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THANX FOR THE SHARE. REPS ADDED.

Hey Gordon!

Great to see you here again- Your conspicuous absence was noted- (By me at least, and undoubtedly multiple others)- But for a good cause! I'm glad you were able to get away and have a little (or a lot really lol) R and R- Much deserved IMHO after all of the Gordon Golden Goodness you Gladly Give all of us here (thought a little 'literation would convey my enthusiasm)-

No doubt many of us here have experienced the "lean times," and although acutely and perhaps excruciatingly painful at the time, those of us (myself, and as you indicated yourself as well) can hopefully ultimately look back and regale and rejoice in our current, vastly improved monetary experience and abundance- In other words- To quote the classic film Vanilla Sky (ok maybe not THAT classic...) "You need the SOUR to truly appreciate the SWEET"- or something like that...


There isn't much more I can expound on the matter that I hadn't said in my previous post, on top of the (greatly appreciated) personal disclosures you shared here- Ok well, you know me, I'm lying, I probably COULD expound here for the next two hours as I very much care about the future of our kids and country and believe everybody in school should be given compulsory educations by all school systems on the subject of ENTREPRENEURSHIP-

But I digest (ok I stole that one from Doberman Dan, who probably stole it from Halbert ;^)

So is there anything actually constructive (and geez I sure hope INTERESTING) that I can add to what you shared?

I don't know, but something did come to mind as I was reading your Van Gogh-like history (except you actually got to experience the abundant fruits of your labor ultimately, and not just enjoy it posthumously laying in a hamhock up in the clouds...)

I had read online about an experience a guy had approximately 1000 years ago at a unique IM event (ok, ok it was probably around 2007 but that would be about 1000 years ago in IM years)

Anyway, this guy apparently went to an event that was held by another guy named Jason Moffatt- If you don't know him he was at the time Frank Kern's "star pupil," kind of like how Jeff Paul was to Dan Kennedy, Doberman Dan was to Gary Halbert, Robin was to Batman?

Jason won Frank's "Underachiever" contest at the time (one of Frank's earliest courses, from 2003 was called the Underachiever Method, had an accompanying 2 day seminar with Frank's original partner Ed Dale, I think you can find the videos here, featuring Frank without his ubiquitous beard)

So Jason, who then achieved some notoriety in the relatively modest sized IM community at the time, due to Jason pouncing on and conquering the poker niche, decided to really offer some amazing value to the community and held a day long FREE-FOR-ALL seminar of sorts- Yes the seminar was free, but it was held in San Diego so if you wanted to go you had to pony up the air fare, but one of the selling points was Frank himself would also "likely" show up at some time to the seminar-

Oh yeah one little detail I forgot to mention was that the seminar was being held at the beach, so you had to try to find the group at like "Lifeguard Station 10" or something- Hey I said it was free, I didn't say it was convenient! And the chances of Frank showing up were only slightly increased by going to the beach as Frank was "supposed" to be out surfing that day- And as it turns out according to what I read, Frank DID show up, walking out of the water, soaking wet, a bit exhausted reportedly, and gave a "little" facetime to the group (which as I remember was approximately 50 people), but basically was drained from attempting to surf and wanting to dry off, and didn't stick around for very long- I'm not entirely clear on the facts, so if any historians here can correct me on any of these critical details please do so ;^)

But the event happened- Anyway the POINT of my story here (Yes Theo GET TO THE POINT)-

Is that there was some guy at the seminar (you know- THAT guy, the one who won't stop asking questions, gobbling up all of the precious and limited time that's supposed to be allocated for everybody, you know, a guy who's sometimes named something like THEO ;^)

This guy, who apparently was some kind of computer and programming major, who knew more computer languages than 100 Microsoft programmers (or Coders as we call them in this century) and it sounded like he just hoovered a ton of Jason's time talking about the esoteric and to be honest dry as dirt intricacies and minutia of computer programming- From what I recall Jason was gracious and patient with the guy but kept trying to steer the stick in the mud to more of a marketing conversation, for the whole group's and the seminar's benefit- I remember something in the blog post where the author said he didn't walk away with very much IM knowledge, but he said his confidence level was now sky high as he realized that "computer nerds," (with all due respect Gordon ;^) for all of their accomplished and hard-earned knowledge, were ZERO competition for anybody in the IM space-

I don't know if this story speaks to anybody on any level or not, but for some reason I pulled it out of the air and maybe its lesson will impart some kind of distinction for somebody- If nothing else, just to continue to reiterate that in this day and age EDUCATION and KNOWLEDGE ain't what it used to be- And never will be again (Loud GONG noise accompanies a mic drop)

Thanks again for sharing Gordon and enjoy your next adventure! Safe travels-

Theo

love you man.. added rep+