Why You Suffer and How to Finally Stop | Peter Sage
6/10/20261 hr 19 min
You can spend your whole life chasing the thing you think will make you happy, and never once realize you were never built to catch it.
That's the trap most high achievers live inside. Run faster. Earn more. Hit the next goal. The rabbit just speeds up.
Peter Sage has spent decades coaching people out of that loop. He breaks human consciousness into four levels: To Me, By Me, Through Me, As Me. Most of us are stuck grinding in By Me, mistaking motion for meaning.
He's lived the test, not just taught it. Six months in a UK prison, stripped of his business, his marriage, and everything he owned, and he chose to walk in smiling.
This conversation will change how you carry whatever you're carrying right now. Because the outer world always follows the inner one.
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In this episode you will:
- Understand the Curse of the White Rabbit and why achievement alone never delivers fulfillment
- Learn how to raise your financial thermostat so your own programming stops sabotaging you
- Discover the four levels of consciousness (To Me, By Me, Through Me, As Me) and why most people stay stuck
- Break free from GOOP (the Good Opinion of Other People) that quietly drives your decisions
- Master the three levels of change (intellectual, emotional, identity) that make new behavior actually stick
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TOPICS
Peter Sage, four levels of consciousness, Through Me, Curse of the White Rabbit, financial thermostat, GOOP, self-worth vs net worth, friendly universe, identity change, personal transformation
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First 90 secondsPeter Sage· Guest0:00
If you look at the lowest level of consciousness, what I call the, the victim mentality, it's a level that I call to me. I would have the, the house, the car, the body, the money, the whatever, but everything happens to me. All stress comes from life not fitting your pictures, and the friction that that causes is really where most people get stuck. A lot of people have the premise that in order to create the life they want, they've gotta try to fix the outer world, and that's where a lot of people fall down because one of the universal truths that I've found in the work that I've done is that outer world follows inner world.
Lewis Howes· Host0:31
He is a serial entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, and one of the most sought-after coaches in the world on human behavior and personal transformation. We have the inspiring Peter Sage in the house.
Peter Sage· Guest0:42
There is an energy that is intelligent, that if you know how to tune into it, it can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. If I believe that I live in a hostile universe, I'm separate, therefore I'm only focused on myself. And so many people are standing in front of the mirror and they're angry because it's not smiling back.
Lewis Howes· Host0:58
So I'm curious, why do most people suffer today?
Peter Sage· Guest1:01
I would have to say if I was gonna give one overarching answer, it would be...
Lewis Howes· Host1:05
Uh, you've been coaching people for a long time about how to unlock their greatest potential and how to get rid of feeling stuck and suffering in their life. So I'm curious, why do most people suffer today?
Peter Sage· Guest1:22
Oh, great starting question. And I would have to say if I was gonna give one overarching answer, it