You are the only human being with your combination of gifts that you were given whatever they are and your experience and real human beings help real human beings by being

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete turn lifestyle entrepreneur and each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

There's something unique about you Ed that's no one else and I'm not saying this because you're here. I don't think I've said this to anyone on the show.

There's so many unique about you that I don't think I've ever experienced around anyone else.

There's an essence. There's a presence. There's a power, a command, an authority, a humble confidence. There's like this essence about you.

Thank you. And I'm really curious. What do you think made you you? What were the elements growing up that made you all the things you are now?

Was it the pre-13 kind of everything that happened with your parents? Was it stuff more from school? Was it a relationship that really kind of flipped these things on for you?

What were the elements early on that made you this commanding kind presence today? Thank you for that.

Thank you. That's nice to hear. I love people that have that combo. I love people with a lot of self-confidence, a lot of humility.

People with a lot of humility that have no self-confidence, you drag them through life as a friend. Some of them with all their self-confidence and no humility, they're going to burn out. They're going to make them state they're not curious. They don't grow.

I think that, I think even the reason I'm in the personal development space, why do I believe so much that people can change? I watched my dad do it.

And then in my case, I had to learn these things, man, to be like a baseline functioning person. So my default personality is insecure.

Even today. Come on. Very much.

How was that default? You wake up and you say, I'm a nobody or what? What's the story? I lack this. I'm phone everybody. They really knew.

Pretty, some imposter syndrome mixed with just like tremendous, I was bullied as a kid. My dad was an alcoholic. I wasn't a real big guy.

The only thing I wasn't good in school, the only thing I was good at was sports. A lot like with you, you were a great athlete.

So my default is tons of insecurity. So that's probably never going to go away the humility part.

So the part that I've worked on really hard is the self-confidence part. And so I've got all this stuff in the book on those tips and what have I done to build it?

Because I had to get there just to get to baseline. And then I'm like, this stuff works. What if I refined it and made it my own and started to build these other strategies and stuff?

So the confidence part is the thing I'm always going to have to work on. Even today, even with all the success and the massive show and the big businesses and all the homes and everything that people see.

What else do you need though to feel more calm?

...