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M.J. DeMarco
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January 3 - July 14, 2022
From Wage Slavery to Wealth:
masochistic
authorship
LLC.
dogma,
chronicled
propagandized by the rat race paradigm.
a powerful group of entities from tech tyrants to corporate media professionals to politicians, all deeply invested in grooming an obedient populace subject to submission, suppression, and servitude. In other words, the rat race is the world’s economic cult, and every cult thrives as long as enough fools obey its dogmatic preachers.
You seek to do meaningful, purpose-driven work over meaningless, debt-driven work.
untenable
You don’t want to work most of your life only to retire in life’s twilight when your energy and health are on the downslide. You’d love to follow your passions without needing them confirmed by demand, money, or cultural approval. You desire a more affluent lifestyle not subject to soul-crushing frugality, disciplined saving, and years of stock market optimism.
orthodoxy
Don’t let the rat race lull you into a tedious existence medicated by television, video games, and trivial sporting events.
fumbled
proclivities
snagged
transaction auditor
laws...
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veterinarian.
Most men die by twenty-five but aren’t buried until seventy-five
a weekend furlough of freedom which sped time, only to slow Monday morning.
showboated
Conventional Wisdom Rarely Gets You an Unconventional Life
faucet.
jostled
the crowd represents the mean, otherwise known as mediocrity. If the crowd knew any better, they wouldn’t be two paychecks from broke and wasting half their life in front of a television.
stone-cold truth: If you follow conventional wisdom from conventional people living conventional lives, you will get exactly that: a conventional life.
conventional lives are not underwritten by dreams, but by ser...
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pe...
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Your cheese? A scant paycheck, a mediocre weekend, and a retirement fantasy that...
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resounding
our culture thrives on mediocrity and obedience.
you want to live like the 1%, you can’t think like the 99%.
The “wisdom of the crowd” advocates for the rat race, not for your freedom.
Question conventional wisdom or have it lead you into a ...
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Write New Words or Suffer the Same Story
deliberated
menial
If you died today and your life was narrated in a story, how would it read?
posthumous
plati...
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would it be a compelling tale that someone co...
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ominous
endowment
What beliefs were laying the groundwork for the failed choices that were causing my broken life?
results you suffer today (or enjoy) unfolded from your beliefs and the choices they conceived. The
sequential
The Book of You—your story. In your book, the various pens writing your story are your beliefs. Each word penned to the paper would be a thought, each sentence a choice, each paragraph an action, each chapter a habit. Your life story is the total of your actions (or inactions), which in turn are caused by those pens transcribing your beliefs.
you need to expose your poison pens—Scripted beliefs that are condemning your life to mediocrity, misery or worse, death.
clairvoyant.
