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our next guest needs no introduction tony Robbins you have to figure it out
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like I always say if you want to take the island you burn the boats i got a chance to work with the president of the United States uh Clinton and he calls me
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one day true story and says "Tony they're going to impeach me in the morning." How many of you ever achieved a goal you worked your guts out for and
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then achieved it and went "Is this all there is?" Horrific horrible
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it's great to uh meet you thank you you're bigger in person you're a big man
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compared to what a normal human okay they're large they're like see your
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hands there you go there you go it's like you're a big guy um you're glad he
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just had his hand it could have got really interesting you're true true i mean maybe not if he
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was in the cold plunge you never know okay enough when I told people you were coming Yes i
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got like a range of responses and your poor assistant chief of staff is in a
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total panic about all the questions I'm going to ask you i don't care yes I know you don't care but I got the range of
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the infomercial guy he has had a profound impact on my life from very
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significant friends of mine who we know in common who have been to your seminars
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to he's kind of a guru self-help it's all kind of like snake oil
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i want to know where this all started because my perception of you was the late night when I was growing up in the
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80s the infomercials and then I looked into it and I started looking into the
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self-help space you actually were inspired by a self-help guru who you went to work for in the I think the late
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'7s yeah jim Ran yeah jim Ran and um you have been on this for a while and a lot
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of the techniques that you studied are very real there these are real techniques in psychology and when I
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looked at them and I was looking at the history of it you know you look at Ralph Waldo Emerson uh self-reliance
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uh Freud Young uh NLP natural uh neural
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linguistic programming and even Elron Hubard who took it in a different direction a lot of these self-help
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things are you getting to a question i am i am he wants to show you that he spent two hours on Wikipedia before we
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started i went down the rabbit hole wikipedia who is Tony Robbins and why
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did you get addicted to all this self-help stuff and then it's kind of been packaged in a couple different ways
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in your life so I'm curious this sort of arc of how you got into this and then what you do for people now because my
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friend Mark Pinkis and then uh we have Beni off friend of the show my friend Kevin Rose these guys and then civilians
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I one of my wife's friends goes and runs over coals with you in Hawaii and she
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she's a makeup artist and she loves it and she can't shut up about it so tell me how you got into self-help how you
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packaged it and why you decided to be a coach and do these seminars instead of starting a a cult or religion
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i got unpack that yes please well people know me at different stages i was on television every 30 minutes 24 hours a
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day for about 12 years during infomercial days and I hated infomercials but there was no real vehicle right you could get out to mass
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number of people other than writing a book and most people don't read so but it started for me i grew up in a pretty
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tough environment i was born in downtown LA i had four different fathers i had a very powerful mom who I love dearly i've
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since passed um beautiful soul i created a lot of my success to her but also when
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she drank alcohol and took prescription drugs she was a different person very violent i have a younger brother younger sister so I really became a practical
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psychologist in my youth learning how to manage her emotions and her states and how to really get things done and um I
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think probably the thing that changed my life the most though was when I was 11 years old my fourth father and he got fired from his job and it was
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Thanksgiving we had no money and no food when I say no food we had crackers and peanut butter but you know not a Thanksgiving dinner which kind of
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depressing and my parents were fighting and you know saying things you can never take back and I was trying to make my brother and sister not hear it and my
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life was changed cuz someone came to the door i opened a big guy two bags of groceries in his hand and an un a frozen
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turkey uncooked in a pan on the ground he'd obviously carried and sat down he said "Is your father here?" And I was like "Just one moment." And I thought it
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was going to be the most joyous moment but my father was angry because he felt humiliated he looked at it as charity
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and said "We don't accept that." And long story short the man said "I'm the delivery guy." And my dad had to take
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the food and that day changed my life because my father left shortly thereafter and I really loved him he's
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the one who adopted me and uh I carry his name but it also I our life is
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determined I think by the meanings we give to things you know is this the end or the beginning is this person dissing me are they coaching me are they loving
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on me whatever you decide controls your life and I was fortunate enough at that point that I came up with a different
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meaning we grew up in an environment I thought was a wealthy community it was very low middle class to say the least and we were on the other side of the
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railroad tracks and it looked like nobody cared and nobody my father kept saying no one cares about anybody else but this was new evidence for me it was
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like if a stranger who doesn't even want credit is delivering my family Thanksgiving dinner then strangers do
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care and I need to care about strangers and so I promised myself that at 11 years old that someday I'd do this back
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and feed at least two families and then you know I grew up and I started studying patterns i started seeing that
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everything is a pattern you know all of you know as if you're an investor if you're a great CEO uh if you're a great
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dancer musician it's really because you recognize patterns things are no longer chaos for you you see what's going on so
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you have the power of anticipation and then the second skill I think I try to teach this to my kids and grandkids i have five kids and five grandkids i have
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a 50-year-old daughter and thanks to co a four-year-old daughter and uh and I'm saying what do I need them to know the
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world is changing so fast they have to be able to recognize patterns step two utilize them that's where the power is
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and if you do it long enough you play someone else's music long enough you know some of you starts to come through and you start to be a creator of
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patterns that's when you become masterful those are the people we know in investing you know their names or in business or anything else and so once I
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learned that I realized there's nothing wrong with people we just get caught up in patterns and we do them so long we think they're us and it's hard to change
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you easy to change a pattern and I got really good at it and so I changed my body i changed my finances people
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started coming to me and then gradually it became my full-time focus and I began
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to have people calling me as I started producing results and I'd get these athletes that would call like Serena Williams and and she's melting down and
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she can't get on the court cuz her sister just died and she's lost recently and she's you know she's got she's
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gunshy and I got to right now turn her around and there's no net so fortunately I've been able to do that over and over
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again and it built my career and brought me to a lot of sports teams and now I own some of those sports teams pieces of them and um and but then I also started
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looking okay I started working with people that are depressed and suicidal and knock on wood i don't know did any
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of you see Tony Robbins i'm not your guru on Netflix anybody here so if you haven't seen it you can see Thank you
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you see the work but we follow up 10 years later and you see the people are still in great shape because we're rewiring the way the brain works it's
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not a bunch of pump up i do use energy because without energy nothing changes but you can't just have energy you need
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strategy and so as I did that you know I give you a perfect example i'm 31 years old and career starting to sore and then
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I I got a chance to work with the president of the United States uh Clinton and he calls me one day true story and says "Tony they're going to
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impeach me in the morning what should I do?" And I'm 31 years old and the president's
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asked me I said "Could you call me sooner?" You know this is like tomorrow morning but because there's no net my
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brain figured it out you have to figure it out it's like I always say if you want to take the island you burn the boats and then I got good at Sorry Tony
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what What did you tell him pardon me what did you tell him i can't tell you that okay
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that's that's a private thing I'll tell if you want to know i don't share unless somebody shares but what I will tell you is I got good at studying businesses and
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became an entrepreneur and so now I have 114 companies in ma massively different industries but we do about $9 billion a
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little bit more in revenue and I love the diversity so I get to work with athletes i get the team you formerly
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have ownership in have a little piece of Peter Gerber is one of my dearest friends as you probably know and so I've gotten to work with you know some of the
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greatest athletes in the world some of the greatest musicians some of the greatest entertainers and the greatest entrepreneurs and I don't go there just
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to to teach them I go to learn can I ask you a societal question for a second okay so you've been
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in some ways diagnosing what ails people for let's say 40 years now yes
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every society has its own pothole and maybe you know teenag teenagers and
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young people today suffer from a very different thing that maybe Jason myself and Freeberg did at our ages can you
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diagnose the level of happiness and sadness and satisfaction dissatisfaction that this
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current young generation has relative to other younger generations and where it's different and where it's the same i
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don't think I'm the only one that can see it i think expectations you know I always tell people expectations are what
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make you really unhappy and we can't not have any obviously but trade your expectations for appreciation your life
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changes but our expectations now are controlled more by social media especially that generation right so
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they're seeing people that are incredibly wealthy and thinking that's who I should be and feeling like I don't have anything i mean what turned people
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in the Soviet Union against Soviet Union when they got access to seeing how the Westerners lived then things changed
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when they didn't see it it was okay so today we compare ourselves to others and in ways that are not real because like
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young girls that go on social media you've seen all the studies I'm sure they get depressed because they're comparing to images that aren't even
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real it's fake expectations minus reality equals happiness and what I really say is progress equals happiness
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like if you are growing if you are going at something even if you're not there yet and you are got to lose 50 pounds
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and you lose the first five or 10 or you're in a relationship and you finally face what has to be dealt with or you
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face your finances there's a momentum that happens and an aliveness i mean ask all of you here and those of you in the
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room how many of you ever achieved a goal you worked your guts out for and then achieved it and went is this all there is who's had this experience i'm
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curious right that's a horrific moment right horrible it's worse than failure cuz most of us simply fail we get back
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up and figure it out right completely but try this one for size how many of you achieved a goal that you worked your guts out for and you're really proud of
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it and you were euphoric who's had one of those my show hands some noise out there if you give it to me later right
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so the question is how long did that good feeling last did it last 6 years no a year euphoria six months six minutes
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10 minutes six weeks six minutes for most people it's been six minutes and about six weeks I found
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and so why is that because we're meant to grow in life you grow or you die the whole universe they have my laws you
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grow or you die and when you grow you have something to give and unless you're giving something beyond yourself if it's always a trade you don't have any esteem
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for yourself you don't have any inner pride but when you have something to give that's when life feels more meaningful yeah jonathan Heights uh book
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from years ago uh the happiness hypothesis yes a great study in there on
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economic progress being the best predictor of happiness it wasn't the absolute dollars you were earning each
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year that flatlined after a certain baseline standard of living beyond that standard of living once you were able to
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get food and housing and all the things you need to survive and thrive what predicted happiness was how much things
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changed from year to year the rate of change that he's absolutely right in other studies but there are new studies that add another dynamic it's also
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affected by who is in your environment and today who's in your environment because the social media is is not real
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and so now we're in a place where people evaluate not by their circle of friends they hang out with that certainly plays
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a role but even more so and I've always tell people if you want to grow get on the field with people tfold of where you
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are and where you if you want to play tennis and you're good at tennis and you're fortunate enough to get sit down with somebody who's world class like a
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Serena Williams friend of mine if you go out and do that you you know you're terrible but just to get on the court
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with her you got to get great if you play against somebody you're better than it's only a matter of time before your skills go down as well so I think our
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society people have an expectation today i also my original teacher Jim Ran a personal development speaker more of a
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business philosopher he I went to one time when I was really young just beginning with him and I said all my
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fathers are good humans why were we always broke and I said and I look at
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this you know billionaire hedge fund person you know and he made a billion dollars last year and this school
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teacher only made in those days like $40,000 and he said Tony that's fair but
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here's what I can suggest to you we're all equal as souls but we're not equal in the marketplace and he said if you go
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to McDonald's and you get a you don't get a living wage you're not supposed to it's a first job anyone can do that job and learn it in an hour but he said "If
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you find a way to add more value to people," because he said to me "Can someone make twice as much money in the same time?" I said 'Yeah five times 10
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100 times he said 'Yeah.' He said 'The guy that made a billion dollars produced a 42% return did you know that those are
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people's futures that was people's college educations that was their retirements he is worth it you must
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become assessed on doing more for others than anybody else does and so that's been my moniker for all my companies and it's been the core and I think that's
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what's missing to answer your question it's like what what is life going to give me versus the Kennedy days of don't
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ask what you're going to do how do you help a larger swath of society then unwind the addiction to SSRIs the kind
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of doom loop doom scrolling like just the general malaise yes that then manifests in all these weird ways the
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inability to talk to each other the you know cut people off because they voted one way versus another all this stuff
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just seems so cuz all of the social media the mobile the social everything's
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not going away it's here it's permeated and it's not just going to disappear overnight but if you study like the the
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youngest generation as they've come forward they're getting off of even they obviously they got off Facebook a long
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time ago their parents do that stuff right but they're not even on Instagram now they're going to these individual places that are more intimate they're
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wanting not everybody to know what they're doing there the pendulum throws itself so extreme and then we correct
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it's what we just experienced politically it's the same thing so it's it's easy to rationalize that but I'll
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tell you you know Stanford came to me during the the COVID time the period and they came to me because two of their
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professors had gone through my date with Destiny Center it's a 5-day total immersion where you rewire yourself
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decide what you want i don't tell you what your values are how you going to live your life and both of them had been on medication both were clinically
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depressed and they came back and he said "They have no symptoms they're off all their medication how does this happen?" So we had this long conversation and he
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said "Well do you have some data?" I said "Well I have millions of graduates you know and stories." He goes "No no like scientific data." I said "No but
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I'd be open to doing a study." So during co Oh wow to longitudinally follow the people that have Yes and so he took but
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they put people in they did their own study cuz I said "If we're going to do this tell me what the standards what do the meta studies show?" Like how many
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people get well through traditional approaches of drugs and therapy and you know I don't know if you're aware of it it's crazy 60% of the people who use
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drugs or therapy to try and get out of depression make zero improvement 60% 40%
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improve he shared with me but the average improvement is 50% most are on drugs the rest of their life and he goes
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I said you should be able to do that with a placebo and he laughed and said by me it's true in fact and he said yeah
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sort of and I said well I know it sounds like hubris or arrogance but it's not just done this so long I said we will
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destroy that i said what's the best study you've ever done they said it was John Hopkins now i think it's been about eight years ago and they gave people
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psilocybin magic mushrooms and and cognitive therapy for a month i said
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"Well something had to change that kind of biochemical shift right?" And it was the greatest up until that point the
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greatest result they'd ever seen in psychiatry at the end of 6 weeks 53% of the people had no symptoms whatsoever of
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depression nothing like it in history so I said "That's my target to beat." And I said again might sound arrogant but I
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said "Enough experience i will bet we do it you set up the study with all the comparison groups and he did and they
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ran the study and I'm proud to tell you that at the end of 6 weeks 97% of the people had no symptoms whatsoever 7% had
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symptoms but they had lessened massively but 17% had suicidal ideiation coming in
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and coming out none did they followed up a year later 72% reduction in negative emotions a year after I've not seen them
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51% increase in positive emotions so now we're doing it on business they did a one-year study with 1500 people they
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just finished it and you know In business you know IBIDA is engagement right the most engaged employees and
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companies are there and we've all seen that drop if you're not familiar with it we usually go three levels you measure
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engagement disengagement which would be now we call it quiet quitting and then active disengagement that's hard
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quitting where they're in the company but trying to harm it the largest drop in history since COVID has happened on engagement and the largest increase in
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active disengagement they took the group in 750 of each group test group versus
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normal group in four excuse me in five days they found a month later the engagement levels returned far above
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what they were precoid but more importantly without any more interaction with me because they changed their wiring over the next year and they
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followed them for the full year they they continue to increase their engagement a lot of what you're doing is
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and has its roots in what we call today CBT cognitive behavioral therapy attribution theory how you interpret
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what people are saying to you but you also need a pause when you do have uh a reaction coming to you and just pausing
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for a second and then making sure you understand and checking the reality of that these are techniques that you
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actually have in your programs yes they do but you if you also don't change the physiology of the person you have
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limited range i'll give you an example they sent a group and followed me for I think I think maybe explaining the attribution theory would be really good
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for the audience and why that's so powerful well I I think if I may just limited time I think you it's more
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important to understand physical change okay because your biochemical changes will last if I ask you all where you were on 911 no matter what country
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you're in if you're not in America everyone knows where they were they what they saw who was there right there's a biochemical change if I asked you where
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on 811 you don't have a clue so what they did is they followed me and they saw what happened to my body on stage 12
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hours a day four days in a row they had me wear this huge device and they took my blood and they took my saliva for
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hormones every hour on the hour and they'd also done this with Tom Brady the group has also done this with uh the
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Tampa Bay uh Lightning who've won multiple times and what they found is what they call championship biochemistry
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when Tom Brady's down by you know 10 points since the fourth quarter and he comes back to win how does that happen
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his biochemistry has an explosion of testosterone which makes you remember everything that's why it retained and it
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puts you in a place of total focus but with testosterone usually also have the
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stress hormone of cortisol in Tom's body and he goes there the cortisol drops off the cliff it's unheard of they call it
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champship and same thing happens Tampa same happens every time I get on stage not sitting like this but doing what we do what's more important is they then
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decide to measure my audience and they did it first before co and then I started doing seminars digitally all around the world like we have 1.3
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million people for a 4-day seminar I usually did 15 20,000 person stadiums for 4 days and now that's the size we're
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able to grow to and scale and we figure how to make it work well when they measured them in 15 different countries
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it looks like it looks like music they come in and we suddenly start to go up together and make the same response same
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find of focus and the same cortisol drop and that's why they believe it's lost same thing happens with engagement right
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it's a biochemical so I do believe in all the elements of cognitive therapy and neuringuistic program there's so
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many but without the unique thing that they saw I did and that tried to explain how it lasted is the biochemical shift
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so pairing CBT with this physical activity this intensity yes that is the
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secret that makes total sense otherwise it won't last right and you know you can make it last by repetition right by you
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know affirming this is why when we go on a retreat and they organize these corny corporate retreats it's not corny that
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they want to do a thrilling experience and go white water rafting to help people bond because people's lives are
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so sedentary they don't experience this and that's why all you lunatics are jumping in ice cold bats every year yes
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that's why you feel alive you must have a very high like excitement level like you got to be in a helicopter and you
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got to jump in cold water to be to feel alive at this point i've been doing the 18 years in the last 10 or 12 years
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everybody does it now but yes no but it's also I'm a biohacker i have to be able to get up and do imagine I I burn
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11,500 calories 11,300 calories on average in a day i jump a thousand times
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i'm in a stadium i'm not just standing there if you're standing there you'll be bored out of your mind i engage or I'm running up the walls i'm there with
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everybody i could strike at any moment that's what keeps people fully alive but when you do that I'm jumping 1,000 times
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i weigh 290 lbs every time you come down they explain it's four times your body weight so it's a million pounds you know
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of pressure and I'm doing that I've been doing that since I was you know basically 19 years old this is my 48th
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year doing it if you had been uh diagnosed by like the industrial psychological psychiatry complex these
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days would they just have said you were like a kid with ADHD or something what do you think i don't know what they'd come up with i'm a freak as far as
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they're concerned i'm sure the scale but you know what's nice now is I have virtually every psychological leader out
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of maybe a dozen of them have endorsed what we do in fact now therapists in various states in the United States can
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actually study my work see the results because there's very few places you can see an intervention and then follow up and see what the result was a year later
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and they get credits for that if you circle back to when Tom Cruz said hey listen you know exercise diet uh
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meditation and he and he kind of laid out there's other ways to deal with depression and everybody would like what does he know these doctors know better
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and now the doctors have all come back to his position which is let's focus on your diet let's focus on your exercise let's focus on your sleep yes and let's
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focus on your meditation those four things will do more to you than any pill correct in your estimation 100% yet we
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have 60% of people in the country on a pill in some of these and most of them have more than one anytime you combine
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three pills you cannot predict the outcome in your body and what about Tony then the move away from SSRIs now to
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psychedelics and psilocide like there's all these it's all these curalls yes well um I'm sure you saw the cover of
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Newsweek a couple years ago it talked about was on the cover and it said SSRIs don't work they don't they've been proven not to work by the meta studies
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but we're still given to millions of people and the side effects are depression sometimes suicidal it's insane so looking for something else to
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rewire your brain is why people are starting to either mildly dose or heavily dose or go on these pieces but
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the problem there there's nothing wrong with it anybody wants to do whatever they want to do i'm not approved about how to do it but I like the idea of
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being able to take charge and make conscious decisions but I've had that experience i went and investigated that myself directly went down you know into
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South America had an experience it was quite profound but it's like what are you going to do with it some people it just becomes another way to party you
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know and that then you're not going to get any results that really matter if you're doing it with a therapist with intentionality
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with a guide like I was I was completely against it and I met Tony Bosses um from
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uh was it Columbia or New York University and I said you know I'm just not into drugs you know I'm not a freak
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but people around me overuse them and abuse them so I I've always just not done that and he said ' Tony it's not a
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drug because a drug you take at it one you know you got to take it every day he said this I'll show you and he showed me
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videos he said 'These are people that he was working with people that have been diagnosed with cancer terminal cancer
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right and he said "Watch this." He said "I'm going to show you in advance this woman is an atheist she's not like a
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California atheist like there might be some God in the trees or something she's a New York atheist there is no God." Yeah right
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and he shows me the video you know they they do two different sessions they don't know which one's going to be it and she comes out at the end of the the
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session where she had the experience and she said I experienced God and and about
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96% of the people say it's one of the three most profound experiences of their life it was for me um and I used to I
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can handle anything but the one thing I was weak at I'll be honest with you was like somebody dying cuz I had handled that within myself and uh so that's why
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I went to do it and I I don't have a fear of dying i don't want I don't want to die but I don't have the fear of it before and if you went through deep
00:24:00
trauma in your childhood psychedelics can I'm told take you right to that
00:24:06
place and you will have to confront it and that's why doing it in a safe environment especially if you're a child
00:24:12
of trauma with an alcoholic father which I had as well very challenging uh I
00:24:18
don't recommend going to just a guru or somebody like when I went down in South America only because there are a lot of
00:24:24
people that take advantage of women down there in this because once you're in that state it's you know you're really you don't know what's you're in a world
00:24:31
a different world so I really say you want to there are people now there's a big push at UCLA they're they're they're
00:24:36
doing it Stanford they're all studying it now and I think using it in that area make a difference but my point is you
00:24:42
get the same results without it and I'm not suggesting people have to do it one way yeah tony can I build on Freeberg's
00:24:47
question which is happiness is sort of a rate of change problem yes you're incredibly successful you're incredibly
00:24:54
famous you have a great family you're really fabulously wealthy there's all this stuff how do you frame your mind in
00:25:02
terms of this rate of change so you're seeing progress like do you do that for yourself like yes of course I think I
00:25:08
think men and women it's a generalization but I think they evaluate life differently i think most men have grown up in a hierarchal world some
00:25:15
women do as well and they have an idea of where they think they should be at a certain time and most people are not there at times where if you're fortunate
00:25:21
enough you're ahead ahead of the game i got to the point probably 10 years ago where I had done all these things i
00:25:27
didn't have any less enthusiasm but I didn't have anything that like what am I going to do now and and I'd done philanthropy my whole life cuz you know
00:25:33
I got fed so I started feeding people i did it at 17 i fed two families and then four and I got hooked on it and then I
00:25:39
got my little company involved and then we got to two million people and then 2 million from me and 2 million from you
00:25:44
know the general public and then when I was writing Money Master the Game I wrote interviewed Ray Dalia Carl and
00:25:50
Warren Buffett all the best in the business and I I saw at the same time I'm interviewing these billionaires that
00:25:56
the government cut food stamps now it's called the SNAP program yeah by six I think it was $6 billion it means every
00:26:02
family that needs food would have to go out with one week of food unless people like us step up so I called my foundation i said "How many people have
00:26:08
I fed in my lifetime?" Because I didn't know the number they said 42 million i was like really gratified by that but I
00:26:14
also was saying like "What if I did what I did in a whole lifetime in a year what if I fed 50 million people in a year?"
00:26:20
And I was like "What if I fed a 100 million what about that 100 million for 10 straight years and fed a billion people in the United States richest
00:26:26
country in the world but we have about 20 million people that don't know where the next meal is going to come from and I hooked up with Feeding America to
00:26:32
deliver the food and I'm proud to say we did it in 8 years but the problem hasn't gone away and so now I hooked up with uh
00:26:38
Governor Beasley when I was in the UAE he introduced me to Governor Beasley nbz did and he explained to me that he ran
00:26:45
the World Food Program yes he he won the Nobel Prize for that nbz said "I want you to meet the only guy I know that's
00:26:50
needed more people than you." I said "He's being a lot more than I am at the UN." But we sat down and we became friends and now I said to him he
00:26:57
normally 80 million people a year are at risk of dying this year it's 385 million because of the war in Ukraine it is the
00:27:03
bread basket for most of Africa and there are 11 countries near famine right now and you don't read about in the news because you're reading about something
00:27:09
on somebody's knuckles right and um and I said to him well and then there's not
00:27:14
enough fertilizer because Russia's been cut off and it made the price triple and farmers can't afford it so I said we
00:27:19
need a period of time to get to sustainability 10 years let's say how many meals would we need in the meantime
00:27:25
just to close the gap he said Tony 50 60 maybe 70 billion meals so I said why
00:27:30
don't we do a 100red billion meals challenge i said I did a billion meals i did it supposed to be in 10 years 100
00:27:36
million years 100 million meals a year i wasn't a billionaire when I started i've been blessed obviously but there's got
00:27:41
to be 99 other people like me who care or businesses or countries and so we began that process 2 and a half years
00:27:48
ago in the beginning it did not go well but I'm proud to tell you in the first year and a half we got 30 billion meals
00:27:53
i'll be announcing at the UN coming up this fall u I can't tell you the numbers supposed to wait till then but more than
00:27:59
double that so we're well beyond that but right now in Duffer thank you thank you very much thank you
00:28:07
thank you thank you i appreciate your I appreciate your applause but I think also we want
00:28:12
sustainability and any of you that want to donate I'll match i do it at Feeding America you donate a million dollars I'll match it you can put a $10 in I'll
00:28:19
match it but now Darur you know people you know we get these war zones now and
00:28:24
there are people right now surrounded by those rebels a million people right now and no one's funding anything because no
00:28:29
one can get they'll shoot the plane out of this guy so we just Governor Beasley and I have just teamed up and we have
00:28:35
found this group this military group that's retired that want to do good works they've done it for a while and
00:28:41
we're buying the C130s i'm donating the first million meals for the week i got two people to match me so we have three
00:28:46
weeks worth of food we're going to fly in and airdrop all that food i'm going to UAE because I know the leaders there
00:28:52
we're going to Saudi Arabia i'm going to say "You can't shoot this down this is not political there's no weapons it's just food." And we're going to prove it
00:28:58
works and then we have a tour June 7th through the 15th with all those leaders to get them to hopefully step up kar's
00:29:04
already stepped up and said they're going to give 30 million and we're going to save those lives so people will die otherwise you know and everybody just
00:29:10
gives up i'm not a person who gives up but I just want to say that to answer your question for anybody I think we all
00:29:16
need moonshots it's like we all need something to go for yeah you've ever
00:29:21
achieved a goal and then there's a drop because we're made to keep growing and so when I did that then I was like "Okay
00:29:27
my wife and I we we found some kids that were trafficked we couldn't believe it." And I said "I want to save as many
00:29:33
people in the city I grew." And it was 30,000 people so now we're 76,000 kids we saved i worked some of the best
00:29:39
organizations helped make a movie some of you may have seen uh last year that was or two years ago um that was all
00:29:45
about this process and it and it it blew up on July 4th you know the sound of Is it hard for you to frame your mind on a
00:29:52
goal that's measured differently than the thing that you were successful at what do you mean oh my goal is to make
00:29:59
money and then you make a ton of money and then you're like now my goal is to do something philanthropic it's a totally different measurement and what
00:30:05
happens as you said even if you're motivated by it a lot of the people around you may be very unmotivated by it
00:30:12
and almost pull you back from it well I'll tell you I've done this my whole life i had um I Peter Goober's our
00:30:19
mutual friend you know Peter peter one time I was arguing or not arguing sharing with him my frustration that people weren't helping these children or
00:30:25
helping you know trafficking because it because it sounds so bad you don't want to hear about it and Peter really was a
00:30:30
student he said Tony he said you taught me this people do things for different reasons some people donate because they
00:30:35
want their name on the wall some people donate because they're guilty because they inherited their money but some people donate because they really care
00:30:41
you don't care just meet their needs and so I found like I had a friend that was on a plane the other day i've known him
00:30:47
44 years and person's reading my book uh this is my book I did interviewed 150 people who are the top regenerative
00:30:53
scientists in the world right so it's a big book 700 page and this guy's marking it and he's you know just going crazy
00:30:58
and my friend loves to see how people respond he says "So what do you think of that book?" And he goes "Oh my god stem cells and this and that or you can't
00:31:04
believe what you can do with your body and change." And he goes "What do you think of the author?" He goes "Oh he seems like such a nice guy he took
00:31:09
nothing from all his books he donated it all he feeds all these people." Well but he is rich he said so it must be easy
00:31:16
for him and my buddy turned to him and said "What if I told you I'd known Tony for 44 years i knew him when he had $10
00:31:22
in his pocket didn't know he's going to give his next meal and he gave five it to a guy in the street and that he taught me if I won't give a dollar you
00:31:28
know dime out of a dollar i'm never going to give a hundred million out of a billion." And you start now you start now and your life is different so I
00:31:35
invite people to find a moonshot and mine started with feeding two families and then it becomes four and then it
00:31:40
becomes larger but now my economics you know are obviously extraordinary but
00:31:46
what drives me now is all the things I'm doing and I need tens of millions of dollars for what I donate let me ask you
00:31:51
a question on that which is how do you think about the relationship between focus and effectiveness a lot of folks
00:31:58
and my experience has been the more we try and do the more the breadth of the things we try and do the harder it is to
00:32:04
do any one thing exceptionally well and have these outsized returns and there's a nonlinear relationship between focus
00:32:11
and outcome the more you concentrate your time energy capital on one thing it
00:32:17
becomes nonlinear how well that thing does when you're an effective person you
00:32:22
have movie projects book projects speaking engagements businesses ownership and sports teams people
00:32:28
calling you how do you think about focusing your time and the effectiveness that you can then have in the things
00:32:33
that you choose to do i believe in concentration of power but I don't have the limitation of thinking it has to be every moment on just one thing so I
00:32:40
actually built a system for myself when I was really young and I had my my second business i wasn't doing well at my first one so I started a second one
00:32:46
very brilliant it's like saying I'm now terrible parents let me have another kid that's what most people do as entrepreneurs so but I knew I needed to
00:32:53
take control of my time so I took these time management courses and they you know you have a little book in those days and your A B and C priorities and I
00:32:59
did it for about two weeks and then after a while I was like there's no way I can do everything on my list and I was frustrated who can relate to this by the
00:33:05
way in your own life right and so I was like I said every time management system does the same thing i don't know if it's digital or not you start with the same
00:33:12
question now thinking is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions now as I said that you're
00:33:18
going to think and you're ask yourself is that true or not and you're going to evaluate it through your references and that's a question isn't it we could take
00:33:24
you all way down the line but for simple sake the question of what I need to do is the wrong question so I will tell you
00:33:29
this when President Clinton M said what should I do and I taught myself something different i said I need to
00:33:35
control my focus concentrate it but I also need to have purpose behind it
00:33:40
because you know purpose is stronger than object i'm going to make a billion dollars for what though the purpose
00:33:45
that's where the energy in the fuel is and then I need a map i called it RPM like increasing your RPMs to get from here to there and you know the result
00:33:52
then I ask what do I want what's the result measurable why am I doing it and then what's the map the massive action
00:33:58
plan and then I go find the 20% of things will give me 80% of the progress and then I put things in categories i
00:34:03
have companies in categories i have my family life in a category my body's in a category and every week I predetermine
00:34:09
what are the most important outcomes for the week but when you do that you are able to have that concentration of power
00:34:15
and I where I am I'm there 1 million% and I I found that skill of
00:34:20
concentration doesn't have to be just one thing if like in your businesses you get great leaders obviously I couldn't
00:34:25
do all these things myself um but when I've got great you know when you got partners that are extraordinary in the
00:34:30
health area you know I created this company called Fountain Life and I got Peter Diamandis as my partner he's a genius i I partnered uh with Sam
00:34:37
Nazarian some of you know from SPS right he created Mandreon and SLS hotels and we're building 15 extraordinary luxury
00:34:44
hotels around the world where you can go and be scan and everything there now I love it even though if it's too
00:34:50
much you love it and I have time for my daughter which I adore right she's four years old i'm I'm saying it in slightly
00:34:55
in justest cuz you are hyperefficient you got this crazy energy level there is a theory that sometimes be people become
00:35:01
a little too addicted to success and to you know improving themselves do you
00:35:08
ever stop and just like enjoy the the day and not try to improve everything
00:35:13
you ever stop and just like laugh and maybe enjoy some sushi and punk golf with your friends and play some cards or
00:35:19
does everything have to be the 78th millionth meal and person you saved no
00:35:25
well there's a part of me that's that way for sure really what do you do no I there's a part of me the first part that's as crazy as you describe but
00:35:32
there's another part of me that I value love and relationship above all else got it so like you know Peter's one of my
00:35:37
dearest friends for 35 years he was down here in Miami called me up and we had everything booked i moved everything and we spent two hours just staying out
00:35:43
together cuz I love him dearly he's 8 82 83 years old right now i don't know a better human being he's my priority my
00:35:49
daughter's my priority um my outcomes change when there's something more important right that's there but I've
00:35:55
also learned that I have to be able to turn the switch off and I do that and I do that you Ray Dal is a good friend and
00:36:01
you know learning to meditate was something I thought I'd never do in my life but I've developed a simpler pattern I developed for myself and
00:36:07
meditation I start my days with i have to take care of my body and when I'm doing those things and I also when everybody else goes to bed that's when I
00:36:14
get my thinking time and so from midnight till 3 or 4 for me is usually my time to Are you like a three hour
00:36:20
sleeper like a four hour no like four and a half to five not ideal five is ideal for me but uh I can certainly do
00:36:25
that that's always been that way that's sort of you know not when I was a kid but once I discovered my passion for you
00:36:31
know you've all heard the phrase right the two most important days of your life the day you're born the day you discover what you're born for and when I
00:36:36
discovered that the energy in my body changed radically do you think about um I'm curious uh mortality a lot i know
00:36:44
you're into the stem cells you're you know you're we're all getting to a certain age and we're all going to the same destination and uh looking back on
00:36:51
your life and then finding meaning in that i know some people our age start thinking about legacy does that like
00:36:58
matter to you and are you thinking about hey how many years do I have left i never
00:37:05
thought of that till about 64 i'm 65 now uh I never did so just in the last year
00:37:10
you started thinking about it last year was there something that caused that to happen my daughter I think having my
00:37:15
daughter come along i had her at 61 you had a daughter at 61 yeah she's four years old four years old wow yeah so
00:37:21
I've got a 50-year-old daughter and a Got it i was confused by the math when you said all that and I was asking the
00:37:26
question cuz you know in your brain it's all questions and answers i told my wife originally I said I'm
00:37:31
going to have a kid by 50 i said I I don't want to be there at my kids's high school reunion or excuse me graduation and I'm you know 70 years old and I'll
00:37:38
be 80 when I do that piece but I look at people like Peter or Steve Win like I have a whole group of friends that are
00:37:44
in their 80s that are Peter's doing more today than he did when I when he was 45 and so I look at that and say but but
00:37:50
you got to take care of your body and so and there are things you don't predict i my eye may look a little weird to some of you and may not notice but uh about 3
00:37:57
weeks ago no five weeks ago I starting to feel irritation in my bladder and hard time breathing it was very weird
00:38:03
and I'm very you know I have a really intense way i do hyperaric oxygen cryotherapy so it's really weird for me
00:38:09
not to have that and um so I went and got tested at found life where we have our stuff and they found I had this
00:38:15
massive amount of arsenic in my body like a zero to five was they measure it 50 would be off the charts i was 3:45
00:38:22
and it was so bad the first thing he said is you got to watch your eyes and 5 days later my uh retina detached which
00:38:29
can make you blind so I went in for emergency surgery here in Miami one of the best doctors out here and normally
00:38:35
you have to take the surgery and then you have to lie on your stomach for a week and not get up looking down because
00:38:40
they put this gas behind the retina oh my god but fortunately I I Bobby Kennedy I put him together with Trump he's a
00:38:46
good friend i called him he got me with top guys at two different hospitals they said "This is the guy we got it all
00:38:51
together." And he said "I think this is not as effective it's not like 90% effect it's like 70 but if it works you
00:38:58
can." He goes "I can't imagine you lying on your stomach for seven straight days and nights not moving." I said "I can't
00:39:03
either." And he said "If I do this it's like a belt around your eye and you'll be able to sit up at least." So that was
00:39:09
only three and a half weeks ago and so this eye is still having some pieces so of course that made me pay attention but
00:39:15
yesterday I operate I found out from Fountain Life there is a new approach to your immune system because all this is
00:39:21
coming out because my immune system was affected by these metals by the way all of you have if you could give yourself a gift you should get tested for metals
00:39:28
there are so many metals in our food there are all these great blood tests you can do with fountain other services
00:39:34
and you can do them every six months for $500 and our doctors never told them to do this they just would like be like oh
00:39:40
yeah your blood works good but when you think you're aging often what it is is poisons in your body metals in your body
00:39:45
it's so crazy so there I want everybody to know about this there's a name man named Dr xiao and I've I've seen
00:39:51
everything i wrote Life Force 150 of the best regenerative doctors in the world know about I know of them all i've
00:39:56
interviewed them all this to me is like the number one thing to go to so he has created this i've done stem cells i
00:40:03
healed my shoulder with stem cells i didn't have to go through surgery but he does this what he calls re-education of
00:40:08
your immune system my beta cells were through the floor from all these metals so now all the other things your body
00:40:14
would fight off are coming through right and now my whole body was going in reaction so I said "There's an answer
00:40:19
i'm going to detox." And I'm proud to tell you and they told me it could take two years it took five weeks and I've
00:40:24
got all the metals down to normal levels at least now which I'm so thrilled about but then what I'm going to do for my
00:40:29
immune system so Dr zho he's been around he he discovered the stem cells that are in the blood not MSE cells but these
00:40:35
blood cells and he's worked 25 years to do it i've never seen anything like it in my life he does plasma feresis you
00:40:43
probably have heard of it where they take blood out and they put it through a filter and it's can be very useful i've had that before but what he does he
00:40:48
takes your blood through and he takes your white blood cells your immune system out overnight he puts it through a filter with cord stem cells you don't
00:40:55
actually put someone else's cord stem cells in you it's the intelligence that gets transferred and then it puts it
00:41:00
back in your body and then they spread and change your immune system back 20 years that sounds like a ridiculous uh
00:41:07
promotion this guy's not a promoter at all and it's all science but I watched I what got me to go there is my um one of
00:41:14
the people my Helen Dr helen from our place at Fountain Life showed me she said Tony I think this is what you got to do she's on this ALS patient als is
00:41:21
usually you know it's a it's a death sentence and this guy's shaking and he can't take his hands above here he does
00:41:27
the process three weeks later he's doing this no exaggeration they do type 1 diabetes and turn it around any
00:41:33
autoimmune diseases there and most of aging is really the breakdown of the immune system that's why we're seeing so
00:41:39
many cancers after COVID and the injections a lot of young people these turbo cancers are happening because their immune systems have been harmed
00:41:45
and so now everything starts to shake up when people think about aging it's really immune system so the type of
00:41:51
people are going with alipcia where they have no hair this one I met her and she got a full and she's 70 years old got
00:41:56
all her hair back it's in New Jersey and he's already at sta he's on an IND so he's on stage three though has gone
00:42:02
through his stage three he's doing his submittal and we're going to bring it to fountain life here because there's nothing like I've seen it but there are
00:42:08
things like that like if you stay well and take care of yourself now over the next 5 to 10 years the kinds of
00:42:13
transformations are going to allow us to be in a position where every year you could be a year younger at least
00:42:19
maintain where you are i mean it's not it's not science fiction freeberg talks about this all the time on the show like
00:42:25
we're like this very interesting generation we're 10 years behind you or maybe 15 in some cases um but or even 20
00:42:32
actually I think um but the we're this generation that we actually might get to benefit from some of these incredible
00:42:39
technological advancements you absolutely will ladies and gentlemen Tony Robbins thank you so much bring it
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