In the New Testament Paul says not to let the sun set on your anger, but he says nothing about letting the sun rise on it. I had a great night last night. Went to bed perfectly content, but somehow I woke-up in a rage and I don’t know why.
I can’t stop thinking about that terrible business book I finally put down, and kicking myself for not applying my fiction book finding method to non-fiction. Then I could have avoided this weird combination of primalism, prosperity gospel, and sovereign citizen manifesto. I just don’t get the logic behind the philosophy or how it is meant to help.
Yesterday I said I would give it one more chapter, but that one chapter felt like it was finally getting somewhere. Then a couple chapter’s later came the straw that broke the camel’s back. It was the discounting of luck. The basic claiming that luck doesn’t exist and that everything in life is earned.
While an individual may work hard and earn their place in society it is due to luck that they are even part of that society, and the author of this book had already revealed himself to have a wealthy backer to his business ventures. In the chapter on luck he lays out all his failures. The seven or eight failed businesses he had before starting his successful one, and four of those business ventures were MLMs or as they are other-wise-known-as pyramid schemes. The dude got hoodwinked into a prospect that is designed to steal your money four times and still had money to start another business.
For reference it took us $40,000 to start our pet sitting and dog walking business. A business with little to no overhead. Most of this money was in utility bills and rent payments as we needed to survive while starting our business, but think of that. Seven failed businesses would be a cost of $280,000. This doesn’t even mention that when he had a successful business it was because he had a $4,000 a month ad spend.
The entire book was a house of card built on a pile of BS. The average person can’t follow this guide because they don’t have someone to back them for $280,000 of failed ventures and $4,000 a month in ad spend.
I think what makes me mad is I was looking for knowledge to add to the scaffolding of my business, but instead I found a scam.
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