Summary: Why I read a book a day (and why you should too) - By Tai Lopez in TEDx

Summary: Why I read a book a day (and why you should too) - By Tai Lopez in TEDx
By Luis Francisco Montero Hernández

• Everybody wants the good life, but not everybody gets the good life.
• Mentors are very powerful for transform your life.
• Everybody wants something, but not everybody gets what wants.
• The components of a good life (eudenomia): health, wealth, happiness, love.
• You never will find all the answers from one person.
• Your ability to copy is the biggest indicator of your success in life.
• “Good artist copy, but great artist steal” Picasso.
• All great characters in the history have had mentors.
• The rule of 33%: spend 33% of your life with people lower than you, other 33% with people that are in your level, and 33% with people with more experience than you (that are your mentors).
• Go to the top of the people and get them mentors.
• Everybody wants the good life, but not everybody is willing to follow the rule of the 33%.
• Everybody want the good life, but not everybody is willing to be humble.
• It is very important the perseverance.
• … some billionaires never have take a free day.
• Some times, you need to try 70 times to get what you want.
• Everybody wants the good life, but not everybody is willing to persevere.
• You must persevere.
• Books have a hidden treasure.
• Mentors are great in person, but a lot of mentors are not alive.
• Stop see a book as a one time event.
• See a book like a friend. You can read over and over again.
• Read 150 book over and over for your rest of your life.
• There’s no rules for read a book a day: some times could take a week, some times you can flip through the pages, some times only read the index, some times focus only in one chapter.
• Everybody wants the good life, but not everybody is willing to read or read more.
• Stoics vs epicurean: “A nation borns stoics and deads epicurean”.
• Stoics are willing to sacrifice present pleasure for something better later (they are investors).
• Epicureans live for now, they are consumers (they say, you only live once).
• Be stoic.
• Everybody wants the good life, but not everybody toughens up to get the good life.
• You must toughen up.
• Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all the aspects of your life.
• Mentors are the short cut for perfect and beautify you life, you don’t want to do it in the hard way.
• There’s always someone to learn from.
• Follow this rules: be humble, persevere, read more, toughen up. If you follow this rules, your life will be great.
• It is supposed to be hard.
• The hard is what makes it great.