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M.J. DeMarco
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January 3 - July 14, 2022
sycophants
infallibly
Instead of consuming and shopping for happiness, you’re saving and waiting for freedom. Adding to the irony, all your excess labor (savings) is invested into the stock market to help grow the companies facilitating the consumption paradigm.
variable
inflation—is
gnawing
Metaphorically,
tithes.
cumulous
forlorn
spry to slog
suffused
hellacious
toted
placidly
furtive
dispirited.
admonished
eavesdroppers,
relented.
rebut,
rendezvous
Don’t Play the Rat, Play the Scientist
a rat race is a maze defined by predetermined corridors.
comedienne
transient
inconsequential.
Excommunicate
Reject the rat race paradigm. Instead, resolve to learn the methods and the means of the laboratory—become the scientist.
The rat race is similar to an actual laboratory rat race, complete with pre-determined corridors and cheese, or rewards. Only rats win rat races where victory is a weekend or a distant retirement. Hard work in an inefficient system is rendered impotent, sometimes worthless.
Rat Race Investment Pays Negative Returns and Lost Principle
You see, anytime you trade Monday through Friday to earn Saturday and Sunday, you’re earning a negative 60 percent. That’s spending five to earn two. And unlike money which can be created over and over, time cannot. Once those five days are spent, they’re gone. Forever.
The Lost Principle Principle states that a standard rat race investment is subject to a negative 60% return.
So why wouldn’t you hold your time to the...
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The Script has fantastically convinced you that time is a commodity worth trading, no more valuable than an o...
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We’re conditioned to repeatedly invest our precious time at negative rates of returns.
Each of us is gifted with 86,400 seconds a day. No one gets more, no one gets less.
It is the great equalizer because no one can make more time. Imagine that: you, me, Jeff and Sam Trotman, Taylor Swift, Jeff Bezos, Chairman Kim Jong-un; we all have so...
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The first step is to prioritize time like you would the king on a chess board. To win at this game, protect the king!
investment in the rat race earns a negative 60 percent: you sacrifice Monday through Friday for Saturday and Sunday.
Unlike money, time cannot be reclaimed once lost—it is always lost principle. Time is the great equalizer; all humans possess the same quantity per day. Treat time as you would the king in a game of chess, and money as the queen.
amiss.
mammogram
sardonically,
celibacy
appraisingly.
duress
selling your soul to the overnight shift for some future retirement fantasy.
the unspoken truth crystallized. The system the Trotmans trusted wasn’t designed to provide freedom and purpose. It was designed to enslave them—either as a slave to their lifestyle or a slave to their investment portfolio.
The “system” was a life sentence for meaningless work with a distant retirement parole that was more illusion than reality.
