This is episode number four five one with number one New York Times best-selling

author Tony Robbins. Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis

Howes. Former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you

an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner

greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

Over 15 years ago when I was in high school I went to my first inspirational

event in St. Louis, Missouri and my dad bought myself and my mom two tickets to

go to this event hosted by a man named Tony Robbins. Now I didn't really know

much about who Tony Robbins was but at the event there were other big

speakers, athletes, coaches that I admired and I really wanted to learn from.

Little did I know that this experience would change my life forever and without

this one experience I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today. Now to give you

some context I was sitting on the floor seats of this big arena about 20

thousand people in the arena and imagine kind of the 50 yard line. We were

sitting back on the floor about halfway back in this arena and Tony Robbins at

one point throughout the day walks off the stage and down the aisle down the

middle of the section where I was sitting and I was sitting right next to the

aisle and he walks down to about that 50 yard line where I was sitting with my

mom and he comes up next to me and I was just thinking to myself I wonder if he's

going to stop next to me and look at me and he walks up next to me and he stops

and he stands there for about 30 to 60 seconds and I don't remember what he said

the things he was saying or the suggestions of what we could do in that moment

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