“Only the men in this tale give me displeasures without pleasures”
-Sinbad
“Sinbad The Sailor”
The quote always cracks me up.
It’s from an oooooold movie called “Sinbad the Sailor” (he’s referring to the woman in the tale who is two faced and treacherous, but he digs her anyway) about Sinbad’s 8th voyage.
But, there are no monsters in it.
No sea serpents, either.
Nor is there any cheesy stop-go animation.
However, there are some interesting life lessons in it that translate directly to business, and have influenced me in many ways.
Like, for example at the end of the movie.
Sinbad finishes his tale…
And then he goes and throws a bunch of gold and jools to the beggars he forced to listen to his story (at knife point – captive audience hehe), who jump on the ground scrambling for as much as they can, and he gets angry at them and starts assaulting them, telling them they’ve learned nothing of what’s really important about life (not gold, jools, etc) and the joy of earning what they take instead of getting it for free.
A good message.
Especially in Internet marketing land.
(Where the culture of cheapness & entitlement reigns.)
Anyway, a good flick if you find your righteous self plagued with Sunday night insomnia.
A problem I won’t have this weekend, btw.
Just landed in Vegas last night.
Going to be doing the Oceans 4 mastermind consulting with my boys Andre Chaperon, Jack Born and Ryan Levesque. If you are in town this weekend, hit one of us up.
We’ll be somewhere or another afterwards…
Alright.
I’m outta here.
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