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Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
The book that taught me more than the six years I spent at university
This book is DeMarco’s follow-up to his underground business classic, The Millionaire Fastlane, a book I recommend all the time and that literally changed my life. Both while I was reading it and forever after.
Unscripted isn’t quite as good (honestly and objectively) but personally, I loved this one almost as much, even going so far as reading several parts of it over and over again.
The title, of course, refers to the “scripted” nature of most people’s existence, how they’re pretty much following these unwritten rules and directives assigned to them by society, never stopping to think that they could actually opt out.
Learn This: Reality is negotiable, and you’re not condemned to slave away in a claustrophobic corporate system designed to strip away small pieces of your humanity each and every day while you build someone else’s dream.
This is how scripted most people are: when you think about it, even the days of the week aren’t real.
There’s nothing in nature that designates one day as “Monday,” the next one “Tuesday,” etc. We just made them up. And if you decide to become an entrepreneur (which is what M.J.’s books will help you do), you can pretty much ignore “named days” and other social conventions for the rest of your natural life. With some obvious exceptions and caveats, of course.
I still use a calendar (and to me, Monday is still a day of the week), but I see through the dominant hyperrealities (a term we’ll explore below) of modern society, and M.J.’s books have taught me how to peer around corners and break free of every trap that society’s laid out in front of me.
I feel so strongly about these ideas because after escaping the matrix myself, I’ve been able to step back and recognize that it’s not in society’s interests for you and I to be free. But freedom is possible, and reading Unscripted will help you escape the matrix too.
Here in this article are the 10 most important takeaways I’ve selected from Unscripted that’ll give you an idea of whether or not it’s something you’ll want to read too…
