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In the glittering world of Hollywood and high-stakes media, few stories are as captivating and shocking as the one told in "Unscripted" by James B. Stewart. This book peels back the curtain on the Redstone media empire, revealing a tale of power, greed, family drama, and scandal that would seem far-fetched even for a soap opera.
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- What Unscripted Talks About
- Short Summary
- Intro
- Part 1: Confession
- Part 2: The Script: Engineering Your Voluntary Slavery
- Part 3: Your Life Unscripted
- Part 4: The Escape: The Unscripted Entrepreneurial Framework
There are three roads to wealth. Only one will make you millions (entrepreneurship).You earn a lot of money when you deliver a lot of value.To deliver a lot of value fast, you need to use leverage (a company).You maximize your chances to build a profitable company when the company aligns with your values and purpose, when you take action to build it, and when it respects the five commandments of entrepr...Unscripted is a business book written by MJ DeMarco, the author of The Millionaire Fastlane. The book dispels myths about becoming rich and gives a complete mental and business framework to build a company that earns multiple millions per year. Unscriptedtaught me that a business that works respects five principles known as CENTS. If you need one b...
You have three financial paths in life. The sidewalk: live off debt and a job. Consume the wealth of tomorrow to live well today. The slowlane: sacrifice living well today to live well tomorrow, if you survive. The fastlane: become rich fast so you can live well and retire today. The fastlane is attained when you follow the TUNEF framework. The FTE...
Society has scriptedyou to think becoming rich is impossible. Or that you need connection, VC funding, a Ph.D. in physics, and a lot of luck. But none of this is true. And yet, you believe it. You believe it because of the script. The script runs deep inside your brain. Its purpose is to disguise the fact that not only slavery still exists, but tha...
Chapter 3: The Modern Day Matrix: the Script
The script is a set of actions that society compels you to take. It’s a forced “how-to-live-life” guide. 1. Go to university 2. Get a job 3. Work for 50 years to make someone else rich 4. Give your money to Wall Street to protect yourself against inflation because the government cannot stop printing 5. Retire poor 6. Live healthy for 10 more years 7. Die That’s the road everyone takes. There is another road, with better outcomes. But to take it, you need to unscript yourself first.
Chapter 6: The Scripted Operating System: the Web of Servitude
The Script is an operating system made out of seeders, hyperrealities, temporal prostitution, life path, distractions, and model citizenship. Seeders: they indoctrinate you into the script, and gaslight you if you dare challenge their teachings. They usually profit from you being scripted, and usually represent authority. You have six types of seeders. Some are aware of the lie they propagate, others aren’t: 1. Friends and family: they don’t want you to succeed above their own success. 2. Edu...
Chapter 9: Temporal Prostitution: Trading Good Time for Bad
There is a tenth hyperreality: temporal prostitution. By paying you money against time, society makes you think that time is infinite while money isn’t. It’s in fact the opposite. And there is worse! Ever heard of the time value of money? It’s an economics principle that explains that the value of your money will decrease over time (due to printing). $10 today is worth much more than $10 in the future. So when you trade time for money and buy stuff with your money, you are trading part of you...
Chapter 10: Two Doors, One Slaughterhouse, No Difference
The first door is the sidewalk. The sidewalk is about living off debt and borrowing money to spend today. It’s trading tomorrow for today’s consumption. Sidewalkers identify themselves through what they consume and fully live the script. I consume therefore I am. Anyone can be a sidewalker. Net worth is irrelevant. Sidewalkers are those that spend 100% or more of what they earn. As a result, they never reach a level where money is making more money by itself. Sidewalkers are temporal prostitu...
Chapter 13: The Unscripted Life: F*ck You
The Unscripted life is defined by the capacity of those that live it to say “F*ck You”. This translates to “being free from obligations most people have to attend no matter what”. These are: 1. Freedom from work: Do whatever you want. 2. Freedom from scarcity and frugal constraint: Buy whatever you want. 3. Freedom from hyperrealistic influence: The Unscripted does not care about who won the Grammy awards, or the game last night. 4. Freedom from hope and dependence: Dependence on a boss/compa...
Chapter 14: “Fuck This” Before “F*ck You”
The “F*ck this event” is the event where you break out of the script and decide to stop letting it consume your life. It’s taking the red pill – except that it’s not as painless. The “F*ck this event” is the first step into hell. It’s a moment of pain in your life that is so powerful that it changes you and your behavior forever. And it gets you out of the sh*t. If you don’t know whether you have had an FTE, then you likely haven’t. You may have had a “f*ck this moment”, but not an event. An...
Chapter 15: The Unscripted Entrepreneurial Framework
The Unscripted Entrepreneurial Framework or TUNEF is a five-phase progression of both thoughts and action, both uniting in a series of macro and micro-processes. TUNEF has 6 steps: 1. The FTE, which we talked about. 2. 3 BS: Bullsh*ts, Biases, and Beliefs + the 8 Belief Scams 3. MP: Meaning and Purpose: the Why: the core driver 4. FE: Fastlane Entrepreneurship: growing a fastlane business with the CENTS framework 5. Kinetic Execution: Act, Assess, Adjust 6. The Four disciplines: comparative i...
Chapter 16: Our Self-Imposed Prison: Beliefs, Biases, and Bullsh*ts
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. The 3 Bs drive or derail your path as an entrepreneur. They are super important! Belief: what you think is true that isn’t necessarily. Biases: mental shortcuts protecting your beliefs. Bullsh*t: the bs you tell yourself.
Chapter 17: The 8 Beliefs Scams
We don’t challenge our beliefs. We seek to reinforce them. Most of the time, our beliefs aren’t even “our” beliefs. They were planted by someone else. Right now, the SCRIPTED OS is to your brain what a parasite is to a dog. To get rid of it, you need to kill the eight false beliefs that are ruling your life. You do so by polarizing them. When the world thinks WHITE, think BLACK. When the world BUYS, SELL. Let’s have a look at these eight beliefs.
Feb 14, 2023 · - The Hollywood Reporter“Jaw-dropping . . . an epic tale of toxic wealth and greed populated by connivers and manipulators.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ ChoiceThe shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that ...
In his thought-provoking book "Unscripted," author MJ DeMarco challenges readers to break free from society's predetermined path and create their own roadmap to success and fulfillment. This eye-opening guide offers a fresh perspective on entrepreneurship, wealth creation, and living life on your own terms. Introduction
Brief summary. Unscripted by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams is a fascinating account of how Wall Street's biggest dealmakers managed to cash out during private-equity's boom times. The authors reveal the inner workings of Wall Street's power players and their secretive deals. Topics.
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Unscripted tells the story of the rise and fall of old media moguls amid the seismic shifts that took place in the entertainment industry. Written by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, the book goes behind the scenes, exposing the clash between forces like Shari Redstone's progressive vision and the entrenched powers led by traditional figures like Les Moonves.
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SCRIPT has an escape through UNSCRIPTION — a life-changing subset of thought and action underwritten by entrepreneurship. As “fuck you” implies, UNSCRIPTED is about pure, unadulterated life and liberty. Life means owning your time and thoughts while curating your existence. It is not just to be, but to become.
