The Tai Lopez Show

Music makes people happy. But is everything that makes you happy good for you? Music makes people happy. No one can argue that. But is everything that makes you happy good for you? Probably not. Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, was at my house not too long ago.  He is famous for saying he LOVES heroin.Scott explained, "(Heroin) took me to where I'd always dreamed of going. I can't name the place, but I can say that I was undisturbed and unafraid, a free-floating man in a space without demons and doubts."The Grand Theory Of Everything says that the ultimate step in your life must be to achieve happiness.  Heroin Happiness...But it can't be any old type of happiness. It can't be "Heroin Happiness" like Scott Weiland found. That type of happiness is one step forward, 10 steps back. You want quality happiness.In the modern world you can't go far without hearing music. 13 Years Of Music...One study says that you will listen to about 13 years' worth of music before you die.That's a hell of an investment of time and energy. Some scientists says music is a complete waste of time.The Harvard Professor, Steven Pinker says in "The Language Instinct":"As far as biological cause and effect are concerned, music is useless. Music appears to be... a cocktail of recreational drugs that we ingest through the ear to stimulate a mass of pleasure circuits at once... Music could vanish from our species and the rest of our lifestyle would be virtually unchanged."Strong words.I know many people who love music and would argue to the death that Pinker is wrong.For today's book of the day I read the fascinating "This is Your Brain On Music" by Daniel Levitin. Levitin says that the scientists like Pinker have it all wrong.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A tour of longevity habits from five global populations. Topics include calorie restraint, sea minerals, and green tea rituals. Fermented foods, thorough chewing, and mineralized water get attention. They cover daily movement, laughter and meditation, strong social ties, balanced diets, and sleep routines. Practical lifestyle habits and food sourcing for long life are highlighted.

Today I was reading one of the great books of all time: The Analects by Confucius. One line in Book 15 stuck out, "I once did not eat all day and did not sleep all night in order to think, but there was no benefit. It would have been better to study." It reminded me of the lie so many of us have bought into - that all the answers are "inside of us."Confucius says that's a bunch of BS. The answers are not within us. They are OUTSIDE of us - they are external.You can't just close your eyes and meditate and somehow magically have the answers to life's hard problems pop into your head.There are a whole bunch of dumb books and magazines telling you about 'the truth within.' It sounds great. Too bad it's simply not true. A few years ago, a friend of mine met a girl and married her in like a month. I asked him if he thought that was a wise idea. He told me that he had sat in silence and meditated and he received a clear answer from the Universe that this was the girl to marry.I explain more about going outward on my blog - check it out:A few months later I was hanging out with him again and Iasked, "Hey where is your wife?" He told me that he was divorcing her because he had now gotten new 'clarity' from 'within' that she was no longer the right girl for him.Kind of hilarious, I know. But I can't laugh. We have all made stupid mistakes when we thought we were following our gut.Meditation might be good for lowering your blood pressure and relaxing, but for finding the answers to life it's a pretty poor way according to Confucius.Look, I don't care how you measure success. If you are spiritual maybe you consider Martin Luther King, JR. or Gandhi successful. Or if you're an artist you consider Picasso or Mozart successful. Or if you like money you consider Sam Walton or Bill Gates successful. Or if you like sports you consider Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan successful...Guess what? Everyone of those people got there BY STUDYING other people and external principles.Picasso spent his whole life studying, so did Sam Walton, Gandhi, and Tiger Woods.Michael Jordan had coaches. He didn't meditate to learn how to shoot a basketball.As the proverb says, "Study to show thyself approved." How did you learn English? You didn't cross your legs as a baby, contemplate life, and somehow magically have the words form in your brain.You listened to other people, you studied.Sure we have some natural truth and instincts within us. The problem is most of our natural instincts do NOT work in the modern world. They are dead wrong.There is an amazing book called Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by the Pulitzer prize winning Michael Moss. He shows how we naturally evolved to eat up salt, sugar, fat the second we find it. Now back when we lived in caves and in tribes that made sense. There wasn't much opportunity to get extra calories.But that natural craving instinct is horrible now in a world full of Doritos and Big Macs. It makes us fat, ugly, and die of heart attacks.This is the scientific principle called "Mismatch Theory" and is explained like this:"Traits that were at one time adaptive in a certain environment, are now 'mismatched' to the environment that the trait is currently present in. This can present a number of problems for the organism in question.One example is the taste of foods high in fat and sugar to humans. In Pleistocene environments, sugars and fats were relatively uncommon in the human diet.In the modern Western diet, however, foods with such properties are relatively easy to acquire. This can be problematic since an abundance of such foods combined with the human adaptation to prefer them can, and often does, contribute to obesity and chronic metabolic syndrome." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why do all the rich people in the world always tap dance to work?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Break the chains of debt and become financially sophisticated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Accelerate your learning by tackling six-month topics in just six days! Discover the power of humility in learning and how rapid belief changes can shift your mindset. Learn to read faster, model success from top experts, and seize unique opportunities without hesitation. By absorbing knowledge from diverse sources and embracing the importance of mentorship, you can transform your skills and relationships quickly. Embrace modern opportunities and commit to making a change in just six days!

To get what you deserve you need to get to first base before you hit a home run.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Greenfield, voted America’s top personal trainer and author of *Beyond Training*, dives into the secrets of hacking sleep for peak performance. He shares insights on the importance of deep sleep and explores polyphasic sleeping techniques for busy lifestyles. Listeners learn about the restorative power of napping and how to enhance relaxation using modern recovery technologies. Greenfield emphasizes the role of gratitude for emotional wellness and discusses the impact of nutrition and innovative tools for monitoring health metrics.

This is why you should study your competition.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A lively look at stoicism versus easy comfort and why choosing struggle can build long-term success. Historical and personal stories show how disciplined risk and hard work create wealth and resilience. Practical toughness tips and daily habits are shared to rewire your mind for grit. Warnings against consumer traps and advice to invest in education and focus round out the conversation.