Tony Robbins explains why most people never reach their potential and it has nothing to do with talent. Robbins: “The Holy Grail between somebody taking action or not is one word: certainty.” You can have enormous potential and still do almost nothing if you don’t believe your actions will... produce the result you want. Potential → belief → action → results. Then the results reinforce the belief. If you believe it won’t work, you take small action. Small action produces small results. Those results become “proof” that your original belief was correct. Robbins: “You go, ‘See, I told you this was a waste of time. I told you this wouldn’t work.’” Now the loop feeds itself. Less belief. Less action. Worse results. Even less belief. A self-fulfilling downward spiral. But the same mechanism can run in reverse. If you become certain that you will find a way, your perception of your own potential changes. That produces more action, which creates better results, which strengthens the belief. Robbins: “If you get yourself in a state of certainty that this is going to work… then you have a lot more potential.” This is why Robbins says certainty matters more than motivation. Motivation can make you act once. Certainty makes you keep acting when the evidence hasn’t arrived yet. Roger Bannister is his example. For centuries, nobody had broken the four-minute mile. Then Bannister did it. Within two years, 37 other people had also run a mile under four minutes. The human potential hadn’t suddenly changed. The belief about what was possible had. That is the real danger of believing something is impossible. You don’t just predict the outcome. You change the amount of action you’re willing to take—and eventually produce the very result you expected.show more

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