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The Tai Lopez Show

How Arnold Schwarzenegger Got 20’’ Calves

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

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4.8 β€’ 6.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 January 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes the path to self-improvement requires brutal force. And in a world where self-help books coddle your ego, achieving your desired results is difficult to manifest. Inviting criticism is a way to hack your motivation centers by giving others direct access to your ego. When you flaunt your weaknesses, the feedback you receive, if absorbed as pain but reoriented as fuel, can improve day-to-day performance.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm thankful that mentors taught me years ago.

0:03.6

There's a time to be offended and there's a time to shrug it off.

0:09.0

Well sometimes you can get popped in the face and you're not going to recover.

0:11.9

Ever. So I'm not saying I have the answers of when to do what and I make a lot of mistakes

0:16.2

on this. But I'm thankful that mentors taught me years ago. There's a time to be offended

0:24.0

and there's a time to shrug it off. There's a time to be offended and there's a time to welcome

0:29.2

the offense because it makes you stronger as a person. You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger?

0:32.7

It's cool. I was over at his house. Hey, check out these pictures I got. I was at his house.

0:36.5

He gave me two pictures. Well, it was a little charity auction. He didn't give them to me.

0:41.2

But one of the things I love his story when he was growing up, he was always naturally he said

0:46.0

stronger in his upper body. He had perfect chest, big arms, you know, seven-time Mr. Olympia.

0:51.6

But his legs were his weaker point. He said most bodybuilders didn't want peep. They were sensitive.

0:58.1

They didn't want people to see their weaknesses. They would cover up their weaknesses.

1:05.0

So like he said, if he knew somebody but as if their legs were weak, they would wear long pants.

1:09.9

And if their upper body was good, they would wear tank top. So people could see everything good

1:13.7

about them. And they cover all the weaknesses. But Arnold said forget that. I'm going to get tough.

1:20.0

I'm going to motivate myself. And he would wear shorts which showed the whole world how little his

1:27.2

legs were. And he would wear baggy sweaters. So the world couldn't see his strengths. See,

1:32.4

he was actually toughening himself up. He was taking his weakest points and putting him out there so

1:38.7

that people would make fun of him and laugh at him and say this dude ain't the top bodybuilder. Look,

1:42.1

those little pencil legs. Whereas leg is leg day. Don't skip leg day. And everything he could defend

1:47.4

himself with, he hid. And you know how he did that? He said it gets you out of bed in the morning.

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