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The Tai Lopez Show

#636 - 8 ways to be great (BUT maybe you shouldn’t use these)

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tai explains why genetically you can’t be whoever you want, and how trying to achieve greatness has caused some of the biggest problems for humanity. Striving for greatness might be the opposite of what the world needs.

Why not strive for balance? Why not strive for happiness? Why not strive to serve humanity?

Striving for greatness might just be a path to mental instability.

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0:00.0

The thought of striving for greatness is often times striving for mental illness.

0:04.8

Most of what we call great is literally the entertaining because social media is very

0:12.8

entertaining and those videos I grow viral in self-help or others areas are often just

0:20.4

fascinating and interesting mentally unstable takes on thing.

0:26.8

TylerPest.com does not promise or guarantee your financial success to award any earnings

0:30.9

claims made for his products. Success in business or investing depends on many factors,

0:35.6

including passion, business acumen, work ethic, grit, and general economic conditions. Good

0:41.4

luck in pursuing your financial dreams.

0:43.9

So what does it take to be great? Eight steps to greatness. I'm walking in Sweden here.

0:48.0

What's the question you just asked me? What it takes to be great?

0:52.9

Alright, I'm going to give you an answer you probably never heard before, especially on

0:56.1

motivational YouTube videos. The question is, why is that an important question? In fact,

1:02.6

isn't that maybe the most problematic question of all time? What it takes to be great?

1:07.5

Why do we have to be great? Do you ask if your dog or your cat needs to be great? There's

1:11.6

a Pulitzer Prize winning book called The Denial of Death. Don't hit your head there.

1:17.2

The Denial of Death and from the 1970s for the deepest book you'll ever read. And the

1:23.9

basic point by the psychiatrist, psychologist, was the root of all evil is the striving

1:30.6

for individuals to be great.

1:33.4

Sigma Freud said it another way, do you ask about your pets? What the purpose of their

1:37.0

life is? Why do we have to have one? Humans are such a narcissistic species that we can't

1:43.4

understand why we're not happy. Why does there have to be eight steps to greatness? In

1:47.7

fact, there are eight steps to greatness. I can go through them, but they may be the

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