Tony let me ask you for you are you lefty or righty right hand okay so when I'm already feeling the spirit of competition it's insane I mean I I you whether you you want you want to identify that or not at this I feel your your I go back to the 22 year old at least let me go to that I go to the 22-year-old Tony and I feel fire competitiveness like in a big way okay it's very obvious the ambition the fire is felt fires felt what were cuz I know what I was telling
myself when I felt like I could compete the moment I realized I could compete in the space it was almost it was my secret weapon that nobody else knew and and and I don't know what I mean by this like for for you you're born 229 right February 29th it's not a lot of people born out 229 right it's a leap year right did you when I'm 84 I'll be 21 it's a good deal it works backward it works in your favor that's why you look so young and you don't look your age but but
did you did you at what point did you feel like you know cuz I know typically it's kind of like well I'm just a regular guy you can't use that you know some people I'm just I'm just a regular guy you I just kind of all this maybe that would have worked 40 years ago it's not going to work today everybody now knows you're not a regular guy there's something deep down inside that you tapped into right when did you know that there was something unique about you or like you know I'm willing to go
to levels that this other person's not going to willing to go to and I'm willing to tolerate pain more than you will and I will not stop until what what was that moment and what you told yourself cuz cuz the competition is for when I asked you I said so when you think about Jim ran was Jim ran who Tony is today you're like no he would be running my schedule was back toback and he run this right okay was there a moment for you where he said I think they have no clue what the
f I'm about to do they're going to find out who I really am here well I'm sure there were but I mean when I was because I was on the other side of the so to speak I had a chip on my shoulder right you know these people I thought were wealthy they weren't even slightly wealthy but when you don't have money for food somebody that's well fed looks like they're rich right and there were clicks you know if you weren't part of the click and I wanted to be an an athlete but we had
no money to go to Little League or things of that nature but when my fora Jim Robins came along who adopted me uh he was a former Semi-Pro baseball player so we started playing and everything else but you know I started when I was like 15 instead of like kids in my community were like eight you know playing rookie league and but I was so driven I wanted to it was a way of finding love with my father was by becoming better and I also had I had huge drive because I just wanted to be
more I I didn't want to settle I I looked at our family and and all the pain that I saw my mother go through and we would go through and I was like I I'm not going to have a future like that I'm going to find some way to do more so it produced drive so even when I was in sports I was so competitive in junior high school that like you know I was a little guy but I played linebacker and quarterback and I would during practice guys would complain because I'd stick them so
hard and I'd say you get strong I'm I'm half your size but you know you get low you can take anybody out right so I had this intensity and that level but when I got to serving people that disappeared it wasn't like I wasn't competing with anybody I was competing with what I was capable of and you know I'd read um so many autobiographies and I remember Dr Jay saying in fact I when I met Jordan years later I asked him you know what what is it that's made you the best in the world is
it god-given Talent is it skill is it ability is it what is it and he was cool he said listen to I don't have Fain you know anything with you it's like I got a lot of god-given talent but he told me about when he was in high school and the coach cut cut him because he said you're not the best player because you're not maximizing your abilities right great and he said so now I don't compete with anyone I compete with the best I can be every day my goal is to find a way
to do more than I've ever done before within me I'm not competing with anybody else and I called I said that was Dr Jay's philosophy I never forget his face he goes you know that you know because I read his autobiography so early on Julius Irving Dr J jul Irving and he was you know he was the the champion his stage life right so from before Michel yeah so from early on it's like I'm competing with the next level of who I am I'm not competing with anybody else there's nobody to compete with you know
it's like there's a different level out here when did it get today because even with Michael did you see the documentary last stand yes of course okay so listen I get that about beat your prior best and that's been a big part of my philosophy in my life but that guy was a psycho competitor you know that that guy is go play golf with him or anything else I've not done that I've not done that but I've watched that documentary every one of my kids was required to watch a die I rented out the breakers
and I brought every one of my Executives we watched it together for three days and we talked hours on top of hours on those episodes right so but there is a part because beating your prior best to anybody out there is you can have a very good life and you can get to new heights there's certain people that become the goat there's a difference you're not one of the best you're the best in your space you're not and I'm telling you this and I'm I've been I've been you know I've been watching and I know
the names in this space you know what is what is that part that's what I'm interested in if somebody's watching imagine the 17-year-old Tony is watching this right now okay and not not let's not even say 17 to 21 year old like where you've had a little bit of experience Jim you've made money you kind of are getting that experience 2122 what gave you that thing to say hey man watch world I understand the chip like for me sometimes when I'm sitting down with Brady and I'm having a conversation with him and I'll say hey
uh at the event I'll say my experience from finding goats not people who have a good life or a great life there's many people that have great lives but there's only one of one goat right you typically have someone that loved them growing up because you have to experience unconditional love to know that it's worth the pain you got to go through the the pattern you see the second one is someone you can never win over and please you just can't you can no matter how much money and success you bring that person is never
going to be impressed by your success never okay and then the last one is choosing your enemies wisely something that drives you like drives the hell out of your what was yours my early one was watching people in therapy for 5 years 10 years 20 years andone I got involved with NLP seeing it could be done in minutes and I was I used to do to destroy therapists I used to attacking them now I've trained you know literally hundreds of thousands of them in fact they can watch my stuff now and get credits to remain
a therapist even though I'm not a therapist myself actual therapist it was that they because I was so mad that somebody would be 10 years still dealing with a problem that I knew could be dealt with in a day or two an hour or two and so that remember I got on a radio show in Vancouver and I I went on the show I didn't know it was a shock jock I didn't know what a shock jock was and and so the guy starts you know setting me up and attacking me and saying well you
know how old are you and you don't have a degree and how are you going to do this and and he just starts going after me in every way you possibly can and then he brings a psychiatrist on who starts attacking me verbally cuz he said there's no way you can wipe things out as fast as you're saying there's just absolutely no way you're a liar you're a charlatan this is a national radio and so my competitors came out in that moment very intensely so I turned the guy and very calmly said over the radio
I said sir I said are you a scientist he said of course I'm a physician I said good so if you're a scientist you must be stating your hypothesis because your hypothesis is I'm a liar in a charlatan because you've never met me right you never met my clients so you can't you can only sell me what you believe I said so if you have a hypothesis and you're a true scientist you have to test it right and the voice goes yeah and I said well I'm doing a free guest event at the Holiday end
tomorrow night 700 p.m. I'm going to do a series of demonstrations I suggest you come and prove him a charlatan bring me one of your worst patients bring me somebody that you've worked on for years not be able to change I said I'm sure you got plenty of those you want to play hard ball I can play hard ball especially in those days I'm a lot softer today but uh I was still proving myself to myself and other people I think at that stage you know you're immature so I was intense and so the guy
goes we all have people that aren't ready to change yet I said well that's funny I haven't found any of course I done four therapies at that point but I didn't mention that right and he goes I have this one woman you know she's has this snake phobia she goes to sleep at night she has a dream that snake bites her in the face and if you ever had an intense dream like that it fires off your adrenal glance and you wake up how often three to five times a night how many years You' been
treating her seven years I said bring her down that should take me 10 or 15 minutes and I said it directly and that guy goes the guy cuts him off says see him right at the Holiday end so I show up the next day at the holiday in I'm hoping in those days to get you know 150 people to show up for a free guest event 500 people show up I mean there's not see a room people are standing on the walls if the fire department comes in cuz they want to see the shootout at
Coral between me and this guy he show he shows up he shows up but he's not there I'm looking around and I don't know do you do this when I meet somebody on the phone I can't help it I make a picture of mine what I think look like so I'm picturing okay oh be there I'm picturing this giant guy with a scared woman on his arm right and I'm looking for something nobody like that so I you know I get up to introduce myself in those days hi I'm Tony Robbins I said I'm going
to do some demonstrations today to show you you can make changes in minutes you thought would take months or years and right when I say this the side door bursts open like a movie and this guy about you know half my size up to here walks in with this woman on his arm walks straight to the front and stands there while I'm speaking and I I go excuse me looks like I have a visitor I just go down and shake his hand he wouldn't shake my hand he goes here is the woman and my whole
career was made in that moment I BR it on stage and I said ma'am I understand you've had certain phobias to certain things for a period of Time how do you feel about AES and I shattered it she if you've ever seen a phobia it's not just fear it's uncontrollable shaking response and I calmed her down and I said then you've been treated for seven years by that psychiatrist right there and she goes yeah and I said okay and then I started doing this work it took me about 15 minutes and when I was done
everybody was watching the whole thing I said how do you feel about snakes no response I was totally fine I said that's great so I'm you know I've always been a about demonstration to make it really clear so there's a piece back here on the table and I grab this bag and I pull the bag out and the bag's moving slightly underneath and the people in the audience see it and they start to anticipate and I P just a little gardener snake pull the gardener snake in front of her and instead of screaming or shaking
she didn't do that she just pulled back and I said how do you feel she goes uh they're not very attractive and I said I know you feel some fear but notice there's no spitting no shaking you're not screaming I said I wanted you you know why don't you hold it she goes I don't know and the audience starts going hold it hold it it's like it's like a movie man you can't make this stuff up and so finally the lady grabs it squeez the snake I said don't kill it right nowadays more than ever
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