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The Tai Lopez Show

3 Reasons Most People Fail

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

“To be good in business, you have to be able to listen carefully and read people” - Tai Lopez

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Stubbornness is a primary reason for most people’s inability to achieve what they want, and be successful on their own terms. When you are stubborn, you limit your opportunities. But the truth is that really good opportunities do not come around too often in life, so if you really want to be successful you have to seize them when they do, and take full advantage of them.

In addition, a lot of people are completely unwilling and even unable to see their own faults, because of their sensitivity to input and correction from others. When you are corrected, but all you can see or feel is how hurt you are that someone else doesn’t think you know everything, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Listen to this episode to hear the 3 reasons most people fail, and how you can avoid them, to achieve great things in your life.

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“If things change, you acquire new evidence, you need to change and not be stubborn” - Tai Lopez

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Points to Keep In Mind

  • The number 1 reasons people aren’t successful is because they are stubborn and unable to change
  • To be good in business, you have to be able to listen carefully and read people
  • Most people are completely unwilling to change their routine
  • If things change, you acquire new evidence, you need to change and not be stubborn
  • By being stubborn, you limit your opportunities
  • Do not be overly optimistic. Very few lives are full of opportunities, so seize them when you do
  • Many people are overly sensitive to advice or correction


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Transcript

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0:00.0

No, don't be overly optimistic. That's not how life works.

0:02.7

One of the greatest businessmen of all time, he says,

0:05.1

very few lives are full of opportunity. Most people only get a few chances.

0:14.0

Welcome to today's episode title page show. I'm back at the Brazilian restaurant. This is my

0:19.5

new little spot to do these podcasts. If you saw my Snapchat, we were just playing some basketball.

0:25.6

I'm in basketball players. We have seven famous females came and kicked butt.

0:32.5

But I want to talk about the three reasons people are they fail at everything they try in life.

0:37.6

Most people. Now, I got a special guest star on here. She calls herself the Black Italian.

0:43.2

That's not my, and she was just telling us this is the most interesting thing.

0:48.4

Because the number one reason people aren't successful is their stubborn. They won't change.

0:53.5

So I was talking about how I like to try to read people. She told me when she was

1:00.0

in kindergarten to sixth grade, this one boy that she thought was cute and gonna be cute,

1:06.4

he kind of was mean to her. So now fast forward, she's in her 20s.

1:11.7

And she realized this guy turned out to be super good looking or in her own words,

1:16.4

fine as fuck. She said fine as fuck. And she said, I said, why don't you reach back out to him?

1:24.0

She said, well, I went on his Facebook. I mean, he Facebook friend tried to request me and I didn't

1:30.0

accept. I said, why? She goes, because he was mean to me in sixth grade. I said, and she,

1:34.8

this is her exact, you got to learn to listen. You got to be like Sherlock Holmes.

1:38.1

If you want me to go to business, you got to read people. And this is her exact word. She said,

1:43.7

I literally can't friend him back. Like, which is not a truthful statement, you could.

1:50.3

What you should say is I literally will never, I won't. So trust me, so many people, I was just

1:58.2

talking about there's a Bitcoin. My friend, this guy named Brock Pierce back in 2008, I had dinner

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