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'''Author:''' Tony Robbins
'''Author:''' Tony Robbins


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Tony Robbins is a popular motivational speaker and author of several self-help books.
Tony Robbins is a popular motivational speaker and author of several self-help books.

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Author: Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins seminar.jpg

Tony Robbins is a popular motivational speaker and author of several self-help books.


The author starts the book by recounting an experience of how much he transformed his life in a short while. He was travelling in a helicopter to one of his seminars and looks down at a building where he worked as a janitor just a few years ago. As his helicopter moves towards the building where he's going to deliver his lecture, he finds that there's a huge traffic jam near the building and hopes that his audience won't be inconvenienced in attending the venue. After he touches down, he finds that the whole traffic jam was caused by his talk as 7000 people rushed to listen to him speak. That's when he knew that he is living his life to its fullest potential.


The premise of the book is that in each one of us resides a giant who is waiting to be woken up.


The book is mostly about making decisions. People usually don't make many decisions at all. Their decision muscles are weak. We don't decide to get what we want, we merely wish. Decisions are much stronger than wishes. They reflect a commitment and a change in the direction in which our life is headed. Our destiny is merely the cumulative sum of the decisions we make on a regular basis. A decision with no corresponding action is still a wish. The first step you take in a different direction marks the fork in the road where your life changed entirely from that point.


People who don't make decisions get swept away by life's currents in unexpected directions. Taking control of your life starts with making decisions.


PPP - Pleasure and Pain Principle

This is an over-simplication of all of life's motivations into either pleasures or pains. The way we get to who we wanted to be is by making decisions and changing our behaviors. Pain usually gets in the way of becoming the person we want to be. We should find out why we associated pain with the behavior change in the first place. How is the pain of doing something less than the pain of not doing it? It might even be an irrational belief we might be holding. Or we're not seeing the pleasurable reward after the behavior change.


Your values determine the quality of your decisions. You will be in harmony with your inner self and live the best possible life only if you are living by your values.


The author says that instant change is possible. He says that it's as easy as making the decision and doing the first action in that direction.


A goal without a deadline is merely a wish.


He also talks about some neurological conditioning methods like setting lofty, impossible goals with deadlines, taking tiny steps forward in the direction of your goals, believing and imagining your ideal life etc.