Percentage of Quiting after Failure
50% of people quit after 1 failure
80% people quit after 2 failures
95% people quit after 3 failures
Your goal is to get past 3 failures. Don’t look at it as failing, just look at it as experimenting and finding ways that don’t work for you. The more you can fail and be accepting of it, the better off you’ll be.
Examples of Famous People Failing:
Thomas Edison made tons of mistakes from his experiments.
Walt Disney failed as a cartoonist early in his career
Abraham Lincoln failed an enormous amounts of times
Michael Jordan missed the game winning shot 26 times
There are plenty of self made millionaires who have failed or went bankrupt.
Just remember when you fail, you are in the same process that all these geniuses have utilized.
Tai Lopez – 67 Steps
1. Worth a damn factor
2. Adaptability
3. Humility
4. Good artists copy, great artists steal
5. Poor friends, rich friends
6. The sculpture approach
7. Learnt helplessness
8. Don’t compartmentalise your life
9. Simulation machines
10. A nation is born stoic and dies epicurean
11. The whisper of 10 000 generations
12. Your signature strength
13. Don’t pursue what you lust but what you like
14. Pragmatic pessimism
15. Do the math
16. Be a collector, have the edge effect
17. Work 100 hours a week while others work 40
18. The contrast bias
19. Investor approach
20. Reengineer the present
21. PASE
22. 7 step scientific approach
23. Land the plane
24. Most of us are rewarded for activity, you need to win wars
25. Seasons of a project
26. F22 exercise
27. Wolf pack and its criteria
28. Plan the day productively
29. Don’t waste your life
30. Be light, embrace ignorance, be efficient
31. Trust but verify, know what your employees are doing
32. Chose the right slot machine
33. Don’t bother the pigs
34. 10 dark years, go up fast, go down fast
35. Careful to who you listen to, become elitist
36. There are irresistible forces at work, guard yourself
37. Land, labour, capital
38. Get rid of idiots, suckers and low self-esteem people
39. Do something that’s unique to your story in this competitive world
40. Practical pessimism
41. Be a shaker, an analyser, a reader, make things happen
42. You need the ability to geniusly prioritise your life
43. Weird people are simply… stupid
44. Penny wise, dollar foolish
45. “I don’t even know how people sleep with all this opportunity”
46. Build exact systems, then increase scale
47. The 5% twick and 38% start
48. Trust in the process and tall puppy symptom
49. Ratcheting and the 4 bases
50. Only masters remain, hire fast fire fast
51. Being understood is the foundation of persuasion
52. Pareto efficiency
53. 3 foot world and enhancing the financial vehicle
54. Get the board of critics and ask “why” 3 times
55. Optimal stopping & inverse rationality
56. Courage and bravery
57. “Unstompable” factor and curiosity
58. Be prepared when the opportunity comes in life
59. Excellence in tangibles and intangibles
60. Impatiently patient! Ratchet it!
61. Opportunity cost and the units of freedom
62. Build “forgiveness” everywhere; no kindness of strangers
63. Every bad action = 3 good deeds
64. Knowing who’s in the room & actions do change feelings
65. Don’t be a diletont, drink deep and sip none
66. Fundamentals not complicated truths
67. Nuke the amygdala, you have to fail and be judged to succeed! Expose yourself!
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Reiterates: If you’ve heard his YouTube videos, then his delivery is very much the same. He reiterates his points a lot and may rehash a story 3-4 times. This may seem annoying and inefficient for some people to have someone repeat the same things over as they feel like it wastes time, however, for me it helps hammer the idea home so that you actually remember it. Repetition is one method to remember things. I actually find reassurance in the reiterations because it reaffirms the idea, however, it might not be for you.
Check out Tai’s website for The 67 Steps program.
Feel free to use my summaries. However, if you decide to buy his program through my link, I’ll give you my convenient 16 page study guide for FREE. It summarizes THE WHOLE 67 steps in a clear and concise way.
The 67 Steps Review Score
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You could probably buy 3-5 books and spend a month or two sifting through them to pick up all the info that Tai is giving you in his 67 Steps. I don't like the monthly recurring charges (It's easy to cancel though), his videos are long and he bounces around off topic, but offers a lot of personal anecdotes and experiences. Despite those complaints, this is a solid buy, and it was definitely worth the $67 for me. If you can't swing the $67, just use my summaries below, as for me, I learn better when someone is talking to me.
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Bottom Line: Do I Recommend it?
icon-certifiedSo if you’re here, you’re probably on the fence on whether or not to buy Tai’s program. So the question is, would I recommend it? Well, it depends. If you’re like me and you like to improve yourself and look at things differently then I definitely recommend this to you, and it is definitely worth more than the $67 in my opinion.
There is SO much information out in the world today and it’s hard to decipher what’s good information and what’s bad information. Tai devours information, and he becomes the filter for you saving you time. Instead of searching, buying, and reading 67 books, Tai has aggregated the best of the best. Also, Tai has real world experience and has witnessed the principles he talks about, he’s walked the walk, so he’s just not a talking head that is just regurgitating information.
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Remember: if you do decide to buy Tai’s course from the link above, I’ll give you my complete study guide that will help you learn all of the steps in an easier / digestible way!
Tai Lopez Books that He recommends:
Here are the top books that Tai Lopez recommends in the 67 Steps program:
Managing oneself by Peter Drucker
How to Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
The One Thing by Gary Keller
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter Kaufman
Disrupt you! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive In the Era of Endless Innovation by Jay Samit
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
Check my post on Tai Lopez Books & Recommendations.
Can’t find the time to read? Want to learn more in less time?
TIP #1: To learn more in less time, I use a service called Blinkist and give it my highest recommendation. See my Blinkist review here to find out what it is and how I use it.
TIP #2: If you want to read more, you have to learn how to read faster. Another great tool I love using to increase my reading speed is 7 Speed Reading. It’s software teaches how to read the right way with the correct techniques and exercises. Definitely worth it if you want to drastically improve in this area.
The 67 Steps Summaries & Chapters
1Be Worth a Damn and Deserve it
Tai Lopez’s first lesson is that we need “to be worth a damn” and to “deserve it”. This chapter contains a variety of information that will be discussed more in depth at later times in the 67 steps, it serves as a overall summary and driving force for the 67 steps.
Be Worth a Damn Factor: People who are “worth a damn” do certain things that other people don’t. They invest in themselves, their health, their minds, their relationships, and their finances. They respect themselves and place value into themselves.
To increase your “Worth a Damn”: Add wisdom, remove ignorance. Ignorances are things that you’ve been taught such as “people who don’t go to college are not smart”. See, degrees can be worth something or they can be worth nothing. Wisdom could be learning anything.
Deserve it Factor: To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. If you want success, you will need to be worth a damn and you need to deserve it.
To increase your “Deserve it” Factor: This is a bit more challenging. You have to push yourself, challenge yourself, force yourself out of your comfort zone.
Invest in Yourself
Tai Lopez suggests that you need to take yourself seriously and invest in yourself. Become a better version of you and improve in the areas that you need to improve upon. Are you adding any value to your life and others, or are you becoming wiser and wiser every day? Are you improving yourself and GROWING every day? If the answer is no, or you “don’t know”, then you need to start. Two ways of developing yourself is reading BOOKS and practicing what you’ve learned from others.
READ – Input knowledge into your head
You can learn anything and everything from books. It is incredible that we can learn from other people’s lives and mistakes and download all their information into our brain via reading it. That is the power of reading.
If you are a slow reader, you’re going to have more difficulties succeeding and reading the books you want to read, especially with the mountains of information we’re expected to know these days. It’s crucial to learn how to read faster. You can start by looking up Youtube videos on the subject however I have found that the best way to drastically increase your reading speed is taking the program/software 7Speedreading. I’ve been through a lot of books and programs and they have the best course on the market that I personally use. They teach you the best techniques from world renowned experts in reading and productivity. The software trains you step by step to develop new reading habits and discard bad reading habits. If you’re reading around 200 wpm (the rate at which you speak) then this is a no brainer. I don’t care what you do or buy, just TAKE ACTION to try and increase your reading speed.
If you can’t find the time to read, then let I would HIGHLY recommend investing in a book summary service called Blinkist. The amount of time it will save you is totally worth it, and it’s really not that much, like $4/month. It cuts out all the fluff and allows me to see which books are worthwhile to buy later. I have the upgraded account that has the audio summaries. I love this feature, because I’m constantly on the go listening to the best ideas and important information of new books and making the most out of my time when I’m commuting to work. You can also invest in audible books, however, I like variety and I tend to get bored with my attention span. Definitely check our their free trial here.
PRACTICE – Put your knowledge into ACTION
Practicing often increases your odds. Later you can refine your practicing to practice smarter. But you MUST put your knowledge to use. If you don’t, it remains useless and you’ll probably end up forgetting it.
Here are two examples of people practicing non stop:
Michael Jackson practiced his simple spin 8 hours a day in the mirror video taping himself.
Michael Jordan, told his coaches at the end of the basketball year at UNC and told them he was burned out and needed the summer off, they understood. The next morning the coaches entered the gym and there was Michael Jordan on the court practicing.
“When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win”
-Ed Macauley
These two examples of Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan demonstrate not only practicing hard, but learning how to “love the grind” that is one of the keys to success. What are you doing to “deserve it” more than the next person that comes along or who is practicing more than you?
Why name it 67 Steps?
This PDF from the Univserity of London Study – How Habits are Formed found that the average amount of time to create a habit and rewire the brain is 66 days. And of course, some people associate 66 with negative connotations, so one more step was added on for good measure.
The whole 21 days to build a habit is really a myth based on a popular book in the 1960’s, Psycho-Cybernetics – (Free Text).
Read more about the habit study in the huffingtonpost.com
Reverse Engineer Success & Problems
In my engineering job, a lot of the times you have to think backwards to deconstruct something down. You can apply this to a lot of problems in life, reverse engineering any sort of desirable outcome that you want to achieve is a pretty good strategy to have. Like a hard math problem, look for models and proven solutions and then work backwards to see what you need to do to make it work.
(Benjamin Graham) Warren Buffet’s Thought Experiment (YOUTUBE)
Warren Buffet’s thought experiment is taking success and reverse engineering it.
Warren gives you a hypothetical question. If you could go back in time to your high school and earn 10% of any classmate and his future career, who would you choose? Is it the smartest person or most talented person that ultimately succeeds the best? Maybe, but not all the time. There are always talented people out in the world and they come dime a dozen. Think of it this way, ask this question: “Out of your High School class, who would you bet money on in having the greatest success?” I bet you’re not going to pick the kid with a perfect 4.0 or most talented person. You should bet on the kid with a set of intangible traits like energy, focus, determination, passion, drive, wisdom. On paper he might not look the best, but by looking at him, you know that kid is going somewhere.
Now, take these qualities and find ways to implement them in your own life. Go ahead and flip the question on it’s head and ask “What student/ classmate would you bet against?”. You’ll probably find their characteristics to be, Lazy, disrespectful, undisciplined, non communicative, no drive, no integrity. Do you have any of these qualities? If yes, then focus on changing them. Maybe you’re shy, then you need to force yourself into more social situations.
Would you be the person that people would bet on? Learn and train yourself to become better and improve your intangible qualities.
Tai goes highly recommends two books:
Learned Optimism – Dr Martin Seligmen’s book which says that “we can train the brain” to do extraordinary things. This also plays into NLP – Neural Linguistic Programming which is a set of tools in psychology that allows people to change their behavorial patterns, develop better skills, communication, etc.
Poor Charlie’s Almanac – This book is for additional wit and wisdom by none other Charles T. Munger, the individual who came up with the 25 cognitive biases. As one of my friend’s said, “think of it as a gift to humanity from a higher more intelligent species”. A bit expensive, I’d look for an online version somewhere for cheaper.
So I need to ask myself if I am really spending each day getting wiser? Am I improving everyday a little bit?
Use your overall happiness as a gauge. If you’re not happy, then that’s just a feedback system telling you that you need to change something.
Questions to Answer:
What are my strengths?
Weaknesses?
What are my Goals?
2ADAPT
The Chameleon adapts to it’s surroundings and so should you
Tai Lopez quotes LSU Business professor, Leon C. Megginson.
Yes, change is the basic law of nature. But the changes wrought by the passage of time affects individuals and institutions in different ways. According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Applying this theoretical concept to us as individuals, we can state that the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral, and spiritual environment in which it finds itself.
It’s not strongest and smartest species that survives, but the species that is the best able to adapt.
You can take this simple statement and apply it to virtually every thing in your life. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ADAPT. If you don’t, you die in business, marriage, investments, your life etc. It doesn’t matter how strong you are or how smart you are.
In Order to Adapt You Must Understand that…
Everything is NOT Black and White… but rather shades of grey.
Older generations have been caught up in the black and white mentality such as:
Racism – “Blacks are substandard species of Human”
“the world is flat”
“Earth is the center of the universe”
Even common thoughts we think today, we think in black and white, good and bad, but they really aren’t.
“Failure is a bad thing”
“Only straight A’s equates that I’m smart”
“You need to go to college for anyone to take you seriously and to get a good job”
Transitioning into another important area when talking about black and white thinking is failure. You might think of it as a black and white situation – “Failure is bad. Failure is painful and avoid failure at all cost”. However…
Try to look at Failure Differently. I personally try to look at Failure as my friend.
I’ve collected a whole bunch of fear of failure quotes that will show you that you’re in good company.
Tai talks about truth seeking but doesn’t tie this in right here into failure (at least that I remember when I was taking notes). I’ve noticed that in order to look at failure differently, you must be a truth seeker. If you are, then why should you be afraid of being rejected by that girl or boy that you’re so afraid of talking to, or the dream job that you’ve always wanted? Whatever outcome it is, that’s what it is. A lot of us, including me, have a trouble with accepting truth. If we learn to embrace it, we’ll allow ourselves to get more repetitions in and we’ll be a lot better off.
Now don’t get me wrong, fear serves a purpose, and so does fear of failing. Fear motivates us to prepare for important things. What I’m trying to say is that don’t let fear immobilize you.
Here are some famous people that learned to adapt and not be afraid of fear.
Sam Walton – He was a man that was never afraid to fail
Jeff Bezo – Failure was not black and white
Michael Jordan
Wayne Gretzky
Think of your life and goals as experiments. You can’t really fail at an experiment. Think about it, you usually think of goals as a pass or fail based on what you want, HOWEVER, in an EXPERIMENT it isn’t a pass or fail. It is a reiterative process that refines in closer and closer to a desired outcome. Science doesn’t look at pass/fail, it observes OBJECTIVELY and concludes its findings. The experiment was either close to your hypothesis or it wasn’t, you observe the results and you compare it with your hypothesis, tweak the experiment and variables, and run the experiment again. When you think of goals and trying new things this way just like how Thomas Edison did then YOU CANNOT FAIL.
One of your mantras in life should be “Try, Observe, Tweak”:
Try, observe, tweak. Did you get your desired result? If no, go to step 2.
Try, observe, tweak. Did you get your desired result? If no, go to step 3.
Try, observe, tweak… on and on and on
On a side note: Some people change too often and it seems like they are changing just to change which is what I call “hyper adapt”. So yes, you can adapt too much sometimes.
Look for Evolutionary Stable Strategies
Evolution Stable Strategy – (ESS) – This is a difficult concept but in a nut shell it means that you have two or more groups in an ecosystem and their choices and interaction becomes stable at some point.
Evolutionary Stable Strategy Examples:
When cows eat grass, their saliva helps the grass grow back healthier … the cows “make a deal” with the grass and the situation becomes stable.
3Have Humility
You’re probably thinking to yourself, “Sure, sure, sure, I am humble”. Tai challenges you in this section by saying that most everyone says that they’re humble, but very few actually are humble.
Let me explain. There are different types of humility, inward humility and outward humility. Most everyone has outward humility which outwardly shows others that they are humble – For Example: “I’m ok, but I’m not that great”. Now inward humility is what you really want to strive for. People who have inward humility admit that they don’t know everything and that there are lessons to be learned from almost everyone AND most importantly, they take action and strive to improve. If you’re really humble, you will go out of your way to seek the right information to help you in your situation. Most of us get the “I don’t know” part right, BUT very few of us get the “I’m going to do something about it” – the action part. This is usually because our egos don’t want to be hurt.
My personal example for me in this case is:
“I’m not a very good public speaker”… I have not chosen to improve as I need to in this area because subconsiously I’m trying to protect my ego and in a way, I’m not very humble in that area.
Here are two examples of being humble:
Michael Jordan – Michael Jordan’s best asset was his listening and being coach-able. The best basketball player in the world was still looking for ways to get better from all sorts of different people, mentors and coaches. Yes, don’t get me wrong, outwardly, he is extremely cocky. But his actions show that he is humble and that he doesn’t know everything.
” My greatest skill was being teachable. Even if I thought my coaches were wrong, I still tried to listen and learn something.”
” – Michael Jordan
Sam Walton – Embarrassing to some people, Sam would go to competitors stores all across the globe trying to find out new ways to run his store. He was found measuring distances of aisle ways and was arrested. Imagine billionaire Sam Walton, on his hands and knees measuring the floow and then getting arrested.- Sam Walton didn’t let his ego get in the way of searching for the truth.
Sam Walton tried learning from everyone by asking and prying and listening to other businesses and customers and he always looked for a couple of valuable things that you can learn from that person
Humble People do the following:
Know that they don’t have it all figured out
Listen more than others
Sacrifice their egos for information and truth
Take action
Tracking down mentors
Reading as many books as you could on the subject (I use Blinkist)
Copying and studying competitors
Going to Seminars and Trainings
If you do these things on a regular basis, being mentored, reading books, etc then the more humble you are because these our ACTIONS that show that you don’t know everything and are willing and hungry to learn. In other words, don’t tell me that you’re humble, show that you’re humble.
This is a strange way of looking at being humble, but it makes sense to me.
EVERYONE IMPORTANT HAD A MENTOR
Michael Jordan, Tesla, Warren Buffet, Einstein, Sam Walton, etc
How humble have you been in action? Not lip service saying that you’re humble.
Questions:
How much money have you been spending on info/seminars etc?
What are your distractions from doing this?
4You need a Mentor. Law of 33 Percent.
“Good artists copy, Great artists steal”
– Pablo Picasso.
When Pablo Picasso said this, he wasn’t promoting copying or stealing, but rather making a point that anything great that has happened in the world – inventions, ideas, movements, etc is because they’ve been built on the past ideas of other people. For example, computers today, are a summation of all the different developments and innovation. Without the past building blocks of computer, such as the microchip and processor, are technology wouldn’t be what it is today. In a way, anything we create is because we are “standing on the shoulders of giants” as Sir Issac Newton quoted.
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
-Sir Issac Newton
Looking at this again at a philosophical level, there really is no “original idea” out there because all ideas are comprised of older thoughts and ideas. Also, we need to stop trying to reinvent the wheel, and copy/ imitate other people more and “stand on their shoulders” and wisdom. This nicely leads into the next point – the law of 33%.
The Law of 33%
The law dictates how and who you should spend your time in order to grow and improve best as a person. You can’t just spend all your time with mentors, it’s unrealistic. You’ll become really strong in certain points however other areas in your life will be lacking. Much like exercising, you need to work out all areas of yourself. You don’t just exercise one muscle and expect great physical results – you have to exercise all muscles. The Law of 33% is broken down the following.
People below your level (Apprentices): You need to spend 33% of your waking hours with people that are “below” or “behind” you. These friends will be the ones that you’re mentoring, it will provide you a way to boost your confidence and hone your teaching skills while helping your friends out.
People on your level (Partners): You need to spend 33% of your time with people on the same level as you. These will be your closest friends.
People above your level (Mentors): You need to spend 33% of your time with people above your level that will help you with your goals, aspirations, etc. These people are your MENTORS.
This spectrum of different people will provide you a spectrum of people that are necessary to grow in all areas.
5Look for Patterns in People
Connecting dots and looking for patterns in other people and situations will provide you great insights
So here’s the fifth step of this Tai Lopez review of The 67 Steps summary. This step, is all about using your judgment and observation skills on people. You need to tune in and be aware of who you talk to and what information you pick up from people. You’d be surprised how many crappy thoughts you are exposed to. Some people are rich in certain different areas of their lives and others are poor in those areas.
If you can decipher what areas are good and bad with certain people, you can hone in to the good elements of that person – dissect them, reverse engineer it, and imitate their behavior.
So how can you tell if someone is good or bad in a certain area in his/her life? The question is easily answered with a verse from the bible (not meaning to get churchy with people, as I’ll also pull quotes from other religious books that have good wisdom).
“You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?”
– NKJV Matthew 7:16
Here are 4 examples of Patterns:
One example of a pattern that Tai’s observed was that his rich friend Joel Salatin said a lot of quotes. When you say quotes, you’re not just saying, “listen to me” you’re also referring that someone else said it to. This plays into using the Authority bias to your favor.
His rich friends are good at Math.
Another example of a pattern that Tai noticed is that a very successful coach always asked questions
Poor friends are usually mad when they get criticism
Rich friends are always asking for criticism
Here are 3 things that you need to do:
You must BUILD a habit of observing people. Get a level of awareness.
“Mirror cat” and “parrot” the people you want to be like.
Identify People and ask for Knowledge
What I typically do when asking for wisdom is tell the person your observations you’ve had about them and deliver it in a complimentary form (avoid excessive smoke), comment with a brief sentence about your goals and then ask them their input and how you can achieve the same. You’d be surprised by how many people open up. If you want to get more detailed.
Questions:
What are the patterns in your friends?
6Focus on the Sculpture & Beware the Media Bias
The media sells you this grand picture of becoming rich, getting fit, without giving you the full story of the actual process and they do this by design to usual sell you something. They also always make it sound easier than what it is. If you don’t understand all the details and implications of a well rounded, happy life then you’re setting yourself up for failure.
There is no such thing as instant success (the type that lasts at least). Success is a slow process that takes persistent work. Think of life as a stone sculpture chiseled by hand. A stone sculpture isn’t made overnight. You have to chisel away at that stone day by day. You know the saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day” – don’t expect yourself to have success right away. This mentality makes you compare yourself with others when you don’t know the exact details they’ve had to go through. Be patient with yourself. Start today and slowly chip away at the sculpture you envision. Maybe it’s something small like starting a speed reading program or getting a gym membership and working out.
You’ve gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
– John Calipari
Take a look at these old adages that have been around for a long time:
Easy come, easy go.
A tree that grows slow, bares the best fruit.
This program is all about building better habits (planting the seeds)
Off Topic Mentions:
Rule of 72 – A shortcut that people use when figuring out a rough estimate to interest rates.
Tai recommends Evernote
7Learned Helplessness
Martin Seligman’s book Learned Optimism and Helplessness discusses the psychology and a state of mind that humans get trapped into. Being trapped in a state of helplessness
The Dog Experiment
To explain this topic further, experiments were performed on two dogs ( And no, I do not condone violence to dogs). The first dog was placed in a box small enough where it could escape when it was shocked. The second dog was placed in a much larger box where it could not escape when it was shocked repeatedly. Later, the took the second dog and placed it in the same box as the first dog so it could escape when it was shocked. What they found was that the dog’s mind can be rewired to learn helplessness.
This awesome YouTube video explains the book pretty well – Learned Optimism.
The Elephant Tied to a Rope
Most of us have heard the story of the elehpant tied to a stake with rope. An elephant was tied to a rope for a long time. When the elephant was untied from the stake, the elephant did not move from its radius.
The Salary Slave
A common example that you might not have identified as learned helplessness is someone who works as a salaried employee. Since they are conditioned to wait for their paycheck, they don’t take any action to obtain more money, they become dependent on waiting for the paycheck. This is known as a Salary Slave.
People are looking for a quick fix or an instant pill and they aren’t looking for a life style because they want to escape the pain of changing their habits.
Some people get stuck in this habit of waiting for the newest diet to try or the newest self help book to read and they don’t apply any action to what they have learned. They have become spectators, they read the books out of enjoyment. They have the mentality of a dog in the box who can’t escape.
“You can innovate out of any problem.” – Jeff Bezos Amazon CEO
The United States is a truly unique place to live. The beauty of it is that we have support systems in place so we can take risks and fail.
You’re never going to get anywhere in your life unless you take some sort of risk.
Laziness will kill you out in the jungle. The habits that you have will determine whether or not you die or survive in the jungle.
Just get out there and start doing things, take risks. If you stay the same, you’re going to keep on getting the same things so don’t expect different results. What’s the worse that can happen?
Be quick, but never hurry.
– John wooden UCLA Basketball coach.
A book about Amazon – The Everything Store – Talks about an employee who said something couldn’t be solved and Jeff Bezos said that they will innovate out of their problems.
So, the antithesis of helplessness is creativity. This reminds me of a great quote by Albert Einstein.
“You can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s thinking”
– Einstein
Questions
What’s an area that you’ve been helpless in your past? It could be health, relationships, wealth, career.
And, what can you do now to fix it?
8Integrating your Life – Your Four Pillars
This is step 8 of the Tai Lopez Review of the 67 steps, titled “The Integrated Good Life & The Four Pillars Of Eudaimonia”.
This lesson is about integrating your life together. A lot of us have been sold a habit of breaking things down and compartmentalizing items in our lives when we shouldn’t break them down. Now don’t get me wrong, I break complicated things down most times and I believe it’s a good habit to have because it usually makes things easier. However, some items aren’t meant to be broken down and segregated. Sometimes, there are certain things that work much better when they are integrated and not segregated.
Some Items that I Need to Integr
