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Discuss the November 2022 Philosophy Book of the Month, In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All by Eckhart Aurelius Hughes.

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If you haven't already, you can sign up to be personally mentored by Scott "Eckhart Aurelius" Hughes at this link.


I don't want to give you fish. And I won't give you fish. In other words, if you are looking for charity and handouts, look elsewhere.

I don't even want to teach how to fish. And typically I won't.

I want to teach you how to teach yourself how to do things.

In the age of the internet, you can learn almost anything quick and free.

Typically, you will learn better through free self-education than paid professional learning such as college. A big part of the reason is simply how slow it is to wait on a college or such. By the time you finish a weekly paid class somewhere, let alone an entire multi-year curriculum, the information they taught will be outdated. That's assuming you even learned it which is a foolish assumption. Most of those institutions are selling diplomas, not real educations. Most of the students that graduate haven't even learned the outdated material those institutions teach.

Even if someone charitably offered to pay your tuition to go to a top-notch Ivy League university as a gift to you, you would probably be better off literally flushing their money down the toilet and then teaching yourself for free using books and the internet.

It's not just better because it's free; it's better despite being free. Even if you ignore the cost, it's way better.

If you are looking to make a lot of money working less than 40 hours and retire early as a millionaire, I recommend you read, Blue-Collar Cash: Love Your Work, Secure Your Future, and Find Happiness for Life by Ken Rusk.

Even if you have already made the mistake of buying an overpriced college tuition and now cannot afford to recoup your losses because the diploma is proving to have a poor ROI (i.e. there are no high-paying jobs available for people with your diploma), then I still typically recommend you read Blue-Collar Cash right away. It is available in audiobook so you don't even actually have to read anything; you can listen to it while exercising or driving or laying in bed at night.

If a 17-year-old in the USA follows Rusk's advice (and/or joins my free mentoring program and follows my advice), they will be a retired millionaire before they are 40.

If you are already 35 years old and in debt from buying an overpriced college tuition, then obviously it's too late to become a millionaire and retire by 40, but you can still start making the profitable choices now to minimize your losses and not fall too much farther behind those who started the profitable choices from 17.

Finally, if you know anyone who is at or below college-age, I recommend you buy them a print or audiobook copy of Blue-Collar Cash by Ken Rusk.

What were seemingly foolproof wise financial moves for Boomers when they were teenagers or in their 20s (e.g. "buy a house", "go to college", etc.) were quite the opposite for Millennials like me when we were teenagers and/or in our 20s. If a Millennial like me listened to the common advice that was brainwashed into most of us, they would have bought a house in 2007 after having already gone $40,000+ in debt to buy a worse-than-worthless tuition, despite both of those markets being in an obvious bubble at the time, meaning it was one of the obviously worst times to buy on either of those investment instruments.

Our parents basically said to us, "I bought these investments decades ago before the bubble had grown so much, and look how will it worked for me. You should do the same. I'll be very disappointed in you if you don't. I'll be angry with you if you don't."

It's like someone saying, "I bought bitcoin 10 years ago and look how much I've profited from it, so you should buy bitcoin today."

Sadly, to their own detriment, many of my peers listened to their utterly wrong parents who didn't understand that what makes sense in one decade often won't make sense in the next. The most popular investment strategy or purchase will typically be the worst, because that's practically the definition of a bubble. Words like, "You can't go wrong by investing in XYZ", is the #1 sign the person is talking about a bubble and you absolutely will be going financially wrong with buying or investing in XYZ.

And some kids today are still falling victim to those outdated old recommendations. A lot of kids today are still being foolishly told to follow a plan that would have worked great 50 years ago but is just plain dumb today.

Don't listen to the shouders. Let them should all over themselves instead.

To them, I maturely say, "I'm rubber, and you're glue; whatever you should at me bounces off me and gets should all over you."

I'm an interesting mentor to have because I will never ever tell you what you ["should" do.

I only give objective information about actual reality, including but not limited to financial markets and job markets and such.

I might inform you that food X has 100 calories and food Y has 200 calories, but I won't tell you which one you "should" eat.

I might inform you with empirical proof that you will make more money doing X than Y, but I won't tell you whether you "should" do X or Y, or neither or both.

I don't should; I inform. And, typically, I keep my mouth shut and don't even do that. One reason I have the mentoring program is so that people who want to be informed and taught me can be, because normally I don't give unsolicited advice or go around informing people about things. If you want whats in my head, the price is that you come to me and ask me for it, which you can do simply by signing up for my free mentoring program.

If you go through my mentoring program, you will learn to be incredibly self-responsible with incredible self-discipline (a.k.a. spiritual freedom). You will learn to take control of your own human life and be your own boss. You will learn how to be incredibly self-determined. Perhaps most importantly, you will learn to teach yourself anything you want to learn, for free.

The authorities and gate-keepers of truth and success you may see currently around you will evaporate like the hallucinations they are.

You will be free, liberated in sense deeper than most can even imagine.

And you will be happy, truly happy, in the sense of having unwavering invincible free-spirited inner peace, that is with you day and day out on both the ups and the downs of the roller coaster that is life. Your true happiness (a.k.a. free-spirited inner peace) will be revealed as totally immune to external circumstance.

You'll be safe and feel safer than you've ever even imagined was possible. You'll be at peace in heaven, in a wonderful exciting living heaven on Earth.


With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes


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In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program.
Favorite Philosopher: Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
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Some parents use their kids to "correct" mistakes they made while young. Such include forcing their kids to choose career paths that turned out to be excellent in their days. Because of the "respect your elders" thing, the kids submit to it only to not like what they end up being. There's so much flexibility and freedom in learning how to teach ourselves as you said, and I agree that's the way to go.
In It Together review: https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewt ... p?t=497822
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Your mentoring approach is quite unique as well as refreshing. Teaching someone to teach themselves is so much more empowering than just handing out answers. Plus, it helps people develop the resilience and independence that are crucial if they want to live a genuinely free, fulfilling life. It’s like you’re giving people the keys to their own car instead of just showing them the way.

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