“go to Thailand and study Muay Thai”, LOL. Who pays for that? I guess if daddy is paying, sure why not. Same goes for college: let’s let daddy pay for us to play beer pong, have lots of sex, binge drink, pass out drunk at football games, and have AI do our homework.
My neighbors kids just graduated college and they can’t get anything beyond minimum wage jobs and they both have over $30,000 in debt for the portion that mommy and daddy said they had to take out in student loans so they would have “skin in the game”. Now they are living back at home having failed to launch.
I didn’t have daddy pay for frivolous things like going to Thailand to study kick boxing or college so like you I joined the Army and had Uncle Sam pay for my adventure. Ended up in Korea as a military police man and later attended army helicopter flight school. Uncle Sam paid for my useless college degree.
I would not recommend the service to anyone now what with the mandatory vaccines and endless globalist banker wars.
Don’t be so insulting. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Maxim earns $600/day working on wildfires as an EMT. He has zero debt. yes, I put a small amount of money aside for him in a vanguard account as he was growing up. That seed capital helped, but his daddy doesn’t pay his way. He’s delivered pizzas and worked at Office Depot and saved every cent possible.
And btw, Three months in Thailand is actually extremely inexpensive. I bet you’ll pay more in rent (or mortgage) in one month than it’ll cost him to live and study for three in Thailand.
so don’t denigrate my son’s accomplishments because of people you know who got bad advice and made stupid decisions rather than following the path we outline in the book
That’s more honorable than making Uncle Sam your daddy, paying your way for “adventure” and college.
You don’t need a daddy paving the way to succeed. You just need guidance.
Our objective is to help many other young men do the same as Maxim has accomplished - more in two years than most do in a lifetime.
But denigrate it all you want, if that makes you feel better.
Apologies for being insulting. Glad to hear you didn’t pay for him to go to Thailand. He must have delivered a lot of pizzas to pay for the plane ticket alone. I respect that. It’s good for the youth to do work like that to teach them what they don’t want to do. One of my sons and my daughter both worked at McDonald’s. They learned customer service, efficiency and that they don’t want to work in an environment where their coworkers are high on marijuana all day. My 16 year old daughter cleaned houses and realized she doesn’t want to clean other peoples toilets anymore. She appreciates her summer painting job more because of that experience. My other son did landscaping for low pay. Both of my sons are entrepreneurs now and doing well. Congratulations to you on writing a book. That is a huge accomplishment.
I choose the ideal of the renaissance man in college and the fruits of that choice reverberate to this day. Relative to the renaissance man during that age when the totality existent knowledge could be known, today that ideal is inhibited by the vast quantity and depth of information in fields of endeavor that seem to ever expanding.
That said, I took the renaissance fork in the road and it led to many other forks and roads less traveled, roads that most people do not have the joy of experiencing. Most importantly it led me to an understanding that the most important guidepost is establishing a person code of conduct, or what I call spiritual and mental ideals. These ideals influence choices in all areas of life.
The world desperately needs to break from the conformity of the State and its educational agenda. I hope this book gets widespread acceptance and we experience a new chapter of non conformist, free thinking, moral people in our future.
Mike, this book sounds like a well thought out process and plan to help young men to grow into adult manhood, a long gone trait.
I know this is off topic but wanted to pass the info on now and see what your opinion is. Maybe in your Q&A time.
Gregory Mannarino posted the first link the morning and the second link is by Jacob Nordangård. The WEF announcement late last week is interesting timing, likely just a coincidence, are they all? I know nothing to see here, move along.
HYPER-ALERT! The Fed. Just VASTLY Expanded Its Powers. THE END OF FREE-MARKETS. (It's Over). Mannarino
Excellent. will order now for daughter-in-law who teaches in Charter School that strives to be like The Preparation. This will inspire her in the right direction and give her new ideas, new approaches for her high schoolers. THANK YOU. CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.
This sounds great, but most of the young people in my life are young women. From the description it sounds like females are not encouraged along this path ?
I would encourage young women to take the same path. But this book in particular is written for young men. And let me explain the difference.
Young men have a certain set of motivations, fears, insecurities, hopes, and ambitions that are often different than young women. And I say this as somebody who has a 17-year-old daughter. But my 17-year-old daughter will follow this path too.
I think a young woman could read this book, and certainly if she engaged in the cycles or created her own cycles using the templates that we provide, I think that she would get a remarkable education and it would be incredibly valuable for her.
My worry is there might be things that are said that are designed to cater to the motivations of a young man (nothing at all said about young women, btw) that may not resonate with her.
We will be writing a female version of the book, although I'll have to enlist a woman to help me understand these things - motivations that young women have better. But the fundamental structure will be the same. And hopefully that will be out within the next six months.
Perhaps Father's should read this also; after all we are talking about the sons we love. Spiritual strength had better be a part of this or the resulting man will be an empty shell. I wish all success.
As a 50-year-old man, I can tell you that this book and seeing my son engage in what's prescribed in the book has motivated me to step up my own game personally.
As far as spiritual strength goes, while we don't address religion directly, we do talk about the main focus of the book being answering the question, “What kind of man do I want to be?” Rather than what kind of job do I want to have? And that question, “what kind of man do I want to be?” Is the most important question that nobody asks young men to answer.
As part of the book, young men create a personal code, a personal set of rules for themselves to help give them clarity and moral structure in their lives.
Bought it! I’ve been reading Maxim’s substack for several years, he’s grown so much. I wish I had your book when my children were school age, I kept trying to find the “right” school when the problem was school. I hated school as a child. The quote Michael Yon has on his substack:
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”
This is so very important. It's a key part of the march around the institutions, to help our children avoid the terrible effects of the marxist march through and into the institutions.. It's radically disruptive. Someday, the Preparation will become common sense. Thanks for bringing common sense back toward being common again!
“go to Thailand and study Muay Thai”, LOL. Who pays for that? I guess if daddy is paying, sure why not. Same goes for college: let’s let daddy pay for us to play beer pong, have lots of sex, binge drink, pass out drunk at football games, and have AI do our homework.
My neighbors kids just graduated college and they can’t get anything beyond minimum wage jobs and they both have over $30,000 in debt for the portion that mommy and daddy said they had to take out in student loans so they would have “skin in the game”. Now they are living back at home having failed to launch.
I didn’t have daddy pay for frivolous things like going to Thailand to study kick boxing or college so like you I joined the Army and had Uncle Sam pay for my adventure. Ended up in Korea as a military police man and later attended army helicopter flight school. Uncle Sam paid for my useless college degree.
I would not recommend the service to anyone now what with the mandatory vaccines and endless globalist banker wars.
Don’t be so insulting. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Maxim earns $600/day working on wildfires as an EMT. He has zero debt. yes, I put a small amount of money aside for him in a vanguard account as he was growing up. That seed capital helped, but his daddy doesn’t pay his way. He’s delivered pizzas and worked at Office Depot and saved every cent possible.
And btw, Three months in Thailand is actually extremely inexpensive. I bet you’ll pay more in rent (or mortgage) in one month than it’ll cost him to live and study for three in Thailand.
so don’t denigrate my son’s accomplishments because of people you know who got bad advice and made stupid decisions rather than following the path we outline in the book
That’s more honorable than making Uncle Sam your daddy, paying your way for “adventure” and college.
You don’t need a daddy paving the way to succeed. You just need guidance.
Our objective is to help many other young men do the same as Maxim has accomplished - more in two years than most do in a lifetime.
But denigrate it all you want, if that makes you feel better.
Apologies for being insulting. Glad to hear you didn’t pay for him to go to Thailand. He must have delivered a lot of pizzas to pay for the plane ticket alone. I respect that. It’s good for the youth to do work like that to teach them what they don’t want to do. One of my sons and my daughter both worked at McDonald’s. They learned customer service, efficiency and that they don’t want to work in an environment where their coworkers are high on marijuana all day. My 16 year old daughter cleaned houses and realized she doesn’t want to clean other peoples toilets anymore. She appreciates her summer painting job more because of that experience. My other son did landscaping for low pay. Both of my sons are entrepreneurs now and doing well. Congratulations to you on writing a book. That is a huge accomplishment.
Michael and Doug,
Please contact GoodDog at GoodDog-USA.com.
He has a large audience and I'm sure he would be interested in interviewing you, and Maxim, about this book.
It sounds very exciting.
I hope that for those who are not able to afford to travel to beautiful far-off places, that you have back-up ideas for them too.
Blessings for the success of this book, The Preparation.
the entire four year program costs less than a single year at a prestigious university.
Actually I was like Maxim when I was 17 lost and its taken 3 decades to do all the things you lay out. Better late than never.
What a fantastic idea. And one I fully endorse.
Matt, congratulations to Doug, Maxim, and you on the release of this book. Keen to buy this very timely book for my son (16 shortly). In hardcover.
Can’t find it on the Canadian or Indian store though; any imminent release date for either of these stores?
Thank you.
That's a good question. Let me look into it.
I choose the ideal of the renaissance man in college and the fruits of that choice reverberate to this day. Relative to the renaissance man during that age when the totality existent knowledge could be known, today that ideal is inhibited by the vast quantity and depth of information in fields of endeavor that seem to ever expanding.
That said, I took the renaissance fork in the road and it led to many other forks and roads less traveled, roads that most people do not have the joy of experiencing. Most importantly it led me to an understanding that the most important guidepost is establishing a person code of conduct, or what I call spiritual and mental ideals. These ideals influence choices in all areas of life.
The world desperately needs to break from the conformity of the State and its educational agenda. I hope this book gets widespread acceptance and we experience a new chapter of non conformist, free thinking, moral people in our future.
Great work and I intend to read it soon,
Rick
Mike, this book sounds like a well thought out process and plan to help young men to grow into adult manhood, a long gone trait.
I know this is off topic but wanted to pass the info on now and see what your opinion is. Maybe in your Q&A time.
Gregory Mannarino posted the first link the morning and the second link is by Jacob Nordangård. The WEF announcement late last week is interesting timing, likely just a coincidence, are they all? I know nothing to see here, move along.
HYPER-ALERT! The Fed. Just VASTLY Expanded Its Powers. THE END OF FREE-MARKETS. (It's Over). Mannarino
https://gregorymannarino.substack.com/p/hyper-alert-the-fed-just-vastly-expanded?publication_id=35435&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=k6gro&utm_medium=email
WEF Board of Directors clears Klaus Schwab of wrongdoing, puts BlackRock's Larry Fink and Roche's André Hoffman in charge of operations
https://drjacobnordangard.substack.com/p/wef-board-of-directors-clears-klaus?publication_id=1015075&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=k6gro&utm_medium=email
Sorry, I just noticed when this posted this is not Mike’s stack!
Sent a copy to my son for his boys.
Thank you.
If only I had this at Maxim's age...
Thank you. And I agree. I wish I'd had this book when I was 18.
Excellent. will order now for daughter-in-law who teaches in Charter School that strives to be like The Preparation. This will inspire her in the right direction and give her new ideas, new approaches for her high schoolers. THANK YOU. CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.
Thank you so much.
This sounds great, but most of the young people in my life are young women. From the description it sounds like females are not encouraged along this path ?
I noticed that too
I would encourage young women to take the same path. But this book in particular is written for young men. And let me explain the difference.
Young men have a certain set of motivations, fears, insecurities, hopes, and ambitions that are often different than young women. And I say this as somebody who has a 17-year-old daughter. But my 17-year-old daughter will follow this path too.
I think a young woman could read this book, and certainly if she engaged in the cycles or created her own cycles using the templates that we provide, I think that she would get a remarkable education and it would be incredibly valuable for her.
My worry is there might be things that are said that are designed to cater to the motivations of a young man (nothing at all said about young women, btw) that may not resonate with her.
We will be writing a female version of the book, although I'll have to enlist a woman to help me understand these things - motivations that young women have better. But the fundamental structure will be the same. And hopefully that will be out within the next six months.
Laud. +1 encouraging innovation outside of distressing need.
°Cherishº is the new love, be well.
*May God nod towards thine & mine as well!*
Perhaps Father's should read this also; after all we are talking about the sons we love. Spiritual strength had better be a part of this or the resulting man will be an empty shell. I wish all success.
As a 50-year-old man, I can tell you that this book and seeing my son engage in what's prescribed in the book has motivated me to step up my own game personally.
As far as spiritual strength goes, while we don't address religion directly, we do talk about the main focus of the book being answering the question, “What kind of man do I want to be?” Rather than what kind of job do I want to have? And that question, “what kind of man do I want to be?” Is the most important question that nobody asks young men to answer.
As part of the book, young men create a personal code, a personal set of rules for themselves to help give them clarity and moral structure in their lives.
I already ordered the book from Maxim's earlier post!
thank you!
Outstanding idea!
Thanks for the heads up Mike.
Used to read Casey's financial column years ago.
Dropped following money during COVID. Tried to find out about it from every angle. Did so.
If I remember correctly Casey lived that life in his early years. Glad he and Maxim put it to use to guide others.
Bought it! I’ve been reading Maxim’s substack for several years, he’s grown so much. I wish I had your book when my children were school age, I kept trying to find the “right” school when the problem was school. I hated school as a child. The quote Michael Yon has on his substack:
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”
Edward R. Murrow
100%
This is so very important. It's a key part of the march around the institutions, to help our children avoid the terrible effects of the marxist march through and into the institutions.. It's radically disruptive. Someday, the Preparation will become common sense. Thanks for bringing common sense back toward being common again!