This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Stop focusing on perfection!" created on June 16, 2025. It features a conversation between Lewis Howes and another speaker discussing the importance of focusing on personal progress rather than perfection or comparison, and how to build resilience against external pressures.
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Comparing yourself to the perfect version of you. I should be in better shape.
I should listen a little more, I.
Should work a little harder, I should make a little more money can only depress you or saying, damn, look at Lewis.
He's got this, he's got school grades. This is books in New York Times bestseller.
Lewis is doing this. I try like. So if we don't focus on our.
Progress, we focus on perfection, it messes us up. And if we focus on comparison, it messes up.
So the only thing we have to focus on if we can is is our own progress. If you're a better version today than last week, last month, last year, then we're moving forward. Some people move a little slower, some people move a little quicker, some people move too fast. Here's the other thing that you don't get. Most of the people that you. And I'm not saying you feel this way that you see in your life. You get to interview so many great people. A lot of them are 10, 15, 25 years older than you.
Yeah.
Dude, you are on such an incredible journey of. I mean I watched your transformation of the man you are and watching your, your love when you're now amazing wife and this journey, like, you're one of the richest people I know. I mean, would you take a billion bucks to get rid of that and be unhappy? You're so wealthy. I've never met you without a smile on your face. And this is not for you, but.
I'm hoping somebody else.
I've never met you without a smile, without an open hand saying, what can I do for you? And so we just got to remember to look in the mirror at ourselves.
And look in the rearview mirror of what we've accomplished. And I think that has helped us in the present. Yeah, that's beautiful. How can we invest in our internal world to create recession proof in the external world? My, my, my intuition says you have.
To try to eliminate a lot of the noise on the outside.
Yes. So good. I mean, if you just watch the.
News, I went 20 years, most of.
20 years haven't watched the news, but I've watched it when once in a while recently because so much crazy stuff is going on. It's almost just for entertainment. Yeah. But if you, if you think when we're watching this a couple Mondays ago, the market fell really hard and it was. The sky is falling, it is over. Everything's going to hell in a hand basket.
It's the beginning of the end.
Yes.
And a couple days later there was.
An announcement and it went back up, and everybody said, oh, it's going to be great. In fact, it's going to be higher than ever before. Yeah. Yeah.
I think we have to watch. We have to protect the inside. We have to. You know, today, so many things we.
Talked about today, Louis, people have heard.
Before they've done, but it's a gym. You got to go work out every day. You got to be in the gym doing the exercise. You got to do the personal development workout on your mind, because you got to create an invincible inside because you. We can't let the outside temperature control who we are.
