Lewis Howes argues that relationship success is 95% about which version of yourself you bring to the table. Real fulfillment comes from showing your authentic, purpose-driven self instead of the protected version you usually project. Stop justifying your walls and choose vulnerability instead.
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Can I coach you directly as a friend? Please do. You gotta stop finding what you're looking for in order to justify protecting yourself. 95% of success in a relationship is selection. It's not the selection you're thinking. It's not who you select. It's which part of yourself you select to bring to this relationship. And who primarily is the person who selects within themself to be in relationship with you. You have to be able to go deeper. You got to be this kind of vulnerability that you're being with me right now, which I want to thank you for, just as a friend. I'm a friend of yours even though we might only talk once every year and a half, because I get who you are at a soulful level, not who you project. Who you project is a really great guy too, but I'm more interested in this guy I see right here, because this guy will touch people's lives. This guy can have a level of fulfillment most people never have. The other guy will succeed. Success is getting what you fucking want. Fulfillment is bringing what you're made for to those you love and those you've learned to love.
