Tony Robbins – On Achievement Versus Fulfillment (#178)

“I love quotes…but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it’s worthless.” – Tony Robbins

I’m very pleased to welcome Tony Robbins (@tonyrobbins) back to the show. (You can check out our previous in-depth conversations here: Part 1 and Part 2).

For those of you that aren’t familiar, Tony Robbins is the world’s most famous performance coach. He’s advised everyone from Bill Clinton to Mikhail Gorbachev to Serena Williams, and Leonardo DiCaprio to Oprah (who calls him “superhuman”).

This time around, we discussed a number of topics we didn’t cover in our previous interviews. I also hit him with some new rapid-fire questions. Some of the highlights of our conversation include:

• Tony’s best investment ever
• Quotes he lives by (and how he puts them into action)
• The worst advice he regularly hears
• Why he changed his diet for the first time since age 17
• And much, much more

If you only have 5 minutes, listen to this segment where Tony explains “The 90-second rule.”

Without further ado, please enjoy this follow-up conversation with Tony Robbins.

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QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

Scroll below for links and show notes…

Selected Links from the Episode

• Connect with Tony Robbins:

Website | Twitter | Facebook

• Tony Robbins on Morning Routines, Peak Performance, and Mastering Money
• Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis (XPRIZE) on the Magic of Thinking BIG
• Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru – Official Trailer
• Tiny trampolines
• Date with Destiny
• Dissociative identity disorder
• The Exorcist Trailer (1973)
• The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide — Risks, Micro-Dosing, Ibogaine, and More
• MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins
• Feeding America
• Creative Planning
• Is My Financial Advisor a Fiduciary or a Stockbroker? by Ethan S. Braid, HighPass Asset Management
• What Is Sleep Apnea?, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• The 10 Most Expensive Artworks of 2015 (includes Mark Rothko, No. 10, 1958)
• Mork & Mindy
• Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life by Richard Carlson
• Tony Robbins Sets the Record Straight About Fire Walk ‘Controversy’ by Marianne Schnall, The Huffington Post
• Unleash the Power Within
• Metallica — Some Kind of Monster
• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
• Maggie Siff on ‘Billions’: ‘I Might Leave Marks’ by Kathryn Shattuck, The New York Times
• Traverse City Film Festival
• Safety and Efficacy of Repetitive Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy In Patients with Lumber Spinal Stenosis by Miyako Suzuki, et al., Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University and Kitasato University School of Medicine
• Dr. Chris Shade on Mercury Toxicity, Revolution Health Radio with Chris Kresser
• Quicksilver Scientific: The Mercury Speciation Detoxification Company

Show Notes

• When you face a deadline and your brain won’t connect, sometimes you have to ask: What would Tony Robbins do? [06:42]
• How does a small trampoline fit into Tony’s daily routine? [09:56]
• Tony recalls a particularly difficult intervention and how he handled it. [11:04]
• Tony touches on circumstances surrounding interventions he’s done with historical figures. [17:40]
• Tony demonstrates how he unearths what motivates people in order to help them. [18:18]
• Tony’s best investment of money, time, or energy. (Hint: it amounted to $35.) [27:42]
• Tony on the power of decisions, the hunt for excellence, and quotes to live by. [31:28]
• The worst advice Tony hears most often. [34:30]
• “Life is always happening for us, not to us…” [41:20]
• Tony talks about the art (not science) of fulfillment. [44:57]
• Tony tells us the biggest lie on the planet. [49:33]
• Suffering comes from these three thought patterns. [51:26]
• Tony explains the 90-second rule. [55:35]
• What’s the most important decision you can make? [58:56]
• Why self-preservation isn’t selfish. [59:48]
• Tony explains how the 90-second rule helped him cope with some recent trouble in Dallas. [1:04:41]
• Tony demonstrates the 90-second rule process. [1:07:17]
• How has Tony’s Date with Destiny program evolved over the past decade? [1:17:17]
• Tony tells us how the I Am Not Your Guru documentary came to life. [1:18:55]
• Tony talks about the possibility of pain without suffering. [1:26:33]

People Mentioned

• John Denver
• Diane Sawyer
• Marc Benioff
• William J. Clinton
• Princess Diana
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• George H. W. Bush
• Margaret Thatcher
• Amelia Boone
• Jim Rohn
• Warren Buffett
• Dale Carnegie
• Peter Mallouk
• Steve Wynn
• Mark Rothko
• Robin Williams
• Paul Tudor Jones II
• Arianna Huffington
• Joe Berlinger
• Maggie Siff
• Brian Koppelman
• Michael Moore
• Christopher Shade

Legal Disclosure: Tony Robbins is a board member and Chief of Investor Psychology at Creative Planning, Inc. (www.CreativePlanning.net), an SEC Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) with wealth managers serving all 50 states. Mr. Robbins receives compensation for serving in this capacity based on increased business derived by Creative Planning from his services. Accordingly, Mr. Robbins has a financial incentive to refer investors to Creative Planning.

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