Why You Are More Powerful Than The World with Ben Shapiro

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🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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“If you spend your life believing that the forces of the universe are raided against you, it’s going to make you miserable and make it impossible for succeed.” - Ben Shapiro(click to tweet)Get $20 off your first custom shirt at propercloth.com/taiGet a trial month of hims for just $5 today right now while supplies last. Go to forhims.com/taiProblems hiring? Go toziprecruiter.com/tai for a smarter way to hire for FREE!If you’ve been mildly awake in the past year, you’ve sensed the panic in the air. But the panic is the problem. People displace blame to externalities, so they can justify their own story. Certainly there are causes and social issues that are exempt from this analysis, but for the most part, we as a society underestimate our individual agency when we choose to believe that a government is stopping us from pursuing our goals. On today’s episode of The Tai Lopez Show, we are joined by political commentator Ben Shapiro. Ben is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire. As a controversial political figure, Ben is subject to much criticism and controversy. Today, we hear his thoughts on everything related to politics, the government, the education system, and much more. Don’t forget! You can also listen to The Tai Lopez Show on Spotify! Click “Follow” and let me know what you think! “You have to believe you can succeed. You have to believe in an individual capacity to do better than what you are doing.” - Ben Shapiro(click to tweet)Points to Keep In MindJealousy fuels tribalismSuccess requires believing in an individual capacity to succeedAccording to the Brookings Institute: in the United States, there are 3 things to ensure you’re not poor: don’t have kids before you’re married, graduate high school, and get a jobThe position of President has too much powerBe aware of how media warps messaging Nothing besides military is solved by a federal governmentStudies show that quality of education is more determined by factors like how the family treats education than any sort of government systemThe problem is people looking to the federal government for solutions; localism is the solutionThe single greatest predictor of poverty is being born into single motherhoodThe focus of marriage has moved from the production and raising of kids to “are you in love?”The whole reason society has an interest in marriage is to make sure there’s a mom and dad in the homeWhen dating, figure out values not common ground Tutorial learning (what our education system employs) only works for 85% of the populationAlbert Einstein, “The thing about smart people is that they seem crazy to stupid people” Don’t force it, take the opportunities that come to you The quality of immigration is largely dependent on the quality of the system you are immigrating to Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	there's no reason why education has to be done the way that it's done I mean everything is so decentralized now we should be able to
0:04.5	personalize educational programs nearly every kid right because five you still have to learn how to read you still have to
0:08.9	basic arithmetic but by the time the kids 11 or 12 years old the idea that everybody has to be learning exactly the same thing
0:14.2	is really stupid and then the idea that everybody has to go to college regardless of what your major is
0:18.5	it's also incredibly stupid right my wife had to go to college because she's a doctor so she doesn't actually
0:22.5	studying actual things in college right i had a poly side major at UCLA right i couldn't
0:27.0	concentrate to Harvard law school and studied law like i needed those four years of learning nonsense and
0:31.6	poly side and just going into that in order to do that like that that the idea that so in hindsight would
0:37.1	you have skipped right and gone straight to law yeah i mean frankly i think that the i think that law
0:41.6	school should be skipping should go straight through an apprenticeship
0:48.7	okay we are live from Los Angeles i'm here with Ben Shapiro
0:55.0	a lot of you know one of the most listened to political commentators
0:59.9	enter in chief of a daily wire and we're talking about what's wrong with america and hopefully
1:06.3	we'll find some things that are right there's a lot right in america i don't know what you can talk
1:09.6	about this wrong with america when you're sitting in this house okay i like that there's truth to that
1:15.0	but as we all know the human mind gravitates toward the negative first so let's let's let's do
1:21.6	i'm gonna i'm gonna throw something at you i want to ask you a speed round if you had the name
1:29.3	the top three things wrong with america if you had a magic wand you go wave it over this country
1:35.8	and maybe even this world in general one of the first three things you're changing and then we'll
1:40.0	talk about what's the best three things well the the first one that comes to mind immediately is
1:44.9	that we we've sort of fallen into this tribalism where we're not listening to each other at all
1:48.9	anymore we're not listening to different perspectives we just assume the worst intentions on the
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