#725 - Short Guys Beat Tall Guys in Making Money: How Genes Predict Your Wealth
The Tai Lopez Show
Tai Lopez
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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Is being tall overrated? In this private Zoom call, Tai Lopez dismantles modern myths about success, intelligence, and legacy. He dives into the science of IQ, the heritability of intelligence, and how AI can now level the playing field—even turning a 115 IQ into a 140.
Tai also shares his personal lineage of street smarts and scholarly ancestors, revealing why understanding your genetic and intellectual destiny is the ultimate life hack.
🧠 Topics covered:
• How IQ is like height (and why it's 78% heritable)
• How to boost your mental edge using AI
• The one universal moral law across civilizations
• What your grandparents’ lives reveal about your future
🚨 Watch to the end for Tai’s biggest takeaway about wealth, children, and legacy.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's something better than being tall. It's being smart. |
| 0:02.2 | Men who are smart have dramatically outperform men who are tall. |
| 0:06.1 | All that shit you hear being taller men make more money. |
| 0:09.5 | All the rich guys are short, almost all of them. |
| 0:12.6 | Bill Gates was the shortest guy in his family. |
| 0:14.3 | Got bullied. |
| 0:15.2 | I think Jeff Bezos is 5'6. |
| 0:17.0 | Elon's the only remotely tall guy and he's like 6'1. |
| 0:20.4 | He's not even tall. Google guys, teeny guys. Don't fool yourself. And don't listen to anybody trying to patch you on the back and say, oh, it doesn't matter. genes. Yes, it does. IQ is 0.78 heritable. It's the same as height. If you're not naturally high IQ, you can boost yourself past naturals using AI. Every IQ |
| 0:39.4 | point is probably realistically worth another million on your network. You all need to push |
| 0:44.9 | yourself intellectually. Stop saying you're not smart. You can expand. If you use AI, and this is the last |
| 0:50.7 | business lesson for salespeople, Black Belt's training, for marketing people. |
| 0:55.2 | I was with Rick Field yesterday, one of the chief co-chief branding officers, and I was showing |
| 1:00.4 | him how to use AI correctly. You can take each of you, you should be taking your transcripts |
| 1:07.1 | after your sales call and fucking on your own uploading that to chat chbt and say to give me three things i did wrong |
| 1:13.1 | three ways so everybody here has no excuse let's say the average person in this company is |
| 1:18.2 | 115 average IQ in the world's 100 but let's just say you're 115 okay which is a bit higher |
| 1:25.9 | with chaty bt you can go to 135 or 140. |
| 1:28.9 | So that's a big, that's like going from 5' put 6 to 6.3. |
| 1:34.1 | Any men here want to go from 5'4.6 to 6 foot 3? |
| 1:37.4 | Big difference. |
| 1:38.3 | It's not that much, actually. |
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