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Full Anthony Robbins Biography
Anthony Robbins or Tony Robbins, (born Anthony J. Mahavorick on February 29, 1960 in North Hollywood, California, U.S.) is an American life coach, writer, and professional speaker. Some of his well known audio programs include Personal Power II, Get the Edge! and Lessons in Mastery.
Robbins was born in 1960 and raised in Azusa, California. He attended Glendora High School. His parents divorced when he was seven years old, and his mother later remarried twice. Tony took on the surname of his second stepfather, Jim Robbins.
In 1994, a routine medical check revealed a tumor in Robbins' pituitary gland. According to his recounting in Personal Power the tumor was actually an adenoma that had infarcted several years prior. Due to the pressure of the adenoma on his pituitary gland, he had circulating levels of growth hormone several times higher than what would be normal for an adult his age. This had resulted in a subclinical manifestation of the disease known as acromegaly, which doctors told Robbins was responsible for his remarkable growth spurts as a teenager, as well as his large hands and feet (He is 6 feet 7 inches tall, (201cm)). After consultation with a number of different physicians, Tony eventually decided not to have the adenoma resected, as it was not causing any clinical manifestations, such as organomegaly or heart valve defects.
On a CNN interview in 2001, Robbins stated that he found it difficult to end his 15-year marriage to Becky Robbins, who is 10 years his senior, saying "it was the toughest decision of his life" and yet that he knew if he stayed with her, he'd be ruining her life and his. Robbins reiterates similar comments about his previous relationship in his recent Ultimate Relationship Program (recorded with family therapist Cloe Mandanes and also Sage Robbins).
In his Personal Power program, he says that the difference between NAC and NLP, lies in the use of the word 'conditioning' as opposed to 'programming'. Robbins says his use of the word 'conditioning' implies that the subject has greater responsibility for his or her own change, as opposed to being programmed by someone else.
More recently, Robbins has partnered with Dr. Cloe Madanes in founding the Robbins Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention. to create what they call "Human Needs Psychology". Robbins believes that all people must meet six human needs:
- Certainty
- Variety
- Significance
- Love/Connection
- Growth
- Contribution
Robbins promotes a mainly vegetarian and vegan lifestyle and endorses the views of Robert Young and Natural Hygiene practices regarding the need for an alkaline diet, in which proteins and carbohydrates are consumed separately. In recent events, he has included fish into his diet plan, citing the need for omega 3, 6, and 9 fatty acids in a complete diet. He has also praised John Robbins' book Diet for a New America. He previously promoted a concept of diet based on a predetermined value or "electrical energy" of foods, although this no longer forms part of his recent "Living Health" materials. Prior to his promotion of these dietary practices, Robbins ghost-wrote the book Fit for Life.
Financial seminar guru Wade Cook also sued Robbins for copyright infringement, claiming that Robbins lifted concepts and terms from his seminars and his book, Wall Street Money Machine, during the creation of a competing financial course. In 1998, a Tacoma, Washington jury ordered Robbins to pay Cook over $650,000 in damages.
Freelance writer Steve Salerno in his book Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless states "NLP has shown up in many settings inside and outside SHAM" (his acronym for the Self-Help and Actualization Movement) but particularly aims his opinion at Anthony (Tony) Robbins who he claims "made NLP his own, refining it and personalizing it into what he christened "neuroassociative conditioning" (a claim with which other proponents of NLP would disagree; see history section in NLP article). Salerno criticizes proponents of self-help, including Tony Robbins, stating it "actually fans the fires of discontent, making people feel impaired or somehow deficient as a prelude to (supposedly) curing them." Salerno opines that there are contradictions in Richard Bandler and John Grinder (the co-founders of NLP) ending up in court over who owned the rights to NLP given NLP's promotion in business for negotiations and conflict resolution and also in Tony Robbins having become divorced while marketing products for the "perfect marriage".
According to the National Council Against Health Fraud, Robbins' book Unlimited Power promotes unsubstantiated and potentially harmful notions about health and nutrition.
In his book, Awaken the Giant Within, Robbins recounts meetings with a variety of public figures, such as Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterand, and Princess Diana.
In Shallow Hal Robbins appears in a scene with Jack Black's character in an elevator where Robbins hypnotizes Black's character in order to change Black's mental state. Black's character can now see people's outward appearance based on their inner personality. The scene is pivotal to the plot. In this scene, Black's character riffs on Robbins's large hands calling them "banana hands". |
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