Episode 85: Start Where You Are: The Journey to Know Thyself

Oct 22, 2025

Discover the ancient wisdom of self-knowledge as hosts explore the journey to understanding oneself. Gino shares insights from decades of personal growth, revealing how skills evolve into deeper emotional awareness. Rob unveils a healing practice centered on five elements. The discussion links the shadow self to chronic pain, emphasizing the importance of addressing buried emotions. They also delve into the power of personality profiles and how recognizing strengths can transform patterns. Ultimately, it’s about shedding layers to embrace your True Self.

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INSIGHT

Know Thyself As The Ultimate Goal

Knowing yourself is the end game: it frees your True Self to live and work authentically.
Gino frames self-knowledge as a layered journey from skills to deep energetic blocks.

ADVICE

Start With Practical Self-Awareness Practices

Start with practical methods like personality profiles, feedback from others, and therapy to build self-awareness.
Progress to deeper practices (meditation, energy work, psychedelics) only when you're ready.

ANECDOTE

Gino's Decades-Long Self-Discovery Arc

Gino describes a decades-long arc: skills in his 20s, strengths later, and now energetic-block work.
He emphasizes it's okay to begin with outer-world learning before inner-world shedding.

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On this episode of Shed and Shine, Rob and Gino revisit Discipline #3: Know Thyself. From ancient wisdom carved at the Temple of Apollo to modern-day profiling tools, they explore how the journey inward begins with honest self-recognition. Gino walks through his decades-long path of uncovering skills, strengths, and eventually, the deeper layers of energetic blocks and emotional patterns. Rob opens up about a unique healing practice rooted in the five elements, while Gino connects recent breakthroughs about the shadow self, buried rage, and chronic pain to his ongoing shedding process. Whether it starts with a personality profile or a subtle moment of emotional clarity, knowing yourself is the necessary first step to becoming your True Self. The end game is living freely and fully, guided by self-awareness, truth, and love. Chapters 00:00 The Journey to Know Thyself
02:02 Personal Reflections on Self-Discovery
04:50 The End Game of Self-Discovery
06:50 The Power of Personality Profiles
10:01 Awareness and Self-Insight
14:40 Connecting Pain and Emotions
19:00 The Journey Continues ABOUT THE 10 DISCIPLINES
The 10 Disciplines, founded by Gino Wickman and Rob Dube, is on a mission to help one million entrepreneurs realize it's possible to be driven and have peace while making a bigger impact. We want to help you shed the barriers and layers that prevent you from creating the balance between impact and peace, and your True Self.

Do you want to let your freak flag fly, and be your most authentic self at all times? Do you want to accomplish more without burning out, or doing a lot of damage to yourself (emotionally, physically, and mentally), and the relationships around you? Do you want to know the person beneath the identity you’ve created of work, accomplishments, and successes? If so, you’re in the right place.

You've put a lot of focus on your outer world. Let's start your inner world journey together.

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