The Tai Lopez Show

If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. If you teach a man a fish, he’ll eat for the rest of his life. We’ve all heard this expression, but have we ever thought how it applies to ourselves? For those of us with entrepreneurial dreams, your level of education might be what’s stopping you from launching that business idea or taking a pre existing business to the next level.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You can either be right or rich. So if you’re not rich, then you’re most likely holding onto your opinions too strongly. You’re doing this because you’re afraid of being proved wrong. Well, in educating yourself by listening to others, you learn that you are wrong. And the moment when you accept this is the start to a life of wealth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marketing is storytelling. And the core of storytelling is simplicity. Take Apple for example. If you visit their website, you will find they are driving you to one product. If you visit an Apple store, the directions are simple: browse. At each customer touchpoint of their business, they are delivering a simple message for you to understand and absorb.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Being an entrepreneur has its pros and cons. The same bone that causes you to become an entrepreneur is the thing that will trip you up. You see things in a different way and it bothers you. When you react too passionately to your vision for a better solution, you will try to build your business too quickly and burn it to the ground.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Credit is a highly misunderstood space. We believe myths like checking our credit score hurts the number. We mistakenly think that there’s a limit to how many credit cards we can take out. When we clear up the confusion, we can see the potential and opportunity this space provides.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Plateaus are part of the process. If your business is stagnant, it’s not your fault. But not doing anything about it, that is something you can blame yourself for. Provoking growth inside your business or personal brand requires creativity. And at the core of creativity, is a deeper well of knowledge to draw from.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s easy to feel productive. If you find tasks and do them, you will finish your days with that feeling of accomplishment. But sometimes we have to ask ourselves: “Is this really what I want to be doing?” Stepping out like this is the application of knowledge, where you put your understanding of how the world works against what you’re doing in your day-to-day to help it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People aren’t buying your product because they believe a story. The story is something they’re telling themselves. It’s a list of reasons why they don’t need, can’t use, or won’t value your product/service. How you break this story is by getting them to hear a story about someone with those same false beliefs be broken.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You can rely on your own experience to learn. And you can also learn from others. Those who only pursue the former strategy live a brutal life of challenges that could have been prevented had they opened their ears to the others’ stories. Which brings us to the second, learning from others.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People get too fixated on genre. They think their personal brand needs to convey a specific tone all the time. Funny, thought-provoking, artistic, whatever the obsession is doesn’t make sense; genre is a categorization structure created by the gatekeepers. But today, with the Internet having torched those gates and made the Wild West of content, there is no such thing as genre. You can create whatever you want.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.