Work Out Your Brain

So I was thinking today about what I could tell you that the modern world has failed to teach us, then I remembered a conversation I had with the founder of MySpace a few weeks ago. We were talking about the greatest thinkers of our time, and we both agreed that even though there are millions of great minds out there, the greatest is the philosopher Will Durant. Now, I know that we are at different stages of learning in our lives, but one of the greatest tragedies is that we all aren’t taught about Will Durant in high school. It’s some pretty advanced stuff, I mean one of his greatest works is about 10,000 pages, so there’s definitely a lot to learn. What's interesting is he made all these predictions about what the world would be like in the future, and he continues to be right. He says that the world tends to be cyclical, and without a healthy balance, things turn to shit. I want to give you a few passages from one of his greatest books. This book won a Pulitzer Prize, which is like the Nobel Prize of books and articles, and took him about 50 years to write. He starts out talking about the great person. He calls it the great man. The hero. Or the great woman, whatever you wanna call yourself. The genius. He says, "He is not quite the God that Carlisle described. He's not quite the God that you and I think of. The hero is usually not the God, or she. He grows out of his time and land, and is the product and symbol of his events." So what he means by that is that no one is born great, and that even the greatest people will make mistakes and be wrong. It’s the environment you are in and the actions that you take that individually determine success. But here’s the thing, just because someone is successful doesn’t mean that they are right all the time. He says, "At times his eloquence, like Winston Churchill's, may be worth 1,000 regiments. His foresight in strategy and tactics like Napoleon, may win battles and campaigns and establish states. If he is a prophet like Muhammad, wise in the means of inspiring men, his words may raise a poor and disadvantaged people to unpremeditated ambitions and surprising power” I want you to write this next part down. He says “So the imitative majority follows the innovative minority." This is a concept called ESS, or Evolutionary Stable Strategies. These are behaviors and concepts that repeat themselves over and over again. Throughout history, the average common imitator gets caught up in the conflicts and gets basically used by a minority of people. You might no like it, but it’s just a fact of life. Now occasionally the minority will band together in a “counterculture movement” but most of the time these fail and fall apart because they lack the organization of whatever system they’re trying to upend. Look at the Hippie movement for example. It spawned out of the Vietnam war, kind of like a backlash. A lot of people say that’s why Donald Trump got elected, because for the past 8 years with Obama, a lot of conservatives turned radical because they were tired of being ignored and forgotten. See we gotta understand that if you are to far on one side or another, nothing is going to get done because things are just going to bounce back and forth. Even though radical people might start movements or make some changes, the other side of the aisle is eventually going to rise up and completely undo everything. But most of the time, it’s the powerful minority that takes advantage of the lost majority. It's been that way for a long time. So where are we? Are we just left helpless? Well, here's something to understand, and this is going to lead us into evolutionary stable strategies, the world is set up this way and it's the natural cycle, and you don't need to freak out. There’s gotta be a balance if you want the best outcome, cause if not, the other side is gonna come back to bite you in the ass. Throughout history, you can find examples of successful and powerful people and the people who revere them as a god. But a lot of the great men who on the surface seem perfect and godlike have their flaws if you dig a little deeper. Now I’m not saying you can’t have heroes, but take everything people say with a grain of salt. Too many people follow blindly but are quick to condemn the other side. There's this tension of two groups hating each other. You see that right now with the Republicans and Democrats. You've got the Republicans who are very much free market, no regulations, let things go, global warming will fix itself by letting companies fix it. Doing carbon credits this. Democratic or liberal versus conservative, liberal people are the other side hating the conservative side, and going, "You guys are idiots." The truth is, you need the checks and balances. So what he says is he says, "The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. Perhaps much more valuable because roots are more valuable than graphs." I know I talk a lot of shit on the education system, but I recognize that there are a lot of people that like a more traditional route. That’s not a bad thing and I’m not judging them, but what I don’t like is how the education system has no middle ground. It works for some people, but it fails a lot of people too. You have to take a step back and look at each situation objectively. I just finished Malcom X’s autobiography, and he realized multiple times throughout his life that he was wrong. X was a huge revolutionary. Okay? I look up to him in many ways, but in other ways he was kooky. For example, he followed this guy named Elijah who was like 60 years old, and literally thought this guys was like God on earth, and he was perfect. But then about 10 years into it, Malcom realized this guy was a fallible human. Like he was kind of in a cult. Malcolm X woke up to this. So even a great revolutionary makes idiotic choices at times. We need checks and balances. If the world would've instantly just accepted everything Malcolm X said 100%, we would've been worshiping a 60 year old dude who preached that you should never have sex with anyone except your wife. But Malcolm X later found out that this Elijah guy had slept with like 40 of the girls in his group. So he was a hypocrite. There's nothing wrong with sleeping with people, but you can't be preaching that it's evil, and then you do it. I mean that's basic hypocrisy 101. Us humans have this thing called certainty bias where we’ll refuse the truth, no matter how much evidence we’re given, if it doesn’t line up with our own beliefs. You gotta be able to find the diamond in the rough, because there’s always something to learn from everyone, no matter how much you disagree with them. Look at the Kardashians. Take the best and forget the rest. If you're a marketer, or you own a business, you better be watching. If you don't follow the Kardashians you're an idiot. That's what I can tell you. Because they have 100 million Instagram followers. Love it or hate it, you better get used to it. Now on the flip side, if you only follow the Kardashians, you are also an idiot. They might be successful people, but they’re wrong too. A lot actually. Remember, nobody is necessarily “better” than someone else, they’re just different. If your in business and your only doing I don’t know, let’s say $50k a year. The guy running a million dollar a year business isn’t necessarily better than you, they’re just doing something different that works. It doesn’t mean you’re incapable of doing it, it just means you haven’t gotten there yet. You gotta accept that things don’t change, but you can. Try to have some balance in your life, and be more open minded to the people you disagree with. Stay Strong, Tai P.S. The best thing to work out your brain with is any material that will make more money for you. Ask yourself, "What can I do today that will make me more money?" That's why I have all these courses and video material that teaches people how they can make more money through different business ideas. I just revamped my most popular program that's turned my students from making $20k a year to $20k in a single month. My new Social Media Marketing Agency 2.0 program is just released and if you get in for a limited time only I'm throwing in a ton of bonuses. [Click here to check it out.]( With everything included, you're getting over $5,000 in value for less than a tenth of the price. 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