30 Tahun ITB 87

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Harga Suzuki Solo Raya Desember 2017

			Price List	Cash Back	Bonus CB	Bayar
Wagon R Air Bag	GL	MT	123.000.000	10.500.000	1.500.000	111.000.000
		AGS	132.000.000	10.500.000	1.500.000	120.000.000
	GS	MT	133.000.000	10.500.000	1.500.000	121.000.000
		AGS	142.000.000	10.500.000	1.500.000	130.000.000
Ignis	GL	MT	149.500.000	9.000.000	1.500.000	139.000.000
		AGS	159.500.000	9.000.000	1.500.000	149.000.000
	GX	MT	169.500.000	9.000.000	1.500.000	159.000.000
		AGS	179.500.000	9.000.000	1.500.000	169.000.000
Baleno		MT	204.500.000	4.000.000		200.500.000
		AT	217.000.000	4.000.000		213.000.000
New Ertiga	GA	MT	192.500.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	161.000.000
	GL	MT	206.500.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	175.000.000
		AT	219.500.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	188.000.000
New Ertiga ABS	GX	MT	219.000.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	187.500.000
		AT	231.000.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	199.500.000
New Ertiga Dreza	GX	MT	233.000.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	201.500.000
		AT	246.000.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	214.500.000
	GS	MT	240.000.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	208.500.000
		AT	253.000.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	221.500.000
New Ertiga Diesel Hybrid 1.3			227.000.000	30.000.000	1.500.000	195.500.000
New SX4	GLX	MT	264.500.000	9.000.000		255.500.000
		AT	277.500.000	9.000.000		268.500.000

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Serius Ini Luar Biasa Banget

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Terlantar saat hujan lebat - Si Gapit

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11 november 2017, 

 

30 hari yang lalu. Bocah ini ada di pagar rumah, padahal hari itu hujan deras sejak jam 14:00 siang dan aku baru sampai rumah sekitar jam 18:30. Badannya basah kuyup dan sepertinya dia habis B.A.B banyak sekali di situ juga. Peluangnya sangat amat kecil dia datang sendiri, karena depan dan samping rumah masih sawaaaahhhh.
Subhanalloh walhamdulillah sekarang sudah tampak gagah dan siap makan apa saja.

Pantai Dampo Awang Mungkin Menarik

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Cuman Satu Setrip

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Jual Perumahan BUKAN JUAL RUMAH

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Reka Properti 2017 November 15

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	Kuantan Singopuran	Botanical Garden
Harga Bangunan ASLI	7.607.023	4.403.509
Harga Tanah ASLI	3.474.916	7.271.303
Luas Bangunan IMAJINER	200	200
Luas Tanah IMAJINER	100	100
Harga Bangunan IMAJINER	1.521.404.682	880.701.754
Harga Tanah IMAJINER	347.491.639	727.130.326
Harga Total IMAJINER	1.868.896.321	1.607.832.080

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Anak Sulung Itu Telah Kembali

Tadi habis pulang makan malam dapet kabar dari Bunda Niya kalau Bona dapet musibah di tabrak mobil, padahal katanya habis maghrib tadi sudah pulang dan maem. Mendadak langsung aku sedih padahal sudah 292 hari tidak bertemu. Kenangan manis bersama Bona selama 5 bulan pertama kehidupannya serasa terputar ulang di depan mata. Serasa sulit sekali membendung basahnya air mata ini, Bona itu kucing yang baik hati sekali.

dari pada NGONTRAK

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Kembali ber-UBUNTU-ria gara-gara install Windows Movie Maker

Subhanalloh walhamdulillah hari ini dapet pengalaman baru, muncul di-laptop-ku tampilan di bawah ini sampai hampir tiga jam. Tumben-tumbennya ngambek sampai segitu lamanya.

Memang beberapa hari yang lalu aku butuh perekam webcam biar bisa bikin daily-record dari habitku, maunya gitu terus pas googling ketemunya windows moview maker, blas gak nyangka kalau install itu jadi macem-macem akibatnya. Akibat yang langsung terjadi ms-office-ku tiba-tiba terhapus tanpa peringatan sama sekali. Mantap sekali kan ???!!!

Alhamdulillah ada laptop lain yang bisa dipinjam buat download Ubuntu 16.04.3 dari REPO UGM, memang sempet harus reset modem cuman itukan sudah byasaahhh. Sempet tergoda pilih Xubuntu 12.04.4 karena ukuran file ISO-nya setengah dari ubuntu 16.04.3, tapi akhirnya bertahan memilih ubuntu saja.

Terus sekarang giliran nyari software buat ng-burn ke flashdisk, biasanya sih dulu pakai UnetBootIn, cuman kemaren pas nyari kok ketemunya Universal USB Installer, tapi hari ini mencari lagi ketemu yang gak usah pakai instalasi ini si Rufus. Keren nih gampang downloadnya dan gampang makainya lebih-lebih dia ringan banget.

Trading for a Living Isinya Memang Dahsyat Sekali

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Beruntung sekali aku ketemu buku ini. Baru section satu saja rasanya buku ini sangat mencerahkan sekali, pantas kalau banyak trader menjadikannya sebagai buku rujukan utama. Logikanya sangat menohok perasaan.

Negara vs PRIBADI

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Proses Terjajahnya Kembali Indonesia Sejak November 1967
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	NEGARA	PRIBADI
1	Kemandirian
2	Peradaban dan Kebudayaan
3	Penguasaan Ilmu Pengatahun dan Teknologi
4	Persatuan dan Kesatuan
5	Pertahanan dan Keamanan
6	Interaksi dan kedudukan di dunia International
7	Kemakmuran dan Kesejahteraan yang Berkeadilan
8	Keuangan Negara

1. Kalau yang pribadi, sejak kecil sampai dewasa 

Islam TOA Islam Yang Menghinakan

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Ini Betul Banget

Hidden Divergence + Doji + Trendline Support = Perfect combination for a bottom

Problem: Confirmation only on Monday

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Tertarik Daftar Isinya BUKAN Isinya

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1	Uang dan Kehidupan Anda
2	Perencanaan Keuangan
3	Langkah Menyusun Rencana Keuangan
4	Pentingnya Dana Darurat
5	Bisakah Hidup Tanpa Utang ?
6	Ngapain Beli Asuransi ?
7	Investasi, Apa Perlu ?
8	Membuat Tujuan Keuangan dengan Investasi
9	Let's Put It All Together
10	Okay, What Should I Do Next ?
11	Sedikit Epilog

Einstein's office in Princeton

Einstein's office in Princeton, New Jersey, photographed on the day of his death, April 18, 1955.

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Akhirnya memilih yang sesuai dengan settingan aslinya

Kursi ini sudah digunakan sepuluh tahunan dan kalau di duduki sebenernya masih lumayan cuman ada yang kurang yaitu hidrolik dan bantalannya. Hidroliknya memang mengganggu kalau dipasangkan dengan meja setinggi tujuh puluh centimeter namun kalau di pakai duduk saja tanpa dipasangkan meja standard sih baik baik saja. Kalau bantalannya yang menipis membuat baut dan sekrup mengenai paha dan pantat rasanya sakit kalau lama duduk diatasnya jadi kupasang bantal kursi kamar tamu di atasnya, memang menyelesaikan rasa sakit di paha dan pantat namun ada masalah baru yaitu punggungnya tidak tersangga dengan baik, serta jadi nggak stabil.

Akhirnya memilih yang sesuai dengan settingan aslinya, bantalnya aku ambil dan berhati hati duduk hal ini rasanya lebih terasa manfaat tersisa dari kursi berusia sepuluh tahun ini jadi lebih pas.

ME TOO is not My Style - STAN SHIH Acer Story

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Sukses Belajar Sambil Bekerja - Long Time Ago

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7 Habits of Highly Effective People Yang Diinget Malah Yang Itu

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Introductory Statistics Wonnacott Pengalaman Belajar Yang Menakjubkan

Introductory Statistics for Business and Economics, 4th Edition
Thomas H. Wonnacott, Ronald J. Wonnacott
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Punya Laboratorium Sendiri

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Pameran Komputer Sepi

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Quality Control and Improvement Amitava Mitra - Sebuah Kenangan Manis

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Ramadhan 1438 H Menerima Pelajaran Yang Unik

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Resume yang indah

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Harga Mobil Off The Road

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Kopi Dua Ratus Ribu Memang BEDA

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Kopi Alfamart VS Indomaret

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Re-branding Kopi Alfamart

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Memang Menggonggong

Dulu waktu masih kelilingan KucingBOTak atau SeragamTPA sering ketemu sama kelompok N yang suka sekali menuduh kalau suatu kelompok sebut saja kelompok M punya kegemaran makan daging anjing. Bagiku waktu itu hanya suatu ekpresi kegalauan kelompok N yang banyak daerah "kekuasaan"-nya direbut oleh kelompok M.
Memang dibanyak daerah terutama yang dekat jalan propinsi atau punya akses yang mudah ke jalan propinsi kelompok M dengan amat sangat gagah perkasa menggeser kelompok N, seperti biasa orang dengan kemampuan mengakses jalan propinsi memang lebih progresif dan terbuka. Namun kalau di daerah yang agak menantang untuk mencapai jalan propinsi memang kelompok N sangat merajai, sampai-sampai fungsi formal semacam dokter saja mereka bisa gantikan saking besar sekali kuasa mereka.
Tadi kok tiba-tiba kefikiran bahwa kata kelompok N tentang kelompok M yang suka makan "daging" anjing itu ada benarnya, karena kalau kulihat dari perilaku kelompok N yang seringkali melakukan banyak hal dengan suara kelewat keras atau kalau nggak mau menyinggun suara keras sajalah. Contoh kalau habis sholat mereka wiridannya keras [ pakai loudspeaker ], habis adzan menuju iqomah mereka bernyanyi begitu keras [ pakai loudspeaker ], kalau ada ceramah sekalipun yang datang cuman segelintir orang mereka melakukannya dengan suara keras [ pakai loudspeaker ] apalagi kalau tadarus [ pakai loudspeaker ].
Suara yang keras apapun peristiwanya ini kurasa seperti anjing menggonggong. Tanpa mengerti apa isinya dan apa akibatnya buat diri sendiri dan orang lain, bisa jadi ini tepat sekali.
Hal yang lebih menarik lagi kelompok N ini memberi pangkat yang GUX pada para pemimpin mereka yang sangat mereka hormati bahkan seringkali penyandang gelar ini dianggap tidak akan mungkin melakukan kesalahan apapun.

Yang Baru di Daihatsu AYLA 1.0 2017

Ayla 1.0 D 2017

• Fabric Seat Material
• Head Rest untuk Baris Kedua

Ayla 1.0 D Plus 2017

• Power Door Lock
• Head Unit sudah bisa Radio dan USB

Ayla 1.0 M 2017

• Tidak ada bedanya dg yg sebelumnya

Ayla 1.0 X 2017

• Front Stabilizer

Terkesima dg Head Unit Adroid 10 inch

Aku agak lupa mana dimana ketemu produk ini sebelumnya, di Youtube ini

atau di link Lazada yang ini

Tapi yang membuat terkesima adalah ukurannya yang besar sekali dibanding dengan yang ada dipasaran yang cuman 7 inchi. Aku ngebayanginnya kalau dipasang kamera mundur atau kamera 360 derajat jadi enak banget liatnya.
Tadinya kufikir modelnya seperti yang 7 inchi atau ukuran dibawahnya dimana layar monitornya masuk ke dalam dashboard, ternyata yang ini melayang di depan lubang yang biasa dipakai buat naruh head unit baik yang satu din maupun dua din.

Kalau lihat foto diatas head unit AVT 10 inchi ini cocok untuk diletakkan di dashboard model seperti itu, kisi AC-nya ada disamping head unit kalau yang kuingat Suzuki Karimun Wagon R GS juga seperti itu model dashboardnya, bisa kelihatan di gambar di bawah ini.

Lalu yang di bawah ini adalah Daihatsu Terios yang lubang kisi AC-nya ada dibawah.

Nah yang jadi pertanyaan kalau model dashboard dengan kisi AC seperti Daihatsu Xenia ini apakah kisi AC-nya tidak terhalang ?

Atau dashboard Daihatsu Ayla dibawah ini ?

masih menunggu para suhu yang semoga segera mengeluarkan reviewnya. Oh iya ternyata produk ini baru di Launching tanggal 2 Maret 2017.

Ini kalau terpasang di mobilio.

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Hukum MENTOR 33 persen - TEDx Talk Tai Lopez

00:00:14
Everybody wants the good life, but not everybody gets the good life,  right? Imagine for a second. If right now, today, how much more  successful would you be if you just started a company 50:50 with Bill Gates as your business partner and he was using every trick of the trade that he used to build Microsoft into one of the biggest companies in the world?

00:00:36
Imagine how much money you’d have in your bank account today – how much more money, I should say – if Warren Buffet was teaching you how to invest in the stock market, showing you what he used to build Berkshire Hathaway into a $140 billion company. Imagine how much happier you’d be today if the Dali Lama was your personal guide, showing you how to find fulfillment in life, in the little things that most people overlook.

00:01:04
Imagine how healthy you’d be today if when you woke up, you went down to your gym, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was waiting there, who was your personal trainer, showing you how he built his body into the most fit body maybe ever, right?

00:01:20
Imagine the change you’d be making in the world, the injustice you’d be solving today, if Mother Theresa and you were running a charity together and she was showing you what she learned on the streets of Calcutta, helping the poor, the sick, and the dying.

00:01:38
Mentors have the power to do this in your life. I think everybody here recognizes the importance of a role model. But in the next few minutes, I’m going to show you how mentors are more powerful than you can possibly imagine in their ability to transform your life. It’s interesting that I’m here in Luxembourg, because my grandmother was born not too far from here, in Berlin, Germany. She is 96 years old, by the way, and she said, “Tai, tell them hello.” So, hello from my 96-year-old grandma.

00:02:11
She said, “There was a role model, a mentor that I had when I was a little girl.” She was born in 1918 in Berlin, and she said, “We had a renter in our house.” Edith Knox, who was a famous piano player from California in the 1920s. And she said, “Tai, this woman made such an impression on me.” She rented a room for a summer, and she said, “Edith Knox wore pants.” My grandma said, “I’d never seen a woman wear pants.” Apparently, in Germany in the ’20s, no women wore pants. And not just regular pants. She had an orange jumpsuit on.

00:02:42
And then she’d play the piano, and Edith Knox, every hour, would stand on her head for exercise. My grandma was like 7 and she said, “Tai, I thought if that’s how women are in California, one day I’m going to move to California.” And sure enough, she ended up in California. That’s part of the story of how my family ended up in California. And I’m from California. I flew here. It took me 20 hours to get here, and I’m from Hollywood, specifically.

00:03:09
So Hollywood, the “Land of Dreams.” Or for most people, it’s the land of broken dreams. Every year, 100,000 people move in and out of Hollywood. Some come to be movie stars, actors, singers, writers, comedians. Most go home empty-handed. So I live up in the Hills, and I’m surrounded by all these celebrities. I have one on my left, one on my right. And I often think, “Why did these celebrities make it? What did they do differently that allowed them to make it?” Because in Hollywood, everybody wants something, but not everybody gets what they want. So I want to talk a little bit about that today.

00:03:52
Because life is short. I think we all realize the sands of time quickly can slip by in your life. And you don’t want to be old when you finally get the good life, or too old. Right? It’s like the Dutch saying, “We’re too soon old, too late smart.”
Steve Jobs said, “I didn’t want to be the richest man in the graveyard.” And I realized this. I remember back, I was younger and Alan Nation, one of my mentors, he had told me, “Tai, what did you want to be when you were 16? That’s the truest version of yourself. What did you want to be when you were 16?”

00:04:30
And I remember at 16, I wanted to find the good life. Aristotle talks about eudaimonia, his definition of the good life. Health, wealth, happiness, love. All those things. And I remember going, “It’s too hard. How am I ever going to figure this out? There are so many hard questions. I’m 16. I got to figure out what college I am going to go to, what religion I’m going to follow, who I’m going to marry, what politics, where to live, what career and path to pursue.” And I had this idea. I was like, “I know the perfect idea.” What I’ll do is I’ll find one person – I thought this was so genius, it turned out to not be so smart – But I’d find one person who had all the answers.

00:05:06
So I wrote a letter. The smartest person I could think of was my grandfather. So I wrote this letter and I was like: “Will you tell me how to design my life?” TED is about T-E-D. The “D” is about Design, the designed life. So I said, “Will you help me design my life?” And I was so excited.
I thought three days later, four days later I got this letter back from my grandpa. I read it and it said, “Sorry, Tai, I can’t help you. The modern world is too complicated. You will never find all the answers from just one person. If you’re lucky, a handful of people along the way will point the way.”

00:05:40
And I was like, “Ugh!” So much for my shortcut.
But seven days later, a package came. It was books. My grandfather had a 20,000-book library, and he had sent me some old dusty ones. A 1,000-page volume. 11 books. “The Story of Civilization,” by Will and Ariel Durant. I was like, “1,000 pages? This is too much.”
But I see now, he was giving me a hint, I didn’t understand it. There’s this myth that you have to go inward to find truth. But the truth he was saying is you have to go outward. If you can download the consciousness, the mindset of people who have gone before you – the smartest, the wisest, the most intelligent, the most experienced people – then you will get what you want.

00:06:22
And so I went on, and I started writing down note cards. I called them mental shortcuts. And I was reading these books. And then I started traveling. I went to 51 countries. I would read a book and I’d say, “Let me go visit this person in person.” So I went to New Zealand and Australia, South America, Argentina, Ireland, all over the world. And I was focused on those 4 things: health, wealth, love, and happiness. I decided to focus on health and happiness. I lived on for two years with Joel Salatin on his famous sustainable agricultural organic farm. And then I spent two and half years with the Amish. No electricity, trying to see what was life when we lived in community.

00:06:56
And I made one mistake. I forgot about money. That’s one of the things, and so eventually, I ran out of money. I had to do the thing nobody wants to do, I had to call my mom and be like, “Mom, I know I’m an adult, but I don’t have any money. Do you mind if I come stay at home until I get back on my feet?”
She said, “Sure”. She had a mobile home in Clayton, North Carolina. I went and she said, “Sorry, Tai, I don’t have a room for you, but you can sleep on this couch.” So I remember laying there at night, like: “Did I mess up? Did I miss out on the good life? Here I am, I have no college degree. My skills? I could milk a cow with the Amish.” That wasn’t a very marketable skill. I remember I had like $47 in my bank account.

00:07:37
And I actually had a car, but it had holes in the floor. Somehow it had rusted through, and if you accidentally would put your foot down, it would chop your foot off. So I didn’t want to drive it anywhere, or pick anybody up in that car. So I remembered back to what my grandpa said, he said, “Look outwards.”
So I started asking around: “Will somebody help me?” My uncle said: “You know what, Tai, you need somebody who is going to show you how to make money.”

00:08:00
So I was like, “Great idea. I’m going to go find somebody.” But I didn’t have any gas money. So I was stuck there at my mom’s house. I had $40. So I walked to the kitchen. That’s what I could afford to do. I found the Yellow Pages and I opened these Yellow Pages and I looked in the finance section and I found this guy. I said, “I’m going to visit that guy.” So I got a suit out of the closet. It wasn’t mine, it was too big. It looked weird on me. God help me! I don’t know what I looked like when I showed up at that guy’s house. But I got somebody to drive me in, I showed up and Kathy, his secretary, opened the door and I walked back, and Mike Steinback, from the phone book, I walked up to him and I said, “Mike, you don’t know me. If you show me what you know, because I figured you must know a lot about money, if you can afford a full-page ad in the yellow pages – if you show me what you know I’ll work for you for free.”

00:08:43
And I’ll never forget. He was sitting in this chair. He had a big mustache. He looked kind of like Tom Selick. He was sitting there, and he just rolled his chair towards me. And he said, “You know what, Tai? I’ve been looking for someone like you for 20 years. Show up in the morning, I’ll show you what I know.”
And sure enough, he did show me. And he began to mentor me on business. And now I’m an entrepreneur. I’m an investor. But I’ve continued on that path, traveling, finding mentors, reading. I read a book a day. I have a little book club, I write. And what I’ve found in my research is that I wasn’t the abnormal path. Mentors – your ability to copy – is the biggest predictor of the success that you will have in life. As Picasso said, “Good artists copy, but great artists steal.” Right?

00:09:31
And I looked around, and it’s interesting. Did you know Albert Einstein had a mentor? Every Thursday, he would have lunch with a mentor growing up. Jay-Z, the rapper, he had a mentor. Oprah Winfrey said she had two mentors. Gandhi had a mentor. Alexander, the Great, had Aristotle. Bill Gates had Paul Allen. Warren Buffet had Benjamin Graham. There’s something here that most of us have missed out on.

00:10:00
So I want to share with you some things that I’ve found, some specifics that you can do with mentors. The first rule is, I call it the Mentor Rules. It’s the Law of 33%. You should divide up your life and spend 33% of your time around people lower than you. You can mentor them, you can help them. And they’ll help you back by making you feel good about yourself. Right? It’s good to know somebody’s doing worse than you. That’s that 30%.
Then you have 33% of people that are on your level. These become your friends, your peers.

00:10:30
But that last 33% is what most people forget about. Those are people 10, 20 years ahead of you. They’ll make you feel a little bit uncomfortable, but that’s what you want, and remember you don’t want to make the mistake most people make with mentors, finding somebody just a little bit better than them. You don’t want to be the blind leading the blind. So I call it the 10X Rule; find somebody 10 times further ahead than you.

If you want to learn how to grow a $1 million company, you have to find somebody who has a $10 million company. Don’t be afraid to go to the top. In-person mentors are amazing. And you can get people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates. You’d be surprised! My friend heard a talk. Frank, he’s a director in Hollywood. He’s like, “Tai, you won’t believe this. I heard your talk and I emailed some people. And Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal, the only man to own three companies worth $1 billion, he wrote me back and I had lunch with him. You’d be surprised, because people remember. Because people remember their struggle, and they’ll reach out and help you, too.

00:11:24
Remember, everybody wants the good life, but not everybody’s willing to follow these rules. You must follow these rules.
Next, humility.
One of my favorite stories in business, Sam Walton. He becomes the richest man in America. He starts Walmart, this big empire. And he takes a trip to São Paulo, Brazil. And when he’s there, his host family, his friends get a call from the police department. They’re like, “Come bail out Sam Walton. He’s in jail.” By this time, he’s an older guy. Billionaire. They rushed down. If you’ve ever seen the inside of a Brazilian jail cell, it’s not a good place for a 60-year-old billionaire. And they asked the police, “Are you crazy? Are you arresting him?” They’re like, “We didn’t know who he was, and we found him crawling around the floors of stores.”

00:12:09
And they asked him what he was doing, and he’s like, “Oh, I was just taking a tape measurer and measuring how wide the aisles were because I was trying to figure out if these Brazilians knew something that I didn’t know.” Already a billionaire. You’d think he’d be cocky. You see, everybody wants the good life, but not everybody’s willing to be humble like Sam Walton was. You have to be humble.

00:12:33
Next, perseverance.
The media has tricked us. They only show us the success at the end, but Bill Gates started at 12. It wasn’t until 31 years old that he was a billionaire. He said, “From age 20 to 30, I never took a day off. Not even one”. You must persevere, and in your search for mentors you must persevere, as well. I’ve been lucky to become friends with one of the top real estate investors in the world.
I said, “How in the world did you get started?”
He said, “Back when I was 19, I decided I wanted to do real estate. I lived in a little town, but I knew there was one developer that was pretty good. So I went down to the developer’s office. I met the secretary. I said, ‘I’d like to meet this developer.’ She said, ‘Sorry. He’s a busy man. He doesn’t have time to meet you.'”
He said, “I came back the next day. She turned me away”.
17 times!

00:13:15
He said, “On the 17th time, the lady felt bad for him and she said, “Listen, here’s what you do. Hide behind the plant by the elevator. When he comes out of his office at the end of the day, jump into the elevator. And he won’t have a choice. The doors will close. And you’ve got four floors to convince this guy that you’re worth talking to.”
I don’t know what my friend said, but he said enough that when they got to the bottom of the elevator, that developer said, “Meet me at the airport in the morning. We’ll go down to my private jet. You can come down with me to Florida. I’ll show you how I invested in hotels down there.”

00:13:45
Sure enough, my friend learned from this mentor and became one of the wealthiest real estate investors in the world. He persevered, because, you see, everybody wants the good life, but not everybody’s willing to persevere to get it. You must persevere.
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Next, books.
Books you should see as hidden treasure. Think about it, if I told you – because as I said, mentors are great in person, but some of the great mentors are no longer alive – Shakespeare, Darwin, Freud, Mahatma Gandhi. But if I told you all those people were in my house and they’re going to be there this Saturday answering questions, – magically I can make that happen – would you show up at my house? Of course everybody would buy a plane ticket and end up in California. They are there in my house. They’re on my library. They can be in your library, too.

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Talking about Sam Walton. This is a man who made $160 billion for himself, more than all the other billionaires, basically, combined. He wrote a book on his death bed. How many people have read it? It’s a tragedy that not every businessperson’s read a $5 book by a man who built an empire. But it’s because the modern education system has turned people off from books. You’ve got to rewire your brain. Let me show you a few quick tricks.

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First thing: stop seeing a book like a one-time event. See a book like a friend. You read it over and over. You come back. And just like friends, you pick a handful of them. I recommend you find 150 books. There’s 130 million. You can’t read that many. But 150 you can read over and over for the rest of your life. There’s no rule, either, at how fast you have to read them, at what pace. I set my own pace. People say, “How do you read a book a day?” Sometimes I take a week. But sometimes, books only have one or two things that are worth reading. In fact, most books only have that.

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So I’ll flip through the pages. One time I like to go through it three times. First time, I read the table of contents at the back. The second time, I go a little faster. The third time, I just focus on one chapter. See yourself like a gold miner just looking for that one nugget. Then put it back on the shelf.
The average American buys 17 books a year. Maybe reads one a month. You should read at least one book a week, because remember, everybody wants the good life, but not everybody’s willing to read to get it. You must read more.

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And lastly, stoic versus epicurean.
One of the first books that I read, this 11-set volume that I got from my grandfather, there was a quote that I wrote down. “A nation is born stoic and dies epicurean.” Stoics were people willing to sacrifice present pleasure for something better later. You could say they were investors. Epicureans live for now. They were consumers. They said, “You only live once.”

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There’s a saying, “If you’re in a room and you don’t know who the sucker is, you’re the sucker.” You never want to be the sucker. Guess what the media wants to do. I can tell you, I’m from Hollywood. They bombard you. We see on average 2,000 ads a day. They’re trying to sell you something.
Luxury comes at the cost of killing your hopes, your dreams, your ambitions. So toughen up a little bit. Be a stoic. When was the last time you went a week without eating sugar? Or walked instead of taken a car to get groceries? Or did 100 push-ups? Or turned the air conditioning off? Toughen yourself up. Take a cold shower.
You see everybody wants, but not everybody is willing to toughen up to get the good life.
You must toughen up.

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So in closing, I’ll share with you my favorite poem, Chief Tecumseh. He says, “Love your life. Perfect your life. Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long, and its purpose in the service of your people.” Mentors will help you do that. They are the shortcut that you want. You don’t want to do it the hard way.
Find a mentor, no matter if you’re just starting out or if you’re already experienced. There’s always someone to learn from. You must follow those rules.
Be humble. Persevere. Read more. Toughen up.
Remember, it’s going to be a little bit hard. It’s like Tom Hanks says in that one movie, “It’s supposed to be hard. The hard is what makes it great.”
If you do these things, you will find the good life.
Thank you.