Journal // 26th June 2024

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Jun 27

Written By Jason Fisk

On this day I…

I just started reading The 50th Law by 50 Cent and Robert Greene. (AmazonUK)

My takeaways after only reading the first three chapters is this;

“Cultivate self power and independence. Remember no one wants to help you if doing so will take you and your time away from them making money—they want you on a wage, good or bad, to fulfil their dream/agenda, not yours. They don’t care about your dream because it isn’t theirs and you don’t care about their dream or the dreams of others. Stop kidding yourself.” — Me.

I think we’ve all been online long enough to have seen, “No one thinks about you, they’re all too busy thinking about themselves.” Or something to that effect.

Or “Never be a minion, always be an owner.” — Cornelius Vanderbilt.

The 50th Law has to be the best self-help book I’ve read (not finished yet) and it cuts to the heart of the matter. The self—You have to do it yourself, no one is coming to save you. You can’t rely upon or wait around for someone to help you. You just have to get started and see what happens, and what opportunities come your way. Because if you’re just sitting around visualizing, manifesting or wanting something to just fall into your lap, you gotta get out there and ‘Hustle’.

Not such a fan of the word hustle in this context to be honest, but the book was published in 2009 when Hustle was a byword for just getting shit done. Now I feel like it means ‘getting shit done at the expense of others, a kind of Red Pill bullshit that we just don’t need these days.

I had a plan for the next six months, now I wonder if six months is too long. Can I achieve in a short time what I had originally planned in half a year?

Probably.

If I Hustle.

Do I need to learn, hell yeah! A lot ‘cause I got no idea what I’m doing or how to get to where I want/need to be. But I do know what road to travel. I’ll just follow Hercules.

So, what now?

The Books

Inspired by Noir, Hard Boiled Detective paperbacks of the 1940s and 50s I want to create a series of stories both in paperback form and short stories to be added to this blog as a series that can add a little extra insight into the world and characters of my book. Much like Arthur Conan-Doyles Sherlock Holmes had novels and short stories published in The Strand

Curtis Jackson talks about the music industry, and business in general, as a way of exploiting talent. By the time you get paid for all your hard work, there’s hardly any money left. Agents, marketing, PR, ads, the label etc, have all taken their bite of the pie before you even see it, and then it’s just a crumpled foil tray with crumbs and a few scraps of crust.

The one who created the work gets the least.

The solution, be the record label, the marketer, the PR team, make your own ads.

In my case, be my own agent, publisher, marketer, PR team—How? I have no idea, but we live in a time where all the information I need is either online or in a book. Create the path (of Virtue) that you want to walk.

As Marcus Aurelius said,

“The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

Meditations, Book 5.20.

Work in Progress: Fragile. Book 1.

My character: William Scott, Private Detective.