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Lewis HowesCanelo Álvarez: How Meditation CHANGED My Life & Helps Me WIN!
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Canelo on fearlessness, love, and meditation powering boxing and business
- Canelo says his mindset has stayed consistently “hungry” for nearly two decades, driven by loving boxing and always wanting “more” from his career.
- He says he doesn’t feel fear in the ring and doesn’t think about losing, but he does train for adverse situations so he can respond if they happen.
- He describes meditation as a recent practice that changed his mind and improved not just boxing performance but also his relationships and business life.
- He contrasts “success” with “greatness,” describing greatness as pushing beyond comfort zones and proving doubters wrong through determination and self-belief.
- He explains why he’s building businesses and wants to teach other athletes to develop pursuits outside sports so they have something lasting after their careers end.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasLong-term hunger comes from passion and full commitment, not external pressure.
He describes loving the process as the reason he can keep training hard and staying "hungry" year after year, saying that if he commits to something, he does it at 100% rather than halfway.
He separates preparation for danger from mentally entertaining defeat.
He says he doesn’t feel fear in boxing and doesn’t think about losing; instead, he focuses on going in to win and enjoy the fight, while still training for difficult scenarios like getting dizzy or knocked down.
He treats worry as due diligence and insecurity as optional.
He explains that in business he may feel worry—especially about finding the right people and partners—but he doesn’t feel insecure, because he decides what he wants to do and then finds the right team to execute it.
Family responsibility became fuel that intensified his discipline and drive.
He shares that becoming a father at 17 changed his mindset by adding responsibility; he worked multiple jobs (including selling ice cream) and then trained, and he says his daughter gave him extra motivation and focus.
Meditation is described as a mental upgrade that improves performance and relationships together.
He says meditation has him feeling in his best moment, not only in boxing but in life—relationships, friends, business—because it changed his mind and helped him understand love as including limits and respect.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesMeditation change my mind. I'm feeling my best. I feel, not just in boxing, in life.
— Canelo Álvarez
My mind is always try to get more. Try to get more, uh, history, uh, to my career, and, and I never... It's never enough for me.
— Canelo Álvarez
I never feel fear- in, in, in boxing. I never feel how it's like to f- feel that, that fear.
— Canelo Álvarez
If you walking in life with love, you, you, you gonna be good everywhere. Everywhere, no matter what.
— Canelo Álvarez
What I, what I'm doing, that's greatness. Go out of your s- comfort zone- and do things everybody say you're gonna, you, you can't do it.
— Canelo Álvarez
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SPEAKERS
Canelo Álvarez
guestMexican professional boxer and multiple-division world champion known as “Canelo.”
Lewis Howes
hostHost of “The School of Greatness” podcast and interviewer.
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