The “who taught me” Question …
- Well, it's a good question!

And I don’t just mean when dealing with trolls, hehe.

That I didn’t “learn from anyone”.

I learnt as I did with everything else – by experimenting, failing, failing, failing, then succeeding BIG (finally! Ah!) – and on my lonesome.

No silver spoons in my mouth, and truth be told I prefer it that way.

I’ve told you the story of a struggling Napleon Hill with no money to buy even FOOD during the 1930’s or so.

He worked for a man with several coal mines, I believe, and as he wrote monthly checks out to his boys in college, his eyes watered.

$100 was a lot of money back then!

But YEARS down the line the business was gone, and one of the boys was a drunk. The other, I’m not sure, but it’s fair to say he did NOT succeed at being anything except perhaps “loser el supremo”.

(true story).

And a story that repeats itself daily in everyone’s lives. You likely see it around you!

I’d rather get my education through the school of hard knocks.

Fitness wise.

Troll wise.

Email wise.

Writing wise!

But, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to go it alone in the sense you think.

Yours truly “renegade” doesn’t admire a lot of people.

Very few indeed, but when HE DOES?

He is EFFUSIVE in his praise of ‘em.

And he takes EVERY opportunity to “take ass and kick names” – or was it the other way around, hehe.

(I was writing about Bozo Schofield in the last email, and … pardon me. LOL. Thats what he does!)

Kick ass and take names.

Troll wise, and “those I admire wise”.

Matt Furey was who I got this from, and Matt Furey was who first implanted the seed for all this in my mind through his emails.

I don’t know the guy. I’ve never bought his products. Some of this list have, and they love mine more.

Well, thats just how it is.

But I give Matt credit whereever I can, including in the 0 Excuses Fitness System.

Another guy Matt inspired was the great Ben Settle who went through real “third world tough times” when livin in the good ole US of A (things ya’ll wouldn’t even imgine possible, but I can, for obvious reasons).

And though I always “knew” how to deal with trolls internally – Ben’s emails provided that extra spark for me to just do it.

Again, I Dont know Settle. He don’t know me. (don’t, hehe).

But the guy’s top notch, and …well, EVERY time I’ve needed inspiration his emails have done it.

There are some dudes you just “connect” with.

People have said I’m that sort of person.

You either love me, or you hate me.

Settle’s the same.

Anyway . . . point of all this?

We ALL learn from someplace.

Someone. Somewhere.

Every time I tell my wife she’s an excellent cook I ask (or used to ask) her the following.

“Where did you learn! Damn!”

By myself, she replies.

Probably.

She’s a talented lass in many areas!

But she had the environment growing up, which makes a huge difference.

(that doesn’t mean she doesn’t get credit for continous experiment etc that she DOES do, or for encouraging her – our – daughter to do the same despite plenty of opposition)

(But “environment” whether you like it or not DOES have an impact. The ole Hill saying about “you’re the sum of the three people you hang out with the most holds true”!)

(Hence yours truly CAVEMAN. Hehe).

Yours truly has always had the OPPOSITE environment growing up.

Fitness – Zero. Sales – Bah, humbug. How dare I, and “those are just sales men”.

It was always about the GRIND, which yours truly does if he likes something. Believe me, I do, and you know it!

But the results were never shown, which is a key, key mistake most people make.

Focus on the end result FIRST, my friend.

If you care about it enough, you’ll do it – any which way. You’ll find a way!

I did it.

So can YOU.

And THAT is the person I’d rather learn from, someone that has pulled themselves up by the boostraps – fitness included.

I’d rather learn from the guy that had terrible genetics and went on to become a fitness phenom.

(Funnily enough, even till this date, while strangers (initially) buy my products, courses, praise the programs etc, my own “those supposed to be closest to me” do the exact opposite. Such as it goes tho. You either love me, or you hate me, hehe. They chose the latter, and hey. I respect that!)

A guy with tons of injuries in the past that knows how to avoid ‘em NOW.

A guy that put in the HARD YARDS – the SLOG – even when everyone told him he was a fool for doing so.

A guy that truly believes in, and lives the maxim “just do it”!

And so forth …

THAT is who I’d learn from – and THAT is who you should learn from too!

Start right here.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – And no, I ain’t concerned about losing sales by mentioning the “greats”. Please. Spare me! (if you’re about to say that, and the sensible folks won’t).

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