In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.
For a moment, consider the things
your mind has brought you, everything you have,
your work, your relationship with your family and others,
your philosophy of life
all come to you as a result of using your mind.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
the mind can achieve regardless of how many times
you may have failed in the past
or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.
The more you study you,
you're gonna find your belief system
is based upon your evaluation of something.
The more you evaluate you,
the more you're gonna believe in you.
Bill Gove is like the Frank Sinatra of public speaking.
He is who mentored and taught Bob Proctor how to speak
and he quoted Bill Gove saying
"If I want to be free, I gotta be me,
not the me I think you think I should be,
not the me I think my wife thinks I should be,
not the me I think my kids think I should be.
If I want to be free, I gotta be me
and I gotta know who me is."
And it was like a bucket of ice got thrown on my head,
and I was just like whoa.
Am I really doing what I really want to do with my life?
And then he kept saying "What do you want?
What do you really want?"
And I wrote down in teeny, tiny print so nobody would see
and I said "I want to be in the inner circle of this company
"and I want to be his closest advisor."
- What we've got to learn to do as individuals
is adapt to the change that's taking place.
See, change is inevitable.
It's never gonna stop
and we're picking up speed.
Thinking is when you take a power
that's flowing into your consciousness
that flows to and through you
and you originate thoughts
and you put the thoughts together and you create an idea
And if you can create an idea,
if you can see something in your mind,
you can hold it in your hand.
And I don't care whether you're 80 or 18,
it makes no difference.
The illiterate of the 21st century
are not gonna be the people that cannot read and write.
They're gonna be the people who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
Now think about that for a moment.
Do you know, you and I are being controlled,
virtually controlled by paradigms.
I see a paradigm as being a mental program
that has almost exclusive control over our habitual behavior.
And I want you to think of this,
almost all of our behavior is habitual.
(inspiring music)
There's such phenomenal opportunity
for the person who really understands themself,
who understands how their paradigm was formed
and how that paradigm can be changed.
And without that knowledge,
the opportunity is just gonna go right past them.
A friend invited me to a leadership seminar
and I didn't even ask anything about it.
I didn't know the details.
It was in Vancouver, Washington and I said "Sure, I'll go."
And so I ended up there on that Friday night,
August 18th, 2006 and I'll never forget it.
I can see where I was sitting in the seminar room.
I can see what I was wearing
and I see out walks on stage Bob Proctor.
And I didn't even know who he was.
I kind of had connected between Bob Proctor and The Secret,
but I didn't know this was a Bob Proctor seminar
and within like 15 minutes
it was like he took my head off and shook it all around
and everything that I believed and thought
I was starting to question.
There was one point in the seminar when he said
"Most people tiptoe through life
hoping to make it safely to death."
I believe if we're really going to enjoy
the change that's taking place
in the world that we're a part of,
we're gonna have to start to understand what makes us tick.
We're gonna have to understand how the paradigm was formed,
how the paradigm ca be changed,
and how it's literally controlling our life.
When we do understand that,
then we're in control of ourself,
we're living the way we really want to live.
We've knocked down all the walls,
there's no limitations.
The sky is actually the limit.