the stuff with The Rock and Wahlberg and all these people, you're making interesting content while promoting something that people still talk about. That is almost a skill in itself.
As opposed to just watch my movie or come to my tour, you're actually doing an interesting piece of content that is funny, you know, and people talk about it.
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