{"id":387197,"date":"2021-03-17T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=387197"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:59:33","slug":"advice-from-the-maha-rushie-always-be-who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/17\/advice-from-the-maha-rushie-always-be-who-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice from the Maha Rushie: Always Be Who You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: There are many people I have run into in my life that remember exactly when they first heard this program. Rush always said, &#8220;I\u2019m just a guy on the radio,&#8221; but he was more than that to a lot of us. He was a father figure, a brother, a friend. This program was a gathering place. He\u2019s also that voice in our head when perhaps we doubted ourselves, faced a fear in life <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/06\/17\/donald-trump-instinctively-goes-against-the-grain\/\">or just needed some encouragement and motivation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve learned a lot in life, and I hope everybody does as they grow older, it\u2019s the whole point of things. And I remember back to the first days and weeks and years when this show started. And there was no grand strategy to it. It had a big, overarching goal: Be great, be the best show, be the number one show documented by ratings and audience research, the number one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_60521c70201dbc00018522d4\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/60521c70201dbc00018522d4.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&amp;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\nThat was the objective. There was no plan on how to do it, and there wasn\u2019t any five-year plan, three-year plan or any of this. It was just me being myself each and every day here on the radio. And then, as that happened, everybody began analyzing it. People that I worked with, people in the media. They could not avoid it. People were analyzing what I was doing. And I had to make sure to never read any of that and to never listen to any of it.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing I wanted to know was what I was doing so that I could consciously continue to try. Because once you have to consciously continue to try what you already are, you\u2019re gonna stop being what you already are and you\u2019re gonna start trying to copy what you think you are. The danger when you try to keep being who you are, you stop being who you are. Being who you are shouldn\u2019t require any effort at all. Who you are au natural is who you are.<\/p>\n<p>The minute you start trying to be who you are &#8212; I had to resist it. I mean, there were a lot of well-intentioned people that said, &#8220;Well, if you want to keep this up, you\u2019re gonna have to change. If you want to keep this up, if you wanna really be doing this a long time, you\u2019ll have to moderate this and change a little bit.&#8221; Some of them well-intentioned, some of them weren\u2019t, but it didn\u2019t matter because none of it was right.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s another reason why I\u2019ve never listened to anybody else who does this. I don\u2019t want to even inadvertently start copying other people and not be who I am. And being who I am in the sense of what interests me, what doesn\u2019t. If I start trying to imagine, for example, every day what all of you want to hear, I\u2019m finished. And I don\u2019t mean this humorously or &#8230; It\u2019s a decent thing. Loving yourself is very important, folks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_60525d9c72091500018d101d\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/60525d9c72091500018d101d.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&#038;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not bragging about yourself or being sick about it, but if you don\u2019t like yourself, if you\u2019re not comfortable with who you are, then you\u2019re gonna always try to be something you\u2019re not, and you\u2019re finished \u2019cause everybody\u2019s gonna recognize you as a phony eventually.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got a guy on phone from Katy, Texas, who said the references I made to everybody being who you are, not what somebody wants you to be, but remaining who you are, that\u2019s the big challenge. He said it\u2019s something Mozart said during his lifetime and that therefore I am in great company. It\u2019s a very nice thing. Thank you, Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>BRETT: Indeed, he\u2019s in Mozart\u2019s company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRETT: Rush always said, &quot;I&#039;m just a guy on the radio,&quot; but he was more than that to a lot of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":382104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Advice from the Maha Rushie: Always Be Who You Are - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/17\/advice-from-the-maha-rushie-always-be-who-you-are\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Advice from the Maha Rushie: Always Be Who You Are - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"BRETT: Rush always said, &quot;I&#039;m just a guy on the radio,&quot; 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