Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Success is a great deodorant

1 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Lewis Howes talks with someone about how running from pain leads nowhere, while facing it transforms you. External success just masks the emptiness underneath. The speaker spent years achieving outwardly while feeling empty, learning that accomplishments intensify dissatisfaction when you don't address what's actually broken.

What we run from pursues us, and what we face transforms us. You and I have been transformed by our pain.
Yes.
And we also spent years running from it. Oh man, years.
We know both roads. Years, man. And it was, it's funny because I thought the more I accomplished, the better I would feel. But it was almost like the more I accomplished externally, the worse I felt because it didn't take the pain away.
Success is a great deodorant.
Yeah.
Kind of covers it all up, you know?