BILLIONAIRE Mentor: MASTER These 3 Skills For An EXTRAORDINARY Life! | Tony Robbins EP 642

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11Two and a half years ago, I had the privilege of being in your island in Fiji and spending about a week with a small group of people, Dean and a bunch of other guys and gals. We got to spend some time with you. And you said to us, winter is coming. You probably knew this two years prior to that. And you said, you don't know when exactly, but it's coming soon. And then, I don't know, four or five months later, it hit. and it hit hard for a lot of people. And it's still hitting hard, like you're talking about over the last couple of years. And I don't think it's going to slow down anytime soon. It seems like there might be some hope and then boom, another wave and then another wave of something, whatever it is.

0:49What did you learn from on how we can really take back control of our mind, our health in new ways to support us when the winter continues to hit? Because it doesn't seem like it's going away anytime soon. Well, you're hitting on a huge note. I'd love to plant the seed with everyone listening. And that is we're about halfway through winter. But my hope is this is the year where that part starts to change. But we're still in winter, meaning so many people have been conditioned to be fearful. So many businesses have been shut down. Our children have been kept out of school for such a long period of time that there's after effects on that.

1:23And it's also you want to be a student of history. Think of it this way for a second. When did mankind really become a dominant force on Earth? When they made one distinction. I've shared this with you when we were private, I think I told you. There's three skills that you want to master if you want to have an extraordinary life, no matter what decade we're in. You've probably read Oxford and many other universities are doing these studies where they say half the jobs we have today will be gone by 2040, which sounds like a long time. And that'll go like this. And so my grandkids, my daughter, it's like, what do I want to help them with?

1:55Well, the first skill you've got to master to be great, you know, you're the school of greatness, is the ability to recognize patterns. When humanity recognized the pattern of the seasons, the whole world changed. Because we went from hunter-gatherers trying to survive from place to place where we're exposed to everything, to wait a second. If we plant in the springtime, we protect in the summer, we reap in the fall, and then we hang on to some of that so we can live through the winter. that created communities for the first time and then eventually cities and states and countries. So that changed the world.

2:32What will change a person's life is when you realize there's also a set of seasons in your own life. And so think of it this way. Zero to 21 is springtime. Things are easy to grow in springtime. You don't have to do that much. Growing as a kid happens naturally. And some people live a protected childhood. Some of us not so much. But overall life is supporting you. It's sending you teaching you sharing with you now when you get from You know 21 to 41 or 22 to 42 whatever range you want to talk about some people get there at 16 Some people get there 25 you now are in the real world And now you go test what you learned in your springtime and it's a hot summer and you find out Holy shit a relationship is different than I thought it was when I'm an intimate relationship committed it's not the thing I just envisioned so easily.

3:21Or I'm not as bulletproof as I thought I was. I'm not president of the United States already and a billionaire like I said I was going to be when I was, you know, 19. So you start to learn, test, figure out what's real. It's an important stage of life. 42, 43 to 62, 63 is the power of your life. It's the reaping time. If you worked hard in the spring and the summer and you put yourself out there and you plant it, it's a reaping time. It's a time when you really become a leader. Just everyone's different, some sooner or later, but it's a great stage to understand. And then if you're lucky, you go from 63 to 83 and maybe 83 to 103.

3:57Of the oldest living humans, 119, you have an extended final season of your life where you get to be the mentor. You get to share. You get to make a difference. And maybe towards the end of your life, people look out for you again if you looked out for everybody else. That's kind of the cycle of life. But then there's a third pattern. And that's the cycle of history. The most powerful people, by the way, have used not only pattern recognition, but the second skill, pattern utilization. They see a pattern and they use it. So you'd say, how did Jeff Bezos become the richest man in the world? And the answer is simple.

4:30He studied the growth in the internet at an early stage and saw how explosive it was. It was like nothing else he could see. And he just figured any product, books, was the easy one to start with. But he got himself in and then he started to learn the real secret. that convenience is what people value more than anything else. And when he honed in on that one distinction, he not only recognized the pattern, used the pattern, the people that are real masters create their own patterns, right? You play everybody else's music, and then eventually you get good enough you can create your own music, right?

5:03So the similar thing happens. And so what's occurred is, in humanity, is you go through, there's this seasons in nature, There's seasons in my life and then there's seasons in history. First of all, winter's not forever. No pandemic lives forever. No, you know, war lives forever. Nothing. Everything changes and everything ends. And that means something new occurs. You may not like it, but that's how life is. And the good news about winter is it's always followed by springtime. Historically, some winters are long, some are short, but they're always followed by springtime. What follows the night?

5:37The daytime. What a cool way to set it up if you were God or the universe, right? So imagine for a second, what if you're born in 1910? Now you know the seasons of a person's life. So from 1910, the next 19, 20 years of your life, you're going to be absorbing what was happening. World War I ends. The world looks like it's a great place. New technology, cars, radio. And then what happens? An explosion of abundance, the roaring 20s. And so you're a kid. You're 14, 15 years old, and you're like, I can't wait to get a car to go. But what happened when that person hit the next stage of life, 19, 20, 21 years old?

6:16As they came of age, it's 1929. And suddenly, people are jumping out of buildings, total depression, dust bowl, nobody's got jobs. It looks horrific, and it was horrific. But did they get a break? No, when they turned 29, it's 1939. So think about it. Now World War II breaks out. You and I don't remember. We weren't there. But anybody who was alive will tell you. It looked like the whole world was getting in. Hitler was sweeping across Europe, bombing London. It literally looked like the world as we know it was over. Here's history and one thought. Good times create weak people. Weak people create bad times.

6:59Bad times create strong people. Strong people create good times. That's the history of the world over and over and over again. Yes. And so what happened is that generation who was weak became strong because the environment demanded it. They became the heroes. And think about how different the 1930s and 40s were versus after the war of 45 through 50 up until Kennedy 63. That 20-year period was what a lot of people thought was the greatest time in America. Now, it certainly wasn't if you're African-American. It started to become better if you were a woman. But then think about after Kennedy died and Robert Kennedy is killed and Martin Luther King is killed.

7:40Think about the 60s and the 70s, how different they were than the 80s, 90s, 2000s. So we go through these seasons. I could show them to you a thousand years of Roman history and you can see them. My whole thing is leaders anticipate, losers react. If you can anticipate what's coming, you can really take advantage. If you wait till it hits you, you're in trouble. So I think we're in a time where it's going to be a better year if you're willing to be better, right? You know, winter can be a beautiful time. As you've heard me say before, you can freeze to death or you can ski and snowboard and have a great time with your family and build something.

8:16And so then when spring comes, you know, you can really take advantage. But if you look at the world, the most successful businesses started in a winter.

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