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)
• 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.