Pedro6868
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Dear Members,
Thank you for this opportunity... I have never come across anything quite like this. I'm looking forward to learning, breaking out.
I was 39 years old when I saw the original Matrix movie- on the big screen. Amazing how long ago it was. In those days I had still never used a computer and didn't yet have a cell phone. I did read books, however. The movie knocked me down. I walked out of that theatre in an altered state. I knew exactly what was happening.
I smelled a rat early on in my life- I just could not put the pieces together quickly. That took decades. The Catholic dogma was force-fed to me along with all its accompanying psychological straight jackets-guilt and fear.
I literally hated school from the get-go. I had to be dragged up the stairs where I was met by Sister Tarsisius who grappled with me trying to move me toward the first grade class. I kicked and growled but what brought me to heel was social embarrassment. The other children filed past me in line, looking right at me as they filed into the class. Social engineering brought me to heel.
Growing up in a severely dysfunctional house I had no practical instruction as to how the world actually works. It was all programming. My silver lining is having been born into a family of highly talented artists. My father and grandfather were pros.
I was advised as a boy, however, that if I wanted art it would have to be commercial art. Fine art, I was told, would never provide a living. I was duly warned. However, that was really the only thing I related to and so I set my heart on it at 16.
I was a very curious lad. By 18 I had read such books as "The Biggest Con, How The Government is Fleecing You" by Irwin Schiff, and "The secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustice Mullins. I was quickly learning that there was a lot to learn and that the world was not as I was told it was.
I went to the Art Students League of NY where I found another stifling set of dogmatic approaches to learning how to draw. I met a rebel teacher from Chicago who was undertaking a deep study of the human skeleton. I follow him down to Florida where I spent my early twenties sculpting the human skeleton and a deep study on a revolutionary approach to "opening the vision" kind of visual vocabulary.
Let's just say that I was, by then, well adapted to ideas firmly "out of the box". It has been a long winding road. I turned myself into an excellent painter. It's has been a grueling road of huge sacrifice. I travelled the US for 17 years drawing caricatures at state and county fairs. In the winters I escaped the winters heading to Latin America where I continued to make art and learned to speak Spanish fluently.
In 2011 I found myself back in NY painting on eastern Long Island. To keep costs down I lived in a barn with dirt floors and no running water. I did that for 5 years. To me value was to be found in free time. I had "so called" friends angry that I lived "like an animal" and family members who couldn't understand why I just wouldn't "join" the society.
By 2012 I could see the noose tightening around everyone. I was wondering how I could make it work- to get out of the USA, land of the "not so free".
I've made so many mistakes a long the way. I'm so talented it could make you cry, but I've had other deficits along the way- emotional difficulties I just did not know how to rise above.
In 2015 I crashed and burned badly. I made some bad decisions and ran from what I thought I could not face. It got worse. However, it finally broke and opened up new opportunity. I had one last card to play to make things move. I sold a piece of scrub land outside Taos and it gave me ticket money. I moved to Nicaragua where I am now. I'm setting myself up again. Things are much more balanced here. I love the subject matter I have to paint here. It's still all kind of new.
I loved the book Unscripted . I'm actually still reading it. I can see I've had a natural feel to avoid really stupid choices- like college. At the same time while I am a very smart individual I am financially illiterate. At 57 I'm basically beginning over again. Building a brand new website. Fresh ideas. I have invested decades into learning to paint- and ALL of that is still with me. I had that idea for years- to develop my talent- and have something that cannot be fleeced away from me.
I feel VERY positive for what I will create here. I am blessed to find key resources in things like the book Unscripted . My whole life has been unscripted for the most part. There is a lot to learn and so I'm glad to be here. Thank you. Pedro
Thank you for this opportunity... I have never come across anything quite like this. I'm looking forward to learning, breaking out.
I was 39 years old when I saw the original Matrix movie- on the big screen. Amazing how long ago it was. In those days I had still never used a computer and didn't yet have a cell phone. I did read books, however. The movie knocked me down. I walked out of that theatre in an altered state. I knew exactly what was happening.
I smelled a rat early on in my life- I just could not put the pieces together quickly. That took decades. The Catholic dogma was force-fed to me along with all its accompanying psychological straight jackets-guilt and fear.
I literally hated school from the get-go. I had to be dragged up the stairs where I was met by Sister Tarsisius who grappled with me trying to move me toward the first grade class. I kicked and growled but what brought me to heel was social embarrassment. The other children filed past me in line, looking right at me as they filed into the class. Social engineering brought me to heel.
Growing up in a severely dysfunctional house I had no practical instruction as to how the world actually works. It was all programming. My silver lining is having been born into a family of highly talented artists. My father and grandfather were pros.
I was advised as a boy, however, that if I wanted art it would have to be commercial art. Fine art, I was told, would never provide a living. I was duly warned. However, that was really the only thing I related to and so I set my heart on it at 16.
I was a very curious lad. By 18 I had read such books as "The Biggest Con, How The Government is Fleecing You" by Irwin Schiff, and "The secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustice Mullins. I was quickly learning that there was a lot to learn and that the world was not as I was told it was.
I went to the Art Students League of NY where I found another stifling set of dogmatic approaches to learning how to draw. I met a rebel teacher from Chicago who was undertaking a deep study of the human skeleton. I follow him down to Florida where I spent my early twenties sculpting the human skeleton and a deep study on a revolutionary approach to "opening the vision" kind of visual vocabulary.
Let's just say that I was, by then, well adapted to ideas firmly "out of the box". It has been a long winding road. I turned myself into an excellent painter. It's has been a grueling road of huge sacrifice. I travelled the US for 17 years drawing caricatures at state and county fairs. In the winters I escaped the winters heading to Latin America where I continued to make art and learned to speak Spanish fluently.
In 2011 I found myself back in NY painting on eastern Long Island. To keep costs down I lived in a barn with dirt floors and no running water. I did that for 5 years. To me value was to be found in free time. I had "so called" friends angry that I lived "like an animal" and family members who couldn't understand why I just wouldn't "join" the society.
By 2012 I could see the noose tightening around everyone. I was wondering how I could make it work- to get out of the USA, land of the "not so free".
I've made so many mistakes a long the way. I'm so talented it could make you cry, but I've had other deficits along the way- emotional difficulties I just did not know how to rise above.
In 2015 I crashed and burned badly. I made some bad decisions and ran from what I thought I could not face. It got worse. However, it finally broke and opened up new opportunity. I had one last card to play to make things move. I sold a piece of scrub land outside Taos and it gave me ticket money. I moved to Nicaragua where I am now. I'm setting myself up again. Things are much more balanced here. I love the subject matter I have to paint here. It's still all kind of new.
I loved the book Unscripted . I'm actually still reading it. I can see I've had a natural feel to avoid really stupid choices- like college. At the same time while I am a very smart individual I am financially illiterate. At 57 I'm basically beginning over again. Building a brand new website. Fresh ideas. I have invested decades into learning to paint- and ALL of that is still with me. I had that idea for years- to develop my talent- and have something that cannot be fleeced away from me.
I feel VERY positive for what I will create here. I am blessed to find key resources in things like the book Unscripted . My whole life has been unscripted for the most part. There is a lot to learn and so I'm glad to be here. Thank you. Pedro
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