This Book is for YOU
A Surprising Revelation
In the last 10 days, the biggest revelation for us is that appeal of this book is far beyond college-age males. It’s best summed up by this reviewer who recently posted this on Amazon:
“There are times in my life where I knew, in the moment, that the arc of my story was being redirected. Something, someone, or some event so obviously important that it cuts through the noise and distractions of life and forced me to immediately recognize its significance.
The decision on a fall day in 1998 in Kingston, Ontario to turn my university studies around, agreeing to an apprenticeship in Beijing in 2002, a job interview in London in 2003, meeting my wife in Dallas in 2004, when each of my kids were born, etc. Reading this book is another one of those moments.
I could not be happier to have crossed with this book. My children are too young to start the program, but I have already bought hardcover copies for each of them and will be reading and re-reading it with them until they are at an age where they can start some of the anchor activities.
In the meantime, I plan on starting Medic cycle and have not been this excited to get back into learning since I finished graduate studies over 20 years ago.
This book is geared towards young men but can be relevant to almost anyone. Matt has hinted at developing a version for young women; I can only hope for my daughter's sake that he does.
If you are a parent who is worried about your children's future and what experiences and education best prepares them for a world of continued technological disruption and geopolitical change, you should read this book.If you are middle school or high school student and trying to figure out what your interests are and how to parlay that into post-secondary education, you should read this book.
If you are middle age and disenchanted with your work but uncertain how to make a change, you should read this book.
If you enjoy learning and are interested in leveling up life skills or trying something new, you should read book.
Anyone will benefit from reading this book.
Thank you, Doug, Max, and Matt, for the time and effort you put into this. It will change lives.”- 5-star reviewer on Amazon
The Preparation in the media:
How to Become a Renaissance Man in a World of Drones | Tom Woods Show #2685
You know, Matt, I realized I’m on almost the same journey you are with Maxim — I’m preparing my son in real time. He finished college, but he tells me he’s learning more from this experience than he did in four years at Seton Hall. I brought him to Uruguay, and he’s coming back with me in January. He’s not just reading about business, he’s sitting in the room as it gets built. That’s the same philosophy you and Doug laid out in The Preparation — learn by doing, apprentice into competence. Different subject matter, same principle. That’s why I bought the book for my son — because it puts into words the path I’ve already started him on.
It seems like you're doing the same kind of thing as these people - https://www.deepsprings.edu/next/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TheLeagueOfNunnianSchools2023-09-18.pdf - and https://www.deepsprings.edu/
I am a fan of Heinlein, have been ever since 1969, when I read Stranger in a Strange Land - on and around July 20 - stayed up that night to watch the landing and the first walk, so when I was reading the book, Neil Armstrong was walking around on the Moon. It was a massive failure of will and misdirection of resources that put us on our present downhill path, the US could have done far, far better but the low, "easy" road was taken.
About specialization being for insects: I have a BSc, MSc (natural products chemistry), PhD (physical/organic/computational chemistry) (1981-1987) and a JD (2000), active and in good standing, Kansas and USPTO Bars. I did active research in various aspects of chemistry, co-author on 12 papers in that field. Later, in 2000, I had an 89 page monograph on the legal meaning of the word "blight" published in the ABA Journal of Real Property, Probate, and Trusts. On one of my post-docs, wound up doing neural net research on devising a real time emergent failure mode predictor for the high pressure fuel turbopump of the Space Shuttle Main Engine - and presented at the Joint Propulsion Conference in Cincinnati in 1990 - and got a NASA grant funded... Did 17 years of criminal defense law practice, 10 years of involuntary commitment defense. Edited, published, and organized issue 45 of Factsheet Five - see https://f5archive.org/issue45/ and the issue itself at https://archive.org/details/factsheet_five_45 (1991). Board member, legal counsel, and founding member of Sustainability Action Network, Lawrence, KS (2007-present) - and a few permaculture and agroforestry design courses, the latter with Dave Jacke. ... and then there's my Substack page which I've been doing since 2021. How's that for non-specialization?