FYI: Caution: this is an ad, but boy does it make some good points about entrepreneurship versus the traditional message we give young people exiting school. It's a book that I haven't read, called The Preparation, 2025, by Doug Casey and Matt Smith.
Finally, an option for young men that not only educates them better than college, but helps shape them to be the man they want to be.
— matt.smith (@mattpheus) September 1, 2025
2:52. It's not the only answer but that certainly part of it. Doug and I, our view ultimately is that you should be an entrepreneur. You really shouldn't be a cubicle dweller, that's for sure. But I think that the thing is related to the question. Often people ask young man what they want to be when they grow up and what they mean is what kind of job you're going to get to be responsible to get income, and kind of the premise of the book is that is entirely the wrong question. We should not ask young men this question. The question should be what kind of man do you want to become and that their efforts should be devoted to becoming that man first and foremost not to going through a series of motions that allow you to get some certificate that allows you to get enough income hopefully to be able to survive maybe a little extra for a vacation or two it's to become the man that you want to become. That's the first goal. And you're right that everybody else is following this traditional path, and I can tell you because my son has been the two-year beta tester for this, Doug's been wanting to write this book, he's been asking me to write a way with him for a dozen years, and I've always said no because it didn't make sense
What's possible with Maxim doing this for 2 years we've actually learned the realities of it that we've been able to actually create structure that actually works and we've been able to field tested and know how to make it work properly and one of the big challenges that Max encountered especially early on was that to everyone else in the world what he was doing look like he was failing because he wasn't going to college it looked like he was on the road to nowhere so it wasn't even about a ultimately looking at him and judging him by what he had done but it was by entire by his entire peer group they're like what are you doing this doesn't make any sense so this thing when you step outside of the box and you're doing something totally different than what everyone else does it looks like failure. And I can say as an entrepreneur in the businesses I built and I built many over the last 30 years it always look like a failure until it was a success I mean that's actually everyone thought I was screwing up until I became rich I mean that's how it worked.
5:43. Well I'm telling when we get to some of the specifics I think people will see I hope what I saw when I went through this I mean I was enjoying reading it but then we got to part two with the specifics and when I looked at the kinds of of things that you're contemplating having young men do and we should say a word a word about young men versus young women and that you know there will be another book and let's just clarify that this is kind of intended for young men for the time being but when I looked at exactly what it is you had in mind for that they would you know they'll instead of sitting in a Sociology Lecture Hall, every morning they would do this and then this and then this and then this. I thought to myself if I had it to do over and I could be that guy, I would. I absolutely would even though I have the most elite academic credentials you could possibly ask for I would trade those away to be the man that this book trains you to be no absolutely no doubt in my mind no hesitation whatsoever.
Business always looks like a failure until it's a success.
The Preparation: How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous, Doug Casey and Matt Smith, 2025.
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