To be blunt, I think there’s more B.S. about promulgated than ever. It frankly makes me a little crazy. The internet has produced a veritable tidal wave of bullshit. I’ve been railing against “popular B.S.” from various sources for a long time. The original No B.S. Business Success book was published in 1993. No B.S. Ruthless Management’s first edition much later, in 2009. Throughout, in the books, the newsletters, seminars and speeches, the original Renegade Millionaire System, I have consistently exposed B.S. heaped on people by academics, by peers and peer group authorities, purported “laws” (that aren’t, but are widely accepted), religion, metaphysics, psycho-babble, media, friends, family, and society at large. I certainly have not stemmed this tide, but I know I’ve made a big difference in a great many individuals’ capability of recognizing it for what it is, and in their capability for staving it off personally. You may be one of those individuals. If so, you know what to expect from that aspect of Renegade Millionaire 2.0 (although I’ll still make you gasp). If not, here’s your chance, maybe the last chance to experience it.
Now, I have a sad observation: many of my own peers, in my own fields, and more, a great many of those I don’t know well but who are, one way or another in ‘the guru business’ are making huge contributions to the epic tsunami of B.S. that people are drowning in these days. There’s a New Age of Charlatanism, rivaling that of the turn of the century, magnified and enabled by the internet and cheap online media - unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Bluntly, good people are being confused, distracted, and shorn like sheep, and I find it all embarrassing and obscene. My once proud profession and industry of ‘success education’ has been taken over by grifters. The smoke is dense. I don’t like it. It pisses me off. I’ve even seen otherwise smart and successful clients hooked by one or several of these “promoters” and led into blowing large sums of money and precious time chasing invisible rabbits and mythical pots of gold a the end of imagined rainbows. People’s attention is being cut up into little slivers, focus on What Works destroyed.
There’s a lot of business literature - the magazines; new, “hot” books, TED talks - that I read or listen to, that flat-out shock and stun and dismay me with just how wrong it is. And the B.S. is being peddled in every damn category: advertising, marketing, selling, managing, entrepreneurship, success.
Just as example, there have been a number of reported, epic failures with ‘new, enlightened management’ - elimination of supervision, elimination of sales commissions, open office environments for collaborative community, etc. - yet, despite the failures, the B.S. peddlers keep selling this crap, and the media keeps glorifying them, so people think it’s real.
The biggest restaurant chain in America tried “no tipping” and gave up in 6 months - the customers hated it, revenue fell by a double digit percentage, good employees left, leaving them with the worst. This company nearly destroyed itself with this sick stupidity -but there are, still, “leadership gurus” running around the restaurant industry championing this, and being heralded as great prophets by its media, as if the failed experiment and its facts didn’t exist.
This same insanity is engorging every success subject and category -including advertising, marketing and moneymaking. Tech, of course, is full of it: the vast sums being sucked out of confused entrepreneurs’ pockets by exercises in futility with Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, Google, etc., etc., etc., helped along by invented ‘new metrics’ is really incredible. Of course there are legitimately productive uses for it all, but mostly it’s a big bamboozle Barnum would love. Even fundamental,· personal success methods have been replaced with “happy mythology” more easily sold.
It sickens and angers me. (And I do my best work when I’m pissed off.)
I am especially frustrated with the people promoting B.S. who know better and are cynically exploiting the confusion of the moment. I view Renegade Millionaire 2.0 as the opportunity to Go On The Record, and challenge all the popular fads and scams and intentionally created confusion. I am highly motivated to “set the shit on fire”. It will be impolitic, I can promise you that.
Why should YOU be in heat about this? If there is a legitimate ‘ONE Thing’ that governs your ability to benefit and profit from all other things, I believe it is absolute clarity, a governing system. Renegade Millionaire 2.0 is the place to examine yours and mine, and get greater clarity than you’ve ever had before. From that, I assure you, great things AUTOMATICALLY, ORGANICALLY occurs.
Yep, I just trotted out that unicorn. Automatic. Of course, it is mostly a B.S. idea. What appears to be automatic hardly ever is. What’s sold as automatic never is. In this rare case, however, there is a nearly magical consequence to brilliant clarity. It so cuts through clutter and dysfunction and procrastination and others’ adverse influences, that it does automatically create new opportunity and productivity, and magnetically attracts other clear thinkers with whom mutually beneficial, success accelerating alliances can be made.
So, a synthesis of ‘everything Renegade’, the magnum opus, a path to profound mental clarity, an unleashing of super-powerful primal energy, discovery of new opportunities …