#745 - Why They Can’t Control You If You Do This

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this walking vlog, Tai Lopez breaks down one of the most important lessons for today’s world: how to avoid being controlled by false information and weak thinking.

He explains three practical ways to get closer to truth:
📚 Look at citations and evidence before believing “facts” shared online
🧠 Use Charlie Munger’s approach—learn to argue both sides before forming a strong opinion
🔑 Build and follow a powerful book list to stay sharp and informed Tai also dives into the importance of surrounding yourself with smart people, the “PayPal Mafia” effect, and why networking plus reading creates unstoppable momentum in business and life.

If you want to learn how to become healthier, wealthier, and wiser while avoiding manipulation, this vlog is essential viewing.

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0:00.0	Remember, they can't control you if you read the right books and inform yourself.
0:05.0	And make no mistake, we live in a world where you're trying to be controlled,
0:09.0	both maliciously by people and indirectly.
0:13.0	There's groups of people that are trying to control you that don't necessarily wake up in the morning
0:18.0	and say they want to ruin your life, but the structure of the system is built to control you.
0:23.8	It used to not be that way.
0:25.8	Look at the American ideal dream.
0:28.1	The original American dream was a group of people
0:31.8	who didn't want to be controlled
0:33.6	by the religious leaders in Europe and the UK.
0:36.4	So they came to the US and they forged their own path. So they came to the U.S. and they forged their own path.
0:39.7	That was supposed to be the American dream.
0:41.9	Slowly but surely over time, what Americans or what the original settlers ran away from
0:48.8	is now taking place in the United States in the last 10, 20 years.
0:53.2	The solution, and I'll give you three ways that I think
0:55.8	you can know what's true, because this really comes down to what is true and what isn't. There's a
1:00.9	whole science of this called epistemology. How do you know that you know something? So here's the
1:07.3	three practical ways that I've found to know what's true.
1:11.6	Number one, and this doesn't always work, but look at what's called citations.
1:17.6	Now we live in a world where there's Instagram memes and TikTok and all this on supposed
1:22.4	scientific data, okay?
1:24.6	Supposed scientific data.
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