It's been shown that maximum performance, maximum achievements,
Speaker:occur at the border of support and challenge, the border
Speaker:the authentic self which sits in the center.
Speaker:This particular topic is how your perceptions of success
Speaker:can interfere with your growth. Now, most people would immediately think,
Speaker:well wait a minute, no, I want success.
Speaker:But I'm going to challenge that.
Speaker:It was Keough who headed up Coca-Cola company that used to be on the
Speaker:board of Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffet.
Speaker:And he made a statement that really impacted me way back,
Speaker:30 something years ago. And that was that,
Speaker:I'm leery of people that think they're successful,
Speaker:they're usually on their way down.
Speaker:So I want you to wrap your head around a new idea.
Speaker:Anytime you perceive yourself successful,
Speaker:you tend to de-purpose and tend to allow yourself by the
Speaker:licensing effect to do lower priority activities.
Speaker:You've heard the statement, I got so successful,
Speaker:I stopped doing what got me there.
Speaker:And the second you think you're successful, you get proud.
Speaker:And pride is an exaggeration of self.
Speaker:It's not an authentic self where you actually excel and grow,
Speaker:but it's an exaggerated self.
Speaker:And you depurpose because you go off on lower priority things.
Speaker:You give yourself permission to splurge or
Speaker:relax because you think you're successful.
Speaker:And then on the other side of the equation, if you think you have failed,
Speaker:or you are going backwards, instead of de-purposing,
Speaker:it can repurpose you.
Speaker:It can make you stop and look at what is really priority and I better get back
Speaker:to priority. And this is humbling.
Speaker:And this makes you go to higher priority things.
Speaker:See the idea that you're successful,
Speaker:you tend to go to lower priority things by the licensing effect and de-purposing
Speaker:impact. And if you feel like you're a failure,
Speaker:you tend to go to higher priority things and repurpose yourself and go back to
Speaker:what's really important to you. If you look in your life,
Speaker:you can see this is not uncommon. You've seen this.
Speaker:So the idea of success can interfere with
Speaker:a stable focus.
Speaker:Now let me give you a little story that I think you might find interesting and
Speaker:you might just apply this little exercise. Many years ago,
Speaker:this would've been 30 woo, nine years ago, 38,
Speaker:9 years ago, 40 years ago almost.
Speaker:When I was in practice,
Speaker:if I had a big day, saw lots of patients, collected a lot of money,
Speaker:I sometimes would get a bit puffed up and think wow.
Speaker:And I would sometimes exaggerate myself and puff myself up
Speaker:and think I was somebody special.
Speaker:And I noticed that when I would go home, when I was puffed up,
Speaker:I noticed that my spouse, my marriage partner,
Speaker:was inevitably humbling me. <Laugh>,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:in those days I was pretty naive and I still was into the idea of being
Speaker:positive, positive, positive all the time.
Speaker:And I didn't realize that her role of being the critical
Speaker:challenging one at that time was not toxicity. It was actually a caring
Speaker:response to get me back into equilibrium,
Speaker:because I was puffed up because I was exaggerating what I had done.
Speaker:I also noticed that when I had a really low day and really had a,
Speaker:whoa what a day,
Speaker:I would come home and my spouse would massage my back or go out of
Speaker:her way or I mean, it was amazing,
Speaker:she had this knack for knowing if I was down, she would lift me up.
Speaker:If I was up, she'd bring me down. It's kind of like if you're from Australia,
Speaker:they have a tall poppy syndrome. If you're cocky and successful,
Speaker:they try to bring you down. And if you're down and out,
Speaker:they try to lift you up and support you with the dole.
Speaker:So I'm a firm believer that nature, our society,
Speaker:our friends, colleagues or whatever, our loved ones,
Speaker:are always trying to get us authentic.
Speaker:When we puff ourselves up with thinking we're successful, we're not authentic.
Speaker:When we're beating ourselves up and think we're not successful, we're failures,
Speaker:we're not authentic.
Speaker:When we're actually on a mission and centered
Speaker:and not exaggerating ourselves or minimizing ourselves,
Speaker:but just appreciative of the opportunity to be of service,
Speaker:we center ourselves. So when I was really up,
Speaker:I noticed my spouse would nail me, deflate me, and when I was down,
Speaker:she'd inflate me. And at first I thought, again, she's toxic.
Speaker:She doesn't want me to be up.
Speaker:And the idea of trying to be positive all the time,
Speaker:there was a book called Toxic Relationships and it was talking about it.
Speaker:And I would not recommend the book because it misleads people extensively.
Speaker:It makes people live in the fantasy that people are always supposed to be
Speaker:positive and supportive. And that is a delusion.
Speaker:If you are challenging somebody's values and you're cocky,
Speaker:they're designed to bring you back down into equilibrium because you're puffed
Speaker:up.
Speaker:And if you're down and you're supportive they're designed to lift you up,
Speaker:to get you back into equilibrium.
Speaker:Everything that's going on in your life is trying to get you authentic and in
Speaker:equilibrium. So what I did when I noticed this,
Speaker:I saw the pattern. I realized it wasn't, she wasn't toxic.
Speaker:She was doing her job and I realized that there were other people participating
Speaker:in that same dynamic. And I really stopped, reflected and looked,
Speaker:and then I did something that was amazing exercise that you might consider.
Speaker:If I had a big day and I thought, wow, I'm amazing, you know,
Speaker:touch me and you're going to heal kind of thing,
Speaker:and I was puffed up and exaggerating what I'd done and neglecting
Speaker:my appreciation for staff and patience and things,
Speaker:I made a list of things to ask myself, who did I not remember the name of?
Speaker:What patient did I overlook thanking?
Speaker:What procedure did I overlook today? What staff member did I not thank?
Speaker:You know, whose anniversary or birthday did I overlook?
Speaker:And when I did is I calmed myself down from being
Speaker:puffed up, thinking I was successful, thinking I was amazing.
Speaker:I calmed myself down.
Speaker:And then then I didn't stop doing that exercise until I got a tear of gratitude
Speaker:for the opportunity to serve people.
Speaker:I noticed when I was grateful for the opportunity of service and I was
Speaker:authentically focusing on my mission of service and I went home,
Speaker:my wife was amazingly different. I don't know how to describe it,
Speaker:go and prove it to yourself.
Speaker:She was more stable because I stabilized myself.
Speaker:See, I'm a firm believer, if you don't govern yourself,
Speaker:the world around you has to.
Speaker:If you don't listen to your physiology and psychology and self-govern,
Speaker:you're going to end up having sociology and theology and family dynamics
Speaker:govern you. So if you're cocky, they're going to bring you down.
Speaker:If you're humble, they're going to lift you up.
Speaker:They're going to just try to get you back into authenticity.
Speaker:So whenever I had a really big day, I calmed myself down. I asked questions of,
Speaker:what did I overlook? And I found them.
Speaker:I had been subjectively biased thinking I was successful and I was overlooking
Speaker:the things that I was doing.
Speaker:And I put together a checklist of all the actions that proven
Speaker:to work.
Speaker:And I compared it to the checklist at night on the days I was successful.
Speaker:And it was like amazing. I thought, oh, I'm successful.
Speaker:But the reality is that I overlooked a lot of stuff.
Speaker:So when I did that exercise and I calmed myself down and I didn't stop until I
Speaker:got a tear of gratitude and I rethought about my mission of service
Speaker:and I drove home, my spouse was present,
Speaker:she wasn't putting me down, she wasn't putting me up, she was just present.
Speaker:And I thought, wow,
Speaker:it's sort of like this non-local dynamic going on in family dynamics and
Speaker:work dynamics. I realized that if I was addicted to praise at work,
Speaker:I'd get slammed at home.
Speaker:But if I was neutral and I didn't puff myself up and didn't get addicted to
Speaker:praise, I got a loving dynamic at home.
Speaker:She played out the role that whatever I was not willing to embrace at work.
Speaker:I also noticed that if I had a really low day, that I would go,
Speaker:well who did I serve?
Speaker:What patient did I remember the name of what staff member did I thank?
Speaker:I asked the same questions in reverse and lifted myself up
Speaker:and brought myself into equilibrium with about 35 questions. And I,
Speaker:I took maybe 10 minutes to go through those questions at the end of my day.
Speaker:And I, I centered myself, stabilize myself,
Speaker:and did not stop with those questions until I had a tear of gratitude for the
Speaker:opportunity to be of service and to go back to my mission.
Speaker:So I want you to maybe write this down.
Speaker:When people say to me and when I get interviewed, people say, oh,
Speaker:Dr Demartini you're a success. And I said,
Speaker:well if that's what you want to label me, I prefer not that label. And they go,
Speaker:What? Why would you not want to be labeled that way?
Speaker:I'd prefer to be labeled a man on a mission,
Speaker:dedicated to being a service to people.
Speaker:And because I noticed that the second I think I'm successful, I usually,
Speaker:on my way down. We have this amazing license effect,
Speaker:the second we do something we're proud of, some of you have done this,
Speaker:you've gone out and you've exercised and you really feel proud of
Speaker:what you've done. You really look fit, you feel toned, etcetera.
Speaker:And then you give yourself licensing effect that night and you overeat.
Speaker:You eat too much chocolate, you drink too much wine, you overeat food.
Speaker:You gave yourself permission to do something lower in priority that you
Speaker:don't normally give yourself permission,
Speaker:the second you thought you succeeded and you felt proud of yourself.
Speaker:And the same thing, if you feel ashamed, you go in the opposite direction,
Speaker:then you go out and work out and you do things to go in the other direction.
Speaker:This is called the licensing effect.
Speaker:So I found out that the addiction to pride and the subdiction from
Speaker:shame, which is an amygdala response in most human beings,
Speaker:is a survival response, avoiding predator seeking prey,
Speaker:avoiding shame seeking, you know, pride.
Speaker:And this is not where maximum performance occurs.
Speaker:It's been shown that maximum performance,
Speaker:maximum achievements occur at the border of support and challenge,
Speaker:the border of the pride and shame, the authentic self which sits in the center.
Speaker:So that's a man on a mission.
Speaker:I'd rather call myself a man on a mission and not label myself successful,
Speaker:or failure. I don't like to think of myself, I don't see failure.
Speaker:I see feedback. And I don't see negative, failure,
Speaker:where the feedback is trying to get me to be positive,
Speaker:I also see feedback from the positive, to humble me,
Speaker:to get me back down into equilibrium. So I learned,
Speaker:I noticed that the second I get really cocky and really elated,
Speaker:I attract challenging, oh tragic events to humble me.
Speaker:If you go and look and make a look at all the moments you've had in your life
Speaker:where you've had tragic events, I guarantee you were cocky, elated, manic,
Speaker:puffed up, and excited about something and thinking you're greater than it is.
Speaker:You know? So I'm not here to promote the idea of success.
Speaker:I'm here to promote the idea of a man on a mission or a woman on a mission,
Speaker:living by highest priority where you're more objective, more neutral,
Speaker:more resilient, more adaptable. See if the second you think you're successful,
Speaker:you can get addicted to that and you can fear it's loss.
Speaker:And many people get depressed when they've had a success and they get a
Speaker:high from it and now they can't get it again.
Speaker:And then they fear the loss of it and they feel like a failure,
Speaker:because they're addicted to success. And I'm not interested,
Speaker:I have no interest in getting attached to those. As the Buddha says,
Speaker:the desire for that which is unavailable,
Speaker:and the desire to avoid that which is unavoidable,
Speaker:the success and failure illusion, is the source of human suffering.
Speaker:So I'm not interested in promoting a one-sided world.
Speaker:I'm not interested in you being optimistic or only positive, only peaceful,
Speaker:only one-sided. Frankly, it's not real.
Speaker:And it's not sustainable.
Speaker:And although you may delude yourself into thinking that's going to happen,
Speaker:be honest and take a really good look.
Speaker:I did a very two year survey of myself and looked at what I actually did and the
Speaker:perceptions I had of myself. And it was humbling.
Speaker:I realized that my idea of success and failure were oscillating states of mind.
Speaker:And they were going up and down,
Speaker:and I had a homeostatic mechanism inside my brain to try to keep me centered
Speaker:because it wanted me authentic. And when I'm puffed up and think I'm successful,
Speaker:that's not authentic. When I'm beat up and I'm feeling like a failure,
Speaker:that's not authentic. When I'm authentic, I don't attach to those labels.
Speaker:I'm not addicted to one and subdicted from the other, seeking and avoiding.
Speaker:I'm not with impulse and instinct from the amygdala.
Speaker:I'm in the executive center,
Speaker:objective and neutral and resilient and adaptable,
Speaker:and I'm focusing on a big vision. See, if you think you're successful,
Speaker:that means you have a small vision and few experiences.
Speaker:And if you have failure, again, you have actually set up a fantasy.
Speaker:And most of the failure sensations are due to fantasies that did
Speaker:not come true. And a lot of people think they have, I mean,
Speaker:people come up to me and say, you know, I feel like I have a failed marriage.
Speaker:And I said, why can you have a failed marriage? Did you learn something from it?
Speaker:Well yeah.
Speaker:And are you now ready to go on and learn from that and go on to the next
Speaker:relationship? Yes. Well, why do you have to label that a failure?
Speaker:And why do you have to label this success? See,
Speaker:sometimes people have this unrealistic ideal,
Speaker:this moral hypocrisy of one sidedness that you're supposed to be a certain way
Speaker:and if it doesn't match that, now you're a failure, and if it does that,
Speaker:you're proud. But you're now cocky and proud if you're one, and arrogant,
Speaker:if you're one, and humbled if you're the other.
Speaker:I'm not interested in those polarities. They're,
Speaker:because anything you infatuate with or anything you resent,
Speaker:occupies space and time in your mind and runs you. You know,
Speaker:that's one of the reasons I teach the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I'm a firm believer that if you go in there and take some infatuation in
Speaker:yourself, pride in yourself or infatuation with others,
Speaker:and you learn to ask the right questions to neutralize that, they don't run you.
Speaker:But I guarantee you, if you look very carefully,
Speaker:if you're highly infatuated with somebody,
Speaker:they'll occupy space and time in your mind, it's hard to sleep at night,
Speaker:and you'll end up sacrificing really high value things in your life to be with
Speaker:them. And if you're really cocky and self-righteous in yourself,
Speaker:you'll narcissistically project your values onto others and expect others to
Speaker:live in your values. And both of these are self-defeating.
Speaker:One is a narcissistic thing that backfires.
Speaker:And the other is an altruistic thing that backfires.
Speaker:We're not here to be narcissistic and expect others to live in our values and
Speaker:try to get something for nothing.
Speaker:We're not here to be altruistic and sacrifice what we're doing for others and
Speaker:then build a presentment.
Speaker:We're here to have sustainable fair exchange out of equity and equanimity
Speaker:and have a real authentic self. We all want to be loved for who we are,
Speaker:but we're not who we are if we're proud and cocky,
Speaker:and we're not who we are when we're shamed and minimizing ourselves.
Speaker:So the idea of success and failure are labels.
Speaker:They're signs of incomplete awareness about human behavior as far as I'm
Speaker:concerned. So I don't promote that. But in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:I teach you how to dissolve the distractions of those two states,
Speaker:the idea of success and failure,
Speaker:because the second you're so infatuated with success,
Speaker:you're going to fear it's opposite.
Speaker:The more you're infatuated with what your success says,
Speaker:and the more you have a fantasy about what it is.
Speaker:And a fantasy is sometimes a one-sided world, you know,
Speaker:positive without negative or you know, money without work or something,
Speaker:some fantasy, you're going to end up having a fear of failure.
Speaker:And the fear of failure's going to preoccupy your mind,
Speaker:just like the fantasy's going to occupy your mind and it's going to distract
Speaker:you. I'd rather get focused on my mission.
Speaker:And my mission is to continually refine and educate, in my case,
Speaker:keep educating myself and learning everything I can that can help people do
Speaker:something extraordinary with their life and keep refining the knowledge and
Speaker:organizing the knowledge and disseminating that knowledge in every possible
Speaker:vehicle. And what people label me of success and failure mean very little.
Speaker:And by the way, other people's opinion of you is not where it's at anyway.
Speaker:If you're sitting there worried about what other people think about you,
Speaker:you're distracted. You always want to compare yourself not to other people,
Speaker:you want to compare your actions to what's highest on your values.
Speaker:That's why in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:I actually help people identify what is it that's really highest on their
Speaker:values.
Speaker:When you live according to your highest values and live congruently with what's
Speaker:most important and prioritize your daily life and fill it with high priority
Speaker:actions, you are more objective, more resilient, more adaptable,
Speaker:more neutral in your perception of yourself,
Speaker:less likely to think you're a success or a failure.
Speaker:But the second you're doing low priority things and you're unfulfilled and
Speaker:you're trying to live in other people's values,
Speaker:you're going to have a moral injected values from other people.
Speaker:This is what Freud called the superego.
Speaker:And the superego then judges you and makes you proud or shamed and you get into
Speaker:the polarity of success and failure.
Speaker:That's because you're minimizing yourself to somebody else and putting them on a
Speaker:pedestal or exaggerating yourself and minimizing other people and putting them
Speaker:in a pit. We're not here to judge people, we're here to love people.
Speaker:We're not here to, for success or failure.
Speaker:We're here to serve and sustainable fair exchange where we're actually being
Speaker:compensated fairly for what we do,
Speaker:and do that in a way that is inspiring.
Speaker:Some of the people I know that are very high achieving are not cocky.
Speaker:You know, I've met some very powerful people, very wealthy people,
Speaker:very high profile people, many celebrities, many business leaders,
Speaker:some of them are extremely humble individuals.
Speaker:And if you ask them about their success, they don't even think about it.
Speaker:That's not their focus.
Speaker:They're focused on what they can do tomorrow on their mission.
Speaker:And they're not sitting and going, well,
Speaker:I live vicariously through what I achieved in the past.
Speaker:They're on their mission.
Speaker:So that's why I teach people in the Breakthrough Experience how to prioritize
Speaker:your life, how to determine your values, how to be more objective,
Speaker:how to get in the executive center, how to not let the amygdala run your life.
Speaker:How not to let the labels you give yourself or others interfere with the love
Speaker:that you have for yourself. And then I teach in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:the Demartini Method.
Speaker:And this is an absolute gold mine on how to dissolve the emotional baggage just
Speaker:like I did, you know, if I'm up, what do I do?
Speaker:What were the things that I overlooked? And when I'm down, what do I do?
Speaker:If you haven't learned how to, you see, when you're infatuated with somebody,
Speaker:you're blind to the downsides.
Speaker:If you're resentful to somebody you're blind to the upsides.
Speaker:If you don't ask questions to help you see the downsides when you're infatuated
Speaker:or upsides when you're resentful,
Speaker:you're going to let the infatuation resentment run your life.
Speaker:And if you don't see the downsides of your pride when you're thinking you're
Speaker:successful,
Speaker:you're going to let your pride and your so-called success interfere with your
Speaker:achievements.
Speaker:Because you're going to end up giving licensure effect and you're going to end
Speaker:up devaluing and de-purposing your actions and going to lower priority actions.
Speaker:I've seen it,
Speaker:I've watched doctors and various people when I used to consult the 80s,
Speaker:a lot of doctors, they retired, they get millions of dollars,
Speaker:they retire and they're on the golf course and they think, okay,
Speaker:now I'm successful, I'm on the golf course. And within months,
Speaker:sometimes a year, they're like going, this is not what I expected.
Speaker:I'm losing my edge. I'm not inspired,
Speaker:I'm not feeling like I'm serving anybody and they end up going back and doing
Speaker:something more meaningful. So beware of the idea that you're successful.
Speaker:Be grateful for what you're achieving.
Speaker:Be grateful for the opportunity to do it with all the people that help you do it
Speaker:and all the clients that you help to do it.
Speaker:But don't puff yourself up because it's going to, you'll pay a price.
Speaker:I'm not here to be successful.
Speaker:I'm here to be on a man on a mission.
Speaker:That's why I teach the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:to help people center themselves and see both sides of themselves.
Speaker:If you're puffed up and you're blind to your downsides,
Speaker:that's not the authentic you.
Speaker:And if you're beating yourself up and blind to the upsides,
Speaker:that's not the authentic you, you want to be loved for who you are,
Speaker:but you can't be loved for you are as long as you're being somebody you're not.
Speaker:And that's why in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:I teach people how to love themselves, how to love people around them,
Speaker:how to balance out their perceptions,
Speaker:how to own the traits they see in other people,
Speaker:so you're not putting people in pedestals or pits and trying to change you
Speaker:relative to others or others relative to you,
Speaker:and labeling yourself success or failure and distracting yourself with these
Speaker:labels that are transient states of emotion,
Speaker:instead of long-term visions of achievement. I'd rather just keep going.
Speaker:You know, I got one more story I want to share. I was speaking,
Speaker:oh gosh, this would've been 1984.
Speaker:No, 1983. 1983,
Speaker:November I was at the Marriott Marquee in New York and I was speaking,
Speaker:there was about 5,000 doctors and there were 6 speakers.
Speaker:Each was going to speak for 20 minutes.
Speaker:So there's going to be a two hour session,
Speaker:and it was the best ideas to that can help you serve more people
Speaker:as a doctor. And I was in line and there was a guy ahead of me named Zev,
Speaker:and he's a lovely guy, very committed guy. His father was a speaker,
Speaker:his father spoke on that convention for many years.
Speaker:And he was standing in front of me and was a bit anxious. And he said to me,
Speaker:turned around to me, he says, you know, this is the day I've been waiting for,
Speaker:since I was a child, since I saw my dad on this stage.
Speaker:I said, so this is the ultimate end for you. And he says, I've,
Speaker:I finally arrived, I'm finally successful.
Speaker:And I thought in my mind, wow, this is interesting.
Speaker:He got up there and I can't say he did the greatest presentation he's ever
Speaker:given. I've seen him do much greater presentation,
Speaker:but he was so elated with the idea he was anxious,
Speaker:and he was enamored with himself and focusing on himself instead of focusing on
Speaker:the audience.
Speaker:If you're a professional speaker and you're thinking about yourself and you're
Speaker:thinking how successful you are,
Speaker:you're going to end up being arrogant and cut down by the clan,
Speaker:by the people out there that you're speaking to.
Speaker:But if you're humble, they lift you up. I've been watching that for years.
Speaker:So as he was about to go up on stage I heard him say, you know,
Speaker:I finally arrived. I'm now successful. And in my mind,
Speaker:you know I was 23, nearly 24 years old, in about a week I was going to be,
Speaker:I mean, pardon me, I was 28, yeah, 28.
Speaker:And I was about to turn 29.
Speaker:And in my mind I was thinking,
Speaker:this is not my idea of success.
Speaker:This is just one of a thousand,
Speaker:10,000 times I'm going to be speaking like this.
Speaker:I envision myself speaking around the world, in every country around the world.
Speaker:I've spoken now in 186 countries.
Speaker:So what I saw when I spoke was not,
Speaker:I was a success.
Speaker:I saw that I was a man on a mission with a message.
Speaker:And my presentation went really well.
Speaker:And I know when he came down off the stage,
Speaker:you could see he was distracted because he felt he let himself down.
Speaker:He got puffed up, thought he was successful, and got humbled, de-purposing.
Speaker:Where I was on a man on a mission and got opportunities to speak further from
Speaker:that very talk that day.
Speaker:I've gone on and now 40 years later, next year, this coming year,
Speaker:40 years later, I'm still speaking, still doing 300 plus presentations a year.
Speaker:So I don't think of myself as success, I think of myself as a man on a mission.
Speaker:So I just want to throw that out on you and let you know that the Breakthrough
Speaker:Experience and the Value Determination process,
Speaker:which is in the Breakthrough Experience and the Demartini Method,
Speaker:which is in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:is a gold mine on how to not let emotions run your lives,
Speaker:not let other people's opinions distract you,
Speaker:not let the polarizations of pride or shame interfere with the authentic you.
Speaker:If you would like to be loved for who you are and not have being criticized at
Speaker:home because you're puffed up or built up because you're down,
Speaker:because before I did that exercise at my practice,
Speaker:my volatility in my business was quite up and down.
Speaker:I literally was bipolar in my feelings.
Speaker:The second I put that in there and I governed myself,
Speaker:people who can't govern themselves get governed by other people.
Speaker:If you're not empowering your life, other people overpower you.
Speaker:And when I governed myself, my practice was steady.
Speaker:So if you'd like to grow a more stable life, more stable business,
Speaker:more stable relationship,
Speaker:learn the arts of living by priority and learn how to do the Demartini Method to
Speaker:clear the baggage that distracts you,
Speaker:the moment you think you're success or failure, pride or shamed,
Speaker:putting people on pedestals or pits and put them all in your heart.
Speaker:When you put people in your heart and you live from your heart,
Speaker:you're going to have way more fulfillment in life. And I assure you,
Speaker:you're going to get more done. I've met a lot of people.
Speaker:I met a secretary of defense here this week who spoke here on the ship
Speaker:and he is one sharp cookie from the United States, one sharp dude.
Speaker:And I asked him how he started, he said, well, I was in Michigan,
Speaker:I was in school and I was studying Russian and I wanted to work for the
Speaker:government.
Speaker:And I wrote it down and I had a vision that I would work for the president
Speaker:someday. And he had a really clear vision. He said,
Speaker:I was so graced by the opportunity of serving people on both
Speaker:ends and negotiating and helping people in conflicts and
Speaker:issues. He says,
Speaker:I get to do that every day of my life and it is such an inspiration to do what I
Speaker:do. And I said, and I, if you read his accolades, you go,
Speaker:this is a very highly honored accolade individual,
Speaker:but he doesn't think himself as successful.
Speaker:He sees himself as a man on a mission. And since he was young,
Speaker:so very humble guy, lovely guy.
Speaker:So I'm just want to make sure I shared that idea with you.
Speaker:Come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:Let me train you on how to live by priority.
Speaker:Let me train you on how to get into the executive center where you're
Speaker:self-governed, where you're authentic. The very high medial prefrontal cortex,
Speaker:executive center of the brain is now according to Scientific American,
Speaker:in September, October, they've described it as the seat of the true self.
Speaker:Go read about it, it's interesting.
Speaker:And I've known that for years.
Speaker:But it was absolutely amazing to finally see a real scientific journal talking
Speaker:about that. It's the integration of ourself.
Speaker:And so the second we live by priority, that occurs. And when we do,
Speaker:we are least volatile, most stable, most centered, most focused,
Speaker:most prioritized, most engaged,
Speaker:most productive, most achieving, without the labels.
Speaker:And the second you start to get labels,
Speaker:if you don't know how to manage those polarities and bring those back into
Speaker:equilibrium, then come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:Let me show you how to do that. It's a gold mine,
Speaker:because then you're not letting the external world run. You know,
Speaker:what's interesting is, it's not the external world that
Speaker:We have control over our perception, decisions, and actions. You know,
Speaker:I was reading another article in Scientific American
Speaker:now,
Speaker:and it was talking about moral injury and it was a
Speaker:group of people that were wounded, in my opinion,
Speaker:by fantasies about how life is supposed to be and then they're not living up
Speaker:to that fantasy and they're self-depreciating and
Speaker:don't realize that they're not in their executive center.
Speaker:They've subordinated to outer authorities,
Speaker:they're living in their amygdala because of the unfulfillment and they're
Speaker:striving for fantasies of immediate gratification and trying to be one-sided.
Speaker:Anytime you try to be one-sided, you're automatically guaranteed to self defeat.
Speaker:So if you want to think that success is all positive,
Speaker:you're going to end up with failure that's going to give you negativities.
Speaker:I'm not interested in those labels.
Speaker:In the Breakthrough Experience I shatter those, I break those myths.
Speaker:I broke those 38 years ago. I've not ever gone back to those myths.
Speaker:As Dirac, the Nobel Prize winner says, it's not that we don't know so much,
Speaker:we know so much that it isn't so.
Speaker:We're taught so much misinformation about mastering our life.
Speaker:I've spent 50 years of my life working on how to master your life,
Speaker:how to achieve what it is you want to achieve,
Speaker:and not putting yourself on pedestals or pits, but actually being authentic,
Speaker:opening your heart and being grateful for your life on a daily basis.
Speaker:To me that's what matters. You know,
Speaker:I was talking to a group of doctors one time and I said one of the
Speaker:signs of your achievement is not just how much income you made, that's one,
Speaker:you can measure that, that's fine, it's a metric, no harm,
Speaker:but it's how many people wanted to follow your footsteps and go into the
Speaker:profession that you've done because you inspired them.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because when you're doing something you're really inspired by and you're on a
Speaker:mission, there's something about you that's different. You're not arrogant,
Speaker:puffed up, you're just focused.
Speaker:So that's my message today. Go sign up for the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I'm absolutely certain I've taught that program 1,165 times.
Speaker:I'm absolutely certain what you're going to learn in there is going to be
Speaker:something deeply meaningful. It's a trajectory changer.
Speaker:I ask people at the end of the program every week,
Speaker:how many of you learned something this week you could have gone your entire life
Speaker:and if you hadn't have been here, you would never have learned it?
Speaker:Every hand goes up. I am certain that will happen,
Speaker:because I've got a hundred percent track record of that for all these years,
Speaker:34 years.
Speaker:So if you'd like to go and spend 25 hours or 24 hours with me,
Speaker:you spent 30 minutes with me here, If you want to spend about 24,
Speaker:25 hours with me and go explore the laws of human mastery and develop
Speaker:your mastery of life, your authenticity,
Speaker:I'll teach you how to go beyond success, and how to have a fulfillment in life,
Speaker:an authentic life.
Speaker:The magnificence of who you are is far greater than any fantasies you'll ever
Speaker:have on yourself. Don't get caught in a success fantasy.
Speaker:You'll self defeat.
Speaker:I think that had an impact on Robin Williams and many other people.
Speaker:Many people who think they're successful, usually come and crumble down.
Speaker:You'll see that in the biographies of many successful people.
Speaker:They got cocky and they overdid things and they thought they were invincible and
Speaker:they humbled. I'm not interested in that.
Speaker:The magnificence of who you really are,
Speaker:an authentic state with a tear in your eye,
Speaker:living by priority and dissolving the emotions that distract you is a way more
Speaker:profound state. So go and sign up for the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I assure you're going to learn something you're not going to learn anywhere
Speaker:else. And I assure you can't hang out with me for 24,
Speaker:25 hours without having something happen. So just join me.
Speaker:I assure you that you're going to have a,
Speaker:you're going to say thank you at the end, but by the way, if you come,
Speaker:don't think it's a spectator game. Don't sit there and just go,
Speaker:want to go rah-rah and, you know, stand up on chairs and go rah-rah,
Speaker:that's not what I'm going to be doing.
Speaker:We're going to explore how human behavior works.
Speaker:We're going to teach you the principles and methods and the action steps on how
Speaker:to achieve. But I'm not going to give you fantasies.
Speaker:I'm not going to just sell you fantasies and make you feel good.
Speaker:I don't find that, those are transient things that are just marketing gimmicks.
Speaker:I'm interested in the real material.
Speaker:That actually is something you can stand on, so 20 years from now,
Speaker:you'll be able to take that information and still stand on it.
Speaker:So come see if it's not what I just said, true.
Speaker:I look forward to seeing you there.
Speaker:Thank you for joining me today and just contemplate what I said out of this.
Speaker:But I just love sharing an idea that just might make a difference in your life
Speaker:and hopefully this one did.
Speaker:So I'll see you at the Breakthrough Experience and
Speaker:you this coming week too. Okay, love y'all.