The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today
by Lewis Howes
30 popular highlights from this book
Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today:
“Life is just too short to waste any of our emotional energy on things that don’t matter.”
“Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.”
“The Greatness Mindset begins to take shape when you begin the journey to heal the pain and trauma in your past. Until you do that, you may often find yourself at the mercy of past pain without ever realizing how or why.”
“when we decide who we want to become—our definition of greatness, our Meaningful Mission—then that becomes our identity. And when our identity is clear, then our behaviors are easier to establish.”
“There’s no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.”
“What lights you up? Inspires you? Energizes you? When do you find yourself losing track of time because you are so absorbed in an activity and can’t wait to get back to it and do it again? What would you love to do even if you didn’t get paid to do it? Fast-forward to your golden years. What might you wish you had done more of? Now take a moment to compare your lists. What common themes do you see in your answers? What words get repeated? What activities keep getting mentioned? What threads are woven consistently throughout your story? Summarize the patterns you see by circling common words or writing a few summary sentences below both lists.”
“if you’re receiving validation from others instead of having it within yourself or creating your own validation through the things that matter most to you, then you are always going to be subject to the judgment of others.”
“When you look in the mirror, you should at least be proud that you gave your all on the field no matter what the critics may say. Be true to you.”
“As President Teddy Roosevelt put it: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
“Two things are required to pursue your dreams: hustle and willingness to put yourself out there! The two things people are most afraid of are fear of failure and fear of being embarrassed. I’m constantly working on both of these fears so I can live the life I want free from the burden of caring what other people think of me.”
“Tony Robbins, and he tells me most people struggle to have a big vision for the future because they focus on how it can be done instead of why they want to do it. Once you are clear on your why, the how takes care of itself.”
“Your purpose needs to be the most important mission of your life. If you’re not walking in your purpose, you’re just working and living to die,” said Nicole Lynn, the first female agent to represent a top NFL agency, when she chatted with me on my podcast. “You’ve got to figure out what that purpose and calling is.”
“So many great people live lives absent of greatness because they live by default and not by design.”
“chasing greatness may mean you’ll stumble and fall a few times along the way.”
“At the heart of this mindset is the unwavering belief that “I am enough!”
“Maybe you’ve had one of those moments when you realized the awful truth: you’re just trying to survive, running out the clock, hoping someday something magical will happen that changes everything for you.”
“If you get the message that you’re not good enough, that you’re not worthy enough,” says Dr. Gabor, “then you might spend the rest of your life trying to prove”
“Dr. Suzuki’s book Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion.”
“What did you fail at today?” Then her dad would encourage them to write down the “hidden gifts”—the lessons that came from their failures.”
“only person who can give yourself what you want,”
“Once I have chosen my top three goals for each of the Three Players, I ask myself three crucial questions: What do I want? Answering this question forces me to bring clarity to my vision and the end I have in mind. Why do I want it? Answering this question helps me reconnect to my Meaningful Mission and tap into my deep motivation to take action. Sometimes when I ask this question, I struggle to answer, which may indicate I need to ask myself another question: Do I really want it? What’s the next step? Answering this question causes me to focus on the next practical move I need to take to move forward. I don’t have to know what I will do six months from now, only what I need to do next to keep moving forward.”
“You’ll need to become comfortable with trying, failing, and learning, knowing that failure is the only path to success.”
“Pause to celebrate your success and accomplishments of hard work so you can find happiness along the journey as well. Don’t be so concerned about the end goal that you don’t enjoy all the little wonderful achievements on your way to the ultimate win.”
“There is a big difference between wanting to someday run a race and actually being a runner. The wannabe runner doesn’t have a plan for training. Whether they run or not today depends on how they are feeling. But if the runner has already decided, I am a runner, they then do what runners do—run. They don’t have to think about it. They don’t have to feel like it. They do it.”
“I have a thing I do when I’m running and want to quit. When I want to stop or feel fatigued, I repeat a mantra to myself. I’m fast. I’m healthy. I’m free. With each running step, I’m fast. I’m healthy. I’m free. And as I run, my fatigue seems to disappear, my pain diminishes, and I start to run a little faster.”
“Who or what has shaped your identity? Did you cultivate it yourself, or did someone else choose to prune you to grow in a particular direction? Often, this pruning happens unintentionally and is the product of the environment in which we live. You have to nurture your own growth in the direction of your own Meaningful Mission, or it will flow wherever other people take it.”
“Payal says when you live to please others, “you don’t know what success looks like anymore.”1 She calls it plan B success. It’s not the success path you chose for yourself, but one you sort of fell into accidentally. And no wonder it doesn’t feel fulfilling to you. It’s not yours!”
“When we face our trauma, we are walking a new path. We are walking the way of a hero on the path to greatness.”
“If you don’t realize you’re a masterpiece, that you have something to offer that nobody else has, you limit yourself.”
“Tim Storey joined me on my show, he shared this wisdom: “When you find out where you came from, who you are, and what your purpose is, you cannot be stopped.”
