“Your goals and prizes should be tangible” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Very few people understand the the risk/reward bias in human brains, and how it can hold you back from achieving what you want to achieve. Many people have an inaccurate understanding of the amount of pain, or work, that it will take for them to achieve their goals, as compared to the amount of happiness it will bring them when they finally do achieve those goals. This is why humans procrastinate. If they really understood t...
Feb 17, 2020•9 min
“Spend at least a couple hours per day really thinking through what you’re doing in your life” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Unintended consequences often negate the good that a regulation or ruling in government is trying to do. In fact, often the problem that was supposed to be solved is simply magnified through the unintended consequences, and the same thing can be true for your life. That is why I believe that entrepreneurs, and really everyone else as well, need to learn game theory, to unde...
Feb 11, 2020•31 min
“Diversify who you learn from” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) No matter how important you think that networking is, you’re probably underestimating the real value of it. It’s so valuable that you almost can not place enough importance on it. But the way that you network is incredibly important. There is a right way and a wrong way, and on today’s episode I’m telling you what the right way is so that you get the most out of this essential aspect of business. First of call, don’t worry about email, ...
Feb 01, 2020•1 hr 36 min
“We are sponges. Find a mentor and get inspired by hanging around that person.” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) A productive daily routine is difficult to achieve. We all wake up in the morning, check our phones, and then go about our days doing the best we can. But then we finish our day and go to bed thinking: was that really the best I could do? Your daily life should be composed of tasks dedicated to either maintaining the life you’re living or trying to improve your life for some future date. ...
Jan 28, 2020•1 hr 26 min
“You don’t necessarily want to start with your best idea, because it will be your worst execution. Just start something!” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) David Mills has made $40 million off of his internet business, and currently makes $11,000 in pure profit per day online, so today I am talking with him about how exactly he was able to accomplish all of that, so that you can learn from it and achieve those same kinds of results in your own business. A lot of today’s episode is about SEO, which st...
Jan 25, 2020•29 min
“Start marketing by giving away things for free” - Travis Rosser (click to tweet) Business ideas are everywhere, if you know where to look for them. Today, we’re talking through some business ideas that can get you up and earning money online fast. The key is to take either your profession or your passion, educate people around it, build an online course, ideally include a business component to it (like how to earn money doing whatever you are teaching), and then sell and host it through a platf...
Jan 19, 2020•10 min
“Have a varied strategy to life” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Live your life with the constant idea in the back of your mind of what you want written on your tombstone when you die. We all die sometime, some sooner than others, and you simply cannot predict what will happen to you, and how much time you have left. This is why, regardless of your age, you need to be committed to sucking everything you possibly can out of life. Live it to the fullest, don’t let fear or doubt hold you back, and liv...
Jan 13, 2020•19 min
“If the PC changed the world. And then the Web changed the world. And then mobile changed the world. Then augmented reality is exponentially bigger because all of those feed into it.” - Jay Samit (click to tweet) It wasn’t just the miners who got rich during the Gold Rush. It was the apparel companies, the shovel manufacturers, the restaurants and bars in the area; with any trillion dollar industry comes the opportunity for many million dollar businesses to pop up. Augmented reality is the next ...
Jan 11, 2020•29 min
Buy Scott’s book “The Four” and his others here. “Old media has basically been co-opted into being the investor relations PR department for big tech” - Scott Galloway (click to tweet) Scott Galloway is here today to talk about his new book “ The Four ,” which discusses the major four tech companies, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, and the ramifications of the world we live in. In the process, we talk about how marketing works in today’s information economy, why irrational urges are the best...
Jan 06, 2020•37 min
“You should be testing at least 17 things per day if you can” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Are you experimenting every single day? A lot of people either don’t like to experiment, or don’t think to. But, in reality, experimentation is the only way that you can take the guesswork out of your decisions. If you have been working on a decision, and trying to figure out which is the best way to go with something, you need to find a way to break the components of the decision down into experimental as...
Dec 29, 2019•9 min
Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting NetSuite.com/TAI “Motivation is essential to success, but you need to LEARN how to motivate yourself” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Motivation is required for success. It’s as simple as that. But while most people understand this truth, few people take the time to learn how to motivate themselves effectively and well. People learn a few of the things that motivate them, like money, or relationships, or achi...
Dec 28, 2019•36 min
“The thing about e-commerce and dropshipping is you can do it part-time. You don’t have to quit your job.” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) We all have full-time jobs. They provide us with a regular paycheck and health insurance. The side hustle is the thing that, once big enough, will replace your full-time job. And dropshipping is the perfect side hustle to get you to that point where you can finally work for yourself. On today’s episode of The Tai Lopez Show, we are joined by two fans who have su...
Dec 24, 2019•9 min
Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ziprecruiter.com/tai “The #1 reason small businesses fail is because of overfunding.” - Daymond John (click to tweet) We all want to be more productive. After our morning coffees, we have great ambitions for the day. And at the end of the day, we are disappointed with not reaching our morning’s goals. The trick to productivity is diagnosing where you go wrong during your day and fixing it. From becoming more selfish to giving yourself praise to working smart vs. work...
Dec 22, 2019•32 min
“If people are high in narcissism they feel entitled to a larger slice of the pie.” - Dr. David Buss (click to tweet) If you haven’t heard of it before, there’s something called the dark triad. It’s a test that analyzes your exploitative personality traits: Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. These traits seems to be on the rise in today’s society. In fact Tai had models who auditioned for his clothing line take the test, and had his staff not call back anyone who scored more than a 6...
Dec 21, 2019•13 min
Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting NetSuite.com/TAI “Practical intelligence is the most important kind of intelligence” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) The skill of the making good decisions is one of the most important skills to master in your life. There are several ways to go about it, but one of the best strategies is to look at the different courses, and ask which way has the most potential for regret, and then take the other one. Regrets...
Dec 19, 2019•57 min
“If people like your vibe, they will be likely to buy from you” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) 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. Today’s episode digs into the specific techniques in sales that will take you from not knowing what you’re doing and having a l...
Dec 08, 2019•13 min
Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ziprecruiter.com/tai Go to stamps.com and click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in "TAI" to get a 4-week trial plus free postage and a digital scale without any long-term commitment. “You have to be able to see possibilities before you pursue possibilities” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) 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, wit...
Dec 08, 2019•2 hr 2 min
“Why does life have to be about going from one pleasant experience to another?” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) This week was all about learning how to live the best life you possibly can, on your own terms. This means thinking through very carefully what that specifically means for you, what is most important to you, and what you would like written on your tombstone, and then optimizing your entire life around that end-goal. We also talk about the science of making decisions, why the modern world’...
Dec 01, 2019•27 min
Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting NetSuite.com/TAI “Spend at least a couple hours per day really thinking through what you’re doing in your life” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Unintended consequences often negate the good that a regulation or ruling in government is trying to do. In fact, often the problem that was supposed to be solved is simply magnified through the unintended consequences, and the same thing can be true for your life. Th...
Nov 30, 2019•34 min
“To be good in business, you have to be able to listen carefully and read people” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) 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. In addition, a ...
Nov 24, 2019•9 min
Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ziprecruiter.com/tai Get a month trial of Hims for just $5 today right now while supplies last. Go to forhims.com/tai Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting NetSuite.com/TAI “Good eating lifestyle is not a diet, because it’s not limiting. It’s a lifestyle” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) The Gracie Diet is an eating lifestyle, developed by the Gracie family of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fame, and designed to combine the corre...
Nov 24, 2019•1 hr 7 min
“When you’re trying to get people’s attention, speak fast. When you’re trying to get people’s trust, speak slow.” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Most of us are scared of public speaking. But that’s only because we have yet to have a good experience getting in front of an audience. The stage fright and perceived threat of embarrassment makes us content with staying inside our comfort zone. If we’re not careful, this level of content can persist throughout our lives, leaving us in a position of neve...
Nov 17, 2019•22 min
Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting NetSuite.com/TAI “Build on your strengths, rather than trying to get a different strength” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) People are much closer to their side hustle than they think. A lot of people think that they need to acquire new skills in order to start a side hustle, but the reality is that most people already have a fantastic skill, probably several, that could be turned into a side hustle. Today, we...
Nov 16, 2019•50 min
Get Honey for FREE at joinhoney.com/tai to save time and money with your online shopping! “It’s ok to be a little eccentric, but know where it becomes a problem” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) As you go through life, you come to the realization that many people have serious psychological problems. Whatever metric or system you use to measure psychological issues, you will find that a very large number of the people that you run across exhibit those traits. But times reveals everything, so when it ...
Nov 10, 2019•24 min
Get a month trial of Hims for just $5 today right now while supplies last. Go to forhims.com/tai Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ziprecruiter.com/tai Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting NetSuite.com/TAI “When everything is unpredictable in your life, you’ll have no brain power left to innovate” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Making money with social media is a lot more doable than most people think. It comes down to having a good understanding of...
Nov 09, 2019•1 hr 5 min
“Don’t try to please everyone. Just do you” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) It feels like the level of narcissism in the world is continually increasing. Just take a look at your Instagram feed, and you will see it proudly on display. It seems like nothing is more important to people today than themselves and their looks. Maybe it’s time to take a step back and reevaluate our emphasis. Put more effort into the truly important things in life, and less into the ones that don’t matter. Put less effort...
Nov 03, 2019•18 min
Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting NetSuite.com/TAI Go to Stamps.com and click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and type in "TAI" to get a 4-week trial plus free postage and a digital scale without any long-term commitment. “Study history so that you don’t make stupid decisions” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Do you read history? Today, most people don’t. Most people don’t read at all, but if they do read, it’s probably either lig...
Nov 02, 2019•56 min
“Age is irrelevant. You don’t know when you’re going to die.” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) People lie, but numbers don’t. As our businesses and brands grow, we attract more and more people into our network. These individuals will have things to say about our success, and if we’re not careful, we can become distracted by that external noise and lose focus of what’s actually important. That’s why on today’s episode of The Tai Lopez Show, we are debating a hater online. When we acknowledge the pean...
Oct 28, 2019•12 min
Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ziprecruiter.com/tai Get your FREE guide, “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” from NetSuite by visiting – NetSuite.com/TAI Get 10% off your first month of Better Help at betterhelp.com/tai There are too many problems to count. From the education system to financial inequality, climate change to public health, unemployment to immigration, everywhere we turn there are issues worth talking about. On today’s episode of The Tai Lopez Show, we are not just discussi...
Oct 27, 2019•55 min
Today I’m excited to bring you guys my anticipated interview with the man himself, Tilman Fertitta. If you don’t know who Tilman is, Forbes named him the richest restaurateur in the world. Owning over 600 restaurants (some you may have eaten at), 5 casinos and… The Houston Rockets! If you’ve been following me, you know my unconditional love for basketball. In this interview, I talk with Tilman on topics from his book “Shut Up And Listen! Hard Business Truths That Will Help You Succeed”. If you h...
Oct 20, 2019•53 min
