Tony Robbins

The rate of change.

He's absolutely right.

But there are new studies that add another dynamic.

It's also affected by who is in your environment.

And today, who's in your environment because the social media is not real.

And so now we're in a place where people evaluate not by their circle of friends they hang out with.

That certainly plays a role.

but even more so.

And I've always told people, if you want to grow, get on the field with people tenfold of where you are.

If you want to play tennis and you're not good at tennis and you're fortunate enough to sit down with somebody who's world-class, like a Serena Williams friend of mine, if you go out and do that, you're terrible.

But just to get on the court with her, you've got to get great.

If you play against somebody you're better than...

It's only a matter of time before your skills go down as well.

So I think our society, people have an expectation today.

Also, my original teacher, Jim Rohn, a personal development speaker, more of a business philosopher.

I went to him one time when I was really young, just beginning with him.

And I said, all my fathers are good humans.

Why were we always broke?

And I said, and I look at this, you know, billionaire hedge fund person, you know, and he made a billion dollars last year.

And this school teacher only made, in those days, like $40,000.