Book Review: Unscripted!

One book I have had for the longest time, locked away in my bookshelf, is Unscripted Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship by MJ DeMarco. It is not only a good book, but the design is worth giving some credit. It is simple, bold, and direct. I am a fanatic of books that give you a glimpse of what you get from the title. So if you are buying the book at a neighborhood bookstore, you already know what you are getting into.

From the title, you know that the book is going to be centered on life and the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Given that I have read DeMarco's book, The Millionaire Fastlane, I am no stranger to his deviated opinion on building wealth for oneself through entrepreneurship. I think The Millionaire Fastlane is a book I will talk about some other time, but for now, I will be looking at Unscripted Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship

The Chapter I will talk about from the Unscripted book is chapter 21, The Money Scam: I can get rich by wanting to get rich. DeMarco breaks down how this statement is a money scam used to lure you into thinking you will get money simply because you want to be rich. Have you noticed how today's world is filled with people who are selling courses, how to change your life, my guide to financial freedom, forex changed my life, and many more like this? All these, mixed with a mindset that I will get that stack of cash after I watch how to get 1 million dollars in 6 months, is simply a fallacy.

To buttress his point, DeMarco spoke about how he used to be broke while his friends drove the nice cars and wore the expensive clothes, but that was not the main focus for me. Rather, it was how he spoke about money being a substance that requires attraction. Do not be the money chaser who runs from one thing to another, never focused on one thing. Something more like a jack of all trades but master of none. These moves do not attract the money you are looking for; instead, it gets a whole lot difficult.

As the quote in the book

Money doesn’t have a brain but its possessors do. Therefore money
responds indirectly to a value stimulus, but it also can hold biases and
prejudices.

Money is not just the notes or digital currency you use for payment; it is simply a mediator for value. When you see something you like, you ask how much it is. Then you pay the equivalent for the item. Lo and behold, an exchange of value has taken place there. With this explanation, although there are so many better ones in the book, I think you should get my point. If you want that million-dollar, what is the value you have to offer in exchange for it?

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Do not be the money chaser who runs from one place to another in search of more. More like when you want to catch a rat, you do not run around the house chasing the rat. You will simply get exhausted because the rat will outrun in the rat race. Rather, you set a trap using cheese or something that will attract the rat to the location where you want to catch it. Boom! It is where you want it. Like the above quote from the book says, money has no brain; you, its possessor, have one, so put it to good use.

I am sure you see why I fancy any book from MJ DeMarco. It is because of his witty explanation of entrepreneurship. He is more like that uncle at the dinner table who says things as they are, unfiltered and simply direct. Either you make do with it or you let it slide. The ball is in your court.

Till we meet again in another book discussion.

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