Millionaire Interview - Tai lopez on why not to go to college and your iq

We're you smart? They say you are smartest at fourteen years old. They say what? You're smartest at fourteen years old. Your IQ peaks. IQ, mensa people. Fourteen? Fourteen. That's man when I was fourteen I could remember everything. Alright, when I. Do you feel your smarter now? No uh much yeah. Smart wiser maybe, more discerning. I wasn't even raw IQ I don't I wasn't even checked in to being alive until my mid twenties. I'm not joking, I was like zoned out really. Well that you are maybe an exception to the rule. So but you knew cause I think of you right now as a very smart guy very smart, when we have conversations, my I'm wow. You have a lot of knowledge. And you were that way, when you were growing up. I think. Why? Man your minds more clear. I think now, in some ways, I'm probably more interesting to talk to because I've seen more stuff. I've been to fifty one countries, I've read thousands of books by now. But in terms of just raw brain power, I think I was smarter but who knows. Did you do like an IQ test? Yeah I did one when I was young? What did you score. Can't tell you that. Come on. Like what's what is it. I think now they look I got into mensa mensa used to be one forty minimum now they've lowered it a little bit I'm not sure why I think they want more membership dues. I'm gonna guess that you scored very high. I scored pretty high compared but I know people waste more man. IQ is a weird thing. I have one friend. He's the smartest dude I've ever his head is literally big. But Warren Buffet says if you have more than one hundred twenty IQ then you might as well sell the rest. You don't need it to get rich. The average person, millionaire, is not that high. It's higher than average but not super super high. My friend uh some of my friends that are so smart they just they can't focus down you know. Being too smart and you can be weird if you're too smart. Well did your dad say no I want you to go to college? No he was like don't go to college. Why? I could have gone to MIT all these schools but he was like Tai you can go to college later man. He's like you'll never get this opportunity again. wow, so you took you went and had this experience yeah, you worked for him for two years two and a half years yeah and you learned all about the world of finance. You know in hindsight what did I learn? I learned I think before you understand life you have to understand biology. Man if you want to change the world take all kids out of the inner city, send them to a farm for two years, three years. It's the best thing better than military boot camp cause it's real life man. I remember when I was like I don't know after there a year sometimes and I missed this. I used to go walk outside after I ate and I would like just stick my hand in the earth. And I was like I felt like connected. And sometimes here in Hollywood it's like you're not connected man to the world and I think you lose perspective. And if you look at America, what made America great, it was an agrarian society almost every great person has either grew up on a farm of grew up their parents were on a farm. Agrarian is agricultural. Yeah, in nineteen, the in year nineteen hundred the turn of the century ten percent of the world was rural I'm sorry ten percent was urban ninety percent was rural. Right now today at the turn of the century our century, the twenty first century, it went opposite. And you lose touch with reality so if you wanna be wise you know you have to you need to step back because nature teaches you much different lessons.