Finished Reading MJ deMarco's "The Millionaire Fastlane," and Continuing the Reading of His Book "Unscripted"

I heard of this book THE MILLIONAIRE FASTLANE (Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime)" from one of the postings in my X (used to be known as Twitter) account, and it turned out to be a fortuitious experience. I have finished reading the book, and have since got his 2 other books, and am currently reading "Uncripted (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship)." No wonder these books are almost always never mentioned in many book review publications, as they're essentially against the prevailing system that so many of us cater into. Of course, I don't really know if this person actually exists, or it's all part of a scheme to narrate one fantastic sounding story in a book, or two. But, based on what I have read, it's worth having and reading, especially because it has its very unique voice of admonishing you to your senses. As in right now. So you won't be lulled in your current underwhelming existence in your efforts to become rich and create a wealthy lifestyle for the rest of your life. And not be caught up in your own very comfortable bubble of an existence, especially if you're here in the US where admittedly, so many things are taken for granted (so many are just so clueless they're so much in a position of advantage, but that's another topic, probably, for a future blog posting). I'm 57 years old, and haven't really misspent my life practically doing or accomplishing nothing. What I have read in the books, so far, fortifies what I have been learning and had even heard some of which even from my MBA teachers, thinking, pondering, and working on myself in my life and in my projects. This thing about highlighting process is something what my Logististics Management teacher mentioned over 18 years ago in MBA school -- I even remember his words on the primacy of logistics (you can use any other similar fancy word to fit your taste), and he has been proven right especially during the covid pandemic period. That professor, who's a member of my MBA thesis defense panel, was an executive of an American multinational company dealing with tractors mostly (they're a highly known brand) - and he actually reminds me of what MJ deMarco's description of someone who has chosen to be in that path that many of us are growing so tired of as it's really a slowlane journey to whereever you want to go with your life. Becoming rich, creating your own wealth via entrepreneurship is a long journey, and never gonna be a one time event, especially for those who decide they're going to be millionaires. It's almost boring a process, honestly. From my own experience. I have not much of a story to tell you except that my life's story is almost regular by most standards, I have way more similarities to most of those I identify myself with. Except that I am gay, married to a Harlem born raised Black disabled man of my age, an immigrant from the Philippines to here in the USA, where I turned 40 years old, and have since become a US citizen. In MJ deMarco's books, you'll find very instructive points to consider in your own life journey especially if you want to be rich. And to be rich fast, and not whiling away your time doing the slow and medium routes. He's lambasting network marketing, those compounding interest schemes in owning shares in the market, being employed and gaining not much from such entrapment. I haven't really paid attention much to using, mimicking, copying MJ de Marco's vocabulary, as I believe it's the thought process that matters. Anyway, I am thankful for the reminders I have gathered from his books to date, which I will note, re-cast in my own vocabulary, and make use with certain particular revisions for my own journey. And so, I invite you to join me too in my journey. Get hold of the two books, as they're not typically mentioned by many gatekeepers. It's important to read books, as it's very revolutionary act. Write your books, too, when you get the chance, which is going to be a whole process by itself, even if MJ deMarco says writing books is easy (I agree!), but marketing them is actually where the business is. It's by pursuing your own process and path to becoming the next millioinaire using the prescribed fastlane he describes in his books, where you will probably be able to afford to write books (and make millions from them, probably). And then in taking note of the process, and in taking plenty of action based on your reading experience. All the best in your endeavors, whatever they are. 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Read Stephen Greenblatt's 'The Swerve: How The World Became Modern' & Be Compelled to Endure Reading Lucretius Carus' 'De Rerum Natura'

This book continues to bring ideas to my mind on how precious books had been to people who lived a long time ago, and even to my tastes on books after I've finished reading it; it's actually worth your book reading time if you're into culture, books, history. It even gave me ideas on pursuing Latin language studies so that I'll be able to read the original 'De Rerum Natura' in Latin, which authors, including the author of this book, have been talking about for its wonderful writing from Lucretius Carus. I was surprised to read a lot about killings (legal executions) of persons who have lived at least 500 years ago because they've come to read contents of 'De Rerum Natura' which Greenblatt's book talked about in his narrative. Very disturbing. I wonder how I would have fared during those periods---but I'm glad I'm alive today and able to pursue my interests. And I have to give credit to the efforts of those very brave individuals who lived before me so that I'll enjoy freedoms in today's period. Some of them died, and were not given any chances to think differently. Similar situations continue somewhere right this minute---I'm saying a prayer so that change continues to take place that will allow nature to take its natural course. 

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I never heard about this book before I saw it on the NYT's list, and decided soon that I have to find time to read this one on my Kindle reader. It led to my discovering of Lucretius Carus' "De Rerum Natura," which I'm still reading as of this writing ('it's not an easy poem to read, by the way'). I even have its prose version in English from my online bookstore, which I'll read one of these days. And earlier, I read about this book's winning a National Book Award (non-fiction category), which totally delighted me.

What I like most about this book has been the curious, very intriguing narrative it shared that provided the context on how books (that include the mind boggling 'De Rerum Natura', which is a looong poem at that!) dangerously go about changing people's way of thinking and subsequent behaviors. And this book has got me into thinking that elites (at least, those members of society's elites who find time to read and write, of which there are so many kinds, depending on wealth and knowledge they have access to in their respective lifetime) make use of books, in general plus among other tools, to overhaul structures in society. And I suppose this continues to this day, although not many have been aware of the intriguing process because so many take book reading for granted, plus given distractions of all kinds these days that compete on people's attention.

I got very curious in discovering from this book how the fabled Alexandrian Library went down and gone in a matter of a few generations after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under Constantine, which political development resulted to the eventual out-lawing of other forms of religions in the Western World, including those considered under 'paganism' (which was really an evolved mockery term for something considered not Christian). And I felt bad about how a very progressive female mathematician/philosopher/scientist, who happened to be pagan, was murdered by the extremist members of Christianity then. This kind of event actually happens eerily up to these days, although not in exact forms. You see and read about them from extremists among the Muslims, Jewish, Christians, Hindus, etc (not necessarily in that order---extremists are everywhere these days and they behave hysterically because they can't tolerate change, which, by the way, is among the main topics of 'De Rerum Natura').

Actually, and also based on what I've read so far about 'De Rerum Natura,' the world-changing ideas covered in this book that discussed Lucretius Carus' only known surviving work (as most of the books prior to destruction of the Alexandrian Library are now considered mostly 'remnants') are nowadays so-common. You'd wonder 'what's the fuss all about?' And why write about a book that's very difficult to read, in the first place? But note that in those years before 'De Rerum Natura' was brought to light again, those ideas were considered subversive. And espousing those ideas would even cost you your dear life as what happened to so many pioneering individuals who could not be tolerated by elites and their followers who felt their very lifestyles were being changed and threatened (which they would soon discover that they can't go against with, because that's part of nature, as 'De Rerum Natura' expounds).

Among these ideas include the mortality of soul, which 'De Rerum Natura' explains 'will die as soon as the mortal body dies.' And that there's 'no life after death.' And that religions espouse cruelty, the most disturbing example has been the practice of sacrificing one's own children for religious reasons. Also, it talked about atoms, which we learned from school or even watch on TV shows. Plus, the main purpose of life is seek pleasure, which implies, among other things, watching from a pleasurable distance how your co-humans suffer in the absurd forms of their fears and unhappy existence. Go figure the implications of these ideas out now. We've probably gone far, but we're never sure if the same is true with some groups of people. And disturbingly, we discover that a lot among our midst have yet to be reached by the light that came from 'De Rerum Nostra' (among other books) when it showed up again during Renaissance time centuries ago.


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