The Power of Words
The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions
Robin Sharma
4.8 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2016
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Part of what made people like Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi legendary were the words they spoke. Please just think about it: words of hope can lift whole nations. And words of hate can destroy entire races. Victimspeak will diminish your personal output while leadertalk will galvanize it. In this short but insight-filled Mastery Session you'll learn how the best leaders inspire and move people to brilliant results.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma, welcome to this Mastery Session. |
| 0:09.0 | This session is all about the power of words, the power of languaging. There's really two |
| 0:14.9 | distinctions. One is what I call victim speak. If you watch a victim speaking |
| 0:19.8 | you'll hear things like I can't, I'm sick of, I'm tired of, I don't like this. |
| 0:26.0 | And then if you hear a leader speak, you know, I call it leadership vocabulary, |
| 0:30.0 | it's much more the language of possibility, much more the language of possibility, much more the language of |
| 0:33.4 | inspiration, much more the language of energy, much more the language of what can be |
| 0:38.4 | made to happen. You know, it makes me think of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs had something called the reality |
| 0:45.0 | distortion field, which is a term used by Bud Tribble who was working at |
| 0:49.1 | Apple at the same time. And he said, you know, even if you didn't believe in |
| 0:52.3 | Steve's vision, what he was going to bring into the world, |
| 0:56.0 | when you were with him, you almost got hypnotized by his language, by his belief in himself, by his energy, and you got pulled in this reality distortion field so that you |
| 1:07.0 | actually went yeah Steve this can be done and so do you have your own |
| 1:11.8 | reality distortion fields that when people are around you through your language, you uplift them? |
| 1:18.0 | Because bottom line, words can uplift or words can destroy. And if you look at a Nelson Mandela or you look at a Martin Luther King Jr in his I have a dream speech |
| 1:29.0 | He used the language that lifted up an entire nation that showed people what was possible |
| 1:35.2 | that painted a gorgeous picture of the future. |
| 1:38.1 | And then you've got some so-called leaders, and rather than the language of leadership they used the language of hate and |
| 1:44.7 | the words they used didn't lift people up but they destroyed entire nations and |
| 1:49.6 | so I invite you as you make your leap from where you currently are to where you always want it to be to get your words right. |
| 1:57.0 | I mean, I'm an absolute fanatic about the words I use, because I understand the words I use so influenced the people around me. |
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