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Notes KNOWLEDGE -SOCIETYby Tai Lopez

Hey 67-stepper! This Journal provides you compact content and knowledge from Tai´s 67 steps. It serves you as a guidance to overlook the essence of the 67steps –to continuously study and implement them- with the most important quotes, formulas and thoughts.

Sam

Alan

charlie

elon

Michael

Jim Aristoteles

RAY

tai

jeff

Will

Steve

richard

john

Bill

lao

descartes

Steven

Mike

Napoleon

Warren

mahatma

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1. The Billionaire's Brain & Jennifer Lopez's Voice To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

_There are 3 kinds of people ASK YOURSELF who watch things

who wonder about things

Do you deserve it?

who make things

To get what you want you have to deserve what you want, the world isn't a crazy enough place to reward a bunch of undeserving people. CHARLIE MUNGER

YOU ARE IN COMPETITION WITH YOURSELF _Time is an illusion _Stop smelling the roses _Get aware, get focused

MASSIVE AWARENESS OF LIFE

_Jennifer Lopez isn´t the best singer ->But she is still successful

WHY? Her acting skills, dancing entertainment skill skills & entertainment skills balance it out dancing skill

usual voice skill

acting skill

AWARENESS _You look at your keyboard 100 times a day _But you really don´t know the function of F5, Strg on your keyboard _Be aware of EVERYTHING that surrounds you _In every situation

WORTH-A-DAMN-FACTOR _It took Bill Gates 19 years (12-31) to become a billionaire ->For 11 years he didn't take even one day off

If you could go back to high school and you have to pick a kid that has to give you 10% of whatever he/she makes – for the rest of your life- who would you pick? Would you bet on yourself? WARREN

BUFFET

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2. Blue-footed Booby Birds, Ess, & The 500 Year Old Mind The changeability to survive... _Darwin found that the blue footed booby birds were not the strongest, most intellectual survivors

but

REASONS YOU DON´T HAVE WHAT YOU WANT

They are the most adaptable to the changing environment in which they find their self. Change is the basic law of nature. CHARLES

DARWIN

_You are not adapted to your environment _You haven´t seen the signals _You have not adapted that much

HARLAND

SANDERS

_He continuously adapted _He ran away from home when he was 12 years _He grinded it out & adapted to his environment after several defeats with different business ideas

THOMAS

EDISON

BE A MAD SCIENTIST. EXPERIMENTS MOVE YOU TOWARDS YOUR GOAL _They´re not a failure _They´re a failure if they´re executed too long _Don´t fall in love with your ideas ->See the signals _Everything you do has to be an experiment

_Instead of seeing things black & white ->Edison did thousands of experiments – with persistence & awareness in realizing when to quit & when to start another experiment _See life as an on-going-experiment & realize the signals to jump off or stay on course _Do it, see if it works for you, or change it!

BE A CHANGING MACHINE _Read the obvious signs, forget ancient thoughts, the 500 year old mind & then adapt on the 4 pillars _You´re wired to not be successful ->That's one of the reasons why 1% runs the world

ESS

EVOUTIONARY STABLE STRATEGIES

The-grass-cow-deal

health

wealth

love

happiness

_Grass get´s eaten by cows You have to cut deals with yourself & other dynamics

_Cows have special bacteria in their stomach/on their tongue ->That helps the grass to re-grow

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3. SAM WALTON'S NIGHT IN A BRAZILIAN JAIL, STEALING FROM MCDONALD'S & JORDAN'S HUMILITY The humility it takes to overcome...

MICHAEL JORDAN One of the few players who

_Listened to what the coach had to say

_Executed it that exact way

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less and embrace the experience from others. C.S

LEWIS

SAM WALTON HIS NIGHT IN A BRAZILIAN JAIL _Sam accepted a meeting with Brazilian sales man _He picked them at the airport up ->With his old pick-up _In the end Sam asked them more questions than they did ->He was humble in action _He visited them in Brazil after a while _There he got arrested because he was crawling around on floors of grocery stores ->Measuring, observing & comparing _Spend more time in stores from competitors than in his own

RATE YOURSELF FROM 1-10 _Reading _Tracking mentors

BE HUMBLE IN YOUR ACTIONS

GET THE ROBIN HOOD MENTALITY _See every brain as a piece of gold ->Filled with knowledge _„Steal“ & fill the knowledge into your brain ->Conferences, books, audio-books, seminars, mentors… _Be the most teachable person anyone has ever met _It takes humility to build on top of something

STEALING FROM MC DONALD’S DO WHAT ALREADY WORKS _CDR = costumer driven response _Be aware of the things that surround you ->Always look for opportunities _Don't act like you know it all!

SIGMUND FREUD _Life as we find it is too hard for us _We don´t want to get hurt & cover pain as fast as possible _Overcoming the fear is the key

_Copying & studying competitors _Spending money

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4. Picasso, Rising Tide & The Law Of 33% Using mentors to shave years off the learning curve.

Good artists copy, great artists steal. PABLO

OSMOSIS _Be a learning machine, making predictions in an unpredictable environment

PICASSO

_Mentors were down the same path as you

SPEND TIME WITH PEOPLE

33%

33%

33%

on your level

under your level

above your level

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS _All the great personalities had mentors _Einstein , Jay-Z, Gandhi, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, M.L King, Alexander the great…

BE AN ABSORPTION MACHINE. REACH OUT

_When you feel pain -> you are growing _Have the courage & character to do it Mentors won´t treat you like a baby & give you cookies ->Toughen up!

If you can hitch on the right horse, stand on the right shoulders - automatically forward- rising tide raises all ships. TAI LOPEZ

_Send a letter

MENTORS

_Show up on book signings, events, etc.

_Best Mentors do things

_Phone talk

_They´re no saints

_Send a gift after you asked them for something important

_You have to feel uncomfortable being around them ->Feel a burn

_Don´t try to buy your way in ->But be wise

_Don´t have a black & white thinking ->They will show you the real world

Half of the reason I succeed is by just showing up. WOODY

_They will teach you ->Even if you don´t know in which ways _Remember: everything ends ->So be a good investment for their time

ALLEN

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5. My Poor Friends & Cameron Diaz's Parrot The difference between how rich and poor people assimilate knowledge. START TO NOTICE PATTERN FOR YOURSELF _Start observing your social relationships _Tune in the differences between people with great bodies & not so great bodies ->People who are successful & people who are broke _Notice the difference between rich & poor philosophies of thinking & lifestyle _Start noticing the difference in behavior, talking, etc.

VS.

_Rich people are humble & accept to don´t know all the answers _Rich people quote other great people _Rich people stay in their lane - no matter what _Make a decision quickly, change it slowly

THE AMISH KIDS _When they are young babies they get trained to lose their fear & scarcity mentalitiy

SELF-LEARNINGMACHINE-SYNDROM.

TAI LOPEZ

_Rich people ask for opinions

TAI LOPEZ

->Cold baths/showers ->Not showing any emotional reaction when the child is crying

Break people down, whent you meet them. Do it like Sherlock Holmes. Embrace the truth, accept the truth.

RICH

You´ll always have friends, acquaintances, which are richer in some areas than you are.

POOR _Poor people get upset & mad when offering them advice or criticism _Poor people talk about themselves & express only their own opinion _Slowly make a decision, change it often

“I didn't come to bring peace, I come to bring sword, and if you're not ready to leave your mother, husband… you're not worthy of me. JESUS

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6. Sculpture vs. The Lottery & The Anthropic Media Bias Eliminating biases on successes' exponential time frame. The grind is life. Things take time. Life allows no lottery-approach. TAI LOPEZ

PICK THE RIGHT ROCK FOR YOUR SCULPTURE

THE MEDIA BIAS _We will believe things ->If we hear them often enough _Based on a lottery-like hope ->Like finding real love in a starbucks store

THE TRUTH OF SUCCESS _It´s not like it is shown in magazines

_It has to fit to your goals, personality & lifestyley

_It is hard work, dedication & patience

_You can build only on strengths

INSTEAD THE SCULPTURE APPROACH _Take a rock & chip off pieces ->Step by step

SEE THIS PROCESS AS A 18 MONTH ROAD TRIP.

_Your metabolism must change, your philosophy has to change

We focus too much on the last 24 hours, than on the last 6000 years. WILL

DURANT

PATIENCE MATTERS

You want things easy. But don´t make them easier than they actually are.

_Things take time

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Go to bed a little bit wiser. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts… slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.

GO EASY ON _Media _News _Movies

_Double down on what is working for you _No matter what: stay in your lane & be patient

CHARLIE MUNGER

_Media tries to sell you something

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7. Martin Seligman's Salary Slave and Learned Helplessness Realizing in the modern world you are out of the cage & out in the jungle. LEARNED HELPLESSNESS _Experiment: dogs weren´t allowed to get out of a cage _They could escape easily ->But their brains were rewired ->They got infected with learned helplesness _We're being conditioned to be helpless ->But we can rewire the brain against helplessness _We are helplessly waiting & hoping for the „next thing“ to come

We are conditioned like dogs in an imaginary cage. TAI LOPEZ

REWIRE YOUR BRAIN INNOVATE YOUR WAY OUT _You'll never get there without risks _Think of areas deep in your brain where you feel out of control _You may find it insight in a book ->But you need to innovate ->Everything is online ->Don't ask stupid questions _The only people that die of starvation are people who lie down like a dog _Where was I helpless, what would I do differently?

You get paid in proportion of the difficulty of the problems you solve. ELON MUSK

REWIRE YOUR BRAIN.

I wish I would be more relaxed in the past, it's not a scary world. JONAH HILL

INNOVATE YOUR WAY OUT OF PROBLEMS _You have to innovate your way out of your problems ->The only way out of helplessness is creativity ->You may find it insight in a book ->But you really need to innovate

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8. The Integrated Good Life & The Four Pillars Of Eudaimonia Moving past a linear reductionist understanding of your life's work. THE 4 PILLARS OF THE GOOD LIFE

health

wealth

love

happiness

HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN A DISTANCE OF 2 MILES.

INTEGRATE YOUR LIFE _The amish don´t differentiate monday from friday ->They integrate life ->The more you integrate ->The happier you´ll be ->Integrate step by step

The 4 pillars can´t be detached from each other, whatever your religious beliefs are, religion is not just for sunday, it's everyday! Life can not be reduced. TAI LOPEZ

My life is my work, and my work is my life. AMISH SAYING

HOLY GRAIL _Have the ability to link the 4 pillars of the good life together & integrate them

EUDAIMONIA DON'T BE A TGIF PERSON _Love & integrate the thing you do so much, that you forget which day it is

_The good life ->Every leader has been moving forward to that ->Instead of analyzing ->You´ll measure how close you're getting to the integration ->All 4 working together

I don't know how people sleep, there are so many opportunities in life.

HAPPINESS = SERVING OTHER PEOPLE, BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF

JOEL SALATIN

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9. Warren Buffett's Book-A-Day Diet & Making War With A Multitude Of Counselors Why billionaires read a lot. We're in competition with ourselves. You need to read at least 1 book/week to get the good life, it's a too competitive world. Get a six pack of the mind! TAI LOPEZ

BREAK THE RULES, NOT THE LAW _Be wise, don't choose 50 shades of grey ->Embrace the chaos of missing _5 minutes on the first part, 15 minutes on the second, on the third read a chapter, then you're done

LEADERS ARE READERS _Warren: 8 hours/day _Bill Gates is a reading machine ->But it's not about who reads more ->It´s about who simulates the future better _Books take away the randomness & give you the control _Not everyone is willing to read ->It takes humility, persistence & a little money ->If it's painful now, it get´s easier

Humans who can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of trial and error. WARREN BUFFET

MAKE WAR WITH A MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS _Subconscious arrogance ->Doing it alone ->You wouldn't fix a broken arm by yourself ->You would go to someone who has done it hundreds of times

OVERTRIAL = COSTS TIME & ENERGY SIMULATION = SAFER & FASTER ->There is no problem that is completely new ->There are books on everything ->People who lived before us already figured it out

The difference between rich and poor? The rich man's house always has a library. JIM

ROHN

IN 18 MONTHS WITH INCREASED DIET OF BOOKS & MAKING IT INSTINCTUAL, THERE WILL BE RESULTS _You can´t read 30 books in 30 days (of Tai's list) & say it's not been worth it _It´s the best experiment in your life ->Tai's goal is to read 10,000 books _Read the best books first ->Do it for a year in Tai's order ->Tomorrow is uncertain _Don't judge it by the cover ->Instead look at who the author is _Instead of speed reading, be like a gold miner

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10. Stoic vs. Epicurean Arnold's 1,000 Reps, Apache Cold Showers, and the Spartan Whipping Post Why you have to develop thick skin. Don´t be the bitch of your own brain. TAI LOPEZ

HOW SOFT AM I? _Toughen up ->Arnold did 1´000 reps for bigger calves _Media is selling Big Macs, cheap music, clothes with fancy labels ->They want your money _People seek the easy way out, so they make us frozen dinners & fill up their pockets at your expense! ->Stop being the sucker _You have to want it to be hard ->That's what makes it great

WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO DO SOMETHING, JUST DO IT - MESS WITH YOUR BRAIN.

THE ONLY WAY _Breaking ankles ->You need a little stress, bouncing up & down _Society's message is to have everything soft & convenient ->They can't go without air conditioning ->We become weak willed & don't have strength when we need it _We get old through lack of use, not age _Don't rely on things too much ->You're the master, not the other way around

When we prosper we party, when we fail we ponder. TONY ROBBINS

DON´T BE SENSITIVE, DON´T BE SOFT. THE STOIC SIDE _Take the stairs, cold showers, run, lift, read a hard book, do a hard math problem, take a martial arts class, go a week without sugar ->It will make you happier & richer _Don't just scan the world for instant pleasures ->Embrace the change & the rewiring

The world doesn't respond to need, it responds to seed. JIM ROHN

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11. The Whispers Of 10,000 Generations, Dunbar's 150, & Evolutionary Mismatch

Your neural programming doesn’t understand the complexity of the modern world. To understand things how they actually are - you have to understand first - why things are how they are. ALLAN

NATION

THE WHISPERS OF 10,000 GENERATIONS _The savings rate is 1% in America _Instead of "enjoying" the twenties ->Bill Gates invested them _Robin Dunbar found that we used to live in groups of 150 people

EVOLUTIONARY MISMATCH _The impulses which served you at a certain point in history, don´t serve you anymore ->The world is different

New friends are good. Old friends are gold. TAI

LOPEZ

WHAT TO DO _Get a noise machine _Go to bed when the sun goes down

_Because of modern technology ->You can live & communicate everywhere _The healthiest marriages are childhood realtionships

CONTROL YOUR INSTINCTS _You can't change cravings for salt, sugar & fat _Keeping these things around the house & expecting your will power to deal with it ->There are too many whispers of 10,000 generations _Restaurants want you to come back ->That's why they don't serve the food that would be of your best interest ->They serve tasty food ->Pumped with salt, sugar & fat

_Turn off the lights & use candles _Go to your roots from time to time _Overcome eating so much salt, sugar & fat _It hits you on the evolutionary level & overwrites what you know is good for you

WE ARE NOT HARDWIRED TO SAVE MONEY. IT'S EAT, DRINK AND GET MARRIED, BECAUSE TOMORROW YOU COULD DIE.

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12. Mike's Stack Of Resumes, My 96 Year-old Grandma& Your Eulerian Destiny How to create your one sentence destiny plan.

MIKE´S ONE SENTENCE DESTINY PLAN _He looked if people could tell him what they want to do in one sentence _12-20 words maximum

SIMPLE IS THE SECRET PASSWORD! SOMETHING YOUR GRANDMA AND A 10 YEAR OLD KID WILL UNDERSTAND. Spreading good ideas using mass media. TAI

Give the world the gift of good food. JOEL

SALATIN

THE 5% RULE _You don't have so many choices as you think _On a global competitive scale (7 billion people) ->Would you be somewhere from 95-100? _Maybe you reached 95% so far ->But to make it, you need those last 5%

LOPEZ REMEMBER

JACK WELCH _GE Motors had 300 different businesses ->Jack fired every year the bottom 10% to reach this success

YOUR EULERIAN DESTINY THINK OF WHERE THESE 4 THINGS OVERLAP _What you grew up around

_Stranger´s feedback

_What did you do for the last 10 years

_About what can you talk effortlessly on a saturday night with your friends?

_You watch Rambo & you want to be a fighter _You watch Gandhi & you want to be a humanitarian ->But you have to find something in which you'll reach those 5%

DON'T TORTURE YOURSELF AND THE WHOLE WORLD. HAVE BIG GOALS, BUT DON'T BE DELUSIONAL. REALZE THIS _Bring yourself down to Earth ->Most people think they have 10 choices ->But the goal is not to live the life of quiet desperation _Once in 500 years there's a Leonardo da Vinci who is good in many different things _Just be good at 1 thing that you'll be remembered for ->Pick one niche & defend that niche

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13. The Amish Vacation, Tap Dancing To Work & Avoiding What You Love How to set up your life so that your work is your vacation.

HOW TO DESIGN YOUR WORK LIKE VACATION _The amish people don't have a word for vacation ->That's integrated life ->Sunday is downtime for them (It's good to have a ritual of downtime) ->We think there is an end game to vacation ->There is none

If you have a job you need a vacation from, don't ever come back. JOEL

SALATIN

THE OPPORTUNISTIC MENTALITY _Is almost as dangerous as vacation mentality & they go together ->Build on strengths ->Don't care about financial potential ->Even if you get it you won't be happy ->Don't over-estimate what money does

PURSUE SOMETHING YOU LIKE, NOT WHAT YOU LUST/LOVE.

LUST _Lust is there for a reason, it's good, it survived 10,000 generations ->But it's not something you want to build your life around

There is no tragedy in missing out on a opportunity that made someone else rich. WARREN

TAP DANCING TO WORK _The vacation mind-set ->Enjoying 2 months out of 12 is pathetic _Many successful people don't have the gleam in their eyes anymore ->They're not as happy as you think ->You have to be genuinely excited when you wake up & jump out of bed ->Kids still have that, while adults fade away ->That doesn't have to be you _Get the flow into the daily cycle, not the yearly ->Do it every day & you can also have some rituals (one weekend per month, Christmas…) ->Just avoid looking forward to enjoying vacations & then hate the rest of your life _Once you have adapt the non-vacation mentality ->You´ll tap dance to work _That's what 1 in a million has & you can be the one

A LIFE BUILT AROUND VACATION IS NO LIFE AT ALL.

BUFFET

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14. The Shaolin Monk & Touching An Electric Fence Why everything is your fault. THE MIND-SET _If someone assaults you at 30 years old ->It's your fault >Because you should have start at 5 years old _Recession comes, somebody betrays you, somebody breaks up with you, destroys business deals... ->The first question to ask is “could I´ve anticipate this?” _There is a 40% chance that you will get physical handicapped & have to quit work for 6 months

ASK YOURSELF: “WHAT AM I MISSING?” DOUBLE CHECK EVERYTHING.

If you don't have it in your head, you have to have it in your heel. If you forgot it - you will walk back and get it. JOEL

SALATIN

ASK: “WHAT CAN I DO FOR A GUARANTEED SOCIAL, FINANCIAL CRISIS THAT COULD ARISE OVER THE NEXT WEEK.

Prepare for what´s difficult, when it´s easy.

AM I PREPARED? _Are you prepared for life? ->How many tools are there in my tool belt? ->Social skills, intangibles, persuasion & influence, charisma, hard work, removal of procrastination, sloth & unreliability? _Have soft & hard skills _The laws of physics & other biological creatures don´t care about you _Save up, then invest ->Don't rely on the kindness of strangers _You´re a simulation machine ->You can take previous information & learn from it

Don't say that those things had to happen for you to learn. TAI

JIM

ROHN

SO WHAT? _The only guaranteed thing is that you will be continually pushed through time ->Which inherently means change ->Time is irreversible _Prepare for change _As you define your end game goal, as you prepare, build skills for bad things that will happen ->Saving money before you need it, lifting weights before you need muscles...

LOPEZ

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15. Descartes & Solving Problems With A Calculator When you seek for truth, math is the only thing that remains. THE DESCARTES EXPERIMENT

THE MAIN THING

_He removed everything he could possibly doubt & everything that wasn´t 100% true ->He removed politics, art, poetry... ->Descartes was left with only one thing - math

_The ability to qualify things into something tangible ->So you are able to make decisions _Get to the essence of things, to the core ->That is new math ->Putting life decisions into a calculator

You can have anything you want, but not everything, you can either say you're not good at math and stay poor, or get over it and get massive rewards.

3 BOOKS AT A TIME

TAI

LOPEZ

A SYSTEM THAT HAS NO FLEXIBILITY WILL FALL _Being forced to do something ->Many people like to do math later, when they realize how important numbers are ->Even Richard Branson who was dyslexic, learned numbers & overcame his situation _Be flexible to the changing environment

_In the morning: classic book _Through the day: how to book _Before sleeping: biography

COMPARE YOUR CALCULATIONS ->If they're clearly different ->A calculator can be the best adviser ->If the gap isn´t big/clear enough ->Use other tools: gut feeling, knowledge… _Do that for major decisions ->Don´t do it for every little detail & waste time

DECIDE & ANSWER WITH A CALCULATOR

MOST PEOPLE ARE SURE ABOUT A BUSINESS IDEA, THAT THE DIET IS THE RIGHT ONE... WHILE THE SMARTER PEOPLE ARE LESS SURE OF MANY THINGS.

PUTTING LIFE DECISIONS INTO A CALCULATOR

regret factor (on a scale1-10) x Chance that you could make it in % =

salary in $ x risk in % = expected approx. salary in $ health x Wealth x love x happiness = THE GOODLIFE

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16. Rousseau, The Renaissance Man, & Iron Sharpening Iron Why you must embrace controversy. NO MORE RENAISSANCE MAN There has been a few renaissance men ->Rousseau, Leonardo da Vinci… _They spoke multiple languages, understood economics, politics, history… ->But that's a dead thing in the world now ->We don't look at Jay Z, Kim Kardashian because of them being Renaissance people ->They use social bias on you ->If you see other people following them, you do as well

WAR, SPORTS, MUSIC, BUSINESS... THIS MEANS READ AND LEARN IN BROAD THINGS. BUT LEARN AND READ FROM THE BEST, NOT EVERYONE.

You have to be interested in many things. TAI

LOPEZ

IRON SHARPENING IRON _Iron sharpens iron, friend sharpens a friend ->But it's a little painful in the beginning

I believe in the discipline of learning from the best, not sitting in the room trying to figure it out on your own. TAI

LOPEZ

REMEMBER _You can have anything you want ->But not everything

BE OPEN-MINDED _Don't limit yourself ->There's gold in multiple places ->Make sure it's broad _What am I weak on? ->Work on it, stop saying no to that ->Math & physics? -> Sign up for a course!

STEP BY STEP _If you want to have an impact ->Do an inventory _What do I know? ->(music, languages, history, have sense of perspective, literature, poetry…) _When you know things, you stand out & they will look over & ask: “Who is that?” _Powerful people are powerful for a reason ->Don't be the one who stands out because you don´tknow anything

KNOW A LOT OF STUFF & FOCUS ON THE BEST.

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17. Elon Musk‘s 14-Hour Workday vs. The 4-Hour Workweek The myths of our time. THE BULL**** THEORY

GET THIS

_There is an idea that you can build something very efficiently, outsource the hard parts & just have the parts that you love all day ->Through the power of magic you will accomplish a lot

_Make a list of anybody that had an impact & worked very little hours _There's not a lot of happiness in the beach drinking ->There is some, but not as much as people think & everybody wants to sell you that idea

I wonder what would happen to me if some persuasive talker talked me in to the idea of 8 hour days and convinced me it was not fair to my workers, to put their best efforts. The world wouldn´t have everything it has if 50 years ago young people didn´t worked 8 hours/day. THOMAS

EDINSON

IT´S THAT SIMPLE _If you got everything you ever wanted right now ->You would be bored ->Once you love the grind you love life ->If you hate the grind you will hate life _The definition of a workaholic: being imbalanced _Nobody who makes money is outsourcing everything ->Most great efforts come from heroic efforts of an individual person _What will make us happy is love & work

THINK AHEAD. DON´T BE CAUGHT IN THE MOMENT. THE WRONG MENTALITY _Don't even put that in your brain (Thinking you should work less) _Don't be caught in the moment _Learn to think 50 years ahead ->You will wish you could worked that long every day _The second you stop grinding, you're not alive anymore _Tim Ferris built an empire, ask him if he worked 4 hours/week _Those successful people grinded it out _Don't even start with another mentality ->It´s like: “I have the best news, I've met the best woman/man ever & I figured out a way that I can only spend 4 hours/week with her/him.“

OUTWORK PEOPLE & REPSECT TIME.

ELON MUSK _Elon started 3 companies, valued over a billion dollars _He made 100 million with Paypal, sold & invested all in building space ships _The reason he has 7 billion dollars is because he created so much value ->If you work 100 hours hours/week while others work 40 ->You'll accomplish in 3 months, what takes an average person a year

You have to love the grind. I mean it. You must love it. RAY

KROC

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18. Man-On-The-Moon Contrast Keeping Easy Things Easy The mental framework to simplify anything. THE RELATION

PUT THINGS IN CONTRAST

_Cognitive biases will cause you to make mistakes in your life ->Everything you didn't get is probably because of biases _Putting a man on the moon took 10,000 years of knowledge & a trillion dollars ->Everything else is in contrast very easy compared to that _Losing weight is very easy, innovate your way out of the problem is very easy ->Making a million dollars is much easier as well ->That's $3000/day, if you work 10 hours, you need $300/hour

_Scale every problem down & then put it in relation to the „man on the moon-question“ _Start messing around with the contrast _They put a man on the moon ->Well, then you can make $300/hour _Arnold did it also: instead of lifting 250 pounds, he did 1000 pounds & messed with his mind-set _If DiCaprio can date 10 Victoria Secret models ->You can talk to that girl/man at the coffee shop

Either you conquer fear, or fear conquers you. ALEXANDER

YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THE SAME TESTOSTERONE LEVEL AS ALEXANDER THE GREAT. BUT BY CHANGING YOUR FRAMEWORK YOU CAN DO BIG THINGS OVERNIGHT.

THE GREAT

GET THINGS DONE _It's simple, but not easy ($300/hour) ->To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want ->Why would you have a million dollars if you read 1 book ->Instead there is a guy next door who reads 10 & already has a mentor _You don't need 20 years to figure out a diet ->Do it today

IS MY PROBLEM MORE COMPLICATED THAN PUTTING A MAN ON THE MOON?

Don´t waste time. Don´t sit around. Don´t suck your thumb. WARREN

BUFFET

BE HONEST TO YOURSELF _Not everyone will be a billionaire or Arnold ->But start to think with these contrasts ->If he could workout 6 hours/day ->Can I do 15 minutes? _Most people can't save money because of the 130 rule ->If they make 100 grand, they want the lifestyle of 130 grand _Sam Walton is not 160,000,000 times smarter & luckier than you ->It's just in your head - a mental thing

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19. Amazon.com & The $32,000 Brain Budget The education budget you must institute. TAKING ACCOUNTING OF YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE _Look at your income ->Look at the last 3 months & see what you've done with that money ->Most people spend it on something consumer-driven _Use 30% of your money to invest in your brain ->The ratio shouldn't change when your income increases _ Most people don't have enough raw ingredients (Like a chef) _Same for building a great life ->You need a lot of external ingredients ->Reading, having mentors, traveling, seminars…

INVEST IN YOUR BRAIN. INVEST IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS.

It might be tough, but you can innovate your way out. ELON

MUSK

THE MOST MONEY YOU'LL EVER MAKE IS IN THE THING THAT MATCHES WITH YOUR ABILITIES, NATURAL DRIVES AND AMBITIONS.

IT´ MATTERS _It's all about your ratio & amount you are investing in education ->Even if you only have $100, then invest $30 _Right now, what is the discretionary income that you have available to you? _How are you currently spending it? _What are you going to reinvest?

DON'T MAJOR IN MINOR ISSUES & MINOR IN MAJOR ISSUES!

Never trust a man who hasn't been punched in the face yet. TAI

LOPEZ

YOUR PHILOSOPHY _People

always go after scarce resources ->Now or 10 thousand years ago ->Figure out how to use money to bring more good things into your life ->There's nothing you can do that's better than investing in skills _You can also get a library card ->Almost nobody has it & it´s free ->There's no excuse & everything is online _Like buying Poor Charlie's Almanack for $80 ->Instead of buying Jordan shoes that won't be worth anything in a year

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20. Richard Branson's Hurricane & The Imaginary World Of Kanye West How to remake the world in your own image. KANYE´S WORLD _Kanye West compared himself to multiple other people ->“I am Walt Disney, I am Steve Jobs.” ->He has pictures in his mind of how his life will look like _He believes & visualizes it

An entrepreneur is a person who remakes the world in his own image. RICHARD

BRANSON

WHAT IF? IMAGINE YOUR LIFE.

INNOVATING YOUR WAY OUT _Richard started Virgin Airlines ->One day he was on an island & there was a storm ->Nobody could get off, everyone was stuck ->But he innovated his way out _He made something happen ->He didn't watched or wondered what happened ->He got a plane ->Charged tickets to get on & made a profit

_...You were independently wealthy ->What would you do? ->What would you change? ->Are you 16 hours awake? ->Are you surrounded with family or business people? _What moves you forward ->Define that world specifically

DON'T BE IN THE WONDERING CATEGORY. FIRST WATCH AND THEN MAKE. I imagine my world where everyone listens my music.

DO A REMAKE

BE VERY SPECIFIC IN HOW YOU DEFINE YOUR 4 PILLARS OF THE GOOD LIFE

_Health How would your health look like? _Wealth How are you making your money in that world _Love Am I extrovert or introvert _Happiness Don't live a life where you'll say at the end -> “I wish I did something else.” _Also look for inverse ->What are the things you want to get cut out?

KANYE

WEST

EVEN IF IT'S A LITTLE DELUSIONAL _What's your thing? _What matches with your eulerian destiny? _The goal is not to have no more struggle ->You need to get away of some of that stress _Be prepared to die ->But make your life so good you don't want to ->It will naturally come ->Be in love with re-imagining the world

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21. Mastering The P.A.S.E. Energies

& Casanovas Chameleon A new perspective on social skills. REALIZE & UNDERSTAND _Understand that you live in the world of 7.3 billion people _Your brain is hardwired to everything social _The majority of your thoughts will be directed toward something social ->The greatest skills must be in understanding people, reading people, adapt & work on your team, persuading people, take enemies & turn them into friends...

YOU MUST BE A MASTER OF TAKING YOUR MESSAGE FROM YOUR HEAD AND PLACE IT INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S MIND & HAVE THEM WORK WITH YOU. THAT'S WHAT WINS WARS.

ALL GREAT PERSONALITIES PUT THEIR IDEAS IN THE HEADS OF THE POPULATION.

You must learn & understand how to read people. TAI

LOPEZ

THE P.A.S.E SYSTEM

STEP BY STEP

_P-ractical _Practical people are slower ->They plan, are good with numbers, not super flexible _A-ction _Like fire, they do things, starting a lot of things ->But they´re not patient _S-ocial _Like „hippies“ ->Good vibes, don't like conflict, go with the flow _E-motional _Intuitive, but sensitive ->Deep like an ocean, too easily driven by fear, affected by environment, not thick skinned

_Before you can change yourself or other people, you have to understand yourself _We all have our internal dialog ->The stories you tell yourself ->The way to master yourself is to persuade yourself ->Activate other parts of your personality to persuade other people

HOW ADAPTABLE ARE YOU? _You must increase the ability to change ->Emotional people are afraid to change _There's some truth not to judge ->But sometimes it's good to tie people into groups _Avoid extreme ideologies ->Start listening more

CASANOVA _The second you can handle this, you can get on the concept of Casanovas Chameleon ->Not just with women ->He blended in society ->He was friends with celebrities, great thinkers, kings… ->Exercise strict self-control & play the chameleon

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22. The Seven-fold Path To The Obvious Signs The methodology that took us out of the dark ages. A LONG TIME AGO _500 years ago the world was divided in a black & white mind-set ->Instead of getting an award for figuring out that the earth is not flat, people were threatened to death _This won't happen to you now ->But a kind of basic black & white mentality is still there

YOU HAVE TO BE A TRUTH SEEKER.

Every man's argument sounds great until you hear the other side. TAI

Change what you can change, accept what you can't change and have the wisdom to know the difference. THE BIBLE

BE RATIONAL _Realize why things are the way they are ->Most people want to change things out of emotions ->Don´t be driven by emotions ->Be a truth seeker

DIAGNOSE WHAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK. WHAT'S A COGNITIVE BIAS THAT SERVED YOU 10,000 YEARS AGO, BUT NOT TODAY.

LOPEZ THE 7 FOLD PATH ROUTINE

THE SEVEN-FOLD PATH

1.Ask yourself a question

_Stop saying what's good or bad ->This efficiently moves me to my goal & this doesn't ->It's all about statistic, not black & white _As we replace the 500 year old mind & move into new methodology ->We ask ourselves a question _It's more about the Newton's third law ->Every action has an opposite & equal reaction ->The proper way is to read the obvious signs right now _When you don't know what to do, just do something

2.Research the answer to this question 3.Make a hypothesis based on your research results 4.Test it for a while 5.Observe while testing 6.Step back & analyze (While test is still running) 7.Make others giving their opinion/feedback on your results

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23. Landing Your Plane On The Great Wall How to bypass the obstacles of life.

PLANE IN THE STORM _You have to make the plane go, where you want it to go _There's one landing that will make you happy & a lot more that will make you unhappy

FAITH = FEELING SUCCESS BEFORE YOU HAVE IT.

PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE Realize that you hit the wall and only innovation will get you through, where there's a will, there's a way. TAI

_Go to some poor countries ->You'll see how well you're doing ->Realize that what you think is a nightmare storm ->It´s just a little bump in the road

LOPEZ IF THERE WASN'T ANY OBSTACLES, THERE WOULD BE NO STORY.

GETTING STARTED _The first brick of the wall is always the hardest ->The second & every next one is much easier ->That's how you reduce every problem _The second you break down one wall ->Another one will be waiting - always ->Learn to start loving these walls ->Make it beautiful by perfecting your life ->So it becomes your story

AROUND 99,99% OF SPECIES DON'T EXIST ANYMORE. GETTING FROM POINT TO POINT IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT. LIFE WILL GIVE YOU MASSIVE BLOWS.

I wish I would keep things in perspective in the early 20ies. That was nothing. JONAH HILL

NEED A THOUSAND DOLLARS? _Divide time into 30 days, 8 hours ->Once you figure out how to do it for one day, you'll get the flow

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24. Gandhi's Funeral, Stephen Covey's Wars, & Flurries Of Activity The true test of a life well-lived. GANDHI'S FUNERAL YOUR UNCONSCIOUS CALCULATOR _Your brain is an algorithm ->The subconscious is constantly testing you _You're continually doing math & your brain is trying to figure out - mathematically - how good your life is _Don't freak out ->What you want to do is move towards something ->So your mind comes up with an optimistic formula

WIN WARS _Most of us are rewarded for activities ->One of the problems about the wage system is ->The second you pay people for hours, you're training them to stretch out the hours _If you give people 10 hours, they'll figure out a way to do it in 10 hours (Even if it's 5 hour work) ->If you give them 5 hours, they'll do it in 5 _If you're payed for hours, there's no need to rush _Think with the end-goal in mind

PLAN THE WAY TO YOUR END GOAL _To be there at 80, you have to know what your life has to look like at 70 ->To be there at 70, how does life have to look like at 60... ->Move all the way back to the present age _Pick an end game goal & get there on time

_When I die, how many people will show up at my funeral? _ When Hitler died, there were celebrations ->Ultimate failure of that test _ Mandela passed it, Gandhi, mother Teresa...

1st war - Health 2nd war- Wealth 3rd war - Love 4th war - Happiness _If you win most of them ->You´ll pass the Gandhi funeral test

YOU'RE FIGHTING 4 BATTLES _Lay out 4 end goals ->If you're winning all of them, ->You'll pass the funeral test _The man who can manage people & money, manage all _Always keep the end in mind ->What will bring you closer to it? ->Define what winning means in every category ->Then follow the straight line

Live out of your imagination, not your history. STEPHEN COVEY

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25. Joel Salatin On Nature Laughing Last, The Respect Of Seasons, and The Terrible Twos The natural cycles that dictate your life. FREUD´S 3 SOURCES OF PAIN

BUSINESS IS LIKE...

_Getting old _The forces of nature _Other humans

_Having a child ->It keeps you awake the first year, you don't feel good the second, third even fourth year ->For the first 5 years it's a nightmare _When that kid is 20 & you're less able to take care of yourself, it will take care of you

WHY? _The reason why we're continually surprised & in pain, is because we don't accept these laws _We don't realize that this game isn't about us ->It's about the universe _You're supposed to be in a world ->Supposed to be a part of something bigger than yourself _We all want a million dollars ->But we need other people for that ->It's not about us _If you're thinking about a million people giving you a dollar, you're forgetting that everyone thinks that way

WE'RE ALL NATURALLY IN THIS EGOCENTRIC MINDSET. DON´T THINK EGOCENTRIC _Even the smartest people worked for over 10 years to achieve something ->Bill, Warren, Sam… _The average growth on stocks is 6% ->It takes 12 years to double that _Who are you to say something against the laws of nature?

ACCEPT IT _Understand the nature cycle & the time frame to reach perfection (10,000 hours, 10 dark years) _You can shorten the curve through simulation, osmosis, modeling, mentors... ->But you can only grow in a certain speed

Nature doesn't care about you. Nature laughs last. JOEL SALATIN

DON´T FALL FOR SHORTCUTS _You wouldn't want to raise a child from 2-20 in a year _It would be handicapped ->It needs to go through certain steps _1 year old babies don't take care of you ->They cost you, they keep you awake

NOTICE THE PATTERN _Who went through the hard work? ->Not the people who are in the spring, summer, winter _It's easy to forget that summer exists ->When there's winter & it's easy to lose faith ->But this is the time to do the research, to answer the questions ->So when spring comes you're ready to test, to experiment _In summer you get rich, you've experimented with all the areas & now you're putting in the hours ->This is the season for activity & doing stuff

NATURE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU.

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26. Belts, Suspenders, Failing To Fail, The Six Sigma Heartbeat & How To Not Crash Your F-22 Creating perfect systems. SIX SIGMA _Usually 2-3 things go wrong/day _Six sigma is an approach to perfection _For a million times you do something ->Only 2-5 times something goes wrong _If you could lower the amount of mistakes you do every week, life would be better ->They're costly for relationships, business…

BELTS & SUSPENDERS _Joel Salatin wears belts & suspenders ->Because sometimes the belt would fail _Things go wrong at the exact worst time ->What can go wrong will go wrong _The day you need it most, is the day it will fail _If you set the expectation that you won't fail, you will still fail every so often ->But not nearly as much without expecting the worst ->The expectation of failure is the greatest reason of failure

LOWER THE AMOUNT OF MISTAKES YOU MAKE.

THE F-22 EXERCISE _You should always plan 3 scenarios _Plan the best scenario & build a plan around it _Plan the worst scenario _Plan the most likely scenario _Military pilots are trained to plan for the worst case

The things you worry about never happen, the very process of monitoring those things, keep them from going wrong. TAI LOPEZ

WE ACT LIKE WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD. BUT IF YOU KNEW WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, HOW MORE THRIFTY WOULD YOU BE WITH YOUR TIME? WHAT CAN YOU DO TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY? _People think you have to make mistakes _You do learn only from mistakes ->But they don't have to be yours _In order to do that -> create systems ->Energy is more important than time ->Set it up the correct way ->Do important things in the morning ->You need to build forgiveness ->You need to know things will go wrong

ACT ON IT IMMEDIATELY _Instead of relying on your memory, which is only a belt, have also a suspender ->Or you'll forget something at the worst possible moment ->Memory is great, but not the only thing you should use

Never trust your memeory. Prepare what´s difficult, when it´s easy. JIM ROHN

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27. The Frontman & The Two Ways To Pick Your Trench Mate Insider tricks on assembling your support team. THE METHODS _1. Charlies way _Forget interviews, if you do that, you may be hiring people who are really good at interviews _But do interview referrals -> dig deep 2. The Biggest private equity fund _They did direct interviews face to face ->But they did 27 interviews over a year _If you didn't say “thank you” to enough waiters, door mans on the 27th interview ->They wouldn't hire you

YOU MUST HAVE ALLIES _To become financially independent you need a trench mate IDEA

FOCUS ON THIS WHEN PICKING YOUR TRENCH MATE

LIFE IS JUST PLANNING & EXECUTING.

_Energy _Intellect _Integrity

SO WHAT... _That's why you have to pick a good eulerian destiny ->You never know if you'll be alive after 5 years ->So don't be miserable for the next 5 years ->Do what you like to do

ACCEPT THIS _You will not win every battle _Everybody gets old eventually ->That's the cycle of life _Even McDonald’s has only 10% market share _Investments won´t always go up _A business will not always succeed

LOYALTY NEEDS TIME, TO SEE IT. PICK FRIENDS A YEAR BEFORE YOU NEED THEM, GO THROUGH SOME HARD TIMES TOGETHER.

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28. Lao-Tzu's and John Wooden's Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day The preparation that precedes good luck. A man makes his own luck. LAO Tzu

Prepare for the rainy day. Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. JOHN WOODEN

WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING HARD TO DO: JUMP RIGHT IN & IT´S HALF WAY DONE.

DO WHAT IS DIFFICULT, WHEN IT'S EASY _99% of the world waits for things to hit them in the face before they do anything about it _People only save $2 for every $100 they make _You know that if you live long enough, your car will break down, somebody will steal money from you, you'll get a giant hospital bill to pay...

When you don't know what to do and you have something hard to do, just jump right in and it's halfway done. TAI LOPEZ

DO THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN THE MORNING. THE ADVANTAGE _When you're prepared for the rainy day ->You won´t get hurt _Never struggling with things most of the world constantly deals with

PREPARE FOR TOMORROW, TODAY! MAP OUT 3 MAIN THINGS YOU WILL DO TOMORROW _Plan for tomorrow ->What is the most important thing I can do tomorrow? _If you are not committed to planning for two minutes ->You're not committed to having a good life ->These are not optional things _But you just can't do anything random ->This is not positive thinking ->You are limited by natural laws ->Don't be too extreme on either side _When you want to procrastinate ->Realize that you need to do it while it's easy _Let the pain drive you ->Don't be controlled ->But let it serve as motivation

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29. Stephen Hawking, Entropy, & Remembering The Future The injection of energy to overcome time. STEPHEN

HAWKING

_Writes his books by moving the cheek & his eyes ->When you feel like making excuses ->Look at him solving the most difficult problems while being paralyzed _The theory is that the universe is expanding ->At some point it will shrink back & then the time would reverse _The future would happen before the past _Time will never reverse _Psychological time _Cosmological time _Thermodynamical time _If Stephen is correct, then your time is continually moving in one direction _We're people moving through time

The biggest enemy of knowledge, is the illusion of knowledge. STEPHEN

HAWKING

LIFE IS CONTINIOUSLY MOVING IN ONE DIRETION. It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste most of it, life is long enough and a fair amount has been given to us for highest achievements if it was all well invested. So many of us are burning time. TAI

LOPEZ

THE SOLUTION FOR ENTROPY _Directly injecting energy, concentration, focus on your life _But not thinking like an animal in a rat race mentality ->Step out of it _Mike Tyson went from 400 million to broke ->He couldn´t even pay his hotel room _Entropy is the fact that it's a little bit harder to lose weight every day as you decay

THE REAL TAKE AWAY _Is to remember the future (reversal of time) _Use the time now ->Invest in learning from the greatest minds _The penalty of not doing that is making your life shorter & more painful than it needs to be _The game is not over yet ->You still have a choice ->Most people are afraid of time ->But there is no reason for it

MONEY IS LOST & MADE, BUT NOT TIME.

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30. Peter Drucker, The Cluttered Attic & The Invention Of Rules Removing disabling ignorance. THERE ARE THINGS _You know & understand _You don´t know _Which are unknown

MANAGING ONESELF _Remove disabling ignorance _There are unknown unknowns _There are things we know, we know _Things we know, we don't know ->Only a few best scientists really understand the theory of relativity

You can only build on strengths. No doubt. PETER

DRUCKER

IT GET´S TOO MUCH _The world was not as complex as it is now _There was never so much information available _There was no exterior stimulus ->Media, advertisements, TV… _You were ignorant ->Because of the lack of knowledge ->But now there's too much

The mind's like an addict, it get's full. SHERLOCK

HOLMES

DON´T BE IGNORANT _We think we know too much _This is the root of all evil & problems _People fight over space, resources & other times people fight over “holy land” ->They invented a rule that this land is holy ->No physical thing is holy ->You make it holy ->Beliefs & ignorant convictions

EXAMINE YOUR OWN LIFE _What are the things that disable you? _Where does the ignorance hold you back? ->Warren says you should let go one great idea/year

YOU DON'T NEED CONVICTIONS. YOU CAN HAVE THEM, BUT DON'T HAVE IGNORANT ONES. GO DEEPER ON LONG HELD ASSUMPTIONS AND BELIEFS _Ask why? 3 times _Be better at arguing the opposition, before judging something

DIG OUT ALL THE RULES & CHALLENGE THEM _If you were thought that 1+1=3 ->You have to reject it ->Even if your family, friends believe it's true _Maybe plants scream, but we can't hear it ->When we cut grass we think it smells good ->But maybe that's how plants communicate

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31. Delegating To Shalini & Sam Walton's Style How to manage people.

LEARN TO 1.MANAGE MONEY 2.MANAGE PEOPLE

LEARN HOW TO MANAGE OTHER PEOPLE

KNOW JUST ENOUGH TO BE DANGEROUS _Every above average individual wants to rise above ->It's not that hard if you know a little bit about everything around you _Take an hour to learn about bathroom replacement, fixing cars…

SAM´S WAY _Do it like Sam did it ->Look over the shoulder ->Let people work ->But every once in a while peek over & have a general understanding _Trust, but verify

High expectations are the key to everything. Trust, but verify.

_ After that learn how to manage money _At every turn you´ll have to manage people _Controlling people in a positive way ->So they contribute to an outcome that you want

SHALINI _Was an outsourced worker _If you just leave her do the work ->She will probably take advantage of you _You have to be there & get some opinions first ->Have a little bit of knowledge & insight first

KNOW HOW IT WORKS _This only applies to things that are important, that you do often & are integral to your life's success _Change the oil one time, you don't have to master anything ->But know generally how it works _You need to know that, if somebody needs 40 hours for a 5 hour project, something is going wrong

SAM WALTON

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32. Slot Machine Probability & Chasing The Mirage How to step out of the cave into a more accurate reality. PONDER THIS _When you're 15 you think everything will be great ->But 20 years later ->Did everything turned out exactly like that in the 4 pillars? _Maybe the philosophy is wrong, maybe we had false convictions, we felt something strongly, followed it blindly ->But it was not correct _An english soldier had the chance to kill Hitler in WW1 ->But he couldn't pull the trigger, because Hitler had his arms up & no weapon ->So afterwards Hitler thought he was sent from God to do his work ->He took that as evidence ->That something larger than him wanted him alive to fulfill his purpose

FIRST UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S NOT BLACK AND WHITE

LESS CONVICTION. MORE INVESTIGATION. DON´T GIVE IT UP _You could put your time & effort in, do everything you could possibly do ->But no one would acknowledge you ->You don't & won´t get anything _But know this: building skills, getting better & better will always be a good slot machine to bet on _There's nothing certain _Figure out which diet or which girl/man, which business is the left slot ->While you're being paralyzed by black & white, wrong & right thinking _In the world of uncertainity you'll have a hard time bringing certainty into all this things

_You'll not figure it out exactly _You're never going to know it exactly _It´s the uncertainity that you need to accept

Try to live for a week with less convictions, and more investigation, the world needs less opinions, and more observation. WARREN

BUFFET

MOST OF US ARE CHASING MIRAGES _Imaginary places, you think there's water in the desert ->But there's none _In the past everybody was certain it's OK to have slaves, certain the Earth is flat...

THE SLOT MACHINE _There are two slot machines that represent two choices _The left one takes 10 pulls to win & the right one takes 20 pulls to win ->Which one will you choose? _Sometimes in life, you have to make a choice ->But sometimes in life, you win on the first try with the right slot, while the left one doesn't win ->You did the wrong thing & you won ->Make sure you don't get confused in that _People will say “see, that one won.” ->But that´s incorrect ->So even when you're losing, it's still better to stay on the left slot machine

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33. Teaching Pigs To Fly & Pushing On Strings When to persevere and when to quit. PUSHING ON STRINGS

TEACHING PIGS TO FLY

_You may want a million dollars/year, read & study more ->But it's like a string ->You can't just push it ->You need to let it come to you at times ->You can't always conquer _There's a fine line when to persevere & when to quit _There's a fine line between impatience & over-patience

_You can't teach pigs to fly ->It bothers the pig & yourself _You can't push on the string ->You have to pull the string _Pigs are people ->Who doesn't know & doesn't want to know _You must separate the pigs ->Don't put them together

NOT ALL THINGS CAN BE CONQUERED, LET LIFE COME TO YOU. EPISTEMOLOGY _How do we know that we know something? ->Slow & steady is better ->Than trying to be cool & going for bad decisions _That's why we love getting rich quick schemes ->You could just push a button & win a lot ->But you won't! ->You have to give the world time to catch up ->Doing it over & over again

MAKE DECISIONS _Pay people on performance ->Otherwise they'll not try hard enough _Every year remove one person ->Some people will not align with you & there's no solution _Fire people, cut people out of your life ->If it doesn't work out -> who cares ->But don´t do it too quickly ->Don't burn all the bridges ->Know the difference & respect the fine line

You have to gain knowledge and then apply it. It´s all about knowledge, strategy, execution. TAI

LOPEZ

ACCEPT THINGS THAT ARE UNCHANGEABLE. SOME PIGS IN LIFE, SOME STRINGS THAT CAN'T BE PULLED. YOU HAVE TO BE WISE ABOUT THIS, KNOW WHO IS WHO. BE CAREFUL _Pigs will eat the pearls (Your best knowledge you acquired) & then turn out on you _Be careful, not to think that you shouldn't teach anybody anything because of that ->Just don't teach pigs ->Just put them in categories ->It's not judging, it's just reality

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34. Bill Gates & The Ten Dark Years Overcoming the media cognitive bias. WAKE UP _There are 4.9 billion web pages ->We're surrounded with media everywhere, stories, inaccurate mindsets ->We think we have control over our brain ->But that's not really true _You get all sorts of ideas based on that ->You're even dressed how media tells you to dress

The temptation of giving up is the greatest, right before you succeed. NAPOLEON HILL

THE 10 DARK YEARS _Bill never took a day off ->Which is 3650 days without resting ->The 10 dark years _Picasso's best work was developing for 10 years ->Mozart, Beethoven... ->Their best work took 10,000 hours _Kobe Bryant put his 10 dark years, from 7-17, until he signed the contract _Jordan started at 13 ->Practiced 10 dark years & at 24 he dominated the NBA _Those things you don't learn young, you have to learn them at some point ->Or even worse - never _One type of people conquer the fear ->The second type suffers & dies from it

HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS IN THE RIGHT TIME FRAME.

A fence that is built fast, falls down fast. AMISH SAYING

THE REAL SUCCESS _Our brain is not adapted to go backwards very well ->Especially not about other people _Every media is telling you about Bill Gates today ->They don't tell you about him before he reached his success _He started at 12 & for more than a decade he disappeared from the map ->He locked himself in an office & built the software

IT TAKES TIME _When it comes to long-term „4 pillar-goals“ ->All you need is time ->Even in romance, a lot of people speak about companionable love ->You have to go through things with them ->That's why it's important to get old friends back ->People you know through the 10 dark years

MEDIA ONLY SHOWS YOU THE END RESULT.

BE REALISTIC _Your expectations are too high ->Because you didn't put in the 10 years yet _Either with business partners or dating You need to lower expectations

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35. Ignoring The Ninety-Nine, & The One-Tenth Rule The counter intuitive approach you must adopt. IGNORE 99/100 PEOPLE _But when you find that one person ->Do everything he/she says _It´s natural to be democratic ->If you have 10 friends & ask them for advice _>You would listen to the majority _But what you really should do, is listen to that one person that knows the stuff

EVERY EXTREME HAS IT'S OTHER EXTREME _Killing or cutting something out could be as good as keeping something _You don't have all the time in the world _You don't have the time to listen to everybody

CHANGE Keep in mind that the enemy of great is good. TAI LOPEZ

YOU SHOULDN´T JUST HAVE ONE MENTOR, BUT THE RATIO SHOULD BE AT LEAST 1 IN 100 _Even when it comes to books you should ignore most of them ->But when you find those few books ->Read them over & over _You have a choice between listening to a person who had several successful businesses & a person who read 2 articles _Be elite when you choose who you let into your brain

THE 1/10 RULE _You will probably have 1/10 of the skills of the person you´re learning from _That's why you have to study from the top players ->That's why we're talking about billionaires ->Because they will still be 10 times better ->Go straight to the top _If you learn from your neighbor who's pretty good ->10% of that is pretty bad

_Philosophical changes are the best ->They're effortless once you escape the cage in your mind _Humans are not very good at ignoring ->If someone screams at you ->Your ears have no choice _You have to be pickier about who you let into your space _Humans talk about other people 80% of the time ->Mostly completely irrelevant to you _If you feel weird about spending time with a person -> cut them out _Be careful about the sources of information you're taking

CONTROL YOUR SOURCES OF INPUT.

THE GOODLIFE _When it comes to health, wealth, love, happiness ->Who are you listening to? _1-10 rank your 4 pillars _Most people live a 5 ->Cut the average things out

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36. The Sucker In The Room & The Lollapalooza Effect Using cognitive biases but not having them used against you.

IT´S ALL MENTAL _Everything happens first in your mind _You will stay in the state of poverty in every area ->If your mental habits are poor _You need to make a conscious decision to not being the sucker ->But this doesn't mean you won't be the sucker _90% of the mind is unconscious _Someone's always wanting to persuade you

If you're in a room playing poker with a bunch of people and after 30 minutes don't know who the sucker is, you're the sucker. ALLAN NATION

THE INFLUENCE ON YOU _An average young person gets 8 hours/day of media exposure _We think we're just ignoring it ->But most of the mind is not under your control _You have 25 main biases

WHAT TO DO _Avoid auctions, media, advertisements & train your mind _Use cognitive biases to empower other people to make better decisions _We are willing to make other people suckers ->We are selfish

YOU CAN NOT ELIMINATE COMPETITION. START TO DEAL WITH IT.

THE LOLLAPALOOZA EFFECT _The 25 main biases ->All of them together create the Lollapalooza effect _We can withstand one cognitive bias _But what if they throw other things in ->Which creates a force too powerful? -> It's not something you can build will power for

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37. Why Restaurants Fail Controlling all 3 of the classic factors of production. THE 3 FACTORS OF PRODUCTION _Land ->In the modern world it's connections ->Who you know,ot what you know _Labor ->Your skill _Free cash ->Capital

There is nothing more important, than building on your srenghts.

BUILD ON STRENTHS _Spend more time working on your advantages _You can't build on weakness _The more you learn, the more you earn, deserve it _Build your skills 95% and above _Raise capital as well ->But be good with the money you have right now ->That´s the difference between stoic & epicurean

ONE OF THE DANGEROUS THINGS IS MISSING OUT ON 1 OR MORE OF THESE 3 FACTORS.

PETER DRUCKER

THAT APPLIES TO YOUR BODY _Who you know, what skills you have & your capital

THIS APPLIES TO YOUR SOCIAL LIFE _Who you know & where you are ->Being interesting &persuasive ->Have capital to travel

THIS APPLIES TO HAPPINESS _It takes some skill, capital & environment to be happy & fulfilled

DO THINGS, YOU HAVE ADVANTAGE IN.

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38. Throwing Idiots To The Crocodiles Construct a barrier only against this type of person. YOU´LL ALWAYS HAVE A COMPETITION RUNNING _You choose what type of person you want to be _Therefore you are always in competition ->It can be a sports competition ->It can be any kind of competition _If you want it or not ->You'll still have it

LET'S DO THE INVERSION _In business you want to compete with a bunch of idiots ->Try to find a category where not every genius is in ->Pick niches in an industry _In Economics there's no real long-term thing _If somwhere is a huge profit ->Competition comes & lowers the profit ->By doing a better job, being more efficient & the costumer wins

HAVE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE _If you live in Mexico you want to grow oranges ->Not apples that need winter to grow ->Canada doesn't have the advantage to grow oranges ->So they grow apples instead _This can make the world a better place ->Everybody makes what they're good at _Ask & it will be given to you ->Seek & you will find ->Knock & the door will be opened _If you don't know what to do, keep doing that ->Don't give up too quickly, don´t settle

THE CROCODILES ARE A MOAT AROUND YOUR CASTLE _Get rid of distorted self-esteem people _Be surrounded by good people _Other people leave casualties & you don't want to be a casualty _Allies should always be stable people ->Even if they're not geniuses ->Build on loyalty

Everybody at the end thinks they're better than you, so if they think they're better, but they get bad feedback, it creates neuroses and anger, if they find a chance where they can rise up on your expense, they'll use it, they see themselves there and they want to get acknowledged. TAI LOPEZ

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39. Alienating The 82% With Your Messy Message The proper use of the niche.

THINK SMALL

PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE

_Most of us are hypnotized by the wide variety of choices ->They're not really there ->You're not really good at that many things _Most innovations were creating a small niche ->This niche eventually expanded ->There was not a great need for computers -But then it expanded into something huge _Start with solving small problems ->Which apply to many people

_You think you have a lot of choices ->There are 7.3 billion people trying to become wealthy ->So if you don't do something unique to your story ->You'll never be quite good enough to stand out from the crowd _Nobody wants to listen to anybody who's not at least a 95/100 ->Nobody has songs/audio books from average people ->Expertise is built around focus

Step by step you get ahead. But not necessarily in fast spurts. THERE SEEMS TO BE UNLIMITED THINGS YOU COULD DO WITH YOUR LIFE. BUT IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED, THERE'S NOT A LOT.

STAY PRIVATE _Be OK with taking a small ground ->Don't talk to everybody in social situations ->First focus on 18% of the people _If you try to be liked by everybody ->Nobody will like you _Your goal is focusing on the 18% so much, that other people naturally feel alienated & fall off

CHARLIE MUNGER

MAKE YOUR MESS YOUR MESSAGE _Start to find your messy message ->What's the story of your life? _Jordan: unaffected by his struggles, having convictions that good things are meant to happen to him ->He always believed that the next shot will be the one that's going in

THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL.

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40. Practical Pessimism, Paris Hilton's Grandfather & Contemplating The Downside The fine balance of proper perspective.

PRACTICAL PESSIMISM IS WHAT WORKS _Conrad Hilton built the Hilton hotel chain ->There was a point of his life when he reached the turning point ->He picked up the Helen Keller book about optimism ->He was amazed with the idea of having the optimism ->Seeing the end game ahead _During the depression 80% of the hotels closed down ->The majority of the people had no money ->As Buffet says: „When the tide comes in you see how's swimming naked“ _Conrad Hilton was expanding so fast, it was hard to keep any money in the bank ->Hotel after hotel disappeared ->He had to close them down, he went bankrupt _Conrad told the milk man that he will make it ->But he can't pay the milk now, he would pay it back later

THE ONLY WAY _Learn more, develop more skills ->Do everything possible to get to the place where you contemplated the downside before it hits you in the face _What will get you to your goal is not optimism _You must contemplate the downside

MOVE WITH PESSIMISM TOWARDS OPTIMISTIC GOALS.

Prepare for the worst. Except the best. TAI

LOPEZ

MOST PEOPLE ARE SUPERSTITIOUS _The takeaway is, that there's a certain necessity for faith _See the future before others do ->But don't be delusional about it _Get feedback from enemies, strangers…

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41. Sam Chupp & Making, Watching, Wondering Moving beyond the 3 types into just the 2 types.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW THINGS, YOU WON'T BE IMPRESSIVE _You'll be talking to someone who can change your life ->They will notice you're not interesting & then not do it _You'll go through life in a haze ->Not even knowing what you missed out ->Like attracts like _You should get pleasure from just knowing something _The more you move up the chain ->The harder it is to impress people

KNOW STUFF TO BE IMPRESSIVE. HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE.

KNOW STUFF _Know about intangible things ->Music, art, happiness ->Why do people fall in love, biology (how protein, fats work on your body)

There are 3 kinds of people who watch things

who wonder about things

who make things

ALWAYS BE CURIOUS.

BE A RULE BREAKER _Click every button you can _There's no reason one gender should know some things more then the other gender _Become more interested on physical things ->How gravity works ->How fire works

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42. Donuts, A $250,000 Check, And General Eisenhower The tendency to misweight. MISWEIGHTING _Tai´s Assistant once bought some donuts ->But didn´t get the check to the bank (“Oh, maybe I'll do it tomorrow) ->You can't put the priority of donuts over the check _Develop the ability to prioritize your life ->The Rock works out & runs at 4:30am ->So he's already done everything before 7am

FIRST THINGS FIRST.

You can get anything that you want, but not everything. TAI

LOPEZ

OUR BRAINS ARE FAIRLY DECENT AT PLANNING & REALIZING THINGS.

HAVE A LITTLE LIST & CHANGE IT EVERY DAY DON'T HAVE THE DONUTS PRIORITIZATION _We're made of energy ->So knock down the hard things in the morning ->If you have something hard to do -Jump right in & it's almost done

WHAT ARE THE 3 THINGS YOU'RE GOING TO DO TODAY? _Ask yourself ->Is this as important as I thought it was ->What's now more important? _Get excited by change ->There are those who conquer the fear & those who die _Do not be driven by others agenda ->Unless it's the law of physics _Reading Books ->Priority is to get good ideas in your head ->So you may only read 12 pages & get a golden nugget instead of reading every word

_Another bias is commitment/consistency ->The mistake of doing something else ->This is as bad as not doing it at all _It is not easy to do first things first

HAVE THE ABILITY TO PRIORITIZE YOUR LIFE.

DON'T BE DRIVEN BY RULES THAT ARE IMAGINARY _It's better to read 10 books & get a golden nugget ->Instead of forcing yourself to get through one book you hate _The priorities of the 4 pillars will constantly change

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43. 20% Weird Factor, The Cabbage Mind & The Treachery Of Scoundrels The leeway you should allow. THE CABBAGE MIND PEOPLE THAT ARE MORE THAN 20% WEIRD=PROBLEMS.

HANGING WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE MORE THAN 20% WEIRD WON´T BE GOOD FOR YOU _Don't hang out with people that bite you in the back ->They are weird & insecure _One type of weirdness is great ->Inventors, creative types & everybody is weird in some way ->But a lot of these things combined is not beneficial _Somebody might only be able to tolerate 5% weird factor ->Some only can handle 30% ->But if they dress weird, eat weird & communicate weird ->You may want to consider again

_The only reason they do or decide on something is because their mom does the same thing _If there's a reason or a story of why you're Christian, or liberal than that's fine ->But just being that way because of your uncle is wrong _Avoid too strong ideologies on things you don't really know ->That's a sign that their mind doesn't work properly & they don't want to admit they're wrong ->Because they're insecure & think it makes them look bad

FIND YOUR MIDDLE GROUND. HOW MUCH INSECURITY DO YOU TOLERATE?

THINK & PRIORITIZE.

THESIS

SYNTHESIS

ANTI-THESIS

->Find the balance

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44. Six Pack Of The Mind Focusing on first things first. TO CHANGE THE WORLD, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE MIND OF PEOPLE, TO CHANGE THAT, YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM CURIOSITY _The reason we have hard times is not just external things _Not just accidents, your boss, diseases ->They affect you (war, violence, divorce) ->But each of these things begin with our mind _There are 25 cognitive biases ->Things that make us make mistakes _The way our brain is wired is not very effective

IT'S A BATTLE EVERY DAY, BUT THE REWARD FOR PULLING IT OFF IS GREAT. MOST PEOPLE ARE PENNY WISE & DOLLAR FOOLISH.

MISWEIGHTING BIAS _Is in every person no matter how smart they are _A multimillionaire focused on choosing the cheaper pencils & he saved $15/month ->It only took him 30 minutes & energy on that _Many people use the same amount of energy & time for unimportant things ->Look at the opportunity cost _The new way to think is not how to save $2 ->But thinking about where you can save $1000 _People spend money on shoes ->But won´t buy Poor Charlie's Almanac

47 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD CONTROLLING THE MIND _First things first ->The six pack of the mind _Misweighting ->Are your thoughts aligned with what's needed most in your life right now ->Or are you distracted about what a stranger thinks about you ->What you're going to wear, about a song, watching TV... ->That has nothing to do with your life?

USE YOUR MEMORY TO BENEFIT A PURPOSE _Don't use it to know every celebrity & to whom they're married to _By knowing exactly how much the gas costs, you may save a few pennies ->But how did you spend the majority of your money? _Start at the big things _Don´t worry about foolish things ->Wouldn't you rather worry about living a terrible life? _People worry about some exotic disease killing them ->While obesity has about 1000 times more chance of killing you

INSTEAD OF DOUBLING DOWN ON BEST FRIENDS & ALLIANCES, PEOPLE TREAT EVERYONE THE SAME.

People are worried about all the wrong things. THE EQUALIZER

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45. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony & The Tyranny of The 1st & 15th Undoing the chains of the rat-race. DON´T MAKE THIS MISTAKE _The vast majority of people's lives is dominated by money _Most people just think about the future ->About the next payment for rent, car, paycheck ->That's scarcity & not having financial independence ->Days blur together when you're independent ->Because you're not worried about certain dates in the month

An Entrepreneur is a creative innovator that recreates the world in his own image. RICHARD BRANSON

HOW DO I CREATE INCOME THAT'S NOT JUST FOR ONE TIME? _Income must turn into clockwork ->Just like expenses already are _If you grew up around people that live from paycheck to paycheck ->Around people that eat fast food ->That's your 2nd nature ->You need to change the understanding & change habits ->Otherwise you're more likely to do just like them _Having less than $70,000 will get you more stressful hormones ->Above this $70,000 is financial independence

CONTROL YOUR SOURCES OF INPUT.

OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE THE SIMPLE WAY IS TO CHANGE HOW YOU UNDERSTAND MONEY _The solution to everything is income & minimizing costs

_We live in the best times ->Opportunities are everywhere & unlimited _This may also mean you'll have to read a book, while everyone else will be watching TV ->So you can have what you want in the future

GET OUT OF THE RAT RACE.

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46. Allan Nation‘s 1,000 Sheep And Not Doing It Small The framework to scalability and expansion. SCALABILITY _To get traction you have to have scalability _First Apple designed an iPhone (20-30 million) ->Then taking the hard work that they did in the beginning & selling it to 25% of the western world _When you read, you read not one, but 100 books ->The hardest part is figuring it out in the beginning _Once you figure it out, you test it & then scale it up

PEOPLE DON'T TREAT THINGS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR VOLUME.

IT'S ALL ABOUT SYSTEMS

DON´T BE ROMANTIC ABOUT THE WAY YOU´RE MAKING YOUR MONEY.

ALLAN NATION‘S 1,000 SHEEP

_Don´t treat it as a hobby ->It's a miniature version of the real thing ->Everything prepared for you to quit your job & do only this ->But in a much bigger way _It's all been tested

LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE WHAT YOU WANT.

_You have to raise 5 Sheep in the same way as you would do with 100 sheep ->You're preparing yourself for the time when you're going to scale ->Don't see them as pets & give them names, spending 5 minutes with every sheep >Because what will happen when you'll have 1000? _You should put in the time to think about a system ->Then in the future you can scale

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47. The 5% Tweak, Nothing Janky & When Good Enough is Perfect Making small steps towards big progress. MAKE WAR WITH THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS _There's a difference between a lion at the zoo that has food & a lion in the wilderness ->So the lion is right in one environment ->But wrong in the other one ->It's not the lion that's the issue ->It's the context _You must stop feeling guilty for what you're doing _You may not want to become the most extroverted ->If you're naturally introverted ->You can refine a little bit so you have a little broader audience ->But a lion is a lion & we want lions to stay the way they are

IF YOU PLAN TOO MUCH, SAY GOOD ENOUGH IS PERFECT.

THE 5% TWEAK _As you work on refining yourself make a 5% tweak from time to time ->Start to reach 5% of your goal _No hero focuses on the world while climbing a 1000 ft. wall ->You will find it hard when you look down ->Just look at the next rock to grab 3 ft from you _Everything might seem impossible ->Just focus on this day ->What will you do with your friend, girlfriend, exercise, diet ->The hard part is losing the first 5 pounds, making the first million… ->Once you did that, it's not as hard

THE REALITIES OF LIFE _Don't be introverted every day in every situation that you find yourself in, for the next 20 years ->Strengthen natural weaknesses _ A lion is weak in water & you probably will find yourself out of place _Don't be so egocentric to think you'll never find yourself in that kind of situation

BEGIN ACTING WHEN YOU HAVE ABOUT 40% OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION. THERE'S A LOT OF NOISE IN THE WORLD _You may find yourself listening democratically ->That might work in politics ->But it doesn't work when it comes to listening effectively _Don't give everybody 1 vote ->Don't give 1 vote to an overweight person when you're learning about health ->When you find a person that overcame obesity & is now in shape ->Listen to everything he/she says

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48. Michael Jordan Swagger & American Idol Syndrome The truth about humility, pride and delusion. MICHAEL JORDAN SWAGGER _Could come off as arrogant ->But people who knew him said that they've never met a man more teachable than Jordan _His confidence didn't sabotage him _He listened better than anyone else _Combined confidence with immense level of teach-ability

Everybody wants to be a Navy Seal on Friday talking about it, nobody wants to be a Seal on Monday, when you have to do the hard part.

DON'T LISTEN TO 99% OF PEOPLE. BUT WHEN YOU FIND THAT ONE PERSON, LISTEN TO EVERYTHING. AMERICAN IDOL SYNDROM _People with this syndrom don't hear what everybody else hears _It can be rooted in mom patting you on the back ->Not getting enough knowledge about who the good singers are ->Not enough practice & knowledge ->Don't think you're good when you're not _You can't fool all people all the time ->It doesn't work on more than 10% of the people & the other 90% will boo you off the stage

TAI LOPEZ

SEEK & ADAPT KNOWLEDGE. THEN BE CONFIDENT. DO THIS

OVER OPTIMISM

_Admit you're bad ->Find best teachers & once you've changed you can say: ->Look I was bad, I learned through mentors, trial & error, let me teach you _On the way there don't use arrogance as a tool to get there ->Even Jordan didn't do that ->He used the fact that he got cut off from the team as a motivation to get ahead ->He admitted the mistakes

_Is the most dangerous human bias ->This is also related to arrogance _People saying “I know I'm going to make it.” ->Why are you sure? ->That's not a law of physics _Don't be confident about the things that don't apply to nature, laws of biology, physics, math… _IQ only measures the capacity (like a glass) ->But somebody with a big glass might not fill it, while a person that has a small glass might fill it up & be confident ->Jordan backed up everything he said _Magic Johnson is also confident ->But he is also smart ->He looked for advice from people who had money knowledge ->While most athletes losed money ->He is now a very successful businessman

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49. Why Jay Z And Warren Buffet Like Baseball The ratcheting pattern of success. WARREN BUFFET _Buffet was mentored by Benjamin Graham ->Don't make a lot mistakes in life _Not everything will work out ->But try to make less mistakes than other people _If an average entrepreneur makes (For example 100 mistakes) ->You should make only 20 of them

STOP THE BLEEDING 1st BASE

You only learn from mistakes, but they don't need to be yours. WARREN BUFFET

LIKE IN BASEBALL

STEPS

6

7

_Don't go all in on every ball _5 pounds of muscle/year, losing half a pound/week KEEP LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE ->Doesn't sound as much 2nd BASE ->But that's realistic for your metabolism& the environment to catch up NOTICEABLE CHANGE _The first base on Baseball 3rd BASE ->Stopping the negative momentum ->Lock it in so you don't go backwards _The second base ->Getting some positive momentum ->Stopping the bleeding & now doing the complete opposite as you used to do at the same time ->Now you get excited! DON´T BE TOO COCKY _On the third base _If you think you have a billion dollar idea, but ->You're seeing the results & people will notice it never even had $100,000 idea, you're too cocky _Jordan scored the majority of points with simple shots ->Not just incredible dunks that media shows You need to know yourself and your enemy. _Buffet waited for years to find the right deal ->Slow & steady LAO TZU _When you lose your first 5 pounds you've done the hardest part ->If you just stop the bleeding

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50. Mastering The Wrong Things & Blue Eyeshadow Numb-nuts The how and why of self-reliance. DEAL WITH IT _If you lose as a coach, they fire you & move on ->It may not be your fault, just a bad season _Tai´s friend who made $250 hires & fires fast ->He doesn't build them up & makes them quit their previous job _Have a little bit of understanding ->But don't run the experiment for too long ->Only masters are remembered _It's easier to dominate a small market ->We're not the next da Vinci´s ->We can´t be excellent at 10 things ->But we can dominate a small area

RULE #1 MASTER THE RIGHT THING.

TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT, YOU HAVE TO DO IT YOURSELF. AVOID BLUE EYESHADOW NUMB-NUTS _Do you want to call an inexperienced person who wears blue eyeshadow ->Or do you want to call the master for finance? _Gray hair are like a crown ->Embrace that ->Make sure they've got some years in this ->Or you may want to trust them a little less ->Don't be the first or the last to try something new _Fool me once shame on you ->Fool me twice shame on me _Our brain wants to give people the second chance & if you do that, you're the fool

Start small and monopolize. MORE IMPORTANT _More important than self-reliance is mastering yourself & the environment _Inversion: how to not do it _The first rule is to master the right thing _Be clear in understanding the problem

There is nothing worse, than being good at the wrong thing.

TAI LOPEZ

BE AT LEAST A 95 _You can't be a 80/100 ->You have to be a 95 or more to stand out in the world of 7.3 billion people _As you focus down & narrow down ->You will make it ->Focus on the next little steps to create mastery

JOEL SALATIN

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51. Chatting With Wittgenstein's Lion The power and effectiveness of language. IDEAS AND LANGUAGE ARE VERY IMPORTANT _Wittgenstein was a great philosopher ->If you would hear a lion speak, his mentality is not human, their sentences would be completely different _If you go to China & start swearing with a smile on your face ->Words have no meaning ->They'll take it as compliment ->The words you use have no effect on them _Actuality & reality are not created only by words (Jordan & Buffet didn't get there by chatting about it) _When lions would speak ->They would do it in symbols, which we wouldn´t understand ->Words should not be underestimated or overestimated ->80% of communication is non-verbal ->People communicated before the language

LANGUAGE _Language is very sophisticated _Languages are difficult (not many people know every language) ->It's not even natural to know every word in your language ->But you have to speak other people's language _It is natural for us to move, to make noises, but not to learn languages

DON´T BE CASUAL IN LANGUAGE. EXPRESS PRECISELY WHAT´S IN YOUR HEART & SOUL. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING _The most important thing in communication is to be understood _The lion & you would not easily understand each other ->Animals are egocentric (not self-aware, not thinking long-term on what will be better in 50 years) _An animal will care much less about being understood ->Your focus should be to use the symbols ->Which are understood by the other party ->Seek to understand to be understood _Being understood is a foundation of persuasion

If a lion could speak, you wouldn't understand him. LUDWIG WITTGESTEIN

#1 YOU MUST BE UNDERSTOOD #2 BEING UNDERSTOOD = FOUNDATION OF PERSUASION

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52. Pareto Efficiencies & The Business Triple Entente Achieving the ultimate win-win with a level 3 approach to life. PARETO _Pareto is known for the 80/20 rule ->You will gain 80% results with 20% effort _But he also talked about Pareto efficiency ->Defined as a win-win ->The more efficiencies you pull off ->The less risky they become _The problem with win-lose is that you don't fool all people all the time _If your model is win-lose it flips & you lose ->Or it's lose-lose eventually _There's no reason to go to war, if you don't have to

MASTERING EFFICIENCIES AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS _Business is nothing more than a formal approach to create a customer (win-win social dynamic- making allies, friends) _Sometimes money doesn't make you happier ->If it increases your loneliness

There's no reason to go to war, if you don't have to. TAI LOPEZ

COMPETITION IS GOOD BECAUSE YOU PUSH HARDER, BUT WHEN WE'RE USING ALL THE EFFORT TO BATTLE, IT CREATES INEFFICIENCY.

BUSINESS ->ALL ABOUT CREATING A COSTUMER

THE BUSINESS TRIPLE ENTENTE _Level 1 Inefficiency ->One party wins on the expense of another party (eventually you will bump into the wrong person & you'll leave limping) ->Fast food comes with an expense ->Society, soil, degradation… _Level 2 Neutral ->You're not harming the world, you're not massively helping the world ->For every thing that you argue how good it is, there's something bad that goes along with that _Level 3 Win-Win ->People will give you money & they're excited & happy when they give it to you ->Oprah has millions of supporters ->She has people who are happy to give her money ->She lives the dream ->This brings a new sense of motivation

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53. The Second Rule Is Never Forget The First Rule The profit motive. WHEN IT COMES TO MONEY

REMEMBER

_There are so many viewpoints & people get confused (political and economic- capitalism, communism…) _But focus on the fundamentals ->On what everybody agrees on _All religions say you have to have faith, hope, optimism ->But you also need action

_You need to do something that will give you massive value in return _It can't just be perceived value _The world will always be testing you for value

KEEP IT SIMPLE _You don't need to over complicate things ->Business is not much different than life _In order to get capital, you need some value ->People will not pay you for nothing, even if it's perceived value _Getting rich quick is a mirage ->We have a limited capacity ->We can't get good at something in a day ->To have lasting results you need to be very good at something

VALUABLE _Rare _In-demand

The first rule of business is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. WARREN BUFFET

CAPTURE VALUE. When you plug in your value into a business, it will give you value back, very simple. The world doesn't respond to need, it responds to seed. TAI LOPEZ

Your value

FOLLOW THE RABBIT TRAIL OF YOUR MIND TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS.

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54. Chess-Like Assiduity & Armchair Meditation The real use for deep thinking.

CHESS-LIKE ASSIDUITY

ASSIDUITY

_Chess is a perfect game for that kind of thinking ->You do something & then realize how many options you had ->If you knew exactly what your opponent will do next it would be easy ->But because they have 20 choices, you have to think for all of those options ahead

_Having your ass in the chair (original meaning is actually constant attention) ->Thinking, reading... ->The mindset of not always being in the rat race

You have to work on your business, not just in your business. SITTING IS NOT NATURAL FOR YOU, BUT 15 MINUTES WILL NOT HURT.

TAI LOPEZ

JUST SIT THERE WIND THE MIND DOWN AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE MOMENT _Get in a chair or lay down ->Step away from everything _Then do whatever works for you best (the point is to fill your mind, you can still have ordinary meditation if you like, this is a different habit) _Pick one problem & think about it for 15 minutes ->Find your spot (It can be anywhere you want) ->Then start day dreaming with a purpose ->You need to step back from that & think from the bird point of view _It will be hard the first couple of times ->Focus on one problem ->Don't let your mind get distracted ->Think through one problem ->But go multi-layers, ask „why“ many times

_Reading _Planning _Thinking

THINK THINGS THROUGH.

JUST GET IT STARTED #1 Step away from everything #2 Reading / Stimulation #3 Face just 1 problem at a time ->Go multi-layer deep ->Ask „why?“ 3 times

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55. The 7 Habits Of Highly Unsuccessful People & The Tardy Tree Sloth How to invert your way into getting what you want.

7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

YOU HAVE TO DISCOVER THINGS

_Learn from everybody you meet ->Mostly what not to do ->Principle of inversion _Sherlock said, that sometimes when you remove all that can't be true ->What you're left with must be true ->Even if it seems unlikely _People connect better, if you don't edit out everything ->I's about content ->Not about the quality of the video

_It's not that easy to figure out what you should be doing with your life ->A lot of people pass time ->But only a few people really live _Get better at reading signs ->Being aware ->Then you have get good at making hard choices ->Even when not having all the available information

REMOVE THE IMPOSSIBLE & YOU´LL BE LEFT WITH THE POSSIBLE. EVEN IT SEEMS CRAZY.

REVERSE ENGINEER _Make a backward analysis ->Check it on the 4 pillars _Health _Wealth _Love _Happiness

INVERSION ->What not to do

MONEY=UNITS OF FREEDOM.

_How would I get unhealthy fast? _How would I get broke really fast? _How would I lose my friends fast?

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56. Floating Across The Pacific On A Raft And Why Sitting Bull Liked To Be Shot At The most important of all personality traits.

IMPORTANT NOTE _The greatest thing you need to have, if you're pursuing Entrepreneurial Lifestyle (all 4 pillars) ->Is courage _Life has momentum _If you want to know quickly how successful a person is ->Ask them how much they care about what their neighbor thinks of them ->You need to be a little different & need courage (Do stuff other people won't do) _Tai's grandmother met Hitler in person & her intuition told her he was going to do something crazy ->The common thing would have been to stay in Germany where the family is ->But grandma went on a boat to America where she didn't know a single person & escaped the war ->She had a courage

YOU MUST HAVE COURAGE, TRUST & INTUITION.

People think there's a magic formula, the formula is doing the things that you already know you should be doing. TAI LOPEZ

UNBROKEN _A man crashed into the middle of the ocean ->3 people spent about 50 days there _He stayed cool under pressure _There are people that had luck ->But most successful people did what they need to do ->They went out & met people that mattered, weren't paralyzed by fear…

BULL & COURAGE

READ BIOGRAPHIES

_Bull was the warrior that had no fear ->He sat down slowly & smoked while others could shoot him _Indians bath their 3 year old´s in cold water ->Teaching their kids to be brave ->You can teach yourself to have courage -That will change your life

_You can adjust your courage skills by reading them _Take little actions & get momentum _If you think you have courage go to toast masters ->Take an acting class or go to an open-mic night ->Most of the things that people fear are social

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57. Unstumpability & Sherlock Holmes Sleuthing Uncovering all the knowledge at your fingertips. THE BALANCE _If you'd meet any billionaire & ask them anything about their industry ->They would answer any question ->That's why they´re billionaires ->If you're not curious ->You won't be able to have drive & passion to solve hard problems _You must become more aware & the evidence is clear ->Knowing your environment ->Even knowing what every keyboard button does _ Don't jump on the track & run a marathon on the first try ->Rewire your brain to be curious before it really counts _Be able to say that your brain is not the same as it was 2 months ago

YOU NEED TO BE UNSTUMPABLE ON YOUR ONE THING.

KNOW IT _Know it about wealth ->Accounting, investing strategies… _Know it about love ->What's beauty, how to deal with people, cognitive biases… _These topic might stump you ->But they don't need to stump you forever _Be so good they can't ignore you

UNCOVER ALL THE KNOWLEDGE AVAILABLE ON YOUR FINGERTIPS. UNSTUMPABILITY _Optimism is good, overoptimism is not ->Anything in overly sufficient quantities is not good _Don´t get stumped by asking you 3 questions on your business ->It indicates the level of curiosity, passion, competence & expertise _You must be able to stump yourself to reach excellence ->Just like if you want to be wealthy or healthy you must be unstumpable _Which doctor would you choose ->The one that just knows stuff about the heart ->Or who has curiosity & knows more things about the human body ->Not just the heart _Be the person that you would want to be a mentor to & to invest in _Look in a mirror: ->“Would I want to marry myself?” ->“Would I want to invest in myself?”

Flip it- if you want to sell a product ask yourself- if I was the customer, what would I want to receive. TAI LOPEZ

HOLMES SLEUTHING _Just push every button on your phone, PC... ->Try to get in the habit of finding out how something works

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58. Death By Faint Praise and Charlie Munger's Grandfather What you never want to hear someone say about you. WE'RE PATIENTLY IMPATIENT

THE MYTH

_We're patient about having 10 year goals ->But we don't do things today ->You should be impatiently patient ->Do things quickly ->Right now & stick to them patiently

_One of the myths is that we will have many opportunities ->“Don't stress yourself, there will also be another opportunity” ->But this might be the only one ->You don't know how long you're going to live _Opportunities are disguised ->They appear quickly & you don´t know when ->Understand your mortality ->You will eventually die ->You won't have unlimited opportunities

WHEN YOU FIND ONE OF THE RARE OPPORTUNITIES, SEIZE IT BOLDLY AND DON'T DO IT SMALL! THE NUMBERS BEHIND THAT _You get many little ones ->But not many big ones & not every day will be a sunny day _From 1-10 you have a lot of 5 ones ->But the 8-10 opportunities are rare ->You have to put in 100 units of energy to get 1000 back

MYTH -> YOU´LL HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES. DO THE OPPOSITE _When the rest of the world is falling apart, watching shows & eating fast food ->You should be doubling down on your strength ->Make a commitment that you won't be overlooked by any lack of awareness, effort & unstumpability -This is your time

Satisfaction comes from knowing you did the best you could possibly do.

If you think your life has unending opportunities realize that most people live for a brief amount of their life, and most of the time just pass time. TAI LOPEZ

PREPARE _Arnold needed muscles before he met bodybuilding coaches & film directors ->Prepare for what's difficult, when it's easy _When everyone was passing time ->He was lifting & building muscles _Bach´s music was so good we can't ignore him even today ->After 200 years he's still in many movies _We don't remember the people that didn't refine their skills -We never will remember the losers ->Being ignored is worse than failing -It´s dying without impact

PERFECT YOUR BODY & BRAIN BEFORE THE DIRECTOR STEPS INTO THE ROOM & BE READY, SO THE DEATH BY FAINT PRAISE WILL NEVER BE SAID ABOUT YOU.

JIM ROHN

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59. The Diligent Celebrity & Meeting The King How to get local celebrity status. HABITS _A lot of habits move us unconsciously in the opposite direction _Everybody wants to be a star ->Even the introverted people _There's never a Lakers game with a guy on the court who doesn't know what he's doing

A man diligent and skilled, he will stand before kings, not before average men. TAI LOPEZ

INTANGIBLE SKILLS & TANGIBLE SKILLS _Intangible ->Motivation, curiosity, willingness to learn & invest time to get better ->Being teachable & being able to teach others ->Being humble & honest _Tangible ->Being able to play guitar, Life Coach, NLP Trainer, Advanced Hypnotist ->Speaking English (2nd language), learning german & spanish

YOU CAN´T BE DILIGENT IN SOMETHING,YOU´RE NOT NATURALLY GOOD AT.

DISTINGUISH SOFT & HARD SKILLS _People tend to have more soft skills (intangible) ->They often exaggerate how creative & persistent they are _When you make a list ->Don't have over optimism ->That's like saying you don't need water ->You might drink just other things But this will cause side effects _You need to be well rounded ->You may be great at computers ->But if you don't have social skills to meet a lot of people that matter ->You'll not get anywhere _There's not a lot people knowing how to learn ->Their pace of learning is so slow that they will die old before they get smart _Don't live your life just for yourself or just for other people

We're too soon old and too late smart. DUTCH SAYING

GAIN 10 TANGIBLE SKILLS.

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60. The Dutch Big Gulp Readjusting the pace of success. THIS THING... _No matter how old a person is -He/She has at least one regret ->How much better would his/her live be ->If he/she only knew the things 10 years ago… _Jonah Hill wished he didn't worry so much ->Because things work out as long as you're on the right track _Many people wish they lived a little bit better ->The other extreme is wishing you knew everything at 9 years old ->There's realistic pace for a reason ->PI vs. IP _Patient Impatient (I wish I knew this already) ->Don't act like you're immortal & don't be so patient _Impatience Patient ->Not doing anything, just being employed ->But then thinking you have a billion dollar idea (before even having a $1000 idea)

DON´T SIP THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE.

THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE WILL BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TIME OF YOUR LIFE, ONCE YOU LOOK BACK ON THEM. LEARN TO GULP _When everybody else is reading 1 book/month ->Read 2 books/month ->When everybody else is working 40 hours/week ->Work 100 hours/week ->Gulp it! _You need to gulp in the beginning, start now! ->Then later, once you're already in there ->Realize that we're impatient ->So start to throttle ->Be quick (to start), but don't be in a hurry ->It might take 18 months

SOME PEOPLE SIP BEER (PATIENT), BUT YOU SHOULDN'T ACT LIKE YOU'RE IMMORTAL.

STEP BY STEP YOU GET AHEAD... _If you want to play piano, start today ->Buy a keyboard & start learning now ->Then be patient & realize it will take you 18 months _If you're broke & don't like your job ->Start a part-time business right now ->But don't quit your job right now _Start exercising today ->But don´t expect to lose 5 pounds/week _People think they will go from Donald Trump debt to prosperity ->That's dangerous ->Don't try to skip the steps _75% of people who make a resolution, quit after one week & they wait until the New Year to start ->Take it slow, build a consistent pattern

SOME JUST SIP AND THEN... _There are people that learned how to gulp _They can get a lot into their system quickly ->Take that example for your everyday life & skill building ->You don't have all day to sit around

Don't patiently chase the mirage across the world until you're too old to enjoy it. TAI LOPEZ

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61. The $495,000 Honda Accord The real value of money. EVERYTHING ENTAILS COST _Everything we do has at least the factor of time cost _There's lack of appreciation when it comes to opportunity cost ->Should you go to college, marry this person… ->What is the tangible & intangible cost of that decision? _A hedge fund manager makes 2 million/hour ->So if he goes to see a movie, it costs him 4 million dollars ->That's expensive, that´s opportunity cost _We have a brain that comes from a time where opportunities were limited ->Nobody made a million dollars/hour ->Spending creates wealth ->That's the only thing that generates money

WHATEVER YOU BUY FROM NOW ON, THINK ABOUT THE COST (ENERGY, TIME & MONEY). WHAT COULD YOU DO INSTEAD WITH THAT MONEY?

THE AVERAGE PERSON _The average person spends $33,000 for a car ->If you would take those $30,000 & invest them in another opportunity, you would be better off _“You can get this car for $100/month.” ->Well what else can I get for $100/month? ->Make sure that everything you give is 10x more valueble than it´s original cost/price

SPENDING CREATES WEALTH. DON´T LET IT BE YOUR BANK. OPPORTUNITIES _A lawyer that represented Jeff from Amazon had a chance to buy $100,000 of shares ->But he didn’t _You would also be wealthy if you invested (in the early days) in McDonald’s ->The brothers cashed out & didn’t stay partners at McDonald’s (They missed the opportunity of annually $100,000,000)

Rise above the mass of men who lead lives of quiet desperation- don’t keep up with the Johnson family, if they have a car, that doesn’t mean you need it too. TAI LOPEZ

THE TRUE VALUE _The rule of 15 ->Multiply everything you buy with 15 ->This will tell you the real cost _Money is a tool & like any tool it’s dangerous in the hands of fools ->You will only create more money by spending money ->That’s what banks do ->They spend your money ->You create wealth for them

THE RULE OF 72 WHAT IS THE TANGIBLE & WHAT IS THE INTANGIBLE COST?

_Divide the interest rate by 72 to know how long it will take to double your invested money

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62. $20 Billion Gift From Strangers & Building Forgiveness Into The Land Building systems that persist.

MIKE TYSON´S MISTAKE _Creating success, then falling down _Contrast bias ->If you’re used to making a million/year ->Then dropping to $100,000 will freak you out ->Same thing happens with health, friends… ->It affects the way you feel when you wake up

SLOW & STEADY.

INVEST YOUR TIME _Go to a comedy club, there will be a time when you won’t be able to ->Watch something like that once a week ->This way you’re building a bank of happiness ->So you can withdraw when you need it _This is the time to start, it’s the youngest you’ll ever be _Abdul was stretching when nobody stretched & was able to play 20 years ->While others that are big, usually destroy their joints ->People have thin forgiveness factor in the 4 pillars ->Stretch it out!

HAVE A BUFFER. BUILD FORGIVENESS IN YOUR BUSINESS & BANK ACCOUNT.

KEEP A LITTLE FEAR _You can fall back ->If you’ve ever been unsuccessful, you can be unsuccessful again _Donald Trump’s friend sold the company for billions of dollars & lost momentum ->He couldn’t do it all again _Warren was asked why he keeps $20 Billion in cash ->He never wanted to rely on the kindness of strangers ->You must build forgiveness ->You have to build things that have a wide margin of safety _You should have at least 3 months of your expenses saved _There’s no forgiveness built into the system that has only one accountant ->You will find yourself begging on a rainy day _Again: Do what’s difficult when it’s easy

Store a lot of social stock. TAI LOPEZ

HAVE A GRATITUDE JOURNAL- RECORD YOUR HAPPINESS.

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63. Alexander the Great's Aggression and The Truth About Your Age The best way to counter any opposition.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT _He was very effective at getting what he wanted _We may not want to copy all his traits ->But some were extremely good ->Mentors, conquering the world... _From 19-31 he conquered most of the known world ->IP vs PI

DO STUFF. TODAY. WITH WHAT YOU HAVE. CREATE NEW HABITS. The chains of habits are too weak to be felt, until they’re too strong to be broken. WARREN BUFFET

START AS YOU’RE GOING TO DIE TOMORROW, BUT STICK WITH IT LIKE YOU STILL HAVE 20 YEARS.

WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LIFE, THE STATICS DON’T MATTER _Only you matter ->Not how long other people will live _It doesn’t mean you should wait until the next year to do something ->You don’t know if you’ll be alive then _Understand age in a different way ->Maybe a 80 year old grandfather will live longer than you _The opposite of fear is abundance ->But in our fear we act as if we’re immortal

CHAOS THEORY _It’s very hard to predict 10 years in the future ->Know what your goals are for today ->Tomorrow is uncertain, things can happen _People on the rise move towards their goals every day ->Hollywood has a lot of supply & almost no demand _Don’t be somebody you wouldn’t invest in

MULTIPLE MICRO ACTIONS ARE BETTER THAN ONE BIG ACTION. START NOW WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.

IT’S A FOOL’S GAME TO TRY TO CHANGE HABITS IN 20 DAYS THAT YOU WERE BUILDING FOR 20 YEARS.

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64. Forgetting Who's In The Room Avoiding the success faux pas...

What you think changes what you´re doing. Your doing may changes what you think. CHARLIE MUNGER

YOU MUST HAVE A TOOL OF COMPLETE LISTENING, COMPLETE CONTRIBUTION. ->REALIZE WHO’S IN THE TOP 33% PROBABLY NOT YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY.

YOU´RE ADAPTIVE _You can change in a massive way ->When a betrayal happens ->You reprogram & don’t listen anymore to anyone _What you think changes what you do ->But what you do also changes what you think

LEARN TO SHUT UP & LISTEN.

DON’T FORGET WHO’S IN THE ROOM _If you´re in a room with people that are above you ->You don’t have much to contribute ->They might be 20 years ahead of you _>You need to get there & listen instead of talking _Know when you’re with the 33% above you _Sometimes people that are below you will talk ->When you should be talking instead of them _Wealthy people don’t want others to know how much they earned ->They´re driving with a Prius to work, generating 130,000 leads/day & 20 million dollars/year

YOUR BRAIN IS HAPPY WHEN _You´re building something _You´re accomplishing something

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65. The Pierian Spring & From Whence Cometh The Pride The self-fulfilling delusion.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ALEXANDER POPE

A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING _Take a big gulp or don´t taste the Pierian Spring _Don’t be a person that knows just enough to get everyone in trouble _Talking about politics ->While not having any understandings about dealing with large groups of people & respecting the complexity of politics ->Be curious instead _Don’t read one book & think you know it all _There will be a day when you will be an expert ->It takes 14,000 hours to drink deep & understand _Drink more & more, deeper & deeper ->Look for counter arguments to everything you believe in ->Put in the hours

THE MORE PEOPLE KNOW THE QUIETER THEY GET.

DO NOT BECOME SELF-FULFILLING & DELUSIONAL _Now you’re on the other side ->When you might think you know everything about success ->Which is not true either ->This day is not there yet _This program is about the winter of your life _You have to continue & form new habits ->You need to move forward _People who know a lot always make a lot of money ->Because there are so many people who know things shallowly _Step by step you get ahead, go to bed a little wiser than you were when you woke up _Deserve to be considered the expert of your field ->So there won’t be blind leading the blind

Go to bed a little bit wiser, than you woke up. CHARLIE MUNGER

DON´T SIP ON THE PIERIAN SPRING.

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66. Elvis Presley & The Persistent Widow What Jerry Weintraub knew.

PEOPLE DON´T TAKE A LOOK AT THE FUNDAMENTALS.

BALANCE BETWEEN ADJUSTING AND PERSISTING _Build persistence on knowledge & tested judgment

THE MAGIC IN PERSISTENCE _Jesus would tell the story of the persistent widow ->She visited the judge every day until she was served justice _Jerry Weintraub wanted to took Elvis on tour ->He called Elvis every day at 6 am in the morning ->He did this almost for a year ->Finally he got the job _He got Elvis to agree, sign a contract & earned a million dollar loan ->He also made sure every arena was completely sold out

WORK ON FUNDAMENTALS. PERSISTENCE=FUNDAMENTAL.

I fear a man who trains one kick for a thousand days. BRUCE LEE

EVERY STORY EVENTUALLY COMES DOWN TO PERSISTENCE. BUT THERE’S NO CLASS IN SCHOOL CALLED PERSISTENCE.

People get bored too easily and don’t stick to one thingget rid of that. 50 CENT

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67. Annihilating The Amygdala & MPFC Mastery Moving past the primitive regions of your brain. I’d rather put parts of glass in my eye than do it again. ELON

MUSK

AMYGDALA _If you don’t control the fear in Amygdala you’ll never do it _You cannot please all people all the time _You don’t hear the whispers ->But you get the urge to do something _You have no chance to starve to death ->But you have the same brain as cavemen & they could starve to death

HAVE A THINKING SESSION INSTEAD OF MEDITATION _Think through your fears ->What’s the thing you should be afraid of? _Be afraid of aging ->Most people are afraid of aging because they think they won’t look as good ->Be afraid of losing the drive & your energy to do things ->Most people had their billion dollar idea by 44 ->So kick it in gear fast! _Just give a weird amount of money to charity & forget the scarcity mentality

THE WRONG WORRY

_People are more concerned what another person next to them thinks ->About what they listen to, what they wear ->Instead of worrying about living a bad life FLOW IS WHEN TIME STOPS & _They are scared of being scammed in seminars YOU DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU ->But every scientist in the world knows you’re degrading WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. your life if you’re eating at McDonald’s ->But there are no protestors about that _Why do we know who Kim Kardashian is? ->Nobody knows who Sam Walton is YOU NEED TO ->Just knowing who Sam was could change your life HAVE EMOTIONAL STABILITY _You can’t -scientifically- get completely rid of your fears ->But we have the ability to almost eliminate all of them _Men who are tough/stable get social status ->First, the fear will go to Amygdala & then it will go to ->Lose a million dollars & say you’re OK MPFC & see if there is a better memory of this sort of ->That’s a cool story to tell _The world is throwing junk food, traffic, mean situation ->The only way to win the fight people at you like it´s war ->Chain yourself to a post like a horse & face your biggest ->Who do you want as a trench mate? ->A soft person (“I had rich parents, I never did fears anything”) If you’re not a little embarrassed about your ->Or a person with battle scars product when you launch it, you’ve done it too late. People don’t demand perfection, unless you’re in an airline business. DO SOME THINGS THAT Few customers will complain, and if 5% of people TRAUMATIZES YOU TODAY, don’t write you complaints you’re nobody.

BREAK THE PATTERNS. THE HARD IS WHAT MAKES IT GREAT.

TAI LOPEZ

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Repetition is the mother of skill & success.

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