Tai Lopez on the real scam

I decided to take the time and transcribe another one of Tai Lopez’s videos off his YouTube channel. I really enjoyed this video when it came out. If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to check it out or read it below. It’s called The real scam: Tai Lopez on how you’ve been lied to.

“You want to know where you’ve been scammed, you want to know what you should really be angry about? I’ll tell you what I’m angry about. You know I was just in the house here, watching basketball on TV. And I realized that there is something being perpetrated right underneath, right underneath the surface of society. That everybody is overlooking, it’s kind of like magic you know. And magic, I did magic in 6th grade, and you hold things that you want people to see here and what you don’t want people to see you have operate underneath your hand. Underneath, below, the visibility line. So i’m watching commercials. What do I see? 90% of all commercials are pushing things that are bad for you. That are bad for your health. That are bad for your wealth. That are bad for your happiness. Why is nobody boycotting these? You know people say to me, hey Tai this stuff you talk about, reading and books and success. What if people perceive it as a get rich quick scheme and all this? And I say hey, it’s not a get rick quick scheme but let’s say it was. Is that the big thing that people should be calling out as a scam? Is that the big boycott that should be, being talked about. Or how about right down there at all the fast food places. How about a million people strong saying you know what, this is killing us. This is killing our kids. This is killing our families.

I read that by 2030 maybe 50% of all kids in the world will be diabetic or pre-diabetic. So you want to talk about our reading, is reading books, is learning to become an entrepreneur, is learning to become a better investor, is this a scam? I mean, I seen all kinds of things. Throughout my life I’ve bought all kinds of things that people thought were get rick quick schemes. I remember I bought Carleton Sheets. He had a program online. I think I spent $300. I think he might still be around. And it was an infomercial. And it taught you the basics, I got a little binder in the mail, it taught me the basics of investing in real estate. And I remember thinking, this was worth 300 bucks you know. What if everybody in the world was educating themselves instead of just sitting in front of the TV and just watching Taco Bell commercials. And Pepsi, and Coke, and sprite and McDonald’s and Burger King. Taco Bell for breakfast, this is the big thing. This isn’t the ultimate scam being perpetrated. I was reading Natural Geographic and they said sugar is probably the number one culprit, this is not some pseudo science, some alternative magazine. This is Natural Geographic saying it’s sugar that’s probably the cause of a large percentage of our acute and chronic health problems. Where’s the outcry? Where’s the big, you know, yelp and review sights taking down all these big players. No they’re not. Because what the big people do, what the big fast food companies do, what the big sugar pushing soda companies do, is they put it right in front of your face. It’s like the magician. They make it so obvious that you know what people focus on? All the things that don’t matter. It’s like in that Denzel Washington movie, where the two serial killers are sitting, they kill a new person everyday or whatever, they’re the bad guys. And they’re eating dinner, or eating breakfast, and one looks at the other after he read the paper and he said you know what man people are all afraid of the wrong things. What he was saying is, we’re serial killers, people should be afraid of us. But they’re not, they’re focused on this, and what politician, and who this, and little scandals, and who Kim Kardashian is dating, and you know blah blah blah when am I going to get my next Taco Bell breakfast order, or where’s my Coca Cola. That’s how the low level mentality of the world and that’s the scam. Companies preying on that.

Where’s all the great entrepreneurs out there. What about you? Your going to be the next entrepreneur. Come up with a win win business. Where you can get wealthy and at the same time make the world a better place. You can do it. We don’t live in the medieval times, archaic times. It’s possible for you to make the world a better place and make your own life a better place. But you know what? Like I said, I would love to see a world down there. And Joel Salatin, my mentor used to tell me, Tai you don’t need government intervention to tell people to not drink soda. I mean maybe that would help. But he said, the ultimate cause, the ultimate way is vote with your check book. Stop buying stuff that’s bad and the advertisers wont have the money to advertise that stuff you know. Go out, buy a Carleton Sheets program. I’m not affiliated with it, I don’t make any money. Spend stuff. Spend your money on “get rich quick schemes.” That’s what people want to talk about as the big. You think that is the problem in today’s society? That people are pushing educational products that give people hope. Even though, obviously, Carleton Sheets knows with his real estate program not everybody is gonna get wealthy doing it. And, of course, people want to call that out, ‘oh it’s a get rich quick scheme.’ He’s showing people how to be educated in real estate. And what if they don’t get wealthy? Well welcome to the world of competition. Welcome to the world of biological imperative. Some people aren’t going to make it. But I’d still rather live in a world where we’re pushing things that have positive potential. What’s the positive potential from a burger and a big big gulp of crappy soda. Zero. It’s all negative for you. Not one persons health will be benefited from that. So great, the Olympics are sponsored by McDonald’s. That’s great. That’s great. That’s really not a scam? That’s what people are so stupid. That’s the scam man. Rise up for that scam. Focus on that. That’s what I wish was going on right now in Hollywood. I wish Hollywood was boycotting In and Out burger. And boycotting Carl’s Jr. And boycotting Cheetos. And boycotting. Here’s the thing, we now have the science that you can make good food. Cause at the end of the day, I don’t care what education level you get. I don’t care what job you have. I don’t care even, how great of a social life you have. At the end of the day, it’s health. I talk about the four pillars of the good life. Health, wealth, love and happiness. If you don’t have health, you have nothing.

So like I said, the biggest scam being perpetrated in the world is distractions. That magically, just like that evil magician keep what you, what they want you to see here, and keep you from having a skeptical eye. Have a skeptical eye on the right thing. Don’t call out Carleton Sheets. Don’t call out educational programs. Don’t argue whether you should read eBooks or regular books. I was reading a book, I can’t remember with one it said, I think it was Bill Gates or somebody. And they said you know people who nitpick are never successful. There’s a lot of people who want to nitpick. Someone is going to comment on this video, oh Tai you know your hair is messed up. Who cares man. Why you focused on all the wrong stuff? Why don’t you focus on the big picture stuff. That’s all you have to get right on life. Get the big picture stuff right. What you eat. How much money you make and how well you are a steward of the money you make. Who you hang out with. Your social life. And the quality of thoughts going in your brain cause that will equal fulfillment and happiness. Just focus on those, let everything else fall by the wayside. Don’t spend all your time trying to figure out what wardrobe you should wear. Don’t figure all time trying figure out what’s the next burger to eat. Or who Kim Kardashian is dating. Who cares. See it’s the magic trick. It’s the scam. You want to be angry about something, be angry about that. Don’t. Like I said, I think I said at my Ted, no I didn’t say it at my TedX talk. I said it at the talk I just gave. And I said, you know, if you’re in a room playing poker and after 30 minuets you don’t know who the sucker is. Your the sucker. Watching TV. Watching those commercials. I’m like oh my god. These big corporations and small companies too. There making people suckers. Everything that’s being sold, almost without a doubt, I mean almost without exception. From the music to the food. To the drinks, to even you know the entertainment. It makes you either stupid, unhealthy or poor. It’s a lose lose situation, it’s a win for them and a lose for you, a win lose. You want a pareto efficiency. That’s a win win. So figure out how to do it. So, like I said. Don’t become a nitpicker. When you see an infomercial, when you see a book, when you see somebody trying to push success, don’t be like ah this is what’s wrong in the world. No its not. I’d rather have a world with a million people trying, trying, than a million business without a doubt pushing sugar, process food and mindless drivel. There’s no upside to that. At least if there is somebody like Carleton Sheets or whoever. I don’t know why I picked on Carleton Sheets. There’s a lot of stuff online. At least there’s potential. Find something with potential and lock down on it. Don’t be a sucker.”

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