You said: “Again, we don’t know of any teachers who give you the tough love followed by the rah, rah, rah. Tough love teachers do follow up with solutions you can use… but not delivered in the rah, rah way.” “But if you have anyone in mind that you see as having one foot in each camp, do let us know.”

Hi Barry, Hi Heather,
I think you do know these teachers, they just don’t show up for you that way, because that’s not what you “need”.

In my experience, a great teacher is one who can assimilate what the student needs at any given time.

If the “student” needs to work on self esteem, which again in my experience, is a main issue with a lot of people and something I have had to break through myself, having someone tough love you is not necessarily the best avenue. Yet, there is a time for it, and as the person’s self confidence grows, the more they can handle the tough love times, and require it sometimes.

It’s all relative, and of course we all get exactly what we need when we need it, always something to be learned somewhere.

I think we need all types of teachers, there is a teacher for everyone, we need different teachers at different times … and that is one of the great things that you guys do is bring out all the different teachers.

As you have said many times before, and I do as well, if it resonates with you, check it out, if not, don’t.

I believe that I am one of those able to put my feet in both camps. BUT it all starts by one of the great “rules”…you have to know where you are in order to step towards where you are going.

Larry is a winget…he’s nuts! Me—I like that, maybe because I’m from the Rock and I’m cracked anyway.

And Ian, remember…take what you like and leave the rest.

Cheers!
Carmen

[Heather's REPLY]:

Yes, Frank, it WOULD be too much trouble, since we don’t own the video and didn’t put it on YouTube in the first place.

You don’t need to download the video, it plays as a streaming Flash file. Very fast, and doesn’t use much bandwidth to do it.

As for the money issue, Larry would say you’re broke because you want to be. We highly recommend you tune in to our call to find out what solutions he has about that.

Heather

“The other type of mentor believes that you’re never as good as you could be, you’ve always got room to learn, grow and develop, and that sometimes you need to be shaken out of your comfort zone in order to move yourself along to a better place.”

What is this, a black and white world? Why does it have to be either namby-pamby or tough love? There are options in between the two extremes, you know. Making out like it’s got to be one or the other benefits no one.

[Our REPLY]:

Ian, in our experience as metaphysical investigators and success researchers, mentors in the spiritual growth field in particular tend to fall under one of those two umbrellas.

If they did not — if they crossed back and forth between the two teaching methods — they would be seen as incongruent by the general population in this industry. So they hang their identity as a teacher on one style or the other.

Now, Larry wouldn’t call himself a “spiritual growth” mentor, but “personal development”. So if we go a little broader into the “personal development” arena (which is the larger niche), then you’ll find the typical motivational speaker. That would be the equivalent of the “love and light” spiritual growth mentor (you know, “rah, rah, you can do it, you have the power” and so forth).

Again, we don’t know of any teachers who give you the tough love followed by the rah, rah, rah. Tough love teachers do follow up with solutions you can use… but not delivered in the rah, rah way.

And Larry, BTW, says the world IS black and white.

We don’t necessarily agree; we see shades of grey WITHIN each subset (i.e. some “love and light” teachers are more “namby-pamby”, to use your words, than others, and some “tough love” teachers are tougher than others).

But if you have anyone in mind that you see as having one foot in each camp, do let us know.

Barry & Heather