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zen*******, who are you?

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Wow. Why is everyone acting like I'm the offspring of satan and hitler?

I never said I wanted his bank statement or anything in that nature.

All I wanted was a 1 sentence explanation of who he is. Because I can't find that anywhere. I'm sure there are plenty of posters, and even more guest readers, that what to find out why because he has 2 Gold Threads related to him.

However, based on Runum (read: Staff Member), I have to pay MJ 30$ just to find out that little piece of information.
$30 will get you a lot more than this information. Matter of fact the info you will find is priceless, but it's not for everyone. If you have read the book then you must know that MJ is very generous with information. But hey, this whole fastlane thing isn't for everyone.
 

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If I knew anything about editing anything, I would replace the word Scottland with Fastlane Forum, and William Wallace with Zen Dolphin.

 

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Or I'd change this to say the Zen blows this guy away:

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We'll I'm flying back from key west today after a week of sun sea boating and diving. (And some fun drinking red bull and vodka) and I get on here and see this crazy thread.
Funny.
While I get your intent, I will say your process of finding out stuff kinda sucks...
I won't belabor that here the rest of the forum has pretty much spanked you better than I could.
So let's talk about you first before we talk about me.
I have seen the question asked several times. Who are you? From your lack of response and your continued focus on who I am,
I am guessing a younger guy in search of answers, and have been burned by others. Ok fine
But I think what your missing the most here is this,
This forum is a conversation, where you are trying to learn from. But your approach is more trying to be right than rich.
Your not asking the right questions. Your trying way to hard to be right. It's apparent in your questions.
I have seen this exact thing many times. When some one is seeking out answers in life, but wants to be right, ( or stuck on 1 old idea they are sure is the truth),
then almost nothing I say will even reach them. That's fine. I just let them figure it out on their own. Maybe they come back latter and ask better questions... But mostly they don't.
So. I have given some advice and some people ignore it and live their life
Sometimes however, I give some thing to some one that is so valuable it utterly changes their life
But again it's their life
They see something in what I have shared that gives them the glimpse THEY needed.
I don't charge people for that, it's what we all get from each other as a community. I get a lot out of this community and other things here.
I have done executive coaching before. and when I do, yes I charge. About 1k per hr. (But it's not how I make money.)
What I do here is similar. I give a perspective that is the insight they need. Not much more.
Now about me
I have a huge list of failures
I have failed at multiple businesses
I have lost 1m dollars of investors money before
I have been kicked out of my own businesses before, by bad partners.
I have had crappy partners
Made bad decisions
Have lost lots of my own money
Been sued by a city
Sued people
Been in over 250 lawsuits
Even been divorced once.
In other words. Quite simply I have f*cked up more than most people.
Oh and one more thing...
I' probably have the worst sense of style of any 100 people you will meet. (Zero F*cks given)
Based on that I might just be the biggest failure on the forum
But as you can see, from the responses, I may not be...
The real question here, is who are YOU. What are you DOING, not what have I done....
Post about you,
Your thread, your progress your journey.
That's all we care About. How YOU decide to create value in the world.
10 min of research might get you enough info to make these big boy decisions of if you should read my stuff or not
my financial status, changes Every single day.
So it doesn't matter
Good luck on what ever you do. We will cheer you on if you decided to stay and play
And will quickly forget you if you just go and hide.
Z

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We'll I'm flying back from key west today after a week of sun sea boating and diving. (And some fun drinking red bull and vodka) and I get on here and see this crazy thread.

Funny.
While I get your intent, I will say your process of finding out stuff kinda sucks...

I won't belabor that here the rest of the forum has pretty much spanked you better than I could.

So let's talk about you first before we talk about me.

I have seen the question asked several times. Who are you? From your lack of response and your continued focus on who I am,

I am guessing a younger guy in search of answers, and have been burned by others. Ok fine
But I think what your missing the most here is this,

This forum is a conversation, where you are trying to learn from. But your approach is more trying to be right than rich.

Your not asking the right questions. Your trying way to hard to be right. It's apparent in your questions.

I have seen this exact thing many times. When some one is seeking out answers in life, but wants to be right, ( or stuck on 1 old idea they are sure is the truth),

then almost nothing I say will even reach them. That's fine. I just let them figure it out on their own. Maybe they come back latter and ask better questions... But mostly they don't.

So. I have given some advice and some people ignore it and live their life

Sometimes however, I give some thing to some one that is so valuable it utterly changes their life

But again it's their life

They see something in what I have shared that gives them the glimpse THEY needed.

I don't charge people for that, it's what we all get from each other as a community. I get a lot out of this community and other things here.

I have done executive coaching before. and when I do, yes I charge. About 1k per hr. (But it's not how I make money.)

What I do here is similar. I give a perspective that is the insight they need. Not much more.

Now about me

I have a huge list of failures

I have failed at multiple businesses
I have lost 1m dollars of investors money before
I have been kicked out of my own businesses before, by bad partners.
I have had crappy partners
Made bad decisions
Have lost lots of my own money
Been sued by a city
Sued people
Been in over 250 lawsuits
Even been divorced once.

In other words. Quite simply I have f*cked up more than most people.

Oh and one more thing...

I' probably have the worst sense of style of any 100 people you will meet. (Zero F*cks given)
Based on that I might just be the biggest failure on the forum

But as you can see, from the responses, I may not be...

The real question here, is who are YOU. What are you DOING, not what have I done....

Post about you,
Your thread, your progress your journey.

That's all we care About. How YOU decide to create value in the world.
10 min of research might get you enough info to make these big boy decisions of if you should read my stuff or not


my financial status, changes Every single day.
So it doesn't matter


Good luck on what ever you do. We will cheer you on if you decided to stay and play

And will quickly forget you if you just go and hide.

Z

We are not going to close this thread… But after this epic post this might be a good place for the forum members to decide to let this thread rest in peace.
 
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I can't believe some members here are giving so much attention to this and are put into a reactive mode. I suppose most of us have better things to spend our time working on... I lost 10 minutes of my life that I can never get back, reading some stupid shit on this thread.

All I wanted was a 1 sentence explanation of who he is. Because I can't find that anywhere. I'm sure there are plenty of posters, and even more guest readers, that what to find out why because he has 2 Gold Threads related to him.

However, based on Runum (read: Staff Member), I have to pay MJ 30$ just to find out that little piece of information.

 
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I think the moral of the story here, for me anyway, is you don't look a gift horse in the mouth, instead throw a saddle on it and ride.
 

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And I used to be the a**hole on the forum! Thanks for taking my spot! :woot:

Oh please, if you mean spot number 50 maybe....
 

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Well, that was entertaining LOL

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back to work
 

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Well... He is a pretty good sport, so he probably won't hold this thread against you too much.
But he is also a guy that knows how he wants to spend his time.

To understand what makes an entrepenuer badass vs average you have to understand that most people can't act on actionable advice or execute very well in business (myself included).
He is a guy that has great execution, and really has no issue effortlessly swooping on an opportunity. I still admire that and I feel pretty good about my outlook financially.

He can launch a product in a few weeks, outsourcing it and have it churn in the cash (thats not as easy as it sounds).
He's been doing biz well over 20 years (iirc). He was once buying over 300 houses a week, launched that without money (iirc). He's been around the block, varying from real estate to websites and who knows what else.

He is short and to the point, and knows whats up, and he started out from nothing, just hitch hiking and talking to people driving trucks and guys that knew what was up, and he recognised that the only real difference was in the way they thought about life.

For me he gives a solid perspective, and has a good attitude to emulate, in that he is generous, takes action on very well understood opportunities, and doesn't have the crazy circular thoughts in his head (to him, he can't even remember how it felt like to suck).
He seems to be a good dude and has not only made many million but many millionaires seemingly effortlessly.
I know the bigger guys around this forum don't bend a knee easily, it is just because you are asking for an immediate response.

The dude doesn't need to respond, and you should reach a point where you understand that because then you will sound more polite and be able to work your way up to getting some solid responses.
 
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Why do I feel stoned right now?

*looks down at joint*

"... oh yeah"


A great thing about zen******* is his no frills kinda approach. There are all these people telling you to make a business selling tshirts and the latest app, but he is like "well, I just saw this and made it make millions", you might ask what it is, but it doesn't even matter.
While guys are wrestling with "the next best thing" he just makes the best stuff work for him xD

I was buying some shopping, and I came across a no frills chocolate, and some raw cocoa powder, and I thought "you know, chocolate isn't even hard to make, but we give it this prestige, I could totally go find out who is making this and I bet the operation is easy as pie for me to figure out".
I put the chocolate down and keep on walking.

zen******* is no doubt like that, but he actually probably made that choc. There is his product right in front of you, seemless.


How can you not smile a little at that.
 

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This thread should be GOLD.
 

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NICE! Heard that is a must read.

It is!

I finished it yesterday, it's absolutely packed with information, studies, facts and methods, it really appealed to me for that reason. Everything is backed with multiple studies, examples are all real, there's no fluff, and because of that there's so much info crammed in its crazy, for example there's a section where he cited multiple studies on which fonts and colors are most readable. Easy read too having been written by a copywriter.
 

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Zen is like Morpheus. Truth is, if you are lucky enough, he might actually offer you the "Red Pill".

No Jokes.
 
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lol, OP the only reason you got this type of response is because you could have found out all the information you wanted to within a few minutes of searching around.

Take a look at this thread to see what I am talking about : https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/mj-is-offering-free-mentoring.25393/

Now, I might as well join in on some of the fun, so ...

WHO IS zen*******?


well...

- His small talk has altered foreign policy

- He once ran a marathon, because it was on his way

- Sasquatch has taken a photograph of him

- His personality is so magnetic, he is unable to carry credit cards

- Even his enemies, list him as his emergency contact number

- He can speak French in Russian

- His charm is so contagious, Vaccines have been created for it

- His reputation is expanding, faster then the universe

- He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels

- He lives vicariously, through himself

- In A past life, he was himself

- He gave his father, a talk

- The last time he flirted with danger, danger got clingy

- He wouldn't be afraid to show his feminine side, if he had one.

- His mother has a tattoo, that reads "son"

- At museums, hes allowed to touch the art

- His blood, smells like cologne
 
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I need to get these where did they come from? :)

Bro, I understand where you're coming from. People often wonder who the heck I am too.

I've never met him in person, but I will say that I reverse engineered the mindset of the dolphin to the best of my ability and was put into the position to be able to quit my job ever since since I took action on his advice.

He always responded to my PM's VERY quickly despite the fact that I had nothing to offer at the time. That blew me away.

So I sent him socks. Socks, baby! Socks!

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