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The Tai Lopez Show

Why You Should Use Mentors as Shortcuts to the Good Life

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Tai Lopez Show is now available on Soundcloud. Check it out here: Soundcloud.com/TaiLopezShow “Take shortcuts anytime you can, and shortcuts often mean learning from others” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) A lot of people have negative connotations around money. We hear that money is the root of all evil. And yet, money is absolutely required in order to do good in the world, to not be a burden to others, and to live a fulfilled and happy life in the modern age. Get rid of any preconceived notions you may have about any inherent evil in money. If you want to do good in the world, get rich. In addition, today I talk about how you can use mentors as shortcuts in life, why family advice is often bad, what it means to be penny-wise and dollar-foolish, and how fear can be a powerful motivator to drive you to success. “Use fear as a motivator to succeed” -Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Points to Keep In Mind Quality over quantity, in everything you do Family will often have perverse incentives for their advice, built around their regrets, what they wish they had done, etc Take shortcuts anytime you can, and shortcuts often mean learning from others Many people are penny-wise and dollar-foolish, which means they’ll pay for small things that don’t help, but not things that will move the needle in their life Seek out mentors, which are one of the most powerful shortcuts in life Mentors can take the form of people, books, podcasts, or online courses Use fear as a motivator to succeed Use money to create experiences, because experiences will improve your quality of life Money is 100% necessary to having a good life. It might not be everything, but it is necessary Money is also necessary to do great good in the world “Use money to create experiences, because experiences will improve your quality of life” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Out of the ashes you will rise, if you feel sad, lost, depressed, finances are in the gutter.

0:07.7

Social life, you're lonely. Out of the ashes, you will rise.

0:12.0

Here are my garage. Invest in yourself. Always be curious. Don't be a cynic.

0:19.0

Sleeping on a couch in a mobile home with only $47 in my bank account.

0:26.0

When everything's burnt to the ground, when you're sad, lost, depressed, and everything's at rock bottom,

0:31.0

you get to rebuild the exact and precise way you want the damn thing rebuilt.

0:37.0

Health, wealth, love, happiness, each of these four goals.

0:43.0

In case you missed the last episode, make sure you go back and check it out. Here's what went down.

0:47.0

You walk in the room with a certain amount of knowledge. If you talk the whole time, you walk out with the same amount of knowledge.

0:52.0

If you walk in the room and listen to smart people, you walk out with an increase, and that's what life's all about.

1:01.0

Coming up today. You want to be the old man in the Ferrari because I live in Beverly Hills.

1:05.0

There's some old-ass mofos pulling up an event to doors. I ain't an old-ass dude.

1:10.0

I don't want my first Lamborghini at 800. Listen to very few people in life.

1:14.0

Even your own family will give you bad advice because they don't always have your best interests.

1:22.0

One thing Joel South told me, as A.A. said, quality over quantity.

1:28.0

In everything I do, you know, if you have a choice between 100 acquaintances and three friends that'll beef there for you when you're in the hospital, they'll show up. Have three friends.

1:46.0

If you have a choice between a thousand crappy books and three gangster books,

1:51.0

like managing oneself, like Charlie Munger's Poor Charlie's Aunt, you read those three books over and over and over.

1:57.0

You'll be way richer than the people reading, you know, 100 ding dong books written by God knows who.

2:03.0

Listen to very few people in life. Even your own family will give you bad advice because they don't always have your best interests.

2:09.0

You're not qualified. And there's something called perverse incentives that Charlie Munger talks about.

2:15.0

Beware a perverse incentive. Sometimes your parents, your friends, your cousins, your uncles give you advice for what perverse incentive doesn't have anything to a sexual perversity.

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