Check out this fax that Dan Kennedy sent to his Diamond Members talking about Batman, success, and a whole bunch of other really cool things.
All right, so like I said, I'm working on this project with Dan Kennedy. We're putting together all his faxes. People used to pay $297 a month to be a diamond member. They still do, actually. Sorry. And in that program for the five, or six, or seven-year period of time, Dan would send them a weekly fax. And I found in the archives all these faxes. They're insanely cool. Dan's thoughts on whatever he was thinking about that week, it was literally fun. And so we're actually putting them together into a book that eventually, we'll be giving to all diamond members. So if you want more of these, you need to upgrade to become a magnetic marketing diamond member here in the future. That'll be the bribe, is giving everyone this book of all of Dan's faxes from a seven-year window.
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Hey, what's up everyone? This is Russell Brunson and I'm
excited. Today's episode is going to be a little bit different.
Right now, I'm working on a project with Dan Kennedy. And for
years, he used to send a weekly fax to his diamond members. And
right now, we're putting all of those into a book. And there's a
bunch of cool things happening with it. It's insane. But one of the
faxes, I just stumbled upon it and the title caught me. I had to
read it. And then it was so good, I wanted to read it to you. So
the title of this fax from Dan Kennedy is called, Parables of The
Batman.
All right, so like I said, I'm working on this project with Dan
Kennedy. We're putting together all his faxes. People used to pay
$297 a month to be a diamond member. They still do, actually.
Sorry. And in that program for the five, or six, or seven-year
period of time, Dan would send them a weekly fax. And I found in
the archives all these faxes. They're insanely cool. Dan's thoughts
on whatever he was thinking about that week, it was literally fun.
And so we're actually putting them together into a book that
eventually, we'll be giving to all diamond members. So if you want
more of these, you need to upgrade to become a magnetic marketing
diamond member here in the future. That'll be the bribe, is giving
everyone this book of all of Dan's faxes from a seven-year
window.
But anyway, as I'm going through the book, I found this one.
Obviously, you guys know I'm a superhero fan. I'm a Batman fan. I'm
all the things. And so this fax, as I was scrolling through the
book before we sent it out to print, the title of this fax was
called, Parables of The Batman. And so, of course, I had to read
it. And it was so cool, I wanted to read it to you, too. So here we
go. This is in Dan's words from his fax.
He said, "I finally got around to watching The Dark Knight
Rises, the third, final and only disappointing film in the trilogy
produced by Christopher Nolan. In it, there is a hell-hole of a
prison deep beneath the earth's surface, featuring the ultimate
cruelty, impossible hope. There's a tall tower carved out of the
rock, rising several stories to the surface. Blue skies visible
when standing at its bottom, looking straight up. Prisoners are
free to attempt climbing up and out. And they do from time to time,
with a rope tied around their waist to catch them bungee-style
before they fall to their death. There's a legend known to all the
suffering prisoners passed from one generation to the next about
the only person who ever succeeded at this escape, a child."
"It is in this subterraneal hell that a crippled Batman, i.e.,
Bruce Wayne, has been left to die. After a brutally-difficult,
primitive-managed rehab, he attempts and fails in this escape. Not
once, but twice. At point of surrender, an aged prisoner, who has
befriended him, tells him the secret of the child who did
successfully clamor up the entire tower and escaped. The child
climbed without the rope. The weight of the rope, more the embedded
thought created by wearing the rope, that one is going to fall is
just enough burden to ensure failure. The old man says that to have
a chance you must climb without the rope. This is a remarkable
success parable buried deep in the film that few will notice."
"Most people try to achieve various lofty ambitions, perhaps the
greatest of which is freedom and autonomy, while still dragging
contrary conventions, industry norms, counterproductive beliefs,
slothful behaviors, et cetera, tied to them by a heavy rope. The
higher they try to climb, the heavier the burden of the rope. I
first taught this in the early 1980s as a simplified cycle
cybernetic concept, in terms of the importance of a bountiful
garden and pulling weeds, not just planting flowers. I'm often
asked that, to be super successful must I lose my friends? If your
friends are unambitious, or delusional, or toxic, then yes, they
must be left behind. You must sever your ties to all the ordinary
ideas, and behaviors, and business practices of the masses, of the
majorities. You must climb without the rope."
"The Batman himself is a parable. He is unlike most other
costumed superheroes. As I pointed out before, Superman is an alien
from outer space and that is the source of his superhuman powers.
Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider, et cetera. Most
superheroes come from a distant planet and are gifted powers by
unworldly beings, the Green Lantern, for example, or science
experiments gone wrong or accidents like spideys. Few have no
superpowers at all, but simply decided to make themselves into
superheroes. The Batman is a creature entirely of Bruce Wayne's
decision. If the genealogy of such things interests you, the
predecessor closest is the Shadow. Further, The Batman made himself
into a master detective and an extraordinary athlete, martial
artist, fighter and an intimidating personality."
"Anyway, there's probably a rope tied around your waist. Perhaps
thinned by use, skinny as twine. Perhaps thicker and heavier than
the huge rope tied to the steamship's anchors. You might want to
pull on it and examine all that's tied to the other end. Shedding
dead weight eases the speed of the journey. Oh, and the heaviest
dead weights are never things or people. They are thoughts and
beliefs."
Oh man, you got Dan Kennedy talking about Batman, and
superheroes, and personal development. What more could you want?
All in one amazing fax. So any of you guys who eventually, someday
get the Dan Kennedy fax book, The Batman fax is on page number 79.
Hope you guys enjoyed this one. And I'm going to keep bringing you
guys cool stuff I learn from Dan. Thanks, everybody.
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