The SLOPPIEST Book I've Ever Read (That's Still Worth Reading)

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Scribd is in the dog house today, that’s for sure!

In case you’re unfamiliar, Scribd is my favorite book app - better than iBooks, better than Kindle.

I’ve probably read 300-400 books just on Scribd alone, but they let me down today!

I’m whining here, I get that, but apparently they have arrangements with several publishers where, if you read too many books (who ever heard of such a thing?!) they just empty your library and make the books you’ve saved unavailable until next month.

Even though they advertise that the books you have access to is unlimited…

If their book selection/reading experience weren’t so great, I’d cancel haha.

But then there’s this one book in particular, Success Profiles: Conversations with High Achievers, by Brian K. Wright.

I’m reading this book right now and even though the interviews/information are amazing…

The typos!

My god, the typos!

They’re EVERYWHERE.

Multiple typos per page, missing words, incoherent sentences…

Yes, it’s a collection of podcast interviews delivered in book form and I was cool with that going in.

Think Like a Billionaire, by James Altucher did that and I loved that book.

But this is just SLOPPY.

It’s like they paid someone in a developing country $2/hour to copy and paste a poorly done transcript and said “Fuck it, now it’s a book.”

Listen, I’d be EMBARRASSED if anything this sloppy had my name on it.

Which basically leads me to say: please, in whatever you do in life, hold yourself to a much higher standard than this.

Commit to doing more than what’s expected of you, performing at a greater level than what anyone else can reasonably demand from you.

And for the love of books and everything else that’s holy, please do not submit sloppy, half-assed work. It shows, and it does NOT reflect well upon you.

The bright side here is that it’s so easy to stand out today. Apparently, all you have to do is spell words correctly and edit your book, like, once.

But that’s it for today.

As always, at the bottom of this email I’ll lay out everything I did today to move closer to my Ultimate Vision. This is to keep me accountable and to show you that I’m working as hard as I’m encouraging you to work…

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Woke Up: 12:00AM (tomorrow I shoot for 11, then back to 10am on Monday)

Sleep Quality: 89%

Pages Read: 78

Workout: REST DAY

Work Completed:

Worked on My Skool Community

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 6x on Twitter

Posted 4x on Threads

Posted 1x on Instagram

Organized My Day for Tomorrow

The focus this weekend is on getting prepared and set up for Monday and so I’ve just been on the backend mostly: organizing, networking, drafting…

Very busy week coming up, but I’m feeling pretty good about how I think it’s going to go.

It’s no secret that December, January, this month, and probably a bit of next month were/are/will be insanely busy, but I’m not complaining because my business has made more money this month than it ever has before, I’ve got opportunities left and right, and I know that if I keep working hard, gut it out, and never quit, I’m going to get to where I want to be.

Holding myself accountable to you in these emails is a BIG help too, by the way.

But now it’s time for bed! Bed and a book :)

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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