Weldon Long
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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If you just listen to people, make them feel heard, they will fall in love with you. The other thing is laughter, right? Now, you've got to be careful with this because you can put your foot in your mouth real quick. But I read this article. I forget even where. But, you know, when you laugh, we have the dopamine you were talking about earlier gets released, and it feels good.
That research has shown that the person laughing attributes that good feeling to the person that made them laugh. This is why Marilyn Monroe said if you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. Well, it's true for men, too. It sounds sexist, but it's true for all of us. If you can make me laugh, because I attribute all that endorphin, all that feeling to the guy that made me laugh.
Just a minute ago, you were telling me, I forget what you said. You had me laughing really good. And I'm thinking to myself, this fucking Tommy Mello is really cool. Yeah. Because you made me laugh. And I got these endorphins. I feel good. And, dude, it's relationship. It's what you said. The most important thing is a homeowner likes the guy, the technician or the gal. Yeah.
Well, I always go back to kind of old faithful, the first is Seven Habits. The second, you know, Habits 1, 2, and 3 are about personal development. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are more... External leadership, but for personal development, that one. Think and Grow Rich, of course, classic. The Pullen Hill. Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.
The one book that changed my life because that was the first time I realized that maybe all my screw-ups weren't for waste, right? There was going to be something good come from it. I'm a big fan of some of the old school guys, Emerson, Thoreau. James Allen is probably my favorite. I have a James Allen anthology that sits on my desk. It's about 1,000 pages long.
It's a series of, I don't know, hundreds of little essays that he wrote. Dude, you can pick that book up, like the Bible, by the way. And I'm not like a religious nut or anything, but there's historical reality in the Bible. There's a lot of good advice in Proverbs and Psalms. I mean, you can say whatever you want, but there's historical accuracy. I can open James Allen.
And Krista will tell you over here. I will open it, and I'll read one line, and I can do an hour-long training on it because it just blows me away. Like, what did he say? One of my favorites, Tommy. What kills me about these guys is kind of the joke in literature about these guys. And having written three books, and I know you've written some books, and I read a lot about other people.
That's how I learned how to write a book. I read books about how to write a book because I didn't know how. And so the old guys like Thoreau and Emerson, they use too many prepositions. And you write a paragraph and go through and take every prepositional phrase out, and now you'll have some clarity in there.
And so they get criticized because in the old days they would use all these prepositional phrases. It's fascinating to me, though, dude. And James Allen wrote six words one time. He's most famous for As a Man Thinketh, right? But he wrote another essay on the power of focus. And listen to this, six words. Dispersion is weakness. concentration is power.
My success is a product of hard work, of course, but focus, dude. Like I'm a bulldog getting focused. It's going to get finished. I won't give up. And you know how hard it is to write a book. The last 10% or 20% is the really, really hard part, right, because you get the basic stuff.
Right, exactly. But that's the thing, man. So those, James Allen, Thoreau, Emerson, I love that stuff. Emerson, we become what we think about all day long. Classic, obviously. And I love the Tony Robbins stuff. Dude, it's so funny. Tony Robbins endorsed my first book, and I never met him. I've been to his events, but I've never actually met him.
But we met through social media, and he endorsed my book through social media. When Twitter first came on, this was like 2008, 2009. Yeah. and I went to follow Tony Robbins, and he had like five followers. So I followed him, he followed me back. If you go to his site today, he follows like 50 people. I happened to be one of them because when he first started, he followed me.
Of course, he got millions of followers, huge fan. So when I was in federal prison in the mid to late 90s, which, by the way, we were there last week. We were in the federal prison last week. I go in on a pretty regular basis and talk to guys. He had the personal power program. I don't know if you remember that. It was a 30-day program he had on – on a cassette.
And the prison library had that program, and you could go in and sign in and get a little cassette player and a set of headphones. And you're supposed to listen to one lesson every day for 30 days. And at the conclusion of each lesson, he says, now do something today that's taking decisive action towards what we talked about, whatever it was. And I would do it.
That freaking program, dude, as simple as it was, it changed everything for me. It just absolutely changed everything for me. So I'm a huge fan of Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey. I mean, Tom Hopkins, who lives here. Yep, the art of the deal.
Last time I talked to his wife, they were in Prescott for the holiday. I used to listen to Tom Hopkins' cassette tapes because my mom was a realtor. Oh, my gosh, dude. I've done a ton of events with him. This was probably 15 years ago. I have a promoter who happened to live in Denver, came to one of my events, and he was a promoter for Tom Hopkins.
And he comes to me and goes, would you like to speak with Tom Hopkins? I'm like, dude, are you kidding me? I love that guy. I spent almost five years traveling with Tom. We would do four events a year. This promoter would go into a town, and he would go hustle up three or four or 500 people to come see Tom Hopkins.
And Tom would allow me to open for him, and I would do my mindset stuff in the morning. Then Tom would come in and do his legendary stuff. And he used to do a boot camp every year here. The last two years he did it, he brought me in to keynote it. Like, that dude was so generous to me. Stephen Covey was the same way.
Stephen Covey's son, Stephen M. R. Covey, who wrote The Speed of Trust, wrote the foreword to my last book, Consistency Selling. Dude, when I read the foreword to it, I cried. He talks about how he learned about me through his dad, his dad telling him the story about me. I mean, you know the craziest thing, Tommy? The most successful guys... are the most generous. People like Tony Robbins.
Tony Robbins endorsed my first book. What could I possibly do for him? Nothing. Stephen Covey, nothing. Tom Hopkins, nothing. Mark Victor Hanson, nothing.
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