A short monologue (YouTube) about discovering and expanding an enduring, persevering identity within oneself. The speaker argues that intense challenges reveal this identity, problems provoke growth, and that lasting happiness comes from who you become (identity) rather than external gains; expanding identity makes formerly hard things feel easy.
I found a part of myself that I still use to this day. I found this identity that will not stop, that will find the way, that will push through. And we all have it. But it usually takes something really intense to bring it out. I always tell people the biggest problem people have is that they think they're not supposed to have any. But problems call forth in us if we don't give up. They cause us to grow. What you get will never make you happy. Who you become will make you very happy, very sad. And that's an identity. But when you really do that to yourself, when you really expand your identity, your life changes completely. And what used to be hard to do is easy.
Tony Robbins Helps Her Use the Power of Her Own Mind to Manifest A Better Life
