The Big Idea: Take risks in life
- The modern education system trains students to rely on others for their education
- Read a book a day and become self-educated for happiness
- Learned helplessness exists in education, health, income, love
- Great nations are born stoic and die epicurean
- In the American economy today, the consequences of failure are not catastrophic
- You have to take risks to be happy
- Playing it too safe is penny wise and dollar foolish
- Jeff bezos says to innovate out of your problem (use creativity)
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Learned helplessness is almost synonymous with depression
- The antithesis of helplessness is creativity
- Read Schwarzenegger’s book, Total Recall, to learn about reps and sets
- Sloth and unreliability will guarantee being unsuccessful
Tai Lopez is an entrepreneur, investor, and blogger who runs an awesome online book club. 67 Steps is a lecture series teaching how to be successful in health, wealth, love, and happiness. I’m a big fan.