Don't Try To Teach Pigs To Fly: How To Not Waste Time On The Wrong People Or Activities
The Tai Lopez Show
Tai Lopez
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When someone has already made up their mind and doesn’t want to listen, save your breath.
Instead of wasting all that energy and glucose trying to convince everybody that doesn’t agree with you, what if you take that energy and double down on fixing a little area in your own life?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine a world where people took all the energy that they use and consume in the analysis |
| 0:09.7 | and criticism of anything, anything opposite and foreign to what they believe, whether |
| 0:14.0 | it be religion, political stance, style of personality, any harness that and flipped it |
| 0:25.1 | and turned it into the energy that pushes whatever they want to do. |
| 0:28.4 | For example, I see people, especially now in political year, mad at this party, take gun |
| 0:38.0 | control. |
| 0:39.0 | I was actually on the set of CSI and I was with Ted Danson, who was very interesting. |
| 0:43.6 | He's one of the actors you might know from Cheers, but he's also on CSI and we had lunch |
| 0:47.9 | in his trailer and he said, Ty, he said, what do you think on gun control? |
| 0:52.0 | Because he's more of a Democrat, he's good friends with the Clintons, he told me. |
| 0:57.3 | So it was interesting because he's anti-gun control and I was there with my friend Zach, who |
| 1:02.0 | comes from like a conservative family there in Texas and they're more pro-gun. |
| 1:06.7 | And I was thinking, he asked me this question, I don't want to offend him, I'm like with him |
| 1:11.2 | and I was just thinking, but I also wanted to tell the truth what I actually believe |
| 1:15.8 | and it's about what I just said at the beginning. |
| 1:19.8 | What if both sides, because nobody wants children getting killed, there was just a shooting |
| 1:25.6 | in Riverside the other day where two people went in in this center and shot up all these people |
| 1:32.2 | killed, nobody wants that, whether they be Republicans or Democrats, nobody who sane |
| 1:37.0 | wants innocent people killed, right? |
| 1:39.2 | So what if both groups and both political stances took all that energy that they take |
| 1:46.1 | fighting, trying to convince the other side? |
| 1:47.8 | Because you're never going to convince the other side. |
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