Motivation Daily by Motiversity - HOW TO FIND YOURSELF AGAIN - Best Motivational Speech (Featuring Robert Greene)

Episode Date: December 12, 2022

How to Find Yourself Again! Robert Greene, Author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and Mastery, shares his greatest advice on success. One of the Best Motivational Speeches from Robert Greene.We travelled to Los Angeles, California to exclusively interview and film Robert Greene for this video. Find The Icons by Motiversity on your podcast player of choice to hear the full interview.Speaker:Robert GreeneRobert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law (with rapper 50 Cent), Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.Follow Robert:https://www.youtube.com/@RobertGreene...https://powerseductionandwar.com/https://www.instagram.com/robertgreen...Interview Host:Join host Tyler Waye — renowned work expert and Motiversity’s Executive in Residence — in discovering how The Icons defied all odds and succeeded in the face of adversity. Tyler and guests talk mindset, work ethic, failure, career advice, routines, motivation, life stories, leadership and how each icon got through the hard times in their journey to the top.Follow Tylerhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3tW...https://www.instagram.com/TylerWaye/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerwaye/http://tylerwaye.com/Music:Really Slow Motion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. You've lost touch with who you are, the core of your being. You're on social media too much. You're listening to what other people are telling you. You've got to listen to yourself. You've got to cut all that shit out. You have to look at the things that you love

and the things that you hate. So what you don't like is very instructive to you, right? You're looking at things that are very powerful inside of you that are emotional, they're not intellectual, their feelings, they're emotions, they're visceral things that you connect to. I've always followed the loss of power, which has changed things up, interaction with boldness, don't be afraid to do things differently, adapt your strategy to the circumstance.

It's never too late. The early you figure it out, the better off you are. But it can happen later in life. Now, I figured out in an early age that I wanted to write. I didn't know what I wanted to write, but I loved words and I love writing. And if I didn't have that connection when I was eight years old, all the way into high school and college, I would have been a lost soul. And I empathize with a lot of people who don't have that feeling in their eight or 18 or in their 20s.

But I've tried to tell people, everybody has it. You're just not listening to yourself. You've lost touch with who you are. There are five forms of intelligence. We normally associate intelligence with intellectuals, with our Noam Chomsky with Albert Einstein. No, intelligence comes in all forms. Working with your hands is a form of intelligence. A carpenter has a high form of intelligence.

People who are sports who athletically use their body. That's another form of intelligence. There's music, there's math, there's language. You have one of these frames of mind. By the way your brain is wired, you are inclined towards one of them. Figure that out. You've got to be a bit bold. You have to embrace what makes you different.

It takes time. To do anything in life takes time and powers and patience and work. So I like to tell people to go back to their earliest childhood memories of things that really excited them before they got mixed up with parents, teachers, all that. Other people telling them stuff, you know. You got to cut all that shit out. You know, I was frustrated. I was depressed.

I even have to admit I had moments that was slightly suicidal. Because I knew deep down that I could do something. I was different from other people. I had different experiences, you know, and I knew that there was something I needed to express. There was a purpose to how my life had unfolded, but I couldn't find it. I had tried everything.

I had every form of writing. Every possible endeavor you can imagine, it just didn't click. So I was very deeply frustrated. And the frustration I tell people, it's a good thing. Negative emotions are trying to teach you something. They're trying to teach you the opposite. Something else is going on. Frustration, what would be worse than frustration would be to spare giving up.

No hope, but frustration is a sign that you haven't given up. You know you can do something, but you haven't figured it out. So when you have those kind of feelings, look at them and there's something positive in that. So I knew that there was something I was meant to do. I just couldn't figure it out when. It's easy for me, a boomer, I have to admit that, to preach to you when you have to gone through like two, we've gone through a pandemic, what looks like to be a recession, and then if you're a millennia, you went through another, you went through the crash in 08.

It's easy for me to preach. You're dealing with really difficult circumstances. So a lot of people are rethinking their lives. They don't want to work at crap jobs just to get by. And I applaud that 100%, right? That's great. So you want to think about working for yourself is the ultimate position in this world.

And even though times are difficult, even though it may seem like just a dream, there's so much potential out there for entrepreneurial spirit, for creating your own startup, creating your own podcast, for going your own path in life. You don't have to follow other people. It's not like it was when I was growing up. There were things that were better back then. There are things that were a lot worse, right? You have so many more options. It's just that you're not going to reach them. You're not going to be happy in this short time that you have

to be alive unless you take it seriously and still have some fun and adventure and excitement. You've got to listen to yourself. You have to embrace what makes you different. just don't listen to your parents go, I've got to be making $100,000 when I'm 23 and go to law school and do all this stuff. You're going to burn out. So kind of understand. I guess the main thing I would say is know who you are,

know what you're deep down your core, what you love, what you hate, and what you were destined to create in this world. That's like the most important process you can go through. Everybody has that potential. But I know it doesn't come easy. and you have to be patient, you have to put in the work. But another skill that you cannot ignore is the social.

We're social animals. And there are a lot of people in life who ignore that. Because they're shy, and I was very shy as young men, I was mostly very quite introverted as well. Because they're shy, they just simply lean on their own strength, which is learning something really well, learning math, or learning algorithms, or learning how to write, etc.

And they ignore the social because they're afraid of it. afraid of it. But you cannot get ahead in this world as a social animal dependent on other people in every aspect of life unless you treat that as another skill as well. So yes, the process of looking inward is absolutely essential, but you cannot disconnect yourself from your teachers, your mentors, your colleagues. You could have all the skill in the world and know your life's task brilliantly. But if you continually alienate people by your boorish behavior, by your insensitivity, all of the skill level in the world will be completely neutralized by your own mistakes. I didn't listen to other people. At so many turning points in my life, I could have been discouraged.

People could have said, get the, you know, I had somebody say, Robert, you're never going to be a good rider in life. You know, you need to go to business school, et cetera. My parents tried to funnel me this way or that way. I was stubborn and I was rebellious and I did my own thing. And because of that, I have kind of a different voice from other people, right? And when I look at books out there, I'm searching for that voice, for that voice of somebody who's different, who has something different to say, who speaks in a different tone of voice that has their blood and their person. personality in their writing.

And I don't find it often. But when I do, it's a great thing. And so to me, success in life is kind of being who you are. There's a famous expression of the great ancient Greek poet Pindar about become who you are. It's a process of becoming who you actually are and realizing what it is. So we talked about my weirdness earlier on. And following that has allowed me. to craft my own message, which is basically about opening your eyes up to the reality of the world

and to what people are like. But I wasn't, I'm not able to do that unless I had ignored, but other people tried to foist on me earlier on in life. It's never too late.