Hello there and welcome.
This is Bob Proctor.
In a previous video, I talked about the terror barrier, what it was.
And I was pointing out that the terror barrier is that invisible line that separates you
from an area that you're not familiar with.
Now there's all kinds of things we're not familiar with, and they don't cause any fear.
We just don't go there.
I mentioned about Scott running all the material, all these programs in this studio.
He knows how to do it all.
He's very comfortable with it.
I don't know how to do it.
I have no desire to learn it.
And so I'm not going to go there.
So even the thought of it wouldn't cause me any fear.
I'm very comfortable staying where I am.
Now I also used the example of public speaking.
It's one of the greatest fears we have.
Bob Proctor: Now I had that fear, and I overcame it.
How do you overcome it?
Well, you don't react to the fear.
You respond to it.
And you respond to it through intelligent action.
You face the thing you fear, and fear will leave you.
I had a desire to speak in public.
Not that I wanted to be a public speaker, I don't even see myself as that although that's
what I get paid to do.
I see myself as a teacher.
I wanted to teach this information that I deal with to other people.
And I was not comfortable with the idea of going up on the stage and talking to an audience.
So I made up my mind that I would, and I got one of the greatest public speakers in my
opinion that ever lived.
He was called the Frank Sinatra of public speakers, Bill Gove.
And what Bill taught me was how to become very comfortable with an audience.
Bob Proctor: See, the audience doesn't have to scare you.
You can become comfortable with them.
And he said, "Bob, sit and think of what you know.
Sit and think of how this information really helped you, and then understand that it will
really help them.
And your only objective in going on this stage is to help them understand how they can take
this information and literally like that change the course of their life."
Now he said, "Bob, if you're experiencing fear it's because you're afraid of what they
think of you.
You're afraid that they're going to laugh at you.
But if you're not thinking of you and you put all of your focus on them and you have
a sincere desire to teach this to them, you're going to overcome the fear."
Now that is responding to fear intelligently, reacting to it is run.
Fight or flight, and that's what we do.
Bob Proctor: If there's something you fear, understand it.
Understand what it is, and nine out of ten times our focus is on ourself.
If we take the focus off ourself and place it on someone else, if you really want to
help someone else, like that the fear is gone.
You react, you lose.
You respond, you stay in control.
When you react, you give your power to whatever it is you're reacting to, the situation, another
person.
When you respond, you're staying in charge.
You think about that for a while.
It's Bob Proctor.
Thank you.
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