Unshakeable

Unshakeable

In the spring of 2016, Tony Robbins sat across from Ray Dalio in Dalio's office in Westport, Connecticut. Dalio ran Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on earth -- $160 billion under management -- and he had just agreed to explain, in plain language, how he thought about markets. Robbins had been doing these interviews for three years, chasing the world's greatest investors for his previous book. But this one felt different. Dalio pulled out a drawing. It was a simple diagram he called the economic machine, and he walked Robbins through it the way a mechanic explains an engine: here is the credit cycle, here is the long wave, here is why 2008 was not a surprise if you knew what to look for.

Robbins left that meeting with a question that bothered him. If Dalio could see it coming, if Paul Tudor Jones could see it coming, if Howard Marks and Carl Icahn and Jack Bogle had all -- in their different ways -- built systems to survive market chaos, why didn't ordinary people know any of this? Why did millions of Americans panic-sell their retirement accounts in March 2009, locking in permanent losses at the exact bottom of the market, while the people who understood the game sat still and let compounding do its work?

That question is the seed of this book.

Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook was published in 2017, three years after Robbins released Money: Master the Game, his 688-page deep dive into personal finance. The new book is shorter, sharper, and built for a single purpose: to give you the knowledge and the psychological tools to stay calm when every instinct in your body is telling you to run. Co-written with Peter Mallouk -- the founder and CEO of Creative Planning, named by Barron's as the number one independent financial advisor in the United States for three consecutive years -- Unshakeable is both a manual for understanding markets and a guide to the most dangerous investor in your life. That investor is you.