Hey, it's Tony Robbins. Welcome back to the Tony Robbins podcast. Today I have a unique privilege and pleasure and that is to bring you a conversation with a personal hero to me as well as millions of people around the world.

This is a man who's very humble. He started as a golf caddy if you can imagine and became the most successful hedge fund manager in history returning investors more than 50 billion dollars in returns.

But he's also an unbelievable entrepreneur and so many of you out there entrepreneurs. One of the most successful companies in history started Bridgewater in a two bedroom apartment at the age of 26.

And he's grown that organization to manage almost $235 billion in business. He's also an incredible student of history. He's at a ticket history. He's been a part of that at the stage of his life.

But he has a unique vantage point of looking at things differently than most people. Some of you are familiar with the first book that he came out with and I know it was the first but the first major book for the general population is called Principles.

And we've shared that with most of you showing how important it is. And so today we're going to talk about his new book and it's called Principles for dealing with the changing world order.

It's actually really the understanding of how countries rise and fall and how they succeed and fail and where we are today. This is the book.

I want to make sure you all pick it up for sure. And Graham just wanted to thank you for small for joining me again. It's great to see you.

It's so great to see you too, Tony. You look great and you're also at a glimpsent after family. And so that brings me a lot of joy. So good to be here.

Thank you. I really appreciate it. Listen, this book is extraordinary. 600 pages. You go through 500 years of history to recognize patterns.

I think before we start, if I may, I'll take a minute just to set this up for everybody. Because most people have followed me know that my belief is that power comes to those that can do three things.

One, recognize patterns. I don't care if it's in music or it's entertainment or it's in business or it's financial stocks or the financial world.

If you can recognize patterns, you can take things that look like chaos and turn it into something that you can predict and begin to perhaps anticipate. Now, there's one power in life and in business is the power to anticipate.

You know, leaders anticipate people that lose tend to react. And so we want to see if in this conversation, we can give you a broader picture of where the world is and where America is.

And more importantly, the why we are here because if you understand the causes, the driving forces that make something happen, you're able to recognize those patterns, but also do the second thing start to utilize those patterns.

I need to protect or to grow or to expand. And the greatest masters in certain areas actually develop a third skill, which is the ability to create patterns.

New ways to make things happen to turn things around to make a change. And Ray, you've done this your entire life and the patterns that re-occur over and over, we often call cycles.

And you're a student of cycles and one of the things you've done is built principles, these tools that help you recognize these patterns and show you how to really maximize or utilize them.

But you think I'm going to start out maybe at the 30,000 foot level, even before the book and tell us a little bit about your journey from the beginning days as a caddy to beginning to recognize patterns.

And some of the places that you missed along the way and why misses were so valuable.

I know, you know, you share with me. I think it was in the early 80s where after building your company, we're so successful and it looks like you lost almost everything you know to start over.

So I think it'd be really important for you to understand before we talk about this world in the country, the understanding of these patterns and how they can give you the ability to create a greater quality of life for yourself, for your family, for your company, et cetera.

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