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Or,
so I thought. Until basic training was over (finally, thank God)...
and... he had a private conversation with me.

He
told me not
to have a bad opinion of myself. That he didn’t. That, during every
basic training bootcamp, there is always one guy who gets picked to be
the “goat”... and... how that
guy, always
gets pushed…

He
told me he really cared about me. How much he wanted me to make it. How
important that was to him.

He
was telling the truth.

You
know, since that time, I’ve had to (as I’m sure you
have
also) walk down many mean streets.

For
three years I was an MP in Europe operating under extremely stressful
conditions.

I
was selected to go through some very special training at a certain U.S.
government “facility” in Oberammagau, Germany... the existence of
which... is not even dreamed about by any civilians and, very
few commanding officers in even
the highest echelons of
the military. I…

I’ve
been a prison guard and a prison inmate. I’ve gone up against guys with
guns, guys with knives... and once... I had to cripple a guy twice my
size who just simply gave me no other choice.

The
problem with all this is, I’m not an especially tough person and this
kind of stuff really frightens…

What
has been even more scary is standing up to the U.S. government and all
the steel-edged, stone-cold, ethically devoid, soulless assholes you
encounter when trying to do business in America these days.

But,
so far (thank God and cross my fingers) I’ve survived it all.

Even
prospered every once in a while... and... I do believe part of my
survival and part of my successes (business, personal and military) can
be credited to the “mindset training” I got from that little Puerto
Rican drill sergeant.

See,
he knew something I didn’t: He knew, in real-life, you don’t get to
yell “Time Out” when you are sick, tired and scared... and then...
have the enemy cut you some slack. NO! As life teaches us all...

The
Enemy Will Rejoice

In
And Exploit Your Misery!

So
it is in the battlefields of a war and, so it is in the battlefields of
business.

At
the end of my recent seminar, one man was sobbing. He’d become so
emotional he couldn’t speak anymore.

Was
he angry with me?

No,
not at all. He was grateful.

What
I did was, I attacked and demolished a project he was working on which
didn’t have a prayer of succeeding.

I
made him “GET IT” right then and there... before... he wasted any more
of his time and money.

I
wrote out on my easel and made him scream the following instructions...

(go
to page 4)

–
Page 4 –

”ABANDON

THIS
STUPID

BULLSHIT

PROJECT!”

It
wasn’t an act of cruelty. It was an act of kindness.
And, I’m proud to say he and everyone else in that seminar room
perceived it as such.

I
care
about my attendees. I care enough to do whatever
is necessary to make sure they “get” what they’ve really got to “get”
if they are to succeed.

You
know, there were a number of people in that room who have been reading
my newsletters and going to my seminars for almost ten years.

Every
so often, one of them would stand up and say something like this:

‘‘Listen
to him, dammit. I had a hard time myself accepting something Gary told
me six years ago... but... he was right... and now... I
makeover $1,000,000 per year!”

I
swell up with pride when people make remarks like that. There’s hardly
anything else in the world so rewarding as knowing your words and your
work have transformed a person’s life for the better. That’s what I now
want to devote a huge part of my life to doing.

I’m
... on
fire
... about becoming the best teacher in the world. I especially enjoy
helping young
people before they are literally ruined
by our educational system.

My
stepdaughter, Natalie, is in college in Ithaca, New York. She phoned me
recently because she couldn’t understand the textbook being used in her
class on advertising. I had her read part…

“This
is complete garbage. Anyone who can ‘understand’ this is stupid and
twisted... because... it’s all wrong... and even... moronic!”

My
daughter Cindy is a world-renowned marine biologist now doing important
research in Germany.

Other
scientists come from all over the world to learn from her... but... a
few years ago, when I audited some of her college classes, I was appalled
at the communicative incompetence of her professors.

Kids
make it today in
spite
of what they learn in school... not... because of it.

Another
of my “daughters,” Lorraine Vaquero, is 15 years old and a columnist
for the Miami
Herald.
(In fact, last Wednesday, she had two
columns in the paper.) She’s a great writer for her age and I don’t
want for her spark…

Can
you even imagine what a departure it was for her to see a raving madman
like me teaching a room full of super smart people... as compared...
to the kind of “schooling” she gets from the “elite” Dade County school
system?

I’ve
never
had testimonial letters like the ones pouring in from the attendees of
this new seminar. I’m thinking about having them all bound together and
literally making a book out of them. Can you imagine...

​​​​​​​

Having
An Entire Book

Of
Nothing
But Rave Testimonials?!

Enough.
Blowing your own horn is fine but, there should be a limit... even for
me.
So, let’s get to the important stuff. Just
what was it
... I taught these people which seems to have literally turned around
so many of their lives?