564 Lead the Pack with Cesar Millan

"LEADERSHIP IS PROTECTION AND DIRECTION. - CESAR MILLAN Believe it or not, there's a lot we can learn from the animal world - especially about leadership. They can't lie. They have to lead without words. In order to be a strong leader you have to be calm and confident. I believe there's so much we can learn from the animal kingdom, and on this episode we get some amazing insights from The Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan. So listen to this 5 Minute Friday, taken from our previous interview, and learn how you can truly be a great leader, on Episode 564. Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday.

• 0:11Lewis Howes?

  I am so excited about this one. I have loved The Dog Whisperer for many years. And Cesar Millan is a hero to me for all that he's doing. He brings more than 25 years of dog experience and his status as the most recognized and sought-after authority in the field of dog care and rehabilitation directly to communities terrorized by unruly hounds.

• 0:34Speaker 01

  The less you think, the more effective you are. Thinking can also make you question yourself. Or you can waste one second. In the animal world, one second is a lot. So it's actually about being. Being versus thinking. So how should I be? You should calm your emotions and only think what you want to accomplish. Right? So that's why I say calm and assertive. So it's calm and confident. So when you're thinking, you're hesitating. You're thinking too much, too long, and the animal says you don't know what to do.

• 1:06Lewis Howes?

  Doesn't trust you.

• 1:07Speaker 01

  No, because it's not that he doesn't trust you, it's just they don't really know what the hell you're doing. You're thinking, but they don't know you're thinking. What they know is you're not coming out with a conclusion or with a direction.

• 1:18Lewis Howes?

  No certainty.

• 1:19Speaker 01

  No certainty and no leadership. And leadership is protection and direction. And that direction has to be given at the moment it's needed. It's not until you're ready that's when it's needed. That's a big job to be a leader is for the survival of your family. And this family is a dog and he functions based out of instincts, no thinking. They don't debate things. They just fix things in the moment.

• 1:43Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, it's all about your way of being, your energy.

• 1:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's that simple, by the way. It's that simple. We are the only species that follow unstable pack leaders. Animals, it's impossible for them to follow instability. Impossible. They don't follow instability because instability leads them nowhere.

• 2:00Lewis Howes?

  So they'll do their own thing or they'll...

• 2:02Speaker 01

  Or they take over their relationship.

• 2:03Lewis Howes?

  Right, right.

• 2:04Speaker 01

  So in my case, you know, in my case, you can clearly see how the dog is in control of their lives. So outside, we were talking to a gentleman that you introduced me and he said, "My dog love for me to drag him." That's his perception. Right, right. Why would a dog would like to be dragged? Right. And then he come out with a, oh, he's doing sit ups, that's what. Straight hitting his core. It was all very intellectual, you know what I mean? It made no sense in the animal world. Yes. But in his mind, made a lot of sense. What if someone feels like, I feel like I'm certain, I'm confident, I'm leading, and I'm poised and graceful, but it's still like, feels like I'm dragging in some sense. My friend, animals don't lie. So you can think that you are, doesn't mean you are. Yes.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  If you come from ego selfishness and envy, you're not going to be very clear about how you feel. A lot of times, people come from ego saying, I am confident. But it's ego talking for you versus just being clear about it. Yeah, so that's why a dog is a perfect teacher of how you truly feel. They don't know how to lie, only humans lie. They have no idea how to lie, they're the most honest friend you will ever have. Well, how do we train confidence in human beings? Or? Well, first, before you train. Erasing the ego. Before you train, awareness needs to rise. Without awareness, there is no possibilities, right? And then through that awareness, then the human takes responsibility.

• 3:31Speaker 01

  Then, once the human takes responsibility, then you enter into surrender. That's when you can teach. You can't teach a mind, the thing knows everything. That's a fact. You can't, so, so fight, flight, avoid, and surrender. You can only teach the mind to surrender. The mind defeats flight and avoid. You can't. Wow. You can't, you can't. So once they surrender, they're aware. Once you surrender, what happens is you open up, that means you're willing to follow. Follow what? Direction. What direction? Yoga, meditation, math, whatever you want, whatever you want. Because now you open your mind to absorb information. Once you absorb it, then you have to feel it. Once you feel it, you're clear, then you execute. Feeling and thought.

• 4:14Speaker 01

  You can do things without the feeling, it's not gonna look good. Right. Dancers are a perfect example, right? They have to feel the music before they execute the act. Hmm. Yeah, singers, you know, when a singer is nervous. They can sing, they can think they're singing, but you know, when it feels good. Yeah. It's a feeling. Yeah. It's an art. Goosebumps, right? Kind of gives you goosebumps when you feel it, when you see it. It connects you, it connects you to it. It touches something deeply inside of you, you know, the soul, the heart, the body, and then the mind. The mind is the flesh, is the last thing. Yeah, yeah. And the mind is the second thing. But really, the deep side of you is this, is the, is the soul, the spirit, and the heart, where passion lives.

• 4:58Speaker 01

  That is really what we have to always connect. Yeah. And everything else is, you know, secondary.