Name: The Power of Words | Robin Sharma
Uploaded: 2025-06-07T10:46:58.000Z
Duration: 4 min 47 s
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This session is all about the power of words, the power of languaging.

If you watch a victim speaking, you'll hear things like, I can't, I'm sick of, I'm tired of, I don't like this.

And then if you hear a leader speak, you know, I call it leadership vocabulary, it's much more the language of possibility, much more the language of inspiration, much more the language of energy, much more the language of what can be made to happen.

You know, it makes me think of Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs had something called the reality distortion field, which is a term used by Bud Tribble, who was working at Apple at the same time.

And he said, you know, even if you didn't believe in Steve's vision, what he was going to bring into the world, when you were with him, you almost got hypnotized by his language, by his belief in himself, by his energy.

And you got pulled into this reality distortion field so that you actually went, yeah, Steve, this can be done.

And so do you have your own reality distortion field so that when people are around you through your language, you uplift them?

Because bottom line, words can uplift or words can destroy.

And if you look at a Nelson Mandela or you look at a Martin Luther King Jr. in his I Have a Dream speech, he used a language that lifted up an entire nation, that showed people what was possible, that painted a gorgeous picture of the future.

And then you've got some so-called leaders, and rather than the language of leadership, they used the language of hate.

And the words they used didn't lift people up, but they destroyed entire nations.

And so I invite you, as you make your leap from where you currently are to where you've always wanted to be, to get your words right.

I mean, I'm an absolute fanatic about the words I use, because I understand the words I use so influence the people around me.

You know, I so understand the words I use affect my energy.

Call a problem a problem, and it becomes a problem.

Call a problem an opportunity, and it totally reframes your psychology and your emotional architecture about how you reply to it.

The other day, one of my much-valued teammates was looking at, I believe, a blog post or something I had written, and he was going through it to make sure it all flowed.

And he goes, Robin, I made some corrections on the paper, or some corrections to what you did.

And I gently, because I'm a fanatic about language, I understand the power of words, I said, how about rather than calling them corrections, we call them optimizations or iterations?

There was the other day, we're in my hometown, we're in the autumn season.

And I was talking to someone else and sharing, you know, I love autumn, and he said fall.

Now, you might say, Robin, this is a bit extreme, but I don't call autumn fall.

Because fall, the power of that word fall means fall.

Fall has a negative, emotional, subconscious feeling to it.

Another example, I remember a loved one saying, please don't forget to do this.

Like you send an email or text to someone, please don't forget to pick up the milk from the grocery store.

Please don't forget psychologically is brain tattooing your habit of forgetfulness.

So how about rather than don't forget to please remember.

So you really want to be meticulous with your words.

You really want to remember that the words you use every single day either create a mindset and an energy level of being a victim or a mindset and an internal psychology of being a world-class leader.

You want to use the language of possibility.

It's not the language of I hate doing this.

It's the language of what's the opportunity here.

Get your words right and you change entire worlds.

I invite you to subscribe to this podcast and definitely go over to RobinSharma.com for more information, tools, and resources on mastery, elite performance, and living a world-class life.