Kenny Weiss is the Founder of the Greatness Movement and author of the highly reviewed book Your Journey to Success. After suffering from trauma early in his life, Kenny struggled for years with divorces, addictions, bankruptcy and suicidal thoughts. While writing a suicide note to his children, he realized that he couldn`t justify his choice because he had learned too much about psychology, and instead decided to create a process that would help him and later thousands of others to heal from their pain and move towards greatness.

I was blown away by Kenny`s insights on dealing with trauma, overcoming fears, and chasing greatness, so I`m excited to share this episode with you!

Greatness Insights

We`ve been taught to pursue external success, which we use to validate ourselves and medicate intolerable pain. Instead of success, pursue greatness by becoming an expert at something and taking your pain, trauma, and struggles head on rather than hiding from it.

Finding your greatness is a lifelong pursuit

The Worst Day Cycle: Trauma, Fear, Shame, Denial

2 basic human needs: Attachment and authenticity

Trauma happens when we deny our authenticity because we are afraid of losing attachment. This denial leads to low self-esteem because we aren`t willing to show our true nature

When we experience fear, we create an emotional and chemical reaction in our brain, which our brain seeks to repeat because it does not know right from wrong, only known from unknown. Because it`s comfortable to stay in the known, we tend to repeat behaviors that don`t actually serve us simply because we`ve become used to them

When we deny our authenticity, we tend to create false personas to get our need for attachment met (Kenny played two pro sports he never wanted to play). In addition, we victimize ourselves and seek out situations that hurt us to attract attention from others. This and the fact that we now choose to victimize ourselves instead of having others victimize us gives us power because we are now in charge. This process leads to self-denial though because we don`t want to face that we`re living as a false persona and are responsible for our own misery.

The moment you accept total responsibility for your situation is the moment you regain your power because now you can fix it

When we criticize and blame others, all we`re doing is face our own Worst Day Cycle and our own inadequacies and projecting them on others

Change starts with massive awareness: How do you ACTUALLY feel? “Good”, “bad”, or “okay” don`t count. Time to go deeper.

The fear of failure is a myth because all of us know what it takes to make our life better, we just choose not to do it because chasing our success would force us to be our authentic selves, which may cost us our attachment to the people we love