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Time Warner Bookmark presents

Dr. Bob Arnot
Author of "The Biology of Success"

January 18, 2001

Dr. Bob outlines a step-by-step program that enables you to change undesirable habits and behavior, to create optimal conditions for succeeding, and, ultimately, to achieve your personal best. "The Biology of Success" offers the perfect antidote to the stress-filled lives so many of us lead today.

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TWBookmark: Welcome to Time Warner Bookmark! Warner Books is proud to introduce our special guest, Dr. Bob Arnot, author of "The Biology of Success." He outlines a step-by-step program that enables you to change undesirable habits and behavior, to create optimal conditions for succeeding, and, ultimately, to achieve your personal best. Welcome to Talk City, Dr. Arnot!

Dr. Bob Arnot: What a thrill to be here! And what a terrific bunch of questions! Fire away!

TWBookmark: How did it come to be that you would become so well-known as a health expert? When did you know that this was to be your career? Any particular experience or event that set your career in motion?

Dr. Bob Arnot: Great question! I, like a lot of people, never saw anything special about myself. I always thought that others were the superstars and saw myself destined for the middle of the pack. It was really the discovery that you could create your own mental energy and that tremendous amounts of mental energy and a positive mental attitude were all it took to win. I wrote this book because I feel so many of us are winners underneath the covers!

Jody: How were you chosen to be the medical correspondent for NBC?

Dr. Bob Arnot: I had been medical correspondent for the CBS Evening News. I had wanted to do prime time magazine pieces because it allows so much more opportunity to explore so many exciting issues. NBC was extremely gracious in giving me that opportunity.

Daver: What has been a most memorable experience you've had as the medical correspondent for NBC?

Dr. Bob Arnot: The most memorable was being captured by a group of rebels in central Africa. Fortunately, a working knowledge of Swahili helped us to eventually get freed!

McDonald: You probably have quite a reputation as a healthy person. Do you ever indulge in something that's a guilty, though possibly "unhealthy," pleasure such as coffee, or being a couch potato?

Dr. Bob Arnot: I do indulge on a very limited basis. I'm a big believer in eating all the right foods, first sort of layering your stomach with slow burning high quality carbohydrates like beans, super grains like quinoa, and terrific vegetables like sweet potatoes. With that foundation a little chocolate can even be good for you!

Howser: How do you define success, Dr. Bob?

Dr. Bob Arnot: Success is simply meeting deep-seated inner yearnings. That could be educating 100 children each year, curing a patient of a fatal disease, writing a best selling book. The key is DON'T let others' successes spoil yours. Go with what your innermost yearnings are, not with the latest dot com!

Mystic: Where is all this stress coming from? Is it the environment? Or does it come from within the individual?

Dr. Bob Arnot: No question that it is the perception of stress in the individual, plus the crazy world we live in. Pile on too many activities at the wrong time and your stress will soar! What I do is a neat form of Yoga called Bikrim which reduces my stress to zero. Honest!

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