I got through 11:00 of that video. If that giant is inside me I do not want him woken up. I want that sucker in a permanent vegetative state.
Many years ago I had a friend who is a television news anchor person. The video camera flattens you from three dimensions to two, and it also filters the amount of non-verbal communication you can project onto the storage media. To have energy and charisma on the replay, a person has to project something approaching mania at record time. I shudder to think what it would be like to sit down in the front row of the Robbins talk when he was performing for that video. He comes across as manic, and the most probable explanation for that is amphetamines.
The transcript might read rational, but that is video of a maniac.
A bit of context: that’s not how he normally speaks.
There’s another video (not publicly available, it’s from a guest speech he did at one of Brendon Burchard’s programs) where he gives the backstory on that talk. He was actually extremely nervous about giving that talk, for a couple different reasons. One, he felt it was a big honor and opportunity, two, he wanted to try to cram a lot of dense information into a twenty minute spot, and three, he got a bad introduction.
Specifically, he said the intro was something like, “Oh, and now here’s Tony Robbins to motivate us”, said in a sneering/dismissive tone… and he immediately felt some pressure to get the audience on his side—a kind of pressure that he hasn’t had to deal with in a public speaking engagement for quite some time. (Since normally he speaks to stadiums full of people who paid to come see him—vs. an invited talk to a group where a lot of people—perhaps most of the audience—sees him as a shallow “motivator”.)
IOW, the only drug you’re seeing there is him feeling cornered and wanting to prove something—plus the time pressure of wanting to condense material he usually spends days on into twenty minutes. His normal way of speaking is a lot less fast paced, if still emotionally intense.
One of his time management programs that I bought over a decade ago had some interesting example schedules in it, that showed what he does to prepare for his time on stage (for programs where he’s speaking all day) -- including nutrition, exercise, and renewal activities. It was impressive and well-thought out, but nothing that would require drugs.
I got through 11:00 of that video. If that giant is inside me I do not want him woken up. I want that sucker in a permanent vegetative state.
Many years ago I had a friend who is a television news anchor person. The video camera flattens you from three dimensions to two, and it also filters the amount of non-verbal communication you can project onto the storage media. To have energy and charisma on the replay, a person has to project something approaching mania at record time. I shudder to think what it would be like to sit down in the front row of the Robbins talk when he was performing for that video. He comes across as manic, and the most probable explanation for that is amphetamines.
The transcript might read rational, but that is video of a maniac.
A bit of context: that’s not how he normally speaks.
There’s another video (not publicly available, it’s from a guest speech he did at one of Brendon Burchard’s programs) where he gives the backstory on that talk. He was actually extremely nervous about giving that talk, for a couple different reasons. One, he felt it was a big honor and opportunity, two, he wanted to try to cram a lot of dense information into a twenty minute spot, and three, he got a bad introduction.
Specifically, he said the intro was something like, “Oh, and now here’s Tony Robbins to motivate us”, said in a sneering/dismissive tone… and he immediately felt some pressure to get the audience on his side—a kind of pressure that he hasn’t had to deal with in a public speaking engagement for quite some time. (Since normally he speaks to stadiums full of people who paid to come see him—vs. an invited talk to a group where a lot of people—perhaps most of the audience—sees him as a shallow “motivator”.)
IOW, the only drug you’re seeing there is him feeling cornered and wanting to prove something—plus the time pressure of wanting to condense material he usually spends days on into twenty minutes. His normal way of speaking is a lot less fast paced, if still emotionally intense.
One of his time management programs that I bought over a decade ago had some interesting example schedules in it, that showed what he does to prepare for his time on stage (for programs where he’s speaking all day) -- including nutrition, exercise, and renewal activities. It was impressive and well-thought out, but nothing that would require drugs.