Your Success is 80% Psychology | How to Use Mindfulness and Meditation to Prime Your Nervous System for Peak Performance

Hey, everybody. It's Tony Robbins. Welcome to the podcast. Listen, for the last forty five years, yes, forty five years, I've been focused on the subject of how do you help people increase the quality of their life, whether it be increase the quality of their business or their relationships or their finances. And you know, one of the things I've learned is that communication is the basis of all relationships, whether it's business or personal. And we're all great communicators, and we're not stressed. But we live in a world where the demands are constant, and we kinda get trained into having that part of our nervous system known as the sympathetic system. If you don't know it, it's the part that makes you go, go, go, go. It's that adrenalized part, kinda dominate our lives. And one thing I've learned is in business, for example, you know, the choke hold on the growth of a business is always the leader. It's the psychology and the skills of the leader. And in your personal life, the quality of your life really comes down to the quality of your communications and your relationships. What makes somebody a great communicator is being able to hear what's not being said. But when you're stressed, you don't hear other people. You're not even able to listen. You think you're listening, but you're really just trying to get the job done. And so one of the most valuable skills is to manage our psychology. I always say psychology is 80% of success and skills 20%. And I think meditation for me, when I used to hear about meditation, my mindset was, it's a waste of time. My meditation would be going on a run, which by the way is a form of meditation. I like to be physical, like to be in movement, kind of a dynamic meditation in what I do. Sitting still to meditate just didn't seem real to me. It just felt like a waste of time. And trying not to think thoughts, well, good luck with that. But I started to create a way that worked for me, which I call priming. And I do it every single morning. I'm at how busy I am. I know how busy you are too. And so you don't have to be a meditator. You don't have to have some giant spiritual outcome. But if you want the best you to show up for your family, for your friends, for your business, and for yourself, I think it's important to find a daily practice. And meditation comes in many forms. I mean, it's really important for us to realize that in life, you don't experience life. None of us do. We experience the life we pay attention to. We experience what we focus on. You know, the human brain is basically has three skills. It distorts, it deletes, and generalizes. If you're really angry, you have to delete all the things you could …