and I realize we're set up for failure
because we think we're going north but
we're going south
that's why 50% of people who get married
divorce
80% of businesses fail that's why 30% of
Americans are on some form of
antidepressant medication that's why 60
70 percent of people are overweight I
mean in a way we're kind of fucked but
are there like key principles though
that you can use to turn that compass of
north actually points north yes first
one is just like Alcoholics Anonymous
admit you're lost and that one's hard
for people you tell people even for me
sometimes I want to think I'm smart and
I got it all figured out and sometimes
I'm like wait a sec I'm still lost and
not that the acquiescence the the
admittance of the fact that you're still
lost it gets you on track a lot faster
so if you're watching this and you feel
lost it's better to just sit down and be
like I'm lost because the day you admit
you're lost is the day you allow
yourself to be found by people who can
give you a tip but what's what's the
equivalent of that because obviously if
you're an entrepreneur nobody's looking
for you so that's though they are though
who is they are dirt you go to Barnes &
Noble people sell in their books they're
looking for you as a customer so read
read I mean the fuck that people argue
with me on this reading thing and people
argue with me about mentors know just
use your own gut feeling is that how you
learn English when you were 2 years old
you use your gut feeling to start
conjugating verbs no you learn from
other people you learn manners you learn
language you learn all things valuable
you learn to drive from another person
so it doesn't it make sense you learn
life so books are just the mentors who
maybe are dead now you wanna learn about
Steve Jobs
ya know live to teach you but you can
learn through accumulated wisdom and
that's what trust me I meet I very few
powerful businessman I've ever met
don't read a lot Warren Buffett who I
think's the best businessman by far in
the world because doesn't see has 75
companies that he pretty much runs 200
billion in revenue
reads eight hours a day he reads 600 he
said he slowed down in his old age I
only reads 500 pages a day Bill Gates
goes on reading vacations Mark
Zuckerberg just start started a reading
once a week book club on Facebook and
already got a couple million fathers and
now with audio books there's no excuse
you got YouTube videos let this thing
run in the background and it's better if
you can find it I mean better than books
is in-person mentor that's why I do a
podcast tom is on my podcast you're a
smart dude I learn from you like I
learned from you today
I liked your angle on how to get in
physical locations if you launch a
physical product you want to get it in
stores don't be thirsty
like I said Casanova said be the flame
not the moth let them come to you and
that's what you did with quest and now
you sell 1.5 million bars a day that's
good so if you can pick up one gold
nugget whether it's from in-person mint
or whether it's from a book you become
very wealthy and knowledge very quickly
one nugget a day one nugget a day it's
like Charlie Munger Warren Buffett's
business partner said step by step you
get ahead but not necessarily in fast
spurts but you have to prepare for the
fast spurts by learning step by step so
when the day comes and I launch a
physical product I will hopefully be
smart enough and humble enough to be
like I got a sit-down
I've never launched a company that did
1.5 million bars I can download in one
conversation with you like you want to
become like a super computer you just
download smart crap from smart people
and you pick and choose like some people
are like Thai I don't agree with
everything you say I'm like good I don't
agree with everything I say like a year
later I'm like wait I was wrong I
actually saw a very intriguing piece of
content that you did where somebody was
trolling you on Twitter yeah and in in
move that confused the shit out of me
you decided to call him on skype or what
I said let's listen to bait live right
now and you did and you kept asking him
a question that I thought was so spot-on
which he kept refusing to answer but it
was hey you're engaging with me I'm
creating all this content about how I've
done what I've done and instead of going
huh you actually have done something
that's pretty interesting
you're heckling me and instead of being
intrigued by my result
yes and that to me was very interesting
and that that like switch in people's
minds it's either on or off either they
look at somebody else and they go whoa
this guy is doing something right like
holy hell or they try to find a reason
to shut you down not listen to you
discredit you whatever the case might be
I thought that was pretty interesting
talk to us a little bit about that how
often do you see that in people and do
you ever see that mentality and people
who are successful like Drake says if
you don't have haters you ain't poppin
so well in the world you want to pop
you're gonna get hate it's interesting
that this is fascinates me the more
successful beyond my wildest dreams of
my success the more they asked me
questions the last time I saw Elon
Musk's I've had some very interesting
conversations with this guy he's one of
the smartest guys I've ever met
Elon Musk we've talked I'm not close
friend of his by any means but we've
talked that he goes to the same things
he loves Hollywood he's always at
red-carpet things I go to so we're in
the bathroom and he comes in I said hey
you know you on yeah we talked about
books last time he goes oh yeah I
remember you you're the social media guy
goes I got a question for you man do you
think I should use snapchat to grow
Tesla so I was like okay he goes I know
you know about snapchat tell me so I
start talking to him 20 minutes later
but it was a game of Thrones premiere
six and I go what do you think after I
gave my long diatribe he goes I think
you're wrong
but thank you and then he walked off
it's like this guy is so smart I realize
you talk about checkmate I was an idiot
because I should have flipped the
conversation to get him to teach me for
20 minute he walked in the room knowing
what he knew I knew what I knew but he I
gave him all my jewels and he walked
away with them like a smart guy I see
people making fun of the Kardashians I'm
like you gonna make fun of the
Kardashians look Kylie Jenner the
youngest Kardashian in the last 18
months
done four hundred million dollars in
revenue on lipstick kits and various
make up things with Kylie cosmetics put
that in perspective
Lauria maybelline massive brands it took
them 50 years as an organization with
thousands of employees to do a Kylie
Jenner did by herself at 20 at 18 you're
gonna laugh at the Kardashians do you
have to agree with everything on
Kardashians no but like Abraham Lincoln
said I learned from everybody even if
sometimes it's what not to do so you can
just go into the Kardashians
reverse-engineer their success go I like
this I like this I like this I don't
like that then leave out what you don't
like I've never met a person who's a
deity you dissect anybody and we all are
just it's like Mark Twain said all
humans are like the moon you got your
light side and you have the dark side if
anybody watching wants their whole life
projected up on a screen for the whole
world to watch from birth to today and
you think that it'll be you wouldn't be
embarrassed of a few things you would be
and I'm sure the Kardashians would be
and I'm sure there's things that I look
back on my life on am life you were an
idiot ty but welcome to the idiot place
called planet Earth there's just two
kinds of idiots people who know it and
people who don't and if you're lost just
sit down if you're an entrepreneur sit
down and then reach out from where
you're sitting grab a book here grab
this listen to Tom listen there's so
many source and now we're the most
spoiled generation in the world because
when you and I got started I started
Google AdWords in 2001 okay I was I got
lucky I just stumbled and I was one of
the first people to ever use online
advertising I was in I think the second
month Google AdWords launched and there
was no YouTube videos there was no Perry
Marshall books there was there was
nothing he's just kind of wasted money
to learn now we're the most spoiled
generation everything this computer on
this phone iPhone 7 is more powerful
than the first rocket that put man on
the moon that cost billions of dollars
now we get that for under a thousand
bucks and people are still like I'm lost
yes your loss sit down and an open
Safari and go how to do Google ads and
you're gonna come up let's see what I
come up with AdWords they have their own
tutorial word stream jump if I you got
some paid stuff then you have some free
stuff on HubSpot if you sit in a chair
charlie munger calls it assiduity put
your ass in a chair sit there and focus
without being you know the average
american right now the average first in
the world our attention span has dropped
to five seconds the sad news is the
average goldfish has 6 seconds we're now
competing with goldfish and the goldfish
are winning so if you don't have
assiduity to sit down breed there is no
solution for you you will always be poor
because you'll always be beat by
somebody who's willing to sit in the
chair is there a way for people to build
that discipline yes pain and that's why
I'm not a big believer in delusion you
know you asked me one of the rewiring
things we have to do in this world I'll
tell you one you ever heard this myth
everything happens for a reason so just
accept it well there's kind of truth to
that if I jump off a building and break
my legs yes everything happened for a
reason
the reason was gravity like that's why
you break your legs and physics legs
brittle concrete not brutal so debt but
people interpret everything happens for
a reason be like well I was meant to
learn from that thing and then BS read
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene one of
the most important books written in the
last century he says organisms that only
learn through trial and error lose to
organisms that can learn through other
people's a trial and error is anybody
here we got a little live audience
anybody here ever had to be hit by a car
to learn to look both ways I did it I
kind of learned from just somebody
telling me big car two tons velocity
smash dead and I now always look both
ways so if you're myth is that the only
way you're gonna learn is just through
massive mistakes in trial and error you
have a read Richards talking book if you
believe in evolution or even you
you believe in creationism or whatever
why do we have big brains because we do
have the biggest brains on planet earth
not always use them but we got the
biggest potential it's to be able to
what Richard Dawkins called project so
you can literally sit in this chair and
predict outcomes without having to do
them like so I can predict if I don't
listen to Tom's advice on how to do a
physical snack bar and get it in the
stores or a physical product by by
playing hard-to-get for a year like you
did then I can predict most likely it's
gonna not go well for me but I can
predict that if I download what you did
it's gonna go better for me
statistically and that skill makes you a
powerful person there we go so explain
though how how does pain allow somebody
to get more disciplined okay so going
back to that myth of when you see your
life and anytime there should be pain
you go no no no no it was just how it
was meant to be
no look yourself in the mirror sometimes
and go you know why I'm not happy it's
because I didn't listen ten years ago
and I got in the wrong career you know
I'm not happy because I married the
wrong damn person it wasn't meant to
happen yes everything happens for a
reason you made a bad choice but it
didn't have to be that way and the
second you build up pain and this by the
way is not my opinion if you talk to
guys like dr. David buss top ten most
cited psychologist in history okay he's
one of my main mentors he told me I said
do adults change like we do all this
self-help videos and podcasts I said am
I wasting my time he goes yeah kind of I
said why he said well after 25 it's very
hard to teach old dogs new tricks by the
way that's why I've changed
most of my stuff targets people 18 to 25
that's why I do snapchat and all that
because there's hope for 18 to 25 volts
now if you're over 25 before you get
depressed he told me but I have good
news for you time I said what he said
adults learn through massive trauma
so you will learn you have to let in
some trauma into your life and that's
rough but no pain no gain like if you
are a hundred pounds overweight and you
want to be able to play basketball
here's my news for you everything
happened for a reason you got fat cuz
you ate too much and you didn't exercise
so welcome to the gym in the first year
is gonna be hell but that pain hopefully
will reprogram your brain that every
time you want to eat that nasty thing go
wait I don't want to go through that
pain again so I think one of the myths
of societies we won't let pain in we
just excuse it all the way like nah that
wasn't meant to happen
oh you wasted 20 years of life and
married the wrong person in the wrong
career no Tom it wasn't meant to happen
where's the people who go you fucked up
you wasted 20 years and you will never
get it back you better go in your room
and cry and the truth is you only learn
as an adult unfortunately most people
can only change when Matt's in trauma
and it was funny I heard this from dr.
buss a couple years ago and I was lucky
enough to sit next to Kobe Bryant for
the last like three games of his career
not the very last one with the three
ones so I sat at the end of the Lakers
bench right next door one his players I
won't say who was having a bad game
free-throws they're lined up the whole
stadium is quiet Kobe Bryant yells out
of him he goes dude you suck and he
wasn't joking
okay it was shocking to me no one could
hear unless you're writing but Kobe
turned to Metta World Peace Ron Artest
who was sitting next to when he goes
this positive reinforcement thing is way
overrated people need to hear the truth
Brian Kelly he turned around and looked
at cock Kobe and I was so impressed he
said I know he literally sat down and
said yep I'm lost this game and I kid
you not the rest of the game he had an e
excelled
he scored like 1012 points off the bench
after that and I was I was like see this
Kobe guy gets it he's a winner
you can't always just bring pleasure and
Pat everybody up he didn't say yo Kelly
you're kind of not playing well but you
know it's all happening for a reason but
he relaxed no pressure he just said
dude you suck it was like that and I'm
just going okay this is the real Kobe
can I tell you a fantasy of mine and and
I say this knowing full well that my
employees are listening right now my
fence so I've asked them all to give me
aggressive feedback in real-time to my
face in front of the entire team okay
and the reason that I want that one I
just want to know the truth because it's
the only way I'm gonna get better so I'm
never afraid to look stupid and I'm
certainly not afraid to admit when I'm
lost too I want to set the standard I
want people to see that you should be
able to emotionally deal with somebody
telling you that you suck when you suck
my fantasy is to have that kind of
environment here at impact Theory where
if you're sucking like I you don't need
to go out of your way to be mean but the
pain needs to be felt because I really
believe what you were saying that
certainly has adults and it's probably
true for kids as well you will learn
when it hurts yes and the only like
people but it breaks most people and
this is why people don't use the
strategy most people at the free-throw
line
Kobe says you suck that ends their
fucking basketball career dude like and
if they were a 14 year old kid and Kobe
came and said you suck 999 out of a
thousand kids break the other one kid
goes on to be the next Kobe Bryant right
so it but I want to be in that world
because it's made me sharper now I came
up in the in the business world not so
in the business world I came apart
I had mentors that were ruthlessly myung
to me and in that process I thought
there are times I fucking hate them so
much I can't see straight but I know
they're making me bad and so I went back
every day every day every day and I
developed this notion that the
entrepreneurs that do the best are the
ones that can self soothe the fastest
yes because I needed to hear it I needed
to know that I sucked then I needed to
go very quickly get my head back on take
that information and improve yeah so one
of the things I was talking about dr.
David buss there's this test called the
dark triad test which again anything
important like this nobody ever learned
it in school because schools are too
stupid to take real powerful science and
apply it to life but the dark triad is a
worldview barometer for everybody
watching you can take it there
different free dark triad tests online
it tests for three main traits negative
qualities narcissism Machiavellianism
and being psychotic and I've personally
tested thousands and thousands of people
it's the most accurate test and what
happens narcissism okay one of the
symptoms of a narcissist it's not just
like oh I like to look in the mirror
right that's what we think of narsil one
of the classic symptoms is very
thin-skinned
they're always offended if you have a
friend that anything you say
constructively they fall apart it's
almost always narcissism even if they're
introverted there's multiple forms
there's introverted narcissism
extroverted exploitative all these
different sub facets of narcissism but
we live in a society that's very
narcissistic you're told like everybody
who's a winner
no not everybody's a winner that's like
saying everybody's blonde there's a
definition of what blonde is blonde is
like this yellowish hair so you lose
meaning when you start going where
everybody's blonde
well everybody doesn't win and the
sooner you wake up to that that biology
is ruthless man then you get a little
fear in you and when you get a little
fear in you you start listening because
if you're truly afraid you listen let a
little fear come in and drive you and
motivate you
now what when I was about I don't know
early 20s I was in Mississippi with
these five mentors a guy Allen nation
Gary Townsend dr. Gordon Hazzard all
these guys I really looked up to there
were like 60 years old and there were
the people like the only millionaires
I'd ever met I didn't grow up I was born
in Long Beach Compton kind of area and
never was around anybody who can make a
hundred grand a year so I meet these
guys up there like come we're going on a
hunting trip in Mississippi I go down
there and you know where these lodges
cabins and then we're having hot dogs
over the fire and they start drinking a
little bit there were normally nice you
know kind of southerners and they kind
of got me they're like so what do you
want to do man and I was like I want to
be an entrepreneur and like oh really
then they go what is IRR mean then I was
like I have no idea it means a but I
didn't know that it meant internal rate
of return right so one of them just goes
you know you're never gonna amount to
anything there's zero chance you'll ever
be a successful entrepreneur they all
laughed and I was like I don't cry I
probably his last time I got close to
crying wasn't that I was just like
devastated but you know what I remember
laying in bed that night going no one
will ever make fun of me again for not
knowing about finance so I became a CFP
a certified financial planner and to
this day I can hold my own around the
most powerful businessman in the world
they might know more than me but I don't
come off as a fool so that was a turning
point pain moment that Mississippi
moment for me I've sought those out and
the one problem is the more successful
you are the less people that can say
that to you that you'll respect them but
I'm always trying to fill my so you know
that old cliche it never be the smart
person in the room and all that it's I
have a better way to say you be around
people who make you uncomfortable at the
ego level when you feel uncomfortable in
settings that is when they learn it's
not just who's smarter because sometimes
smarter people don't help you there's
many forms of IQ there's emotional you
know but get around someone where you're
like I kinda don't fit in and because
we're all narcissists because of society
and Instagram and all this and I'm
guilty of that too we don't like to be
uncomfortable because a narcissist story
to themselves is your the best and so
you don't you you your worldview is
messed up that's a wiring issue let me
put it this way I mean people would
think they're smart okay what it really
tells me is they've never been around
actually smart people if you're really
smart watching this let's say you have
155 IQ that's what Bill Gates has in
Albert Einstein were up there my step
grandfather had 155 IQ he speaks 14
language fluently he can write Chinese
he's a chess master he can play three
other chess masters without looking at
the board while they look at the board
and beat all them if you're smart you
can do that if you're not I got good
news for you Warren Buffett says you
only need about a 125 IQ to be very
successful but it's better to stay in
your lane and just go I'm not that smart
but
you can hire 155 IQs but that's an
example of what I'm talking about of
this rewiring and right so these
practical things will change your life
since you have a concept called never be
the bitch of your own mind yes what do
you mean by that
your mind is driven by deep evolutionary
drives so for example narcissism is a
protection mechanism right so your mind
wants to tell you you're amazing
it makes you its bitch you have to
override that and go you know what I'm
not that amazing so let me go learn from
amazing people do you have methods for
people to do that because I think that's
so important so I tell people don't
trust everything that your mind says so
don't buy into all of your emotions just
because you have an emotion doesn't mean
you have to act in accordance with that
but how do you help people get over that
how do they overcome that I think humans
for the most part learn by osmosis so
it's hard to lecture people into success
but what you could do is you could
inspire people to understand this so for
example if you could if school system
could find all the 14 year olds and find
out what they admire in people right
it's the reason I showed Lamborghinis
Ferraris so I got a lot of young
followers and you know what 19-year old
guys like Lamborghinis and Ferraris so I
show that part of my life because then
they listen to the other stuff so first
you've got to lead by inspiration this
has been proven over you cannot pound
stuff into people's brain people
actually do the opposite when parents
tell their kids
you've got to read nobody reads but if I
show a Lamborghini and Ferrari which is
the reward that people want and then
people go how do you get it I said see
all these books I read them and put it
then people I have more school kids
reading books I think than anyone in
history I don't say that cocky I'm
telling you it astounds me because all I
had to do was put up a video with
Lamborghinis all right and so being the
bitch of your own brain the way you
learn not to be the easiest way is to be
around people who aren't the bitch of
their own brain
like Joel Salatin my first mentor I was
lucky enough right out of high school
instead of going to college I was with
him at 19 and he is not a bitch or his
brain he's a man of he wakes up and he
his life's more like of duty he knows
his duty and whether it's hard or easy
he plows through it so every day for
example when he had breakfast at 6:00 in
the morning on a farm he writes out an
organized thing on what he wants to do
for the day when you're the bitch of
your brain you go I'm just gonna
freewheel this day it's very it's very
hard to be organized we're not dogs
aren't organized you ever see your dog
organizing day so if you wanna you can
either act on the animal side which is
just a wing life or you can operate from
a sense of logic and duty and so I
learned somewhat I'm not even as good as
Joel to not be the bitch my mind by just
being around for a while and so that's
the best way find somebody that you look
at them and you go this is a person of
discipline motivation self motivation
they don't need external motivation
they're motivated from within and spend
all the time you can around you know
like someone wants to learn from you I
tell people go walk up to Tom or a
company like this and say yo I'll work
for you for free for years if it needs
me because I need to be around it's
cumulative hours on unfortunate ER in
his book one of the great
autobiographies in my opinion Total
Recall
he has his principal it's called reps
and sets he said if you want muscles its
reps and sets hours in the gym and some
people you know there's a lot of books
in Allen here's how you can work out 15
minutes a day no you can't you never
gonna look like Arnold Schwarzenegger if
you were a fit I don't care what
biohacking crap you do please spare us
this return to common sense you want to
be Arnold you got to do it Arnold it in
the same way if you want to learn from
mentors if you think five minutes with a
mentor will be enough you don't
understand how deeply rooted your wire
circuitry is you got to rewire it and it
takes reps instead of reps two sets it
takes hours and days or days and years
and so I think that if you're young
watching this don't try to become a
millionaire
young because what you should do when
you're young is work on the circuitry
part and then the money will come
Alan nation told me nice at I don't try
to become a millionaire in your 20s and
I didn't listen to him and I wish I had
and luckily I kind of listened to him
but I should have listened more and so
if you could take those formative years
and just go on the adventure of life
that's why I went to India and a leper
colony and went and live in the Amish
because I was like Amish all the good
stuff you have reprogram my brain I'm
sure on the narcissism score now I score
around forty to fifty which isn't
horrific but isn't the best like I'm
kind and I guarantee you if I hadn't
gone to the Amish out of an eighty
narcissist
and my life would have sucked but now at
forty is kind of an acceptable 42 is
lots of tests so it took me two and a
half years of them you know and so I
think even as an older person man my
dream in life even today is to find some
badass and trick them into spending like
eight hours a day with me for three days
a week and whenever I do like I said 45
minutes with honors for snigger I was so
motivated it like 45 minutes of orange
shorts later it lasted me like seven
days and nothing I'm not I'm not big in
self-help like I watch people to
motivate me dead guys are monster so I'm
a big believer in going to conferences
Berkshire Hathaway conference it's the
first week of May of every year these
dudes are gonna die soon Charlie Munger
Warren Buffett you can buy a B share for
under 500 bucks buy a B share you get a
free ticket it's insane you sit there
with two men on stage in a stadium of
18,000 of the top investors in the world
cost you under 500 bucks you sit there's
only one day I fly into Omaha and fly
back out almost the same day and you
walk out just motivated you're with the
guy that their business you know we meet
business isn't like I'm doing 100
million here they did 200 billion in
revenue last year and there are two
jolly guys that just kind of have fun
with life and I'm like wow and last time
first year I win I sat next to a guy the
whole time didn't pay attention to him
and then I on the way out I talked to
I'm going to found out
basically one of the richest guys in
Europe and we became friends and he flew
me to Germany to speak to he has 17 CEOs
who work for its different companies
he said come meet and then he walked me
from the hotel to do the speech and back
and I talked to this guy's name is
Norman Wren trop and he in two hours
walking to and from the thing he
explained how he built a media empire
starting at age 12 to now he's in his
60s he let me download 40 years of
experience I think he's a billionaire
I'm not sure he's maybe not quite a
billionaire but 40 years and that was I
think it's not coincidental that the
next year I grew on social media because
he was he did old-school media like
magazines and newsletters and he told me
like here's how you do it
and it just absorbed and within six
months I was doing all the big stuff
that people see on social media but that
hinged on me getting it some people you
got you know a good thing for activity
all your hard workers get out of the
house you will not brined it in front of
your laptop 14 hours a day to success go
to conferences go to seminars there are
great ways in the model world to just
meet people you never know you're
sitting next to I probably go into 20
events in 20 days now that's a little
much I go in bursts okay it's I'm a
little bit burned out here you can hear
my voice but it was insane that the data
I'm in looking at cryptocurrency stuff
like Bitcoin if you put a hundred
dollars in Bitcoin in 2010 you would
have 75 million dollars today in your
bank account
100 Wow is that working hard or is that
making good decisions and so for all of
you who are really big on the hustle
your ass off hustle in the networking
side it will help you because then you
learn what to do from them and the sad
thing is if you start a business and
your first business doesn't succeed the
way your brain works you have dopamine
receptors they now scientists have found
that dopamine receptors add or subtract
so dopamine is the hormone or the
chemical in your brain that is the
reward chemical there's multiple one
neuro epinephrine oxytocin all these but
whais dopamine works is like when you go
shopping and you buy cool shoes and you
feel good that's a dope
and dopamine drives us and what happens
is when you fail your body
they're like little hairs they're not
actually hairs but we'll pretend they
are in your brain they fall off you get
less of them and the penalty for having
less dopamine receptors is you become
less ambitious when you succeed you
actually grow more it's a new science
showing this so the point being you
should I'm not a believer in having
people fail to in their first business
forget that build a small business that
you're sure you can pull off even dean
smith may be the greatest basketball
coach college coach him and John Wooden
he said he was never a believer in
setting goal you ever heard the thing
shoot for the stars cuz even if you only
hit halfway you'd go to the moon
he said pee call BS on that he said make
a realistic goal hit it and then make
another one do you don't need so I meet
entrepreneurs alike ty I'm grinding away
I'm like what are you doing
I'm building a billion-dollar business a
guy wrote me an email
dude I'm building a billion darbus so I
wrote him back as an email and I said oh
really have you ever made a hundred
million dollar business no have you ever
made 10 million our business no this is
our email chain I should have the
screenshot it's like no have you ever
made a hundred thousand no and I said so
let me get this straight you're kind of
like that dude there's a lot of stairs
in front of you there's like 20 stairs
to the top and you're gonna do the jump
from 1 to 20 you know what happened with
people who jump too many steps you can
skip maybe two or three steps but one of
my schoolteachers Randy Thompson were
growing up he tried to jump up some
stairs and he was holding books and he
tripped on the third step and hit his
nose on the concrete and he says the
most painful surgery known to mankind to
basically unplug your nose from he
cracked all the bone up into his face oh
and that's what most entrepreneurs do
they go no ty I'm going from zero to 1
billion and how a man as Warren Buffett
said today's the World Series game 7 the
way to win a baseball game it's safer to
just hit base hits and if you hit a lot
of base hits next thing you know you at
home run and once you've done that a few
times you'll have so many dopamine
receptors that you won't fail and so I
highly recommend if
watching and you're too by the way
narcissism is associated with over
ambition there is such a thing about as
being too ambitious there is such a
thing as being to others what I always
tell people you can have massive vision
so one day your vision is like one of
them one of my vision thing I'd love to
own a pro basketball team okay but it's
not in my annual goal so you have goals
that are short-term there one day I like
to set one day goals most of my goals
are just one day but I'll have a vision
that's longer so don't separate
don't confuse visioning goals it's a big
mistake and especially now that the
science is out about dopamine receptors
you have this huge vision you jump up
seven stairs you trip fall hit your nose
and most people never come back you know
win-win when you can even if it's small
wins it's better for them better for the
brain it makes a lot of sense all right
before I ask my final question where can
these guys find you online you can go to
Tahoe be calm you can do Instagram it's
much snapchat if you want to see behind
the scenes it's all I got at Tai Lopez
and almost everything both verified
except I got a facebook counts Tai Lopez
official perfect all right final
question what is the impact that you
want to have on the world what's the
impact okay and give you two answers one
that's probably narcissistic of me to
think that I can really have an impact
on the world so part of my answer is
what the philosopher said let every man
sweep his own front porch and the whole
world will be clean so I guess if I can
figure out the puzzle of life for myself
and maybe a few people see something
then they sweep their own front porch we
have a clean world or cool life so
that's the non narcissistic side you
want to hear the pre Amish yeah pure
narcissistic no not really
I try to suppress that part I mean you
know I call it the tombstone goal I
think you should think about your
tombstone and just reverse engineering
so you go what do I want my tombstone to
say if I live to age 100 in order to get
that what did my life have to look by at
90 and at age 90 to get that what did
have to look like
at 80 and you work to sell backwards
Saturday so my obituaries old my my
tombstone
I'd like my I like my tombstone to say
here lies a mad scientist the world
needs more mad scientists and people
that are trying new things yeah like I
said check out Muhammad Gandhi check out
Martin Martin Luther King Malcolm X but
those were mad scientists and go through
the adventure of life with that little
mad scientist twinge in your eye and
that's all I got that's all I got it's
pretty good thanks so much for coming on
the show that was fantastic guys this to
me is the ultimate tale of somebody who
was unhappy with his circumstances but
didn't want to sit around and do nothing
about it he knew exactly what it needed
to do and that was to find out the
answers he reaches out to his
grandfather and says grandpa tell me
what is the one thing that I need to do
the one book I need to read the one
person I need to talk to that it's gonna
give me the shortcut that I need to get
ahead and his grandfather thankfully
wrote him back and said there is no
shortcut you're gonna need to find a lot
of people to give you a lot of advice if
you want to get where you're gonna go
and so ty put himself on a mission to
get out and get mentors and long before
he had any reason to be able to convince
these guys to do it he did by like he
said earlier being willing to work for
free by being willing to do more than
anybody else and in the research the
thing that I found most fascinating is
years and years and years after working
with his first mentor he is still
singing his praises and he said that I
set the bar for every apprentice that
he's ever had after and he still never
seen anybody that had the kind of drive
and determination that I did and I think
that's what marks his cause he may think
of himself as a mad scientist but what I
see is somebody running systematic
experiments to find out what works
always being willing to learn always
being willing to fail learn from that
try something new get the result and
ultimately you do that on a long enough
timeline with a willingness to always
learn grow and get better and you get
the man that is literally pioneered
social media so it's really really
incredible there's so much to learn from
them
but you have to be willing to be humble
and to look at what you can learn from
it so that's it guys thank you so much
if you haven't already be sure to
subscribe and until next time my friends
be legendary
take care
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