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Significance of the title?

posted 8 years ago by PSXre
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I just saw this listed on Instant Watcher and I'm curious as to why they chose that title. "I am not your guru" makes it sound, to me, like a film that portrays him in a negative light. Sort of like 'you shouldn't follow my advice' However, according to the few other threads here that appears not to be the case.

Is that one of Tony Robbins's famous lines or something? "I am not your Guru, I am your..."

Or is it like I am Not Spock? Tony is trying to explain how he has other facets of his life besides giving speeches that people seem to go bananas for?

Something else?

[–] doginthefog 8 years ago

He spoke about it briefly during the doc, basically people have the power to change their own lives and be their own guru.

[–] shiherlis 8 years ago

The title is taken from a line in the movie. Tony tells the people "I am not your guru." He may have dropped an f bomb in there.

[–] Phidippides 7 years ago

I agree that the title makes it sound like a put-down of people who follow him for help. It makes it sound like he's putting the clamp down on groupees. While he does use the line in the documentary, it's not a major point of his line of work (IMO). I think they could have used a different title.

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