Awaken the Giant Within - Anthony Robbins - Shamous Words of Wisdom 6

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- Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within

“I can’t overemphasize the power and value of gaining even one, single distinction..."

This is one of the most powerful lessons that I got out of Awaken the Giant Within; that is, to fully understand that a single distinction can be as important and as valuable as a major breakthrough. Most of the time, while reading a text, a book or attending a seminar we look forward to discovering a giant breakthrough or some earth shattering secret. These insights are very few and far between yet they may not have a greater impact on our life than a small but meaningful distinction.

These small distinctions are the equivalent of the tenth of a second that will separate the winner from that other guy who also ran but will not attract attention because he came in second. It’s also these small distinctions that will make the difference between greatness and almost total obscurity.

By taking a single brick out of a large brick wall the whole thing might collapse in a year’s time. Just as that little distinction might make the difference between success and failure.

Tony Robbins said that when he first got started he would take the same seminars over and over again because every time he went back he was a different person so he would see and understand things that he did not get before. This would allow him to make those small distinctions that would eventually make all the difference in his life.

The question then becomes, “How can we notice when we come across one of those small gems (distinctions) that can make all the difference in the world?”

We do that by having very definite life goals or outcomes and by reading these objectives every day so that they are always fresh and present in our mind. We must keep focusing on that because, whatever is mostly present in our mind will dominate the RAS (Reticular Activating System) which is a mechanism inside the brain that filters information allowing access to the consciousness for what we perceive of as being important information while blocking what is irrelevant.

Whatever information we need to attain our goals and the means to attain those goals are in our Universe. But most of the time that material is not all that obvious. That is why we need to be alert if we want to grasp those small distinctions that will make the difference between success and failure.