Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship pdfdrive com

~ Albert Einstein, Physicist
THE DICHOTOMY: MONEY (99%) VS. VALUE (1%)
B
eing broke sucks. I know, because I was for most of my early twenties. While
my friends drove new cars and dressed new threads, I rolled in an old Buick
Skylark while adorned in secondhand-thrift-shop fashion. Yeah, let’s just say my
dating life at the time was about as directionless as a politician’s moral compass.
Anyhow, behind my lack of money definitely wasn’t a lack of effort. I was
motivated. Driven. And obsessed.
Unfortunately, I was obsessed about the wrong thing—and that thing was
money. For me, it was everything. It symbolized freedom. Job liberation.
Validation, self-worth, and social acceptance. And yet, despite my obsession, I
had no clue what money represented, how it moved, why it existed, and how to
get it.
Underneath my perpetual brokenness, 
the money scam
was working—
a 99
percent thought line, where money is viewed as an elusive and mysterious concept,
one that must be hunted, manipulated, cajoled, legislated, or pried away from
someone else
. Money’s pursuit is akin to a pig riding the proverbial donkey
chasing a carrot on a stick—money is the carrot; the 
SCRIPT
is the pig; the ass is
you.

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Whenever the money scam prevails, one becomes what I call a 
money-chaser
.
Money-chasers jump from one business idea to another, one job to another, one
opportunity to another. Money-chasers view money tangibly like a sofa or a car,
something that can be stalked like a tyrant aspiring for the emperor’s throne.
As such, money-chasers are the “show-me-the-money” types who creep
markets looking for quick cash, of course effortlessly and risk-free. These
entrepreneurs step to the plate with one idea, strike out, and then quit. These
couch-dreamers find hope in a late-night make-money infomercials featuring
smiling millionaires camped on the beach with an open laptop because, after all,
that’s where all millionaires go once they hit it big. Others are found on “make-
money-online” forums, asking generalities like: