The Tai Lopez Show

A marketing agency is easy to start. But it is difficult to scale. As you gather clients, problems arise. How do you hire the right people? How do you create systems so you can train your new-hires to do the job the same way you were doing? Answering these questions while simultaneously running the business can send us running into the woods.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why wasn’t Wind River nominated for Best Movie? Because The Golden Globes are centralized. The moment a system becomes centralized, it becomes corrupt. As soon as elected officials meet in a boardroom or votes are tallied behind closed doors, whatever that system’s goal was, is now compromised. This is the reality of centralization, and if you look across our society, you see it in every sector.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In digital marketing, there are many different avenues to choose from. Email campaigns, social media, Google AdWords, the list goes on. How do you know which channel is the best for your product? And even if you do know which, how can you maximize the utility of the platform?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Productivity is a tricky thing to master. That's because the more time we spend learning about it, the less productive we feel. The productivity books we read and podcasts we listen to are, in a sense, a distraction from the work we know we need to do. But that is all just our mind playing tricks on us. You have to spend time sharpening your axe. And our axe is our mind, and our sharpener is knowledge.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Put on your blinders. 2018 is the year of focusing on what you want and getting it. If that was your attitude at the beginning of 2017, and you didn’t get it what you wanted, figure out why. Luckily, we live in the world of information and the answers to self-improvement are here. You cannot increase your output without decreasing something else.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes the path to self-improvement requires brutal force. And in a world where self-help books coddle your ego, achieving your desired results is difficult to manifest. Inviting criticism is a way to hack your motivation centers by giving others direct access to your ego. When you flaunt your weaknesses, the feedback you receive, if absorbed as pain but reoriented as fuel, can improve day-to-day performance.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The woodcutter who doesn’t sharpen his axe cuts down fewer trees. This is a lesson for all of us. In today’s world, where work is so unrelentingly emphasized, it’s hard to take time off the daily grind to sharpen our brains without feeling like you’re falling behind. But that’s the illusion. The woodcutter who doesn’t take time to sharpen his axe ends up being more unproductive in the long-run.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Studying history sheds light on our present-day. Our governmental systems don’t seem so flawed when we recognize that it’s been this way forever. Our dating habits no longer feel influenced by technology when we talk to an elder who made the same mistakes we did. Our life as a whole feels like a repeated beat, which brings relief to those of us who question our everyday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Raising capital isn’t like Shark Tank. It involves a lot more meetings with a lot less glitz and glamour. Time after time, you stand in front of a boardroom, guiding a group of investors through your pitch deck and prototype. For those of us who’ve done this, we know the routine. For those of us who haven’t, we’re seeking advice on how to best approach raising capital.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learning from others has its time and place. But at some point, we must figure out the answers ourselves. If you’re always the one seeking advice and mentorship from others, you won’t ever develop the skills to find out what your personal north star is trying to tell you. Once you tap into your own calling and curiosity, the world opens up and you discover your skills by listening to yourself.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.