Andrew Reynolds on surrounding yourself with positive people

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Andrew Reynolds live onstage at London’s O2 Arena talking about the power of surrounding yourself with positive people and thereby removing all possible negative input from people who could drag you down to their level. This clip shows Andrew Reynolds speaking in front of around 8,000 delegates at this live event.

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Andrew Reynolds: Surround yourself with positive people.

There is a person in this room; I am not going to read their email email data because it will embarrass them. There is a person in this room who said “Andrew I’ve got a real problem. I’m bringing a guest of mine who I met at your last boot camp and that guest is so negative and it really depresses me hanging around with that person for two days. What shall I do?”

I said “Well we’ll sit them that side and we’ll sit you over that side.” Change your seat. If you get accosted by the negative bloke in the break, just walk away.

Andrew Reynolds: Another lesson I learnt from my dad. My dad he was ever so proud, he put up a sign above the door on his shop that said Reynolds of Winchester, DIY Shop. People used to come in to seek advice from the DIY expert.

Now my brother is in the room, he’ll remember this, bless him, my old dad if you put a hammer and a nail in his hand the air was going to get a bit blue. He couldn’t hit a nail straight, he couldn’t do a DIY job if his life depended on it. But he had opened a DIY store because he thought he was going to make some money. So people would come in asking advice and I would be in the background thinking “That ain’t gonna work.”

Andrew Reynolds: Don’t put yourself in a situation where you have to give expert advice.

The beauty of the business model we are teaching you this weekend is that you are going to be, write down publisher. You are going to be the publisher of information; you are not going to be the expert.