#706 - What "The Last of Us" Teaches About Business: Adapt or Die

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Tai Lopez

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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Most people fail not because they’re dumb—but because they wait too long.

In this video, I break down the #1 mindset shift that separates broke people from millionaires: SPEED TO ADAPT.

💡 What you’ll learn:
– Why perfection kills profit
– The 40/70 Rule used by generals, CEOs, and top entrepreneurs
– How Instagram became a billion-dollar company by adapting fast
– Why the average person waits for 99% certainty (and how that’s killing their dreams)
– How I run 365 marketing experiments a year
—and why speed beats talent

This isn’t theory. This is how I built real businesses using fast action, testing, and adapting daily.

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0:00.0	Adapt or die.
0:01.3	Adapt or die.
0:02.7	I just went to the Last of Us premiere, that HBO show.
0:06.2	And, you know, the HBO CEO was there.
0:08.6	He said, it is the biggest show HBO's ever launched.
0:13.6	But the main takeaway, I'm a businessman.
0:15.5	And I'm going, obviously, it's a good example of using intellectual property.
0:20.5	They took a video game, turned it into a show.
0:23.4	So it's like, don't ever forget how valuable intellectual property is, trademarks, patents.
0:28.5	But that's for another conversation.
0:29.9	The main takeaway, if you wafts that show, that people don't realize, adapt or die.
0:34.7	The slow-moving people in this world are going to get taken out. And there's a,
0:39.1	there's something called the 40-70 rule. Never forget this. It's by Colin Powell.
0:43.5	He's a former, you know, secretary of defense for the United States led a war, the first Gulf War.
0:49.7	He said, if you're more than 40% sure something works, do it immediately. And if you wait till you're more
0:57.6	than 70% sure, you waited too long. You're too slow. So that's what I was saying. Like if you watch
1:03.0	The Last of Us, if you watch the series, it's like this thing is adapting so quickly. And that
1:09.3	reminds me of making money now. Like everything's adapting.
1:12.2	Now, I remember, you know, when I, I was the first people to use Facebook ads, I was like in the
1:16.5	beta program back in like 2009. And people, I was just on the phone with a dude being like,
1:20.9	I wonder if I should do Facebook ads. I'm like, pro, what are you going to wait to go extinct?
1:25.5	You're 15 years behind.
	...

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