The Tai Lopez Show

To be successful in anything in life takes an ability to sell, or more generally to be persuasive. Whether your focus is business, or even if you’re simply deciding where to go out tonight and have to convince your friends of your idea of where to go, you’re going to be selling.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Getting good at sales has a very specific formula to it, and when you learn that formula, you can dominate the sales industry. Because, instead of flailing around and trying new things out all the time, never knowing if they’ll work or not, when you have a formula you know what works, and from there you can simply hone and refine that formula.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, there was so much on the podcast, and today’s episode is a collection of the best moments from the last 7 days. We talk about why ideas don’t mean anything without execution, why you shouldn’t worry too much about keeping ideas a secret, but instead trust your ability to out-execute everyone else, and why you’re really not in competition with anyone else for success.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most people think that they have more time in their life to create impact than they really do. But if you do the math, and subtract the time that you spend sleeping (which accounts for about ⅓ of your life), you probably have much less time than you think.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a recording from some of my time at the Bulletproof conference. I talked a lot about health, but we also dig into why marketing is really more about vibes and then science, how retargeting is really just scaling relationship marketing, which is the most effective type of marketing, how the human brain is risk-averse and why this makes us avoid new things, and why you must optimize your body for stress reduction.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dopamine is a substance in your brain that not only makes you feel good in general, but also confident and ambitious. But science has shown that the more that you win, the more dopamine receptors you grow. This makes you more confident and ambitious, which in turn makes you grow even more receptors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I am going to show you the 4 steps to making money online. The only way to create serious wealth is to create what I call “robotic income.” This is the income that is happening constantly, without your own actions It’s happening while you do other things, while you sleep, etc.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The saying goes, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink,” to demonstrate that if someone doesn’t want or is unwilling to do something for themselves that would be good for them, there is little you can do. But if you focus your efforts instead on how you make the horse thirsty, you’ve solved the problem.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you dream big enough?Billionaire Naveen Jain says that the bigger you dream, and the more audacious your goals, the easier it is to attract top talent to what you’re trying to do. In addition, audacious goals make getting press much easier as well. With top talent and press on your side, raising capital becomes much easier to do, and this is Naveen Jain’s secret to success.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When launching a physical product, start with Amazon. When shopping online, customers have a built-in bias towards making purchases on Amazon, so there is little friction to get someone to buy there, as opposed to other places like your own e-commerce site.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stubbornness is a character trait that, if left undealt with, will wreak havoc on your attempts at success. Anytime you start to get on the right road, a tendency to be stubborn will sabotage your attempts, hold you down, and keep you where you are.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stubbornness is a primary reason for most people’s inability to achieve what they want, and be successful on their own terms. When you are stubborn, you limit your opportunities. But the truth is that really good opportunities do not come around too often in life, so if you really want to be successful you have to seize them when they do, and take full advantage of them.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The idea of the macho-male at the forefront of what we consider attractive in males is a deeply flawed construct, and one that leads to a lot of unhappiness among humans and in relationships.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The evolutionary view of beauty has traditionally been that humans evolved a sense of what was beautiful based on practically. We’re often taught that things like the waist to hip ratio are a long-ingrained sign of fertility to men, which is why we find them attractive.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People are quick to label online education a scam, when traditional education is much closer to a scam than almost any education online. Think about it: When you go to college, you have no money-back guarantee, and often very subpar educators.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is all about launching a physical product. I’m talking with James Swanwick about the process of launching Swanwick Sleep, and specifically their breakout product Swannies Blue Light Blocking Glasses. Swanwick Sleep is on track to do $2 million sales this year, and we’re going through what it took to get Swannies to that point.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To determine the financial value potential of something right now, there is a simple formula: Future value = present value of future revenue. This is the formula that you can use when examining business ideas and opportunities, when looking into investments, and all other areas of financial potential.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In order to achieve something, you must know the steps between where you are now, and where you want to be. A lot of people have big goals, but unless those goals are broken down into the required, manageable steps, you will not know the path forward.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your potential will be what you decide it is. The reality is that what holds most people back is their own mindset. If you think you have unlimited potential, within your circle of competence, you really do have unlimited potential within that circle.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you understand the natural cycles of life? There are season of prosperity in any life, and the winter is when things dry up, when you don’t have as much going on, when your income is down and it seems like you can’t get anything off the ground. This is the time that you have to prepare for.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.