This week's guest is Dr. John Demartini. He is considered one of the world's leading authorities on human behavior and personal development. He has read and studied over 30,000 books across all the defined academic disciplines and synthesized this wisdom into presentations, seminars and workshops that he has held in 154 countries around the world.  He is the founder of the Demartini Institute, a private research and education organization with a curriculum of over 72 different courses covering multiple aspects of human development. Dr John Demartini has been awarded the #1 human behaviorist on the planet by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) He currently resides on "The World", the largest private residential cruise ship on the planet. I am super excited to share this week's conversation with you, Dr John Demartini is one of the most interesting people i have met, I hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Topics

• Childhood: Arm, leg braces and speech impediment
• Setbacks become gifts
• Reading, spelling, learning, speaking problems and having to wear a dunce cap in class
• Failing school 
• At age 9, his father made him pay for school, clothing and rent (a blessing)
• Leaving home at 13 years of age and becoming a street kid
• Surfing and living on the beach in Mexico, California and Hawaii
• Surfing big waves and getting into movies
• Surfing 11 hours a day
• strychnine and cyanide poison and a near death experience
• Following intuition and attending a Paul C Brag workshop, a life changing experience
• Vision of teaching at every major building in the world
• His affirmation "I am a genius and I apply my wisdom"
• His definition of a genius. "a genius is one who listens to the inner voice and follows their inner vision of their soul and obeys and doesn't let the world on the outside interfere with what the dream is on the inside and creates original ideas that come from the inside and not the outside"
• Failing a major test and receiving parental love and acceptance
• Memorizing dictionaries to increase vocabulary
• Teaching at the age of 18
• A Gift: Learning from the best teachers in the world
• Speaking at over 154 countries
• 300+ speech's a year for decades
• Reading and studying 30,000 books
• Speed reading tactics
• Getting paid to read books 
• Values, Subordination and infatuation.
• Eating to live vs. living to eat
• Myth of positive thinking: a 2 year research project
• Unsustainable idealism
• Liberation and relief through realistic expectations
• Transcending traumas in your life with the Dr. Demartini Method
• Dr John Demartini's definition of spirituality
• A story of a Disney animator getting beaten by his father and appreciating his father after the Demartini Method
• Statistics on incest and rape around the world
• Being in a state of equanimity by embracing both sides of life
• A message he would send to everyone on the planet

Resources and links:

• https://drdemartini.com/
• Values Exercise: https://drdemartini.com/content/values/ 
• Courses: https://drdemartini.com/events/