Here is my long awaited Tai Lopez review on his popular 67 steps course.  If you don’t know Tai Lopez by now, then you haven’t been on YouTube, or you live underneath a rock.  He is YouTube’s most popular channel.   The 67 steps is an awesome collection of wisdom that Tai has accumulated over the years from his reading and listening to his mentors.  This wisdom (knowledge in action) is from the best and most successful people in history.  This course is not a get rich scam.  This course is geared on giving you the tools to reprogram the way you think, change your mindset, and beliefs.

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I have completed the 67 steps, it takes roughly 60 straight hours to finish everything!  It is EXTREMELY time consuming.  For your convenience, I have created a downloadable PDF that provides you nononense, straight to the point summaries of ALL of Tai Lopez’s 67 steps.

Get it now, print it out, and start working on all 67 steps.  It’s super affordable and I only ask for a small contribution for the amount of work that I spent on it.

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The 67 Steps Review

Below is my 67 Steps Review. I discuss the program structure, the negatives and positives, and whether or not I’d recommend the program to anyone.

If you are looking for my LONG summaries, keep scrolling past the review.

  Program Structure

  • Web based: Members are given a username and password to login where you have access to Tai’s video training steps
  • Video Lessons: 67 Steps are Video Lessons lasting 30 min to 1 hr long.
  • Online Community: Interactive community where you post and journal about the questions inside the 67 steps.  Users can comment and encourage one another.
  • Phone Calls: Monthly phone calls with Tai’s team to consult your questions, progress and ideas.
  • Bonus 1: Book of the Day summaries emailed to you.
  • Bonus 2: How Tai Lopez Reads a book in 10 minutes.
  • Cancelling: When you cancel you lose access to the video lessons and monthly phone calls.
  • Payment:  This is a monthly payment through clickbank, however, you can just cancel after one month.

  Pros

  • Collection of Wisdom: A collection of wisdom from the most successful people in history. With Tai’s insights, you’ll gain the most important from all around
  • Lots of Examples: He provides extensive examples to help you understand the certain foundational ideas that may seem difficult.
  • Detailed Explanations: He really provides detailed explanations and comprehensive logic to his concepts and explanations.
  • Guarantees / Refund: Tai offers a money back guarantee through clickbank.
  • CLICKBANK:  If you don’t know what clickbank is, it’s a highly reputable service that is the middle man between the buyer and seller of a product.  They are awesome at refunds so this subsided my worries when I ordered.

  Cons

  • Not as Transparent about pricing:  The pricing on the website makes it look like you’re just going to pay $67 for one time – HOWEVER if you read the fine print, you are paying $67 a month.  This is easily solved by canceling the next month’s payment.
  • Cancelling: Some people have had trouble cancelling the 67 steps, this was prior to clickbank though as I’ve had no problems whatsoever.
  • Production Value:  There is no editing of the videos – this is minor though since I only care about content.
  • Videos are long:  Some videos are long and drawn out and I feel like they could have been summarized in half the time.  You still get good content.  But, everybody has their own way of teaching.  YOU WON’T COMPLAIN about steps being too short.
  • Sale Tactics:  His ads are everywhere! It gets a little annoying sometimes. He teaches you about something called “cognitive biases” and I find it ironic that he’s used the very cognitive biases that he warns you about to sell you the “67 steps”. Haha! But, what else does a salesman do? And in reality we all use cognitive biases when we try to influence people. At the end of the day, everyone has their selling tactics…  I just think the selling tactics behind the Ferrari and big mansions aren’t really necessary ( a bit tacky IMO) but who knows maybe those ads tested well for him. This is a minor complaint  because what matters to me is if it’s a good product or not.

  Neutral

  • Reiterates: If you’ve heard his YouTube videos, then his delivery is very much the same. He reiterates his points a lot and may rehash a story 3-4 times. This may seem annoying and inefficient for some people to have someone repeat the same things over as they feel like it wastes time, however, for me it helps hammer the idea home so that you actually remember it.  Repetition is one method to remember things.  I actually find reassurance in the reiterations because it reaffirms the idea, however, it might not be for you.

Check out Tai’s  website for The 67 Steps program.

Feel free to use my summaries. However, if you decide to buy his program through my link, I’ll give you my convenient 16 page study guide for FREE. It summarizes THE WHOLE 67 steps in a clear and concise way.

The 67 Steps Review Score
  • Content
  • Presentation
  • Supporting Material: i.e. Website
  • Support: Ordering & Canceling
4.4

Summary

You could probably buy 3-5 books and spend a month or two sifting through them to pick up all the info that Tai is giving you in his 67 Steps. I don’t like the monthly recurring charges (It’s easy to cancel though), his videos are long and he bounces around off topic, but offers a lot of personal anecdotes and experiences. Despite those complaints, this is a solid buy, and it was definitely worth the $67 for me. If you can’t swing the $67, just use my summaries below, as for me, I learn better when someone is talking to me.

 Bottom Line: Do I Recommend it?

icon-certifiedSo if you’re here, you’re probably on the fence on whether or not to buy Tai’s program.  So the question is, would I recommend it? Well, it depends.  If you’re like me and you like to improve yourself and look at things differently then I definitely recommend this to you, and it is definitely worth more than the $67 in my opinion.

There is SO much information out in the world today and it’s hard to decipher what’s good information and what’s bad information. Tai devours information, and he becomes the filter for you saving you time. Instead of searching, buying, and reading 67 books, Tai has aggregated the best of the best. Also, Tai has real world experience and has witnessed the principles he talks about, he’s walked the walk, so he’s just not a talking head that is just regurgitating information.

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Remember: if you do decide to buy Tai’s course from the link above, I’ll give you my complete study guide that will help you learn all of the steps in an easier / digestible way!

Tai Lopez Books that He recommends:

Here are the top books that Tai Lopez recommends in the 67 Steps program:

  1. Managing oneself by Peter Drucker
  2. How to Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  3. The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins
  4. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
  5. The One Thing by Gary Keller
  6. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter Kaufman
  7. Disrupt you! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive In the Era of Endless Innovation by Jay Samit
  8. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  9. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
  10. The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
  11. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  12. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

Check my post on Tai Lopez Books & Recommendations.

Can’t find the time to read? Want to learn more in less time?

TIP #1: To learn more in less time, I use a service called Blinkist and give it my highest recommendation. See my Blinkist review here to find out what it is and how I use it.

TIP #2: If you want to read more, you have to learn how to read faster. Another great tool I love using to increase my reading speed is 7 Speed Reading. It’s software teaches how to read the right way with the correct techniques and exercises. Definitely worth it if you want to drastically improve in this area.

 

The 67 Steps Summaries & Chapters

1Be Worth a Damn and Deserve it

Tai Lopez’s first lesson is that we need “to be worth a damn” and to “deserve it”.  This chapter contains a variety of information that will be discussed more in depth at later times in the 67 steps, it serves as a overall summary and driving force for the 67 steps.

Be Worth a Damn Factor:  People who are “worth a damn” do certain things that other people don’t.  They invest in themselves, their health, their minds, their relationships, and their finances.  They respect themselves and place value into themselves.

  • To increase your “Worth a Damn”: Add wisdom, remove ignorance. Ignorances are things that you’ve been taught such as “people who don’t go to college are not smart”.   See, degrees can be worth something or they can be worth nothing. Wisdom could be learning anything.

Deserve it Factor: To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. If you want success, you will need to be worth a damn and you need to deserve it.

  • To increase your “Deserve it” Factor: This is a bit more challenging. You have to push yourself, challenge yourself, force yourself out of your comfort zone.

Invest in Yourself

Tai Lopez suggests that you need to take yourself seriously and invest in yourself. Become a better version of you and improve in the areas that you need to improve upon.  Are you adding any value to your life and others, or are you becoming wiser and wiser every day?  Are you improving yourself and GROWING every day? If the answer is no, or you “don’t know”, then you need to start. Two ways of developing yourself is reading BOOKS and practicing what you’ve learned from others.

READ – Input knowledge into your head

You can learn anything and everything from books. It is incredible that we can learn from other people’s lives and mistakes and download all their information into our brain via reading it.  That is the power of reading.

  • If you are a slow reader, you’re going to have more difficulties succeeding and reading the books you want to read, especially with the mountains of information we’re expected to know these days.  It’s crucial to learn how to read faster. You can start by looking up Youtube videos on the subject however I have found that the best way to drastically increase your reading speed is taking the program/software 7Speedreading.  I’ve been through a lot of books and programs and they have the best course on the market that I personally use. They teach you the best techniques from world renowned experts in reading and productivity.  The software trains you step by step to develop new reading habits and discard bad reading habits.  If you’re reading around 200 wpm (the rate at which you speak) then this is a no brainer.  I don’t care what you do or buy, just TAKE ACTION to try and increase your reading speed.
  • If you can’t find the time to read, then let I would HIGHLY recommend investing in a book summary service called Blinkist.  The amount of time it will save you is totally worth it, and it’s really not that much, like $4/month.  It cuts out all the fluff and allows me to see which books are worthwhile to buy later.  I have the upgraded account that has the audio summaries.  I love this feature, because I’m constantly on the go listening to the best ideas and important information of new books and making the most out of my time when I’m commuting to work.  You can also invest in audible books, however, I like variety and I tend to get bored with my attention span.  Definitely check our their free trial here.

PRACTICE – Put your knowledge into ACTION

Practicing often increases your odds.  Later you can refine your practicing to practice smarter. But you MUST put your knowledge to use.  If you don’t, it remains useless and you’ll probably end up forgetting it.

Here are two examples of people practicing non stop:

  • Michael Jackson practiced his simple spin 8 hours a day in the mirror video taping himself.
  • Michael Jordan, told his coaches at the end of the basketball year at UNC and told them he was burned out and needed the summer off, they understood. The next morning the coaches entered the gym and there was Michael Jordan on the court practicing.

“When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win”

-Ed Macauley

These two examples of Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan demonstrate not only practicing hard, but learning how to “love the grind” that is one of the keys to success.  What are you doing to “deserve it” more than the next person that comes along or who is practicing more than you?

Why name it 67 Steps?

Reverse Engineer Success & Problems

In my engineering job, a lot of the times you have to think backwards to deconstruct something down.  You can apply this to a lot of problems in life, reverse engineering any sort of desirable outcome that you want to achieve is a pretty good strategy to have.  Like a hard math problem, look for models and proven solutions and then work backwards to see what you need to do to make it work.

(Benjamin Graham) Warren Buffet’s Thought Experiment (YOUTUBE)

Warren Buffet’s thought experiment is taking success and reverse engineering it.  

Warren gives you a hypothetical question.  If you could go back in time to your high school and earn 10% of any classmate and his future career, who would you choose?  Is it the smartest person or most talented person that ultimately succeeds the best?  Maybe, but not all the time.  There are always talented people out in the world and they come dime a dozen. Think of it this way, ask this question: “Out of your High School class, who would you bet money on in having the greatest success?” I bet you’re not going to pick the kid with a perfect 4.0 or most talented person.  You should bet on the kid with a set of intangible traits like energy, focus, determination, passion, drive, wisdom.  On paper he might not look the best, but by looking at him, you know that kid is going somewhere.

Now, take these qualities and find ways to implement them in your own life. Go ahead and flip the question on it’s head and ask “What student/ classmate would you bet against?”. You’ll probably find their characteristics to be, Lazy, disrespectful, undisciplined, non communicative, no drive, no integrity.  Do you have any of these qualities? If yes, then focus on changing them. Maybe you’re shy, then you need to force yourself into more social situations.

Would you be the person that people would bet on? Learn and train yourself to become better and improve your intangible qualities.

Tai goes highly recommends two books:

  • Learned Optimism – Dr Martin Seligmen’s book which says that “we can train the brain” to do extraordinary things. This also plays into NLP – Neural  Linguistic Programming which is a set of tools in psychology that allows people to change their behavorial patterns, develop better skills, communication, etc.
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanac  –  This book is for additional wit and wisdom by none other Charles T. Munger, the individual who came up with the 25 cognitive biases. As one of my friend’s said, “think of it as a gift to humanity from a higher more intelligent species”. A bit expensive, I’d look for an online version somewhere for cheaper. 

So I need to ask myself if I am really spending each day getting wiser? Am I improving everyday a little bit?

Use your overall happiness as a gauge.  If you’re not happy, then that’s just a feedback system telling you that you need to change something.

Questions to Answer:

  1. What are my strengths?
  2. Weaknesses?
  3. What are my Goals?

2ADAPT

The Chameleon adapts to it’s surroundings and so should you

Tai Lopez quotes LSU Business professor, Leon C. Megginson.

Yes, change is the basic law of nature. But the changes wrought by the passage of time affects individuals and institutions in different ways. According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Applying this theoretical concept to us as individuals, we can state that the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral, and spiritual environment in which it finds itself.

It’s not strongest and smartest species that survives, but the species that is the best able to adapt.

You can take this simple statement and apply it to virtually every thing in your life.  YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ADAPT.  If you don’t, you die in business, marriage, investments, your life etc.  It doesn’t matter how strong you are or how smart you are.

In Order to Adapt You Must Understand that…

Everything is NOT Black and White… but rather shades of grey.

Older generations have been caught up in the black and white mentality such as:

  • Racism – “Blacks are substandard species of Human”
  • “the world is flat”
  • “Earth is the center of the universe”

Even common thoughts we think today, we think in black and white, good and bad, but they really aren’t.

  • “Failure is a bad thing”
  • “Only straight A’s equates that I’m smart”
  • “You need to go to college for anyone to take you seriously and to get a good job”

Transitioning into another important area when talking about black and white thinking is