Deck 1 Flashcards
What is THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM PRINCIPLE?
The “wisdom of the crowd” advocates for the rat race, not for your freedom.
Question conventional wisdom or have it lead you into a conventional life.
The Script administrates the rat race and is culture’s default operating system, bankrolled by powerful institutions and corporations.
What is THE NEW PEN STRATEGY?
The internal environment—your thoughts—cause the outside environment and is like a flight plan for your life.
The Book of You is your life as it is today, an aggregate of your beliefs and the choices they created.
Truth doesn’t care about your beliefs.
Every day you make thousands of choices, including what to think and feel. These choices are like the words, paragraphs, and chapters of your unfolding story.
Poison-pens are Scripted beliefs that are responsible for the poor outcomes in your life.
What is THE COMFORTABLE PAIN PRINCIPLE?
A person who lives in moderate comfort will rarely find the motivation to fight the status quo.
Comfort fuels mediocrity and a life mired in mundanity.
The modern five-day work week is a Scripted tool for obedience and complacency.
A “fuck this event” (FTE) is a traumatic event where the pain of the status quo is perceived to be worse than the pain of escaping it.
What is THE SOMEDAY PRINCIPLE?
Someday is a lie, code for never.
Someday is an excuse for inaction, a mental bribe to dismiss today for a tomorrow that never comes.
Someday is like betting on a fractal to end.
Someday must become today.
What is THE ECONOMIC RELIGION PRINCIPLE?
Regard the rat race like an economic religion, a cult of unwitting participants.
You participate in the rat race in one of two roles: a shopping-rat or a savings-rat.
A shopping-rat is a slave to consumption (of goods and media), a savings-rat is a slave to his savings and portfolio.
When a shopping-rat questions the rat race, culture promotes the other rat race role, a savings-rat.
The Script, or rat race dogma, has six components: [S]chooling [C]onsumption, [R]esponsibility [I]gnorance [P]romises, and [T]axation.
What is THE HONEYPOT PRINCIPLE?
Compound interest, or the Slowlane, is the idea that one dollar saved today will be worth millions in the distant future.
The spending- and savings-rat are symbiotic, two sides to the same rigged coin.
Inflation, time, and many lofty assumptions neuters compound interest.
Data supports that compound interest, when applied in real life with real life circumstances, is grossly ineffective.
The stock market isn’t making investors wealthy; it makes its sycophants wealthy.
Via mass marketing, champagne hypocrites get rich selling a “get rich” strategy that didn’t make them rich.
In the same way a prison doesn’t give its inmates directions for escape, the rat race doesn’t either.
What is THE SCIENTIST STRATEGY?
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.
Forsake the two rat race roles and refuse casting for either. Instead, take the position of the scientist.
What is THE “LOST PRINCIPAL” PRINCIPLE?
An 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 principal.
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.
What is THE UNSCRIPTED STRATEGY?
The Unscripted one percent is a new economic class that leverages Fastlane, CENTS-based entrepreneurship.
There are three levels of Unscription, each graduating to more freedom.
Type 1: An Unplugged Unscriptee is aware of the rat race, like a red pill.
Type 2: A Fastlane Unscriptee owns a profitable business that affords schedules to be malleable, offering more freedom.
Type 3: A Liberated Unscriptee is liberated from the rat race and never has to work again, usually through a large income, or one or many exit events.
FIRE swaps dependency from a job to the stock market.
A Liberated Unscriptee is immune from most economic events.
What is THE DISCOUNTED TIME PRINCIPLE?
The time value of money states that money today is always more valuable than money later.
The time value of money is a universal concept taught at every university on the planet, while the discounted time value of time isn’t taught anywhere.
Freedom young is always more valuable than freedom old.
Whenever the rat race marginalizes time and treats it as a mathematical variable for financial freedom, you’re being propagandized.
