Business Success Insights: Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins is one of the greatest business and personal development mentors operating today. He lectures to hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year. In Israel, Robbins appeared before 8,000 people at the Yad Eliyahu arena in Tel Aviv.

First, it was amazing to me to see so many people who paid with their hard-earned money, understanding that broadening their knowledge would advance them in life.
I'll get to the ticket price later because for some reason it has become a significant part of the discussion about the conference.

There were many things at the conference, and my hand and mind couldn't always keep up fast enough. I've summarized some bullet points and things I learned from the conference.

Robbins talks much more than I can write (in English), so this is mainly a taste rather than an attempt to cover all the content.

Momentum

The natural desire for "fairness" dictates a striving for the weak to become stronger and the strong to stabilize. In practice, we often see that the strong become even stronger and the weak become weaker.

Strength or weakness isn't measured only by the amount of money you have, but also by your level of happiness., To your health Etc.
A trend continuing in a certain direction is a result of momentum. An existing trend can be changed, but it requires a greater effort than maintaining the trend.

If we connect this to my world, maintaining a balanced bank account is easier than recovering from debt.
An account that is not only balanced but also allocates a fixed sum for investment is an account with positive momentum that will lead its owner to become financially stronger.
The thing is, even things like happiness or any other feeling can be managed in that way.

If this is not done, people will discover that on the one hand they have succeeded in every way, and yet they have experienced frustration and difficulties in their lives.
Robbins brought up the example of "Mr. Vietnam" – Robin Williams, who was a multimillionaire, won every possible film award, and generally succeeded in every challenge he chose, but found no peace for his soul and ultimately took his own life.

Behaviors characterizing dissatisfaction with life, such as the consumption of drugs, alcohol, and antidepressants, are also present in people whom from the outside we think are "living the dream," due to the misunderstanding that abundance is not a financial matter but a matter of balance. "Balancity" (a word I invented, but seems fitting).

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Cycle of Success

Everyone has the potential to succeed. Very few realize it. As mentioned, "success" has many faces, and each person defines for themselves whether they have "succeeded." Naturally, for a person to succeed, they need to take action.

According to Robbins, actions must be accompanied by the appropriate inner feeling – essence and meaning – in order to be effective in bringing about the desired outcome.

Robbins demonstrated the importance of belief in success through the story of the race Email in four minutes.
For years, no one was able to run a mile in under four minutes. Experts declared it scientifically impossible. But after Roger Bannister achieved it, it was done again just two months later by Landy, and since then by many other athletes.

The current world record is 3:45. In other words, the very belief that it was possible caused many people to do it.
What is something you believe is impossible for you?

Physiology affects psychology.

It's fun with these Greeks who have a Torah for everything – logic – reason.

Beyond the requirement of believing that something is possible for the action pushing towards it to truly bring about the desired result, we can influence our brains through our bodies.
Participants (in an experiment) who were forced to hold a pencil between their lips, meaning to artificially create a smiling shape with their lips, were actually happier for the duration of the experiment.
People in a victorious pose will really be more successful. An example of a victorious pose:

That is, as strange as it may seem, if, for example, you stand in this pose before a challenging phone conversation, there's a chance the conversation will be more successful.

Leaders are Readers

Robbins speaks at length about the need Read books As a way forward.
But beyond that, I was impressed by the fact that he mentioned his personal development mentor, Jim Rohn. You can see a video of him here:

So many people act as if they were born with their knowledge. It's nice to see one of the greats in his field admit that he actually had a teacher from whom he learned. Suddenly I thought it might have been nice to know, for example, who taught John Lennon guitar.

Beyond insights

You could see a real rock star.
At 60, he's running all over the hall.
Juggling between the 8,000 people in the audience, there are moments of tears, moments of laughter, and a lot of movement from the audience as well during the performance.

Back to the price

The conference ticket cost between 700 shekels and 5000 shekels for four hours of Robbins' lecture, plus another five hours of lectures by other speakers and benefits for activities of other mentors, each according to the price of the ticket they paid.

I've read many reviews about the price and about so-and-so's ability or inability to attend this lecture.
I also heard all the "fools aren't dying" and so on.

I don't know what someone's motive would be to visit an event they didn't attend. That seems strange to me.

In principle, I invest tens of thousands of shekels in myself annually – in personal development.

This conference was one of them. I don't know if this investment returns at a ratio of 1:1, 1:2, 1:10, and so on.
I do know that since I started, I've been making enough to allow for it.

I met a bunch of "suckers" in the hall and I think their lives are pretty good.

I have no interest in convincing, and of course, I have no stake in the income of Robbins or any other mentor.
I want to point out what is right about an economic decision in general.
I decided to buy the ticket for 3000 shekels. It allowed me a pretty good seat in the hall:

This was actually the first time at an event of this magnitude that I saw the artist naturally in a larger size than on screen.
But the issue isn't just how the lecturer/artist, etc., sees it.
The point is to try to expand your circle of acquaintances. So, it's true, you can't know anything for sure.
But at events like these, there's definitely a chance to meet people with whom you can do things together.
Dating is easier when there's a special dining room for those who paid for an expensive ticket
And meeting people is easier when, after the show, there are those who come to shake your hand and say they saw you on the big screen.
For me, the higher ticket price will likely be reflected soon.

Beyond that, there's a blind spot in economic decisions that trips up a lot of people.

Every economic decision usually has two sides: cost and benefit.

Sometimes it's easy for us to see both.
I know that first-class flights are more expensive, and I also know that they are more pleasant. I've decided that the added enjoyment isn't worth the price.

But often we can easily identify only one side of the equation.
For example, if I increase the monthly mortgage payment by NIS 500 per month, I know it will mean two fewer meals out at a restaurant, but it's hard to calculate the benefit of that, so many people ignore it.

Even at an (expensive) personal development conference, there's a similar phenomenon.
It's easy to notice that the ticket price will prevent me from, let's say, three restaurant meals, but it's not at all clear what I will get from the income, if anything.

It's worth remembering that at least those who want to get ahead in life need to invest in it. Or in other words, there is a cost to attending conferences and investing in development. But there is also a significant cost to standing still and not participating.

In any case, I'll continue to be a sucker. I was at a conference over the weekend Asta soup Nice (French Riviera) at the end of that month.
I think this could be a good start to my fifties.