Lewis Howes

3x NYT Bestselling Author 📖 | Host of The School of Greatness 🎙️
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For over a decade I've asked the most successful minds on the planet one single question.

"What is your definition of greatness?"

Here are some of my favorite definitions from my guests on The School of Greatness. Let me know which one resonated with you the most. 🧵👇

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A successful life isn’t just about what you accomplish. It’s about whether you actually get to enjoy the person you become along the way.

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Not everyone you lose is a loss. Sometimes losing access to certain people is how you find your way back to yourself.

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Are you holding onto someone because you love them or because you're afraid to let go?

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Your life changes when you stop asking, “What if it doesn’t work out?” and start asking, “What if I’m capable of figuring it out either way?”

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Sometimes the biggest sign of growth is realizing you no longer want the things you once begged life to give you.

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You don’t need everyone to understand your choices. You need to be able to live peacefully with the person making them.

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Would you rather be understood by everyone or at peace with yourself?

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Stop measuring your progress by how far you still have to go. The person you used to be would be proud of how far you’ve already come.

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You don’t need everyone to understand your choices. You need to be able to live peacefully with the person making them.

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The older you get, the more you realize a beautiful life has less to do with having everything and more to do with appreciating what’s already here.

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What has getting older taught you about who deserves access to you?

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You know you’re growing when peace starts feeling more valuable than being right.

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A lot of adulthood is realizing that the things you thought would make you happy were actually just things you thought would make other people impressed.

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Which matters more to you right now: financial freedom, time freedom, or location freedom?

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What’s something you thought was a weakness about yourself that you now see as a strength?

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One of the biggest signs of growth is realizing you don’t have to react to everything that triggers you.

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Stop trying to convince people to see your value. The people meant for you won’t need a presentation.

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Would you rather have 5 really close friends or 20 friends you see regularly?

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What’s one “normal” thing everyone seems to want that you have zero interest in?

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There’s something powerful about trusting yourself enough to know you’ll build a beautiful life, even when you don’t know exactly how yet. 🙏