Tony Robbins

As you get in that season, though, the going through the tough times, which nobody wants to go through, let me bring that back to the question you had of how do you help people?

The meaning of your life determines how you feel.

The meaning is based on the narrative you've created.

I can talk to somebody and ask them how they met, and we know where their relationship is by the way they tell their origin story.

You can see whether there's ones rolling their eyes or they're both into it, everything else.

It's very easy to see where someone is in their life in that area.

So the ultimate narrative is this.

If you look at all the stories of humanity, and you study mythology and religion, right, as Joseph Campbell did, if you're familiar with his work, the oldest story of humanity is the hero's journey.

So the hero's journey is understanding in a relationship, in a person's life, if they're feeling suicidal or they're feeling frustrated, is the most important understanding.

So think of it this way.

What starts that journey is you have a normal life.

It seems pretty good or even seems great.

And then something, they call it the call to adventure.

Something happens that jolts you.

Now, it doesn't sound like a call to adventure.

It sounds like extreme stress.

It sounds like your home burned down.

which happened to me 25 years ago here in California.

I was here a year ago helping people because of what happened, right?

So your home burns down or you're robbed or somebody in your family gets diagnosed with a tumor or COVID shuts down your business and you're like, this was my whole life or you lose your job or somebody in your family gets sick.