Tony Robbins (14:20)
So he's in the tunnel. You'll learn more tomorrow. He's in the tunnel. And when a man's in a tunnel, it seems like nothing's ever going to work. It's the dark night of the soul. Everything I've done in my whole fucking life, it's still not there. He is not where he believes he should be. And for a man not in the hierarchy of where he thinks he should be, that's pretty much feels like death inside. And you're the one bright spot in his life. And then he feels like he's failing you too, because he has all this stuff going on inside himself that he's not able to control or direct or shape. And so then he beats himself up about that. And as he beats himself up, he has less energy and he's even less connected to you, which produces even more fear in you. And all you see is less commitment when what you really have as a man in the tunnel. But here's the good news about the tunnel, which we'll explain more tomorrow. But just plant a seed for all of you. If you're a woman and you have a man in the tunnel and you can love him through that, you will own him for the rest of your fucking universe. Life. My wife came to me shortly after I entered in a tunnel. And she loved me through the tunnel when I didn't even love myself. And that took me from loving her to unbelievably devoted. I will die for her. I will live for her. There is no one more important to me, period. No matter what she does or didn't do or she needed something or didn't want to be, I will always be there for her. There is zero question. It's not about what I get because she loved me when I didn't even love myself. He's having a hard time loving himself. You're the one light spot he has. He does not fight out of it right now. And it feels like it's forever. And it's not because the other side of the tunnel is a king. You don't become a fucking king by being crowned. You become a fucking king by going through absolute hell where nothing looks like it's gonna work. And as a result, that one day you stop beating yourself up for not being there. That's the first step. And you come up with a new vision again. And in spite of all the other visions not coming through, you find the courage to push through your fear of being disappointed again, hurt again, failure again. And you fucking find that part of yourself and you fucking rise up and it's slow and it's steady and you get out of that fucking tunnel and you grow like you've never grown before. And you have a different level because what makes you a king is not somebody crowned you or you're going around pointing that you're a fucking king or a queen. You've been through so much hell on earth, you don't want anyone else to go through it. And you want to serve everyone you can because you know what suffering feels like at the deepest level. And so it makes you care more than if you'd never suffered. It makes you feel more for others. It makes you a loving and wise king, not an ego fucking driven asshole who put themselves in a position. It puts you in a position of service. Because a king, or the word hero, comes from servo, which means servant. The true hero is the servant of society. You're willing to risk your life to serve your beloved, to serve your family, to serve your society. Hero is not accolades. Hero is going through the darkness that no one else will do because you don't want other people to have to go through it. And you learn and you find the way. You develop a pathway so you can help others get out of that tunnel, so you can help others avoid it if possible. And not everyone goes through the tunnel, ladies. By the way, if he's in the tunnel, he has the potential to be a king, because princes don't go through the tunnel. And neither do knights. Where bad boys or good boys, they come in and look like the hero. They like to fight the great adventure, but they always leave because it's about themselves. Nothing wrong with it. They're just immature. And then there's the stable boy who wants to be a knight. But Fabio, no man becomes a king unless at one stage he decided he would be one. And you decided that's why you're so disappointed. But it's not over. It feels like it's over. It's not over. I remember going through my divorce. I was turning 40 years old. I'd worked seven days a week, more hours than most humans will ever fucking dream of. I was the best in the world. And what I did, and I finally said, look, I love you, you're a great person. But we're so different. We have different values, different beliefs. Let's just be friends, let's Be partners. Significance was number one. So that took away significance. So she tried to destroy me. And she got a lawyer. And she got eight times multiple in a bunch of little businesses where I was working around the clock. It'd be like being a doctor. If you don't show up, there's nothing there. Had to give her all the revenue. Eight times the revenue. When I met her, she was broke, living in an apartment. I was living in the Del Mar castle. It was the most devastating experience. It was. Was the most painful thing. I'd been the greatest husband in the world, greatest father. Now she tried to destroy me. It was dark, night of the soul. It was tunnel time. And it lasted way longer than I ever wanted to. But in the midst of that, I found the love of my life. We grew together and we got outside of ourselves. I became more for her. The way, you know, you have the right relationship is you want to be more for that person than even for yourself, that it calls you to be more. And we both have that for each other.