Check out our sponsors:Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! BLUblox: Go to blublox.com/impacttheory for 15% off your order or use discount code ImpactTheory at checkout.Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a 1 month FREE trial of Premium Membership. Shopify: Go to shopify.com/impact for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features.Anthem Software: anthemsoftware.com Ombre Lab: To get 70% off -- go to: tryombre.com/ImpactSelf-awareness is that thing many people claim to have but in no time at all you know this person is completely unaware of themselves. Our versions of reality seem to fall in line with the narrative and stories we constantly remind ourselves of, but the truth is, we’ve constructed a reality shaped and influenced by emotions that were never truthful from the beginning. Robert Greene, just released another book, The Daily Laws, and he joins Tom in this episode to share his profound wisdom and understanding of human nature. He beautifully peels back the layers of complexity around how we are able to perceive the world around us and the way in which we fit into our own stories. The main point Robert drives home is the power of detaching yourself from the emotions and egos to take an honest assessment of what you are truly experiencing. Robert Greene’s last episode on Impact Theory: https://youtu.be/4EtN3DM74Ko Check out Robert Greene’s new book, The Daily Laws: https://amzn.to/3Bpmmk9 SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Robert Greene0:51 | Reading Words and Behaviors5:06 | Unhealthy Relationship Loops9:25 | Developing Awareness12:21 | Detaching Emotion & Ego16:33 | Self Analysis & Illusion24:33 | See the World As It Is30:35 | Shift from Blame to Power34:30 | Untruthful Emotions41:42 | Change Attitude with Belief48:42 | What Is Sublime59:02 | Experiencing the Sublime1:12:22 | Daily Struggle for Joy1:18:00 | The Problem with Hope1:25:58 | Abilities Taken for Granted1:30:30 | Processing Data Quickly1:36:29 | Envy & Comparison QUOTES: “Deal with the world the way that it actually is, and not the way that you wish it were.” Tom Bilyeu [0:26] “We completely take appearances for reality. That's sort of the source of our problems and our misery to be honest with in life.” [1:10] “When you're very young you're extremely vulnerable, you're extremely open to the energies of other people in ways we don't understand right now.” [6:38] “So awareness is everything, the ability to look at yourself, realistically, and understand you're saying, see things as they are, see the world as it is. It begins with yourself, seeing yourself as you are.” [11:28] “If we saw completely into ourselves, we would hate ourselves so thoroughly, we wouldn't get out of bed, we would all be killing ourselves, you do need a degree of illusion, you need a degree of self esteem and confidence” [20:14] “We're so attuned to what's cool, to what other people are doing out there, what other people are saying that we lose kind of an intuitive grasp of who we are.” [22:50] “The source of your power in life is your attitude towards the world.” [25:17] “When you take 100% ownership, and you look at your life and say, My life is an exact reflection of choices that I've made. Now, if I want it to be different, then I just need only make different choices” Tom Bilyeu [32:39] Follow Robert Greene:Website: https://www.robertgreene.co/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-greene-0294962/Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertGreeneInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertgreeneofficial/