What if your son could trade four stagnant years in lecture halls for four years of adventure, and come out the other side a debt-free EMT, licensed pilot, builder, sailor, fighter, and entrepreneur?
A lot of tough guys urge young people to "skip college," but rarely explain what they should do instead. That just changed.
The great and brilliant Doug Casey, who's visited 150+ countries and made a fortune as an investor, just wrote something every parent of a son needs to read.
I read it and immediately had a copy shipped to Dave Smith, with a note: You have a son, and for his sake you need to read this.
It's called The Preparation, though Doug tells me it was nearly called Renaissance Man.
Have your son pursue this, and he will emerge as the most interesting person everyone he meets will know, by a country mile.
It's a four-year, 16-cycle alternative to college that forges a debt-free EMT, pilot, builder, sailor, and entrepreneur -- oh, and someone who can prepare authentic Italian cooking because he learned it in Florence.
Your son will emerge not as a graduate with a degree and a loan balance, but as a young man who can fly a plane, save a life, build a house, and hold his own in any room.
He'll take courses, too, but not ones taught by crazy people who hate him.
So many young people these days are without direction, and in this AI world don't know what to do.
Doug Casey is training young men to be masters of the universe. (1/2)
@GlennDavisSoc@SenateAveBrewCo@espn975@DaspitLawFirm@ApplePodcasts@spotifypodcasts Excellent, Glenn! I got to play on the Texans club team with Imad my senior year of high school. I’ll never forget our coach told me, “Don’t worry about what kind of ball you play to Imad, just get him the ball.” It was true, and he was amazing to share the field with!
@LloydLegalist I remember in elementary school our class made our teacher so mad she slammed her hand on the top glass and broke it. Then she exclaimed, “And I just broke my overhead!” Somehow we stifled our laughs and remained quiet… Good times
I’m a Marine, always will be. That part of me doesn’t change. But I’ll be honest, sometimes I stop and wonder if I could’ve endured what the troops of the Continental Army did in 1776.
Those men marched for miles without shoes, leaving blood in the snow. They wrapped rags around their feet and kept moving. No Gore-Tex, no medevac, no hot chow waiting at the end of the march.
They were hungry, constantly. Rations were scarce or nonexistent. Pay was late, sometimes never. Disease killed more men than British bullets. Smallpox, dysentery, typhus, sweeping through camps with no real medical care to stop it.
They slept in the open, in threadbare coats, through freezing rain and brutal winters. At places like Valley Forge, men froze at night and drilled by day. Muskets misfired in the cold. Powder went damp. Still, they trained.
They were farmers, blacksmiths, clerks, teenagers, fathers. No promise of victory. No guarantee the country they were fighting for would even exist. Just an idea, liberty, self-rule, something worth suffering for.
That was their secret weapon. Not superior arms. Not numbers. Resolve.
The willingness to endure misery without quitting.
As a Marine, I respect that on a deep level. We train hard. We suffer by design. But those men suffered because there was no other choice, and they stood anyway.
It humbles you.
It reminds you that the freedoms we inherit were paid for in blood, frostbite, hunger, and faith.
Different uniforms. Same spirit.
1776 didn’t just create a nation, it set the standard.
The traditional Thanksgiving meal is turkey, it tastes great if your learn to cook it right but even if you can’t be bothered the meal is turkey
You can serve another meat alongside but Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving
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