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Bob Proctor
Personal-development teacher and author
Paradigms · repetition · A/B/C goals
Bob Proctor spent decades teaching a model of personal development centered on paradigms — deeply established patterns of thought and behavior that continue operating even after a person consciously decides they want something different.
His work emphasized a problem that is easy to recognize: knowing something and living it are different achievements. A person can understand an idea intellectually and still continue behaving according to patterns established long before the new understanding arrived.
For René Estripeaut, this body of thinking became particularly important through the Bob Proctor and Sandra Gallagher framework taught during the Quantum Growth program led by Lue Araujo through Boost Your Mind.
The knowing–doing gap
One of the most useful ideas in this tradition is the knowing–doing gap.
Human beings frequently know far more than they consistently apply.
They may know that exercise matters, know what conversation needs to happen, know which behavior would serve them better, know how they want to respond, or understand an important lesson from a book or course.
Understanding creates possibility. Application creates experience.
The distance between the two is where much of personal development is won or lost.
Proctor's work repeatedly emphasized that intellectual understanding alone does not automatically replace an established way of operating. The new idea has to enter lived behavior.
Paradigms and repetition
Within the Proctor framework, a paradigm is an established pattern that influences perception, emotion, decisions, and behavior beneath ordinary conscious intention.
The practical implication is significant.
A new idea may be understood immediately while an established pattern has years of repetition behind it.
Changing direction therefore requires more than hearing the new idea once. The person repeatedly returns to the new understanding and repeatedly acts from it until lived experience begins supporting a different way of operating.
This is the part of Proctor's work that became especially consequential in René's own development.
The lesson was not simply to think differently. It was to repeatedly practice differently.
Over time, repeated action produced evidence: sobriety, physical training, reading, difficult goals, accountability, daily practices, returning after interruption, and commitments carried forward.
The evidence gradually became harder for an older self-story to dismiss.
Goals that require growth
The A/B/C goal framework provided another important idea.
An A-type goal is already within familiar capability. A B-type goal requires stretching beyond the current position while the route remains reasonably understandable. A C-type goal reaches into territory where the path is not yet known.
The value of the C-type goal is what it requires from the person pursuing it.
The destination creates direction before the entire route is visible. Movement then requires action, learning, adjustment, persistence, and a willingness to continue without complete certainty.
For René, this idea became a practical way of approaching challenges that previously would have appeared too large to begin.
Intellectual lineage
How this connects to the MyHGY™ Method
Bob Proctor's influence on MyHGY is most important at the point where insight becomes practice.
The MyHGY™ Method is built around the recognition that understanding something once rarely gives a new way of living enough repetition to compete with established patterns.
Its governing mechanism is therefore continuous practice.
Insight introduces a possibility. Repetition keeps the possibility alive. Action generates lived evidence. Preserved evidence accumulates. Visibility allows that accumulated evidence to influence the story a person holds about themselves.
This is where Proctor's influence and MyHGY's independent development meet.
Proctor's framework helped René understand why repetition mattered. René's subsequent lived practice — and eventually MyHGY and MyDopa — developed around making that repetition easier to continue while preserving and making visible the evidence it generates.
MyHGY does not claim that repetition is the only way human beings change, nor does it present popular-psychology descriptions of the subconscious as settled neuroscience. The contribution here is practical: a new understanding needs repeated application if it is going to have a meaningful opportunity to become part of ordinary life.
Bob Proctor is cited here solely for his intellectual contributions and for his influence through the framework René encountered in his own personal-development work. HaveAGreatYesterday.com, the MyHGY™ Method, and MyDopa™ are not affiliated with, sponsored by, certified by, or endorsed by Bob Proctor, Sandra Gallagher, their organizations, Lue Araujo, or Boost Your Mind. This recognition does not imply any relationship, collaboration, or endorsement.