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Unscripted: The Great Rat-Race Escape

From Wage Slavery to Wealth: How to Start a Purpose Driven Business and Win Financial Freedom for a Lifetime

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Unscripted: The Great Rat-Race Escape

By: MJ DeMarco
Narrated by: Scott Thomas, MJ DeMarco
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About this listen

Has your life been conscripted by an economic religion?

Learn how to free yourself and your life through the power of unscripted entrepreneurship.

Grab your front-row seat in the story of a lifetime. Witness how one family escapes the rat race - the world's economic religion - and how you can too.

By all appearances, Jeff and Samantha Trotman are living the American dream. But behind the white picket fence, they endure an American nightmare. With little time for each other, a pile of debt, and Ferrari taste on a Ford budget, the ruse of affluence is killing them. Two respectable jobs and a lovely suburban house paint a pretty picture, but behind the ink is a broken marriage rife with meaningless work and dead dreams. And now, with an unplanned pregnancy, they’re facing a mid-life crisis 20 years early.

With little time and looming bankruptcy, the Trotmans are forced to face the red-pill truth they long denied: They were living, but they weren’t alive. Determined to resurrect their life and their marriage, the Trotmans plot a rat-race escape - only to find themselves more thickly in it. As tensions rise and hope fades, follow along step-by-step as the Trotmans pivot to a new strategy and a new career: starting a business as entrepreneurs. While they navigate their journey, you’ll learn 120 wealth-building strategies and principles that your mainstream financial guru won’t dare reveal - actionable concepts that will help you profit your way into the unscripted one percent, an emerging economic class of entrepreneurs who enjoy a lifetime of freedom emancipated from miserly living and Wall Street's "save, pray, and wait" paradigm.

Discover how one family escapes the wage-slaving grind and wins a lifetime of financial freedom, leaving behind the tyranny of meaningless jobs and mediocre living - and how you can do the same. Not in 50 years, but five or 10.

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Even better as an audiobook - the slightly Winnie-The-Pooh-esque narrator on the chunky chapters about the core mindset and methodology makes for pleasent listening, and MJ DeMarco's passionate delivery of the parallel novel, a practical implementation (or not) of the techniques, is a welcome and interesting double-whammy of knowledge transfer.

Gift this amazing book to everybody you know and watch their journey with interest over the years as they don't bother to read it, lol.

This is now my only desert-island book (sorry 'Unscripted' you're out -- this has better structure and deeper ideas).

Martin

Read it and weep (into cashmoney probably)

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If you are looking for a roadmap to escape the rat race without all of the up-selling sales funnel BS then read any one of Demarco's books.
This unique offering includes a fictional story that demonstrates "the process" in action so you can see how the books core concepts can be applied in the real world.
You will probably want to read this more than once...

Another Home Run from Demarco

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I love the DeMarco books and this is right up there. Great message and a great way of telling it with the theory and the practical example of the couple looking to exit the Rat Race. A great read and highly recommended

Excellent

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Great book about productocracy, too much vegan agenda in it. I would not expect to read a lot about any particular religion in a business book, so for me strict vegan views are also not welcomed in that kind of book. As usual great advice how to escape the rat race, just filter out vegan stuff if you don't like it like me.

Too much veganism in a business book

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Although it was longer than necessary, I found myself not wanting it to end.

I especially like the story of the Trottmans, and although it's not my preferred way to get lessons into my long term memory the points are driven home by the end of the book.

I also prefer MJ's voice and narration.

It was a very good read.

The story of the trottmans.

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