Re-Awaken the Giant Within - Tony Robbins

Question 1

How can a horrible situation produce 2 completely different people?

Answer 1

They react to the same situation with a different perspective

Question 2

What is really behind the shaping of our lives?

Answer 2

It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Question 3

How does one conquer the tough situations of life?

Answer 3

By creating a positive mindset about things which you cannot control

Question 4

What role does meaning play in our lives?

Answer 4

it’s never the environment; it’s never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the
events—how we interpret them—that shapes who we are today

Question 5

What 2 questions does your brain ask when something happens?

Answer 5

‘Will this cause me pan or pleasure?’

Question 6

What is the answer to our Pain/Pleasure question?

Answer 6

That answer is based on our beliefs

Question 7

What drives our beliefs?

Answer 7

Our generalizations, about how what we’ve learned could lead to Pain or Pleasure

Question 8

How can Generalizations be useful?

Answer 8

They are ‘simply’ the identification of similar patterns

Question 9

How do Generalizations help us in life?

Answer 9

They simplify life and allow us to function, by not having to relearn all the common patterns we encounter throughout the day

Question 10

What is a downside to having Generalizations?

Answer 10

In more complex areas of life they can ‘over simplify’ and sometimes create Limiting Beliefs

Question 11

What happens when Limiting Beliefs are created by accident?

Answer 11

You may develop feelings of being incompetent

Question 12

What is a large & widespread Limiting Belief caused by a over Generalization?

Answer 12

Racial Prejudice

Question 13

What is the challenge with all of these beliefs?

Answer 13

They become limitations for future decisions about who you are and what you’re capable of

Question 14

What is important to remember about our past?

Answer 14

That most of our beliefs are actually Generalizations about our past, based on our interpretations of painful and pleasurable experiences

Question 15

What is the challenge of our past Generalizations?

Answer 15

1) most of us do not consciously decide what we’re going to believe; 2) often our beliefs are
based on misinterpretation of past experiences; and 3) once we adopt a belief, we forget it’s merely an interpretation.

Question 16

How can these over Generalizations become dangerous?

Answer 16

We begin to treat our beliefs as if they are realities, as if they are the gospel

Question 17

How is it that human beings are not random creatures?

Answer 17

All our actions are the result of our beliefs

Question 18

How to make long term change?

Answer 18

You must change the beliefs that are holding you back

Question 19

What kind of power do beliefs have?

Answer 19

The power to create
The power to Destroy

Question 20

How can we create meaning of life events?

Answer 20

By taking a life event and create a meaning that disempowers them, OR, meaning that can literally save their lives

Question 21

What is a good way to interpret why unexplainable tragedies happen?

Answer 21

We need to adopt the faith that there is a reason for the unexplainable tragedies, if we don’t we begin to destroy our capacity to truly live

Question 22

How does one survive horrible tragadies?

Answer 22

By transforming their experience and find an empowering meaning for their pain

Question 23

Are beliefs limited to just affecting your emotions or actions?

Answer 23

No

Question 24

What else can limiting beliefs affect?

Answer 24

They can literally change your body (in a matter of moments)

Question 25

Can beliefs even change/override the impact of drugs on your body

Answer 25

Yes!

Question 26

How do beliefs play a role in our illnesses?

Answer 26

Our beliefs about the illness and it’s treatment play a big part

Question 27

What kind of power over us, do our beliefs have?

Answer 27

The power to make us sick or make us healthy

Question 28

What is a ‘global belief’?

Answer 28

A belief so generalized that they dominate virtually every aspect of our lives, either negatively or positively. They are the giant beliefs that we have about everything in our lives

Question 29

How to get a belief to stick?

Answer 29

Get your brain to associate Massive Pain to the old belief

Question 30

What’s the only reason we have a belief?

Answer 30

Because we have linked it with massive pain to not believing it or massive pleasure to keeping it alive

Question 31

Second way to dismantle a belief?

Answer 31

Doubt. Doubt why you believe it and why you should keep believing it

Question 32

How to cause doubt?

Answer 32

Keep questioning the event enough times

Question 33

What is an ‘opinion’?

Answer 33

Something we feel relatively certain about, but the certainty is only temporary because it can be changed easily

Question 34

What is a ‘belief’?

Answer 34

It’s formed when we begin to develop a much larger base of reference, especially with large amounts of emotions

Question 35

What is a ‘conviction’?

Answer 35

It eclipses a belief, primarily because of the emotional intensity a person links to an idea

Question 36

How fast can change happen?

Answer 36

In an Instant!