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| Do You Trust the Government, or Do You Have a Plan B? (video) |
| 2021-02-04 |
| [Zero] Things I trust more than the government: a Facebook ad promising me a free weekend in Lithuania. The year was 2016 and I was a starving artist, writing and living in a travel trailer on my sister’s property in rural Florida. One day an advertisement popped up on my social media feed encouraging me to apply to an entrepreneurship camp in Lithuania called Sovereign Academy. But what caught my eye was that it was free. All you had to do was submit a video application about your entrepreneurial journey, and 50 people from around the world would be chosen to spend a weekend learning from a handful of top notch mentors— CEOs, successful businessmen, and advertising experts. So I made a video about the books I’d written, the mini-farm I was helping build, and all the business ideas I had, but didn’t know how to accomplish. Actually it’s the first video I ever posted on my Youtube, so you can go and see for yourself if you want. Then I got accepted to the camp, and I was like, hold up— let me look into this a little bit more. The camp was put on by this guy named Simon Black who founded SovereignMan.com. I’d never heard of it before, but it did seem to match my general ethos on planning for a worst case scenario— I was, after all, preparing for a zombie apocalypse on a remote farm. But Sovereign Man was less about "prepping" and more about incrementally building up a portfolio of options. A Plan B leaves you better off no matter what happens, while prepping for disaster almost leaves you, hoping for disaster. Otherwise all your hard work is for nothing. So I said, you know what, let’s see what this Sovereign Man thing is all about, and I hopped on a plane to Lithuania by myself. What did I have to lose? |
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| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2021-02-04 18:36 |
| #1 Always have a plan B. And I trust the government as much as I trust those ads telling me there are 20 hot and horny women 10 miles from me that want to hook up. Actually I trust those ads more.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-02-04 17:54 |