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My First MillionTony Robbins Changes My Life (48 Minute Coaching Session)
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Tony Robbins Shares Peak-State Habits, Investing Secrets, and the Power of Giving
- Tony Robbins describes going from a janitor with a difficult childhood to hearing Jim Rohn speak at 17, then immersing himself in personal development and modeling top performers.
- He explains that deliberate private practice, immersion, and spending time around the best people (proximity is power) drive rapid growth and opportunity.
- Robbins covers emotional-state habits, including the 'Honey, I'm home' greeting ritual and a rule to snap out of suffering within 90 seconds.
- He lays out investing ideas from his book, including asymmetrical risk-reward, Ray Dalio's 'holy grail' of 8 to 12 uncorrelated investments, private equity, and minority stakes in sports teams.
- The conversation closes with Robbins' story of giving his last money when broke, which he says ended his sense of scarcity, plus a free summit and Shaan's ticket giveaway that Robbins agrees to match.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasYou're rewarded in public for what you practice in private.
Robbins cites Steph Curry's roughly 500 practice shots a day, with only a tiny fraction of his shots coming in games, as proof that unseen repetition produces visible results.
Work harder on yourself than on your job.
Robbins says Jim Rohn's key lesson was that becoming more valuable, and adding more value than anyone else in your market, is what lets you earn several times more.
Proximity is power.
Robbins says that after he spent time around top people, including investment bankers, and tried to add value, a call eventually led to a $50 million deal and later a $400 million day.
You can choose your emotional state rather than waiting to feel like it.
Robbins describes the 'Honey, I'm home' ritual and a rule to snap out of suffering within 90 seconds, treating state as a trainable skill like a muscle.
The best investors seek asymmetrical risk-reward.
Robbins cites Kyle Bass's nickel purchase and Richard Branson's Boeing jet deal as examples of limiting downside while keeping large upside.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesYou're rewarded in public for what you practice in private.
— Tony Robbins
Life is too short to suffer. I, I'm not gonna suffer. I know how to change my state, but I want to create a rule that within 90 seconds if I start to suffer, I'm gonna snap out of it.
— Tony Robbins
I tell people if you won't give a dime out of a dollar, you're not gonna give 10 million out of 100 million or, you know, 100 million out of a billion. Don't kid yourself, right?
— Tony Robbins
if, if I waited till I felt like it, I wouldn't do 90% of the stuff I've done in my life.
— Tony Robbins
You have to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
— Tony Robbins
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