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Controlling the Inside When You Can't Control Circumstances
Lewis welcomes Bob Proctor and asks how he coaches people through fearful times. Bob says conditions can't be changed but needn't control you, and explains that people are raised to be controlled by outside inputs and never taught to use their mental faculties.
- •Bob runs a weekly broadcast called Good News by Bob Proctor from his own studio
- •We can't control what's outside but can control what's inside
- •People are raised to live by their physical senses and are taught to be controlled by the outside
- •Humans have higher mental faculties to create their own environment, but school never teaches how to use them
- •A report card says little about who we are
Reason, Thinking, and the Pull of Bad News
Asked which faculty is hardest to master, Bob points to reason and the fact that most people don't really think. He argues that soaking up the news makes people a plaything of outside events and drives their fear, and that you can be aware of it without dwelling on it.
- •Great leaders agree we become what we think about
- •Ford's remark that thinking is the hardest work, and Dr. Ken McFarland's line about who thinks
- •Constant news consumption leaves people living in fear
- •Being aware of bad news doesn't mean spending your time thinking about it
- •Bob prefers to use his creative faculties on something constructive
Adapting, Embracing Technology, and Age
Bob suggests thinking about how to adapt for the world after the pandemic and describes taking his company online. When Lewis asks about resisting change at his age, Bob says age is a dumb thing to let control you and that thinking controls everything.
- •Think now about how to adapt to a changed world after the pandemic
- •Proctor Gallagher moved full speed online, helped by a studio built years earlier, and trained about 300 consultants over three days
- •Resisting something means creating it in your mind
- •Bob believes we're here to do God's work of creation, so age shouldn't be a limit
- •He built a roughly $2 million studio when he was around 83
Faith Over Fear and Using the Crisis to Your Advantage
Bob says we should think about our future and the greatness inside us rather than sit in fear, and that he chooses faith over fear. He describes his company's big goals, Sandy Gallagher's masterminding session, and how to use the crisis to reach people.
- •Everyone has deep reservoirs of talent to bring to the surface
- •Fear and faith both involve believing in something unseen, and Bob chooses faith
- •Sandy Gallagher taught the company masterminding, from Napoleon Hill
- •The company's goals haven't changed and it's looking for ways to use the virus to speed things up
- •People depend on phones and computers more than ever, so they can be reached anywhere
How Fear Develops and the Law of Opposites
Lewis asks what fear does to us and how to shift out of it. Bob lays out a chain from ignorance to doubt, worry, fear, anxiety, suppression, depression, disease and disintegration, and says the opposite track runs from study to understanding to faith and well-being.
- •The cause of fear is ignorance, which first shows up as doubt and worry
- •Fear is expressed through the body as anxiety, which gets suppressed and turns into depression and disease
- •The opposite of ignorance is knowledge, and the only way to it is study
- •The universe operates by law, including the law of opposites
- •Understanding leads to faith and well-being, which is how to deal with pandemics
Why People Buy Bad News
Lewis asks why people are fed more of what scares them. Bob says people buy bad news because it resonates with their negative programming, and that those lifting others up are in a minority but not losing.
- •People don't buy good news, they buy bad news
- •Bob imagines CNN and Fox viewers tuning in to the School of Greatness
- •Most people's paradigm is programmed with negative information
- •A small group works to lift others up, and Bob says it's not a losing battle
Overcoming Self-Doubt Through Self-Understanding
Lewis asks how to go from doubt to confidence. Bob says doubt is the cause and fear the effect, and that the opposite of doubt is understanding of who we are as physical, intellectual and spiritual beings.
- •Doubt comes from not understanding yourself well enough, so Bob keeps studying
- •The body holds a huge amount of potential energy in its atoms
- •The six intellectual faculties separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom
- •Bob says our spiritual DNA is perfect and the task is to express it more
- •Others will try to shut you down when you follow your dream
Reshaping Self-Image and Finding a Mentor
Asked about reshaping self-image, Bob recounts Maxwell Maltz's discovery of the inner image and how it is planted in childhood. He shares his own insecure upbringing, says a good mentor changed his life, and introduces The Science of Getting Rich.
- •Maltz, a cosmetic surgeon, found that removing a scar sometimes changed personality and sometimes didn't, leading to the idea of an inner image
- •Self-image is planted in infancy by how a child is raised, with praise or criticism
- •Bob grew up insecure during the Depression and war, and a man's book and instruction changed that
- •He says everyone shares the same potential and differs only in results and understanding
- •He holds up Wallace Wattles' Science of Getting Rich, which The Secret was based on
Choosing Goals You Don't Know How to Reach
Bob talks about his daily study and why personal growth has no finish line. He says a goal worth setting is one you don't yet know how to achieve, citing his global company and Edmund Hillary on Everest, and says the purpose of a goal is the awareness gained pursuing it.
- •Bob studies at 5:30 every morning and wants to grow in all areas
- •In 1973 he resolved to build a company operating worldwide with no idea how; it now operates in 88 countries
- •If you know how to do a goal, it's probably not a good goal
- •Hillary failed twice before reaching the top of Everest in 1953
- •The purpose of a goal is the awareness you develop going after it
Bob's Five Books, Mentors, and Getting Help
Lewis asks for five book recommendations, and Bob names his picks and says Thomas Troward is his mentor today. He then explains that you should get the best people for areas where you're weak, and that nobody gets far alone.
- •Bob's picks: Think and Grow Rich, As a Man Thinketh, You Were Born Rich, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science, and You Square
- •Troward taught him that when you can't learn from anyone, you go inside
- •Bill Gove's line about being free by being yourself, and Bob's decision to learn from him
- •Bob found a securities attorney who became his business partner and runs the company
- •You need a lot of help and won't go far alone
Lessons from World War II: Don't Let Events Program You
Asked what the Second World War taught him, Bob says the lesson is not to let what's going on program you. He tells the Wrigley's gum story, credits his mother for his belief that you can get what you want, and says to refuse to let the pandemic control you.
- •Rationing during the war programmed people to live on lack and limitation
- •Wrigley's kept advertising during the war even though it couldn't make gum
- •His mother raised three children alone and taught them that if you want it, you can get it
- •What goes into the subconscious through repetition becomes behavior
- •We may change how we operate, but we control the situation and it doesn't control us
Writing, Repetition, and Daily Habits
Lewis asks how important writing down gratitude and affirmations is. Bob shows his daily gratitude list and left-handed affirmation, explaining that repetition fixes ideas in the subconscious paradigm that controls behavior.
- •Bob writes 10 things he's grateful for every morning at 5:30, 333 days in a row
- •He writes an affirmation about his spiritual DNA with his non-dominant hand
- •Repetition fixes ideas in the subconscious, and the paradigm controls behavior
- •Take one good idea a day and turn it into a habit
- •Robert Russell's line that greatness is doing little things in a great way every day
Learning from Proven Results and Earning by Helping Others
Asked what he wishes he'd started sooner, Bob says he wishes he'd listened to good financial guidance. He says to follow people with proven results exactly, shares how his income grew after following one man's advice, and says earning comes from helping others.
- •No sin in not knowing how, the sin is continuing to do it wrong
- •The Prudential example: nobody had asked the top agent how he became number one
- •Bob's income went from $4,000 a year to $14,500 a month after he followed Ray Stanford's advice exactly
- •Earning money is simple but people were never taught how
- •Help others get what they want, in Zig Ziglar's words, and you'll get what you want
Resources, the Three-Step Approach, and the Six Faculties Recap
Bob describes his free book and coaching offers at proctorgallagher.com. He closes with Michael Beckwith's three steps of accept it, harvest the good, and forgive the rest, then reviews the faculties, and Lewis wraps up.
- •You Were Born Rich is free to download, with Six Minutes to Success and free coaching also offered
- •Nothing is good or bad except our thinking makes it so, from Ralph Waldo Trine
- •Beckwith's three steps: accept it, harvest the good, forgive all the rest
- •Recap of perception, will, memory, reason, imagination, and intuition
- •Lewis closes with thanks and ways to follow Bob
