Tony Blauer
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Well, guess who stopped doing any training at that time? So we went and so like 35 contracts got frozen and I'm like a small boutique business. You know, I've got 20 trainers around the world, but it's just me, my wife and a couple of people inside sales. The whole thing stopped. So two weeks became two months and I'm going, I'm going, I'm going to lose everything.
and now it was fear management and it was like like how am i gonna so here i am a fear management expert i felt like somebody shoved a vacuum up my ass and was sucking out my insides right i was just like like like terrified um and that's why i i i tell people i make this joke if i wanted to learn how to skydive and i'm afraid of heights i told you i'm afraid of everything you know so number one fear in the world is public speaking but like you see me talking in front of a group
when i'm in my zone doing my stuff there's there's i got no fear because you know your material you know to manage you manage the fear but if i make the joke if i'm going to learn how to skydive i don't want to learn from a red bull 22 year old red bull athlete with a death wish i want to learn from a 55 or 60 year old jump master who fought in three wars survived and has done this thousand jumps and he loves it so much that when he retired he said i want to teach people to do this
So if I want to learn investing, and you see this now, I make fun of this all the time, if I see one more longevity influencer online who has gorgeous genetics, they're 24 years old, like, hey, talk to me about longevity when you're 100 and you look like that, not when you're 24. So if I want to learn investing from someone like you, I want to learn fear, like I'm
like like i said i've been afraid of everything am i going to be a good dad oh my god should i open my school should not open my school all my life throughout my career 60 decades you know six decades 60 decades i'd be pretty old six decades um and i tell people i go i'm going to tell you and hopefully it'll work for you what i did to manage fear with all these stages
You know, and there are some people that are, you know, people who are just not afraid of anything. And they're like, I call them the unicorn. And if you meet a unicorn while you can be inspired by them, there's nothing to learn. So if you and I go, how did Mozart write that when he was seven?
we don't understand that we're not unicorns right so we can be inspired by greatness but we can't really uh emulate what that person sees you see things differently like like math wise i've seen you up talking and you do like a computation and all of a sudden like like you see that like you're a rain man right like and if i go i want to do i want to be able to do what dan does when i look at that i go i don't understand what he's doing how did he do that
So it's a zone of genius. You can be inspired, but I'm off on a crazy tangent. But it's important what we do when we make those decisions to improve ourselves. There's going to be when you move outside your comfort zone, you get a fear spike. And if you don't know how to manage that fear spike, you step backwards and you stay small. So I think that's where I was going.
Well, I think at the end of the day, whatever your political angles are, whatever your diet, nutrition angles are, we are survival organisms. If I knock you out, your body, independent of your ego, your attitude, your beliefs, tries to, you know, re-regulate your nervous system and awaken. If I cut you, you don't have to go say, hey, white blood cells, you know, do your thing.
shit tries to heal itself. If I said, what'd you say? And jumped across your body without you thinking, would go, whoa, whoa, whoa, take it easy. You would hit a, what we call a nonviolent posture and try and naturally diffuse. So we understand intrinsically, there's a survival response we have in it. I really believe...
because for centuries we've outsourced our safety like there's like like a hundred years ago you knew which mushrooms killed you and which ones got you high you know a hundred years ago you might be you know i go into town to sell some pelts and some you know bandits come onto the ranch and our wife was up there with a black rifle powder right you know rifle going i will shoot you but she was shaking she was managing her fear to protect her kids and protect her property so um
we've outsourced our safety and i think when you realize that you are the provider the protector that that classic language when you know you look in the in the in the mirror and you go i can protect myself i will defend myself and The world's gotten a little crazy in the last five years.
If I need to be a courageous bystander and like the, I've been saying this for about 20 years, the ability to protect yourself or a loved one is an arguably the single most important skill you could possess. And I've had a lot of people try to argue with me and I go, okay, let's see, you have a car collection. I go, keep your car collection, but I'm killing your family.
you go, okay, no, yeah, take the cars. Oh, you have a stamp collection. Like, cause people try to like, you know, the, the, the, the, the irrational mind tries to argue and that, you know, be the contrarian. And I'm like, so,
I always like giving the substance before I get to a direct answer is why should you learn how to improve your situational awareness, manage fear, be able to handle a sudden close quarter, a violent encounter, find out that you just got, you know, you're in a car accident, you're getting robbed and you got in a fight and you got cut or duty to care.
I'm going to put a tourniquet on somebody else or holy shit, I did get cut. I stopped the guy. How do I put a tourniquet on me? like the ability to save your life for someone else. I was like, what is more empowering than that? Here's the transcendent part of that is, and this is a great thing.
There's a guy that I trained, he was a Marine and he came to train with me a couple of times hand to hand. He retired and he got hired by a DOD software company, Department of Defense guys. And he was responsible for 12 people and their sales team.
and multi-millions of like like sales commission now he's on and they figured his background and who he knew and all of this how he that right you're like you're buying the rolodex right and and the credibility like he was there he calls me because he knows we do all the the mindset fear management stuff and he literally says that i can't mention his name but but his quote is i would rather be in a gunfight than be in this board meeting that i go to and talk about my quota
He had no... So here's a guy... If I said to you, Dan, board meeting, negotiating, or surrounded by bad guys with guns shooting at you, you'd go, board meeting, right? So... I really think if you think about this outsource safety concept, because what do you do? Something's happening. You're like, 911. What's the response time now on shit? Like, minutes. We had a home invasion in 2009.
Cops were there in three minutes. That's outrageous. That was 2009. I might have come home to a completely different scenario with no family. But, like, now...
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