This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Michelle Obama: How I Kept a Level Head During the White House Years" featuring a conversation between Lewis Howes and Michelle Obama. The discussion focuses on maintaining personal focus amidst public scrutiny during her time in the White House.
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How are you able to keep the core nucleus of your closest friends and family to just only focus on what they think of you rather than what the world thinks of you? Both at the extreme high high and others extreme critical?
You can't listen to either. That's not to say that I didn't look at any press. You know, especially when you're campaigning, you can't help but know what things are. But what I learned was that I have to filter it. The beauty of being in the White House is you have a communications team. And I just get to the point, tell me the things that are objectively are things that I need to hear. And I just had to practice. And I wasn't always good at it. I'd look through the clips, I'd look at stories. Every now and then, I'd dig a little too deep, good and bad. It's like, well, I. I can't believe one and not the other. So let me just do the work. So I tried to develop a habit of getting my information not firsthand, but thirdhand. So my comms director tell me in this meeting what I need to know, so I do what I tell young people do. Do not read the comments section. Just don't go there. If you're in social media and you're doing this work, do not let that stuff feed you. You have to be disciplined enough to just put your head down and do the work and let the work speak for you.
