The Tai Lopez Show

Today I was reading "On the Shortness of Life" by Seneca and I was thinking about one of the 8 ways he says people waste time, "going after no fixed goal." You must have an end goal. Time is limited, you have to know how to use it properly. Can you answer these three questions? 1. What is your end game goal?2. What frivolous activity are you doing?3. Which area of your life is going to make you more of a philosopher? Sign up for my book of the day newsletter at http://tailopez.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A lot of you are probably interested in self-help. One of the best idea's in self help comes from Socrates who said "Know Thyself". Here are 3 ways to know yourself: 1. It's not natural 2. Some of what you think about yourself will be delusional and some of that is ok 3. Define what areas you need to know about yourself Do you know yourself?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I just talked with John Lee, self made millionaire, about how to he made his money. He thinks that you become a millionaire in your mind before you actually become a millionaire in the real world. You need to get in a mental positive loop to reach your goals.I really agree with something else he said, "pay for the best advice you can afford, because you will lose more money on your mistakes."I talk about that in Step #19, "Amazon.com & The $32,000 Brain Budget." Check it out here: http://goo.gl/myE0zyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's book of the day we are going to dive deep as I try to break down an absolute masterpiece by Sigmund Freud called "Civilization and Its Discontents".This book probably has more insight word for word than any other book I've ever read. You are going to learn why asking "What is the meaning of life?" is probably the wrong question to ask and why it is impossible for you to experience happiness at all times because lack of happiness is mandatory to experience happiness.If you want 67 in depth talks like this about ideas from people like Dr. Freud and you want the most important book you could ever read for free check this out http://goo.gl/AYoERCLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's Book of the Day, Matt Lieberman, the Harvard Professor, teaches us why our brains are hard-wired to connect. Human beings are social so it’s important that we spend time with people to stay happy and healthy. My question for you is, ‘Who should you avoid spending your time with?’ Also read this if you want 67 in depth talks like this about ideas from people like Dr. Lieberman and you want the most important book you could ever read for free check this out http://goo.gl/Y1WqBY. Also can you answer these questions? 1. Who sabotaged you on your way toward a good physical health goal? When will you get them out of your life? 2. Who are those people who tried to keep you from hitting your financial goals? When will you get them out of your life? 3. Who has tried to sabotage you in social situations? How can you remove them from your life? 4. Who has tried to stop you from being happy? How are you going to fix that situation? Join me on my book of the day newsletter here: http://tailopez.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's Book of the Day J.R. Simplot teaches the power of a nickel to create billions of dollars. In a time of flipping houses and day trading, J.R. Simplot's advice bucks the system. His lesson to billions can be summarized in two words, "Hang On!"Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your study of heroes has the potential to unlock EVERYTHING you want! In our time, and really because of our democratic ideals, we love to watch those "above us" come crashing down. Nothing and no one is held in high regard. But this kind of thinking is a trap! Here's my question for you:1. What icons need to be changed in your life?2. How much more shameless do you need to be in your interests for those men and women who have changed the world in the past and who are changing the world right now?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I want to talk today about being able to transform. You know really being able to change and become something new. By the way if you havn't checkout the 67 steps yet, check them out here http://goo.gl/NkLY3a. You have to become a regeneration machine, be able to re-sense the world and not be bound to the past. By the way if you havnt checked them Here is my questions for you: What is the pinpoint thing that you need to regenerate and become a blank slate on?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I was reading the book, "The One Thing" by Gary Keller. It's all about getting things done. Reading this reminded me about one of my habits that massively boosts my productivity. Stop making lists. Lists create cognitive loading. Your brain is like an attic - it has only so much room before it gets filled. Lists use up too much space and limit deep thinking.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Watch Tai talk with Joel Brown with Addicted2Success. Here are some of the success tips inside the video: 1. Should you do what you like or what you love? 2. What makes people happy? 3. Why you cannot be egocentric in life. 4. You cannot just focus on your strengths. 5. Why you should never major in minors or minor in majors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ask yourself: What is the worst attitude that you can have? The attitude that will sabotage basically every plan, every hope, and every dream that you have?I talk about this in step #67 in the 67 steps, watch it herehttps://www.tailopez.com/product.php?id=FS-0998&source=pc&aff=ben&ad=640034Today's book of the day is "Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II" by Louis Zamperini. I would say it's probably being a victim. That's where we can learn a lot from Louis Zamperini. Louis is a man's man. After representing the United States at the Olympics, he fought in World War II where he became a POW, survived the Japanese shooting at him, fought off a Great White Shark for 2 days and lost 100 lbs surviving in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for 47 days with no water. In fact I'm super sad he recently died at 97 about a week after we set up an interview with him here in L.A. I really missed out on a legend. Pick your friends wisely, become the kind of friend you want. Don't be a victim. Keep it in check my friend. What's your end game goal? Write it right here. Tell me about your victimhood and how your'e going to get rid of it. Write it right here on the page whether it's Youtube or Tailopez.com. If you're listening on my podcast, leave it as a review. Remember: Never be a zombie. Never chase a mirage. Be like Louis ZamperiniLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the keys to building momentum on your path to wealth is to guard your time carefully. As Peter Drucker says in his book, the Effective Executive, 'Know Thy Time." Donald Trump says hiring a great assistant was the best decision he ever made. In today's Book of the Day review, I'll share more insights on why investing in your time the right way will make all the difference in the world for you. For more insight, check out my site at www.tailopez.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you want to have world-changing impact, you need to be someone who gets things done. I don’t care if you want to feed the hungry or become a millionaire entrepreneur, you have to love the grind. In today’s Book of the Day review, I discuss “The Everything Store” and Jeff Bezos’ rise to the top.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's book of the day, I'm going to talk about one of my all time favorite books "All Quiet on Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque remarks, "To 'forget' is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There is much too little forgetting" This is coming from a guy who survived the first world war, where a million men would die in a single battle, within a single week. Men would literally get their faces blown off and climb out of the trenches knowing that two thirds of them would die from enemy gunshots. Growing up with certain Judeo-Christian influences, I remember a quote along the lines of "You must become like a little child before you can enter the kingdom". So...practical takeaways: be like Warren Buffet and deeply ponder. Have your time when you mourn and you weep. But then learn to move on. Learn the lesson, but then forget it so you can remain eternally young. Leave a comment here. Or reach out on @Tailopez if you're on Twitter. Ask yourself "What is a memory that you're better off forgetting? What is a memory that is making you old, stressing you out and dragging you down? Remember, forgetting is the secret to eternal youth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You have probably heard that you have to rely on yourself and not others. Or that you should have enough inner power to be strong on your own. In today's Book-Of-The-Day I discuss a book that debunks this mentality and a lot of the group think that you and I learned growing up. "The Power of Others: Peer Pressure, Groupthink, and How the People Around Us Shape Everything We Do" by Michael Bond shares the newest research that we will be happiest when we have a lot of friends. But the key is that they have to be an exact type of friend to really help you find the good life. In 2008, 2 social scientists, Christakis & Fowler found that, "... most people will not be surprised that people with more friends are happier, but what really matters is whether those friends are happy." The book also explains, "Four decades of research into how people decide to do what they do has shown that we are highly susceptible to the winds of social influence - indeed it is impossible to escape them, short of living in hermitic isolation (and even that may not immunize us...)." Listen in as I explain the detailed nuances of what you will need to know to improve your social life. Check out more of my book reviews on my site www.tailopez.com and sign for my free book of the day newsletter - it's the largest in the world - join 1.4 million people in 40 countries on finding the Good Life: Health, Wealth, Love, Happiness.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Find out how to boost your confidence, win friends, and influence people. I interview Jordan Harbinger, creator of the Art of Charm Podcast, to find the biggest takeaways to get to the top. Life is competition and you have to go up the chain to be more confident and get what you want from life.To find out more about Jordan's online academy and inner circle go here http://www.TheArtOfCharmPodcast.comLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey I just released the 67 steps, check it out here: https://www.tailopez.com/product.php?id=FS-0998&source=podcast&sid=danieltosh My brain has been in a whirlwind. Many books, many great thinkers whispering in my thoughts...So instead of focusing on one specific book today I think I'll share 4 or 5 great concepts on living the "Good Life" I have run across recently. They are in no specific order but they will show you the value of diversifying your learning base:1. "(While Leonardo DA Vinci was painting the Last Supper) The prior complained of Leonardo's apparent sloth, and wondered why he would sometimes sit before the walls for hours without painting a stroke. Leonardo has no trouble explaining to the Duke that an artists most important work lies in conception rather than in execution, and 'men of genius do most when they work least'." -- Will Durant "The Renaissance"I talk about this a lot in my 67 steps program (the new version will be out later this week). Most humans pride themselves on their 'flurries' of activity. But in the end it's not the person who loads their day with pointless activity that wins. Clearly, if Da Vinci, needed one hour of thought to execute, you and I should think more deeply before we proceed.2. "Let thy house be a meeting-place for the wise; cover thyself with the dust of their feet, and drink in their words with thirst.” Pirke AvotI'm going to make this the door mat to my house. Watch the movie "Midnight In Paris" from Woody Allen (Check out my movie review pageI just started on), and its message about the value of literally turning some physical location into a meeting place for the sharpest people you know to come hang out.Try a movie night at your place, or a poker night, anything that will make your house a meeting place for the best local people you can talk into coming over.3. “Ask God for a great assistant. No joke. A great one can make your life a whole lot easier —or, in my case, almost manageable. Norma Foerderer has been with me for twenty-three years.” --Donald Trump:"How to Get Rich.”You can't really get more practical advice than this. I have 3 assistants and every time I meet someone who doesn't have at least one, I literally think they are either insane or possess some super power I can not fathom. Apparently billionaires feel the same way.4. "Love is indeed much less exacting than it thinks itself. Nine-tenths of its cause are in the lover, for one-tenth that may be in the object.”George Santayana: “The Life of Reason"This is not a viewpoint on love many people want to hear but even scientists would agree it's probably the truth. If you ever feel heartbroken or lonely, remember that even the most sincere love that you feel from another human is probably still more about them then you.Santayana is saying that 90% of the reason people love you is because of what they get from it, it's not really about you (the 10%). That doesn't have to be a depressing message. It can help you see clearly through the inevitable loneliness all humans must experience at some time in their life.It's ironic but once you realize in a certain sense we are alwaysalone you will gain a new sense of boldness that will actually make more humans interested in getting to know you. Independence leads to stronger social ties.5. “One way for genes to solve the problem of making predictions in rather unpredictable environments is to build in a capacity for learning... Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster. The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have culminated in subjective consciousness." -- Richard Dawkins: "The Selfish Gene"This book is a whole other email by itself. But this is a life changing quote if you get his point. He is saying genetically we are programmed to NOT be completely pre-programmed. Our genes know that in an ever changing world we could not possibly be born with all of the instincts needed to cope with diverse environments. So our genes gave us a powerful coping mechanism.You are programmed to LEARN on the fly! Anytime you hear someone say, "You should love me for who I am", you can call BS on them. You and I are NOT static beings. We were hardwired to continually morph and simulate the future and adjust to it. What's the practical takeaway? Simple, you better read more myfriend, hehe...Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Find out the most important question you can ask somebody.You have to know how to get help and be humble if you want to be successful like Sam Walton, Warren Buffet, and Charlie Munger all self made billionaires.Thanks for listening, leave me a podcast review as a question for me and I will answer you.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Humans are aggressive. As you move through life, your ability to navigate the minefield of conflict must be one of your greatest skills. Life is a competition, and those who adapt to its challenges are those who survive.As Will Durant says in "The Lessons Of History", "The first biological lesson of history is that life is competition. Competition is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life—peaceful when food abounds, violent when the mouths outrun the food. Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law." I am sure you have felt aggression from others when the 'mouths' have outrun the supply. You have felt betrayal from a close friend or family member. But you made it through. If there is one thing us humans know how to do, it's to cope. Adapt. Survive. If you are reading this you have survived something. Freud says in "Civilization and Its Discontents", "The life imposed on us is too hard for us to bear: it brings too much pain, too many disappointments, too many insoluble problems. If we are to endure it, we cannot do without palliative measures." By palliative measures, Freud means solutions. He lays out these three: 1. Powerful distractions, which cause us to make light of our misery... 2. Substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it... 3. Intoxicants, which anesthetize us to it... Look around you at the world. This is what people do to cope with the aggression and competitiveness of life. They watch sports. They focus on the moment. They smoke and drink. I do not mean any of these three methods are inherently wrong. Some of it is just our genes and instinct. Like Durant says, "We are acquisitive, greedy, and pugnacious because our blood remembers millenniums through which our forebears had to chase and fight and kill in order to survive, and had to eat to their gastric capacity for fear they should not soon capture another feast." I think there is a fourth way to cope that Freud left out. A more optimistic way. You can embrace the whole of life. The grind, the aggression, the competition, and turn it upside down on it's head. Like the Nobel Peace prize winner, Elie Wiesel says, "We sanctify life, not death. 'Ubakharta bakhaim,' says Scripture: 'You shall choose life' and the living.” Tonight, I was reading for the book-of-the-day, "The Brothers Karamazov" and Dostoyevsky reminds us, "As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too." Even the most aggressive toward you probably don't mean as bad as they seem. Find the good in the aggression of humans towards you. Use it as motivation to start something you have been procrastinating about. I like to read and write when I feel wronged. Find what works for you. Move forward with courage. Don't let what others have done to you build too much fear in your brain. I just finished, "By The Spear" about Alexander The Great who said it best: "Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.” Let's have the courage to defeat our fears. Stay Strong,TaiLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Many people are asking about the Private Mentorship and Inner Circle Programs. If you want to see if you are a good fit for you please click here and give me a little info.I'll get back to you on whether it's a good fit...It's life changing for the people inside. They are finding the good life: Health, Wealth, Love, & Happiness...You should too.>> Click here to apply >>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many people are asking about the Private Mentorship and Inner Circle Programs. If you want to see if you are a good fit for you please click here and give me a little info.I'll get back to you on whether it's a good fit...It's life changing for the people inside. They are finding the good life: Health, Wealth, Love, & Happiness...You should too.>> Click here to apply >> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many people are asking about the Private Mentorship and Inner Circle Programs. If you want to see if you are a good fit for you please click here and give me a little info.I'll get back to you on whether it's a good fit...It's life changing for the people inside. They are finding the good life: Health, Wealth, Love, & Happiness...You should too.>> Click here to apply >> For most of us the problem is that we don't really know how old we are.We think we know.But we don't...Because we measure age all wrong...We count in reverse when we should really be counting forward.We say, "I am 32..." or "I am 75..."We mean how many years it's been since we were born. Measure Differently... But what if we measured our age in the opposite direction - from today's date forward to the end of our life?What if we stopped using the old-fashioned "birthday age?"Now that is a profound question.Because after all who is older, an 18 year old kid who only has 5 years left or an 80 year old who will live another 20 years?To me the 80 year old is way younger.They have more time left.Try measuring your age going forward. Not counting back the years from your birth.Those past years are outside of your control. So in a sense they are irrelevant. A phantom, a dream...If you change how old you see yourself, things will change for the better almost overnight.It will be like Robert Frost's poem:"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."You won't be average anymore.Your life will take a turn down a better path.As I work with people in my Private Mentorship Program and my Inner Circle Program I see two things:1. Young people wasting the prime of their lives because they mistakenly think they have lots of time. 2. Older people feeling stuck in careers, marriages, and lifestyles they hate out of fear that there isn't enough time to change.I'm sure you can relate and see yourself in both perspectives.Now you might be wondering, "Tai, this way of measuring your age is impossible. No one knows when they will die."And you would be correct.Except. A New Way To Cope... There is a way to deal with uncertainty. Insurance companies have already figured it out.You have too, you just might not realize it yet.For example, when do you buy car insurance - before you get your license or after? Answer: The second you buy your car (that's why it's a law here in California).When do you put on your seat belt - before you start driving or after? Answer: The second you get into your car. So you already know the best way to deal with uncertainty.You have to act IMMEDIATELY!Since your auto insurance won't pay out if you buy the policy AFTER the crash, you have to assume a crash could happen at any moment and buy the policy immediately, the day you start driving.Since you can't put your seat belt on after you get in an accident, you have to assume a crash could happen at any moment and act immediately the minute you sit in the seat.So you have tons of common sense when comes to driving cars...But when it comes to the big things in life, much more important than driving a car, we throw out all our common sense out the door.We go back to the old "birthday age" understanding of time.In today's Book-Of-The-Day, "Theory Of Everything", the famous physicist, Stephen Hawking says the arrow of time moves forward because there are three forms of time:1. Thermodynamic2. Cosmological3. PsychologicalHawking says even if the universe contracts at the end of time we will still not reverse aging. Benjamin Button...There is no Benjamin Button.So you and I are left with this:We are on a race to find the Good Life: Health, Wealth, Love, & Happiness.You are old in relation to the years you have left.None of us know that time frame.So in a sense we are all the same age.All in this game called human life together.Steve Jobs said, "I didn't want to be the richest man in the graveyard."Since this seems a self evident truth you must inject an urgency into your life.Stop feeling entitled to unlimited time. Don't procrastinate.But on the flip side, the odds are that you will probably live for a bit longer so you don't have to be hasty.You can invest and plan for the future.You don't have to try and get everything today.You just can't act like you have an eternity to finish.The balance is the secret.Buddha called it the "Middle Way" in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, his first teaching.In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle called it the "mean", the average between two extremes:“... Virtue is a mean [average]... between two vices... the one involving excess, the other deficiency... It is no easy task to be good. For in everything it is no easy task to find the middle... So, too, any one can get angry -that is easy- or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy; ...goodness is both rare and laudab

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Allan Nation, one of my first mentors says, "One thing I have learned is that most people only take advice that agrees with what they have already decided to do."And that in a nutshell is the root of half of all our life's regrets.So let's continue yesterday's conversation about how to avoid making big mistakes.In today's book-of-the-day,"Influence", Cialdini talks about the certainty bias. Cialdini says, "There is no question about it. The drive to be (and look) consistent constitutes a highly potent weapon of social influence, often causing us to act in ways that are clearly contrary to our own best interests.”>>Click here to read yesterday's article to catch upHe is talking about our tendency to not change our mind.Mental "inertia..." Confusing Me With Facts...Like the saying goes, "Don't bother me with the facts, I've already made up my mind."Yesterday you read about how to make war with a multitude of counselors and assemble your cabinet of advisors.That is the start. The next issue is this 'bug' in our brain that Cialdini's research discovered. We make mistakes because we want security.We want certainty.We don't want to experiment and flexible and patient and wait until the right path appears over time.Like a little kid throwing tantrums we want answers now.The good news is that can all stop today. Big regrets can be a thing of the past.Your new life can be full of health, wealth, love and happiness. Mad Scientist...Here are the other 2 tricks to cutting your mistakes and finding the good life:#2. Bring out your inner mad scientistHumans are creatures of extremes.I don't know where this comes from. My guess is maybe from religion. People are either too afraid to make mistakes.Or so certain of themselves that they never try anything new.Or they have no backbone and bounce around in life hoping that their life will magically improve.Both of those extremes are the way to lose big time.The better path, I call "bringing out your inner mad scientist."Here is what I mean.A good scientist like Thomas Edison did a ton of little experiments that failed.Edison says, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."Remember this is coming from a man who held 1093 patents!Edison invented the light bulb, the movie camera, sound recording equipment, basically all the things that allow us to be able to watch TV, movies, and listen to music.(You can hear Edison talking and creating the first recording ever made by humans at this link.)Edison used to say, "I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them."He was laughing all the way to the bank. His little experimental mistakes made him one of the most famous and respected people in the world.And one of the wealthiest. He started GE - General Electric Co. GE is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896. GE went on to be the biggest company in the late 1990's. At Edison's death in 1931 he left a $12 million estate, big enough to have put him on The FORBES 400 list, had it then existed.He was basically a billionaire from this mindset of being a mad scientist and making a ton of little mistakes.Now you might be thinking, "Tai, I thought you said the secret is not making mistakes."Well yes and no - the devil is in the details.Edison wasn't one extreme or another. He was not afraid to have little experimental failures.But he also wasn't so stubborn that he kept trying one experiment longer than it needed to go.He tested quickly, go the results, then moved on to the next iteration.This should be the new pattern for your life.Copy Thomas Edison's pattern. Fail Fast...Like they say in Silicon Valley, "Fail Fast."As I said yesterday, you want to avoid BIG mistakes by filling up your brain with the thoughts of the wisest people in the world. Using their experience to be your board of advisors.But then you will have to go out and take action.Since you can't copy your mentors exactly you will inevitably make many little mistakes.Little mistakes are fine. In fact they are helpful.They key is that you have to "Read the obvious signs" and move on quickly once it's apparent that what you are doing is not working.In my inner circle private training program on financial freedom and building a million dollar business I teach the 7 step process. Inner Circle Program========================By the way, if you are interested in being in my private inner circle program, I am opening up a few spots as some people are graduating.If you want to find the good life and take your financial life from scarcity to financial independence, prosperity, and wealth, send an email to [email protected] and I will send you over some details.===========================So let me lay out the 7 step process:1. Ask a Question - what are you trying to fix in your life?2. Do Background Research - what have other smart people done to fix it (your cabinet)...3. Construct a Hypothesis - what

What you really want to do is never make any big mistakes.Little experimental tests that fail? Yes, those can actually be helpful.But avoid catastrophic mistakes...Like the billionaire Warren Buffett says, "An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes."That is true about all areas of the good life: health, wealth, love, and happiness. Getting The Lost Years BackImagine if you could have back the years you wasted on a bad marriage or dating the wrong person. Or recover the years of your life you lost to being overweight and unhealthy. Or get back the money you lost on bad investments or the pursuit of the wrong career.Or the happiness lost spending time around people who ended up betraying you in the end.The greatest wish of every human is to be able to have their wasted years back.But time moves forward. I just finished "Theory of Everything" by the great Stephen Hawking.He says he was wrong.He used to think that at the end of the universe, about ten thousand million years from now, time would reverse, the universe would contract and Benjamin Button would come true. You would be old before you were young. You would age in reverse.But he says he was wrong. Hawking says there are three forms of time: thermodynamic, cosmological, and psychological.And he says unfortunately for us, all three are moving forward, never backwards.On Essay Chapter 6, he states, "Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that."Haha, that is a physicists attempt at humor. So you and I are left with no way to undo or redo our mistakes. So cut your big mistakes to the absolute minimum because mistakes bring regret. And your happiness is lost from too much regret.Some people try to avoid the pain of regret by becoming delusional and saying, "I don't regret anything."Well the person with no regrets is a moron.Regrets are tools of your brain and Mother Nature to keep you from putting your hand back on the stove and getting burned again.Regret is like a nerve in your brain. When I was 6 years old I bumped my leg on a chair. I asked my scientist grandfather, "Why did that hurt."He said because of nerves. I said why don't we invent a way to turn off our nerves so we won't have to feel pain anymore. He said, "No Tai, that's what happens with leprosy. When you lose your nerves you will eventually lose your life because you will keep bumping into things and getting infections."Same with the "regret" nerve of the brain.My friend Dr. David Buss, the famous evolutionary psychologist, did fascinating research on regret and his team concluded, "Regret serves as motivation to achieve better outcomes going forward. Emotions in general have a purpose — if you have... regret, that’s going to change future behavior.” So the question is, "If we can't avoid regret, and too much regret destroys happiness, then what are we supposed to do?"The answer is simple.Eliminate the behavior that causes the regret.Nip it in the bud.Stop making big mistakes.Joel Salatin Lessons When I was 19 years old and just graduated from high school, I went to do an apprenticeship program on Joel Salatin's famous Polyface Farm.During the first week, I was down eating with the family and Joel looked at me and said, "Tai, I only have one rule. You are not allowed to make any mistakes."I remember thinking that was the craziest thing I had ever heard. I only realized years later that he was setting a new bar for my life.We live up to what we expect of ourselves.The first week I went with Joel to move the cows from one pasture to another. He had asked me to bring some electric fence equipment with me.We walked one mile to the back field where the cows were.He then asked, "Tai where is the electric fence insulator."I said, "Oops I forgot it."He said, "Tai I told you that you are not allowed to make mistakes. If you don't have it in your head you have to have it in your heel."And he made me walk back to the barn and get it and back. Two extra miles.I got his point. The next day I got in my old blue Pontiac Grand Am and drove to a store in the little town of Staunton, Virginia and bought a whole bunch of notepads and always kept one in my back pocket.Then whenever Joel told me what to do I wrote it down.My mistake rate dropped by 90% just from the no mistakes mindset Joel instilled.[Here is a pic of me and Joel grabbing dinner on his most recenttrip to Hollywood...]Joel was right.That was the beginning of my life long interest in learning how to avoid mistakes.Over the years I began to travel the world trying to accumulate more ways I could avoid mistakes.Many wise mentors passed on their tips.Unfortunately I have not always put into practice what I learned and have made plenty of mistakes.Too many for sure.Looking back I wonder why no one told me about this mistake avoidance mentality until Joel did after high school. Surely this is something that should be ta

There is one thing sure to kill your hopes and dreams.It's the "mismatch."And there is one thing sure to bring you the "good life: Health, Wealth, Love, Happiness."It's avoiding the "mismatch."What do I mean by this concept of the mismatch?I was reading for today's Book-Of-The-Day, Daniel Lieberman's "The Story Of The Human Body."The book covers much of this mismatch and explains how the hardwiring of your brain is adapted to be really good at living in a small village of about 150 people. A village where you go to bed around 730 pm, sleep 8 hours, eat tons of vegetables and a little meat, and where you fall in love and have kids with an old friend you have known since childhood.In that village you have 2 or 3 career choices but not more than that. It's a village where you are encouraged to save and not spend everything you earn.But guess what? That world's long gone.The world that the hard wiring of you brain works best with has been replaced with a modern, crazy world. I live in Hollywood. I'm looking out my window right now at 13,000,000 people.That's a lot more than the 150 that Robin Dunbar, the Oxford anthropologist, said is the optimal number for my brain.I see the billboards selling me things I probably don't need. My brain is designed to trust people. These advertisements are trying to take advantage of that trust. My house has lights that let me stay up all night and not get enough sleep. I would feel a hell of a lot better if I went to bed like the Amish do, when the sun sets...I have the option to pursue 1000 career choices and invest money into 10,000 different stocks. My brain isn't good at weeding out so many options. So I am left thinking that maybe I am missing out on somebig business opportunity.I can press one button on my phone and have Chinese, pizza, or fast food delivered in 30 minutes. My body is not designed to always have that many calories on demand.Like the Nobel Prize winner Christian Lous Lange said, "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."The modern world is a blitz of options.You have been taught that having all these options are the final culmination of man conquering nature using technology.Unfortunately almost all of those options are the "mismatch."Joel Salatin once told me, "Tai humans can now create technology faster than they can anticipate the consequences of using the technology."For example, last year the modern world's agricultural technology produced about 1300 million metric tons of sugar!That's enough to make half the world fat and diabetic.I was on a plane to Sweden and I bought a Sprite (it helps with my motion sickness). I read the label. There was like 40 grams of sugar. That's double of what I should have in a whole day!We humans have gotten really good at making technology that tempts us into doing the wrong thing.Psychology today wrote out a top 10 countdown list of all the evolutionary mismatches we face each day:10. You are surrounded in your day-to-day life by a higher proportion of strangers than would ever have been true of our pre-agrarian hominid ancestors.9. You run into a higher total number of people each day than our pre-agrarian hominid ancestors ever would have.8. You have the option of spending 90 percent of your waking hours sitting at a desk—and you often exercise this option.7. Your extended family includes people dispersed across hundreds or thousands of miles (think New York and Florida).6. You have been exposed to more images of violence than ever would have been possible for pre-agrarian hominids.5. You were likely educated in an age-stratified system—spending each of several years in a group comprised of about 25 others who matched you in age—being taught in a classroom environment by a few specially designated “teachers.” You likely spent a lot of time sitting behind desks in the process.4. You are exposed regularly to politics at a global scale—often discussing or being involved in issues that potentially pertain to thousands, millions, or even billions of other humans.3. You were raised in some variant of a nuclear family—with less assistance from aunts, uncles, older cousins, and grandparents, than would have been typical of our nomadic ancestors.2. You spend a great deal of time interacting with “screens” and “devices”—having the evolutionarily unprecedented possibility of almost never having to be bored at all.1. You can eat an entire diet of processed foods—and you live in a world in which processed foods are cheaper and more accessible than natural foods.You and I have been tricked by the mismatch of the mind.I was talking to Jonathan Haidt, the famous NYU professor and researcher on human happiness last week.He says we have to all get on the right "path."Haidt means we have to be part of a system. We can not use willpower to become happy.We have to get in the right environment and then over time happiness and fulfillment will hit us.The first way to start down this path is to remove all "learned helplessness.

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What you really want to do is master your social life.To me, over the years, life will come at you in three phases:Phase 1. Achieving PhysicalHealthThe hardest part of life is being born. Its' when you are most susceptible to disease and the environment.According to one study, "More than a third of babies die on their first day of life -- making the birth day the riskiest day for newborns and mothers almost everywhere."If you are reading this as an adult you have already won the genetic lottery. Phase 2. Acquiring ResourcesThis is not just making money. But in the modern world you primarily will use some form of paper money to exchange resources with people.You must be able to accumulate enough resources for yourself and your family or you are on a quick path to a short, unhappy life. You don't need billions, but you have to at least get to some level of financial independence.As the Nobel prize winning author Daniel Kahneman says, you need to make at least $75,000 per year in order to achieve the happiness 'tipping point'.I think that figure is just the starting point in moving from scarcity to independence. You should strive to go beyond that level into real prosperity and even beyond into global impact.3. Mastering The Social GameSocial is the hardest. Today's book of the day is "Social" by the Harvard professor, Daniel Lieberman.He says the default state of the human brain is social.When we are not adding up our taxes or playing chess we revert to thoughts of our social standing:Does he/she like us?Who is gossiping about us at work?Will they promote me?Who can we trust?This is why everyone in the modern world spends all day starting at their IPhone and their Facebook.`Lieberman says that if Facebook was a religion it would be the third most active religion after Christianity and Islam.Crazy...Your social skills will be the ultimate determinant of your success at finding the good life.Pretty much everything you need to know about the first 2 phases of life have already been figured out. It's not rocket science on how to be fit and healthy. And I can pretty much show anyone the 67 steps to becoming a millionaire.But social - oh brother - social is hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music makes people happy. But is everything that makes you happy good for you? Music makes people happy. No one can argue that. But is everything that makes you happy good for you? Probably not. Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, was at my house not too long ago. He is famous for saying he LOVES heroin.Scott explained, "(Heroin) took me to where I'd always dreamed of going. I can't name the place, but I can say that I was undisturbed and unafraid, a free-floating man in a space without demons and doubts."The Grand Theory Of Everything says that the ultimate step in your life must be to achieve happiness. Heroin Happiness...But it can't be any old type of happiness. It can't be "Heroin Happiness" like Scott Weiland found. That type of happiness is one step forward, 10 steps back. You want quality happiness.In the modern world you can't go far without hearing music. 13 Years Of Music...One study says that you will listen to about 13 years' worth of music before you die.That's a hell of an investment of time and energy. Some scientists says music is a complete waste of time.The Harvard Professor, Steven Pinker says in "The Language Instinct":"As far as biological cause and effect are concerned, music is useless. Music appears to be... a cocktail of recreational drugs that we ingest through the ear to stimulate a mass of pleasure circuits at once... Music could vanish from our species and the rest of our lifestyle would be virtually unchanged."Strong words.I know many people who love music and would argue to the death that Pinker is wrong.For today's book of the day I read the fascinating "This is Your Brain On Music" by Daniel Levitin. Levitin says that the scientists like Pinker have it all wrong.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Today I was reading one of the great books of all time: The Analects by Confucius. One line in Book 15 stuck out, "I once did not eat all day and did not sleep all night in order to think, but there was no benefit. It would have been better to study." It reminded me of the lie so many of us have bought into - that all the answers are "inside of us."Confucius says that's a bunch of BS. The answers are not within us. They are OUTSIDE of us - they are external.You can't just close your eyes and meditate and somehow magically have the answers to life's hard problems pop into your head.There are a whole bunch of dumb books and magazines telling you about 'the truth within.' It sounds great. Too bad it's simply not true. A few years ago, a friend of mine met a girl and married her in like a month. I asked him if he thought that was a wise idea. He told me that he had sat in silence and meditated and he received a clear answer from the Universe that this was the girl to marry.I explain more about going outward on my blog - check it out:A few months later I was hanging out with him again and Iasked, "Hey where is your wife?" He told me that he was divorcing her because he had now gotten new 'clarity' from 'within' that she was no longer the right girl for him.Kind of hilarious, I know. But I can't laugh. We have all made stupid mistakes when we thought we were following our gut.Meditation might be good for lowering your blood pressure and relaxing, but for finding the answers to life it's a pretty poor way according to Confucius.Look, I don't care how you measure success. If you are spiritual maybe you consider Martin Luther King, JR. or Gandhi successful. Or if you're an artist you consider Picasso or Mozart successful. Or if you like money you consider Sam Walton or Bill Gates successful. Or if you like sports you consider Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan successful...Guess what? Everyone of those people got there BY STUDYING other people and external principles.Picasso spent his whole life studying, so did Sam Walton, Gandhi, and Tiger Woods.Michael Jordan had coaches. He didn't meditate to learn how to shoot a basketball.As the proverb says, "Study to show thyself approved." How did you learn English? You didn't cross your legs as a baby, contemplate life, and somehow magically have the words form in your brain.You listened to other people, you studied.Sure we have some natural truth and instincts within us. The problem is most of our natural instincts do NOT work in the modern world. They are dead wrong.There is an amazing book called Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by the Pulitzer prize winning Michael Moss. He shows how we naturally evolved to eat up salt, sugar, fat the second we find it. Now back when we lived in caves and in tribes that made sense. There wasn't much opportunity to get extra calories.But that natural craving instinct is horrible now in a world full of Doritos and Big Macs. It makes us fat, ugly, and die of heart attacks.This is the scientific principle called "Mismatch Theory" and is explained like this:"Traits that were at one time adaptive in a certain environment, are now 'mismatched' to the environment that the trait is currently present in. This can present a number of problems for the organism in question.One example is the taste of foods high in fat and sugar to humans. In Pleistocene environments, sugars and fats were relatively uncommon in the human diet.In the modern Western diet, however, foods with such properties are relatively easy to acquire. This can be problematic since an abundance of such foods combined with the human adaptation to prefer them can, and often does, contribute to obesity and chronic metabolic syndrome." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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