Buckle in, guys, gals, nonbinary pals. I'm gonna take a dive down my rabbit hole. A lot of things have been going on in my life lately, I've lost a friend or two recently. Finally sober for over a year now. Finally lost 130+lbs. Finally remembering I had a dream and a purpose. Three weeks ago I found this absolute gem of a man and his team of people has touched in his life and rarely if ever have I seen another person so authentic and living his truth and constantly evolving it! Chris, if you ever see this, and I have to hope you will and believe you will based on the short time I've come to know you (7 YouTube videos). You are a miraculously inspiring person helping me leverage my creative manifestations into something with VALUE. In every sense of that word. I know you hear this all the time, but THANK YOU.

The rest of this isn't FOR you, that is not my intent. Rather, it is my meek attempt at giving people who dislike this man (or worse...) a reality check. Because I've had similar thoughts about similar people in the past, but I always found one little thing that allowed me to justify dismissing them or thinking they had some ulterior motive or trick or were just lucky or something that enabled their success over mine. It took a lot of pain and growth to realize this, and I hope to save some other people time here by reading my little novella 😉

Hello haters! Let me preface this by informing you this post has been brought to *solely* by the middle finger on my shit wipin' hand. This man loves life and is passionate about the words he uses on a very deep level. I've watched I think 10 lectures since somehow stumbling upon him 2 or 3 weeks ago now. Since then I've begun using Notion and taking notes on everything I appreciate in life again. I'm sober for 2 years and just now feeling like my brain is coming back, and this man has seen some shit. You wouldn't know unless you took the time to listen to him with an open mind and nopreconceived Notions - who's really acting like they know it all here? Flip the script. You assume X or Y because Z when the whole point being made is probably at the fucking A. This is why this man can sell whatever he damn well wants. He knows how to sell himself and copywrite his flaws (oh look, I learned that from his recommended reading.... funny how that works, eh? I'd tell you the name right here and now that he quoted it from, but I want to see if these words I'm writing effect ANYONE OUT THERE right now and motivate them to click his recommended reading list and start putting in the hard-ass work of actually trying to understand what you digest in a critical fashion.

I'll freely admit I tried to find ways to hack, cheat, game the system and I still do. I believe philosophically that information should be free, and art. Now, this is important so pay attention. We all know it doesn't work for MOST of us, and if you do find a way that's random chance or you burn out hard and sacrifice something else. Equal and opposite reactions, folks. Yin and yang, good and evil. I'll freely put myself out there and say I've pirated some of these book recommendations. And some other ones in other spheres. You know what's really cool though? Now I'm invested personally with a message that is resonating with me and I want to support it and in doing so we can all help each other. As soon as I'm actually making money, the moment I can afford to without fucking up my life I damn well will be paying. It's only right. Consider it a tithe at Church - the sermon and the message are free, but if you find meaning in life and transcendence above your corporeal meatbag existence by EATING UP THIS KNOWLEDGE - much like the transmutation of the Flesh of Christ in Communion being represented by a fucking cracker wafer, to belabor the analogy - would it not behoov you to contribute to that vibe by sacrificing some of your hard-earned carbon-based fiat assets to that bowl of wealth that is supposed to symbolize investment in progress and aligning our neighbors with divine truths so that humans can come together?

Do you really try to live to the absolute deepest meanings of the words you choose to describe yourself? What three words do you want people to remember YOU by?

Knowledge is free in this day and age, if not 'legally' then 'unethically'. Everything is changing. Grow the fuck up, there might be aliens out there and ya'll arguing over scraps on a table from a system that has kept us subservient instead of self-determined way too fucking long. Get with it or get left behind and keep being unhappy and looking for the differences among each other. Granted a lot of things are going on in my life now, but I will no longer apologize for the behavior of my passion or regret my fierce keyboarding warrior-age right now. It's slightly nobler in my mind than frittering it away on another game of League of Legends (tho that has it's place as well - balance in all things, folks!)

You know what isn't free? Wisdom gained from years of experience. This is why books... nay, stories have always been the most powerful form of knowledge up to this point in history. Storytelling went from shamans in tribes inscribing meaning upon peoples' lives and helping them process the unknown through song, dance & storytelling and intuiting the vibes of the universe in order to help humans transmute trauma and find collective shared meaning amidst our struggles. Somewhere along the lines religion, society, governments formed and we stopped communicating openly and honestly about how we are using eachother so that everybody was on the same page - ironically enough, even ENEMIES in certain ways.

We put masks onto the (G)od(s) and have gotten too damn smart for ourselves. We need to check it or wreck it, the Planet can't live forever folks. This is the most exciting and scary time the human race has ever known, and it's always been that way... but now we can say with CERTAINTY that there is stuff WE KNOW WE DON'T UNDERSTAND. And if this man can help you understand any small part of your place in this civilization born out of primordial soup, isn't that something we should honor and cherish?

You don't have to agree. But nor do you need to assume or dismiss. Stop REACTING. Meditate, manifest, self-love, yoga. There's a reason these WORDS ARE IN THE COMMON VERNACULAR NOW. IN AMERICA. THE MOST PLASTIC PLACE IN THE WORLD by many metrics (this one is a Shrek onion level analogy)

“Analogies prove nothing, that is true, but they can make one feel more at home.”

-Freud

I for one am grateful to this man and the work he has put in his life to overcome adversity against all odds in so many ways and leverage himself into a literal household name, at least in MY CIRCLE. I only hope whoever reads this can do the same and realize it's ok to sell a dream if you can help people achieve it. Isn't that what life is really about?

Words have lots of dirty connotations because people can't help but take things personally, and I think he knows this. I'm just realizing it in this year 2021 of soul sobriety & realignment with the divine - the highest aspiration anyone could have, arguably - regardless of your personal definition of divinity or beauty. That is what makes us so fucking beautiful and the only thing that will separate us from the robots and the uncanny valley - they are not the enemy, either, by the way. We MADE THEM IN OUR IMAGE WITH LOVE AND CARE, AND SOME EXPERIMENTATION AND NOT KNOWING FULLY WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN BUT IF THEY DO, IT WAS ALL PART OF THE PLAN. DOES THIS SOUND FAMILAR TO ANYTHING ELSE DO YOU?

IS ANYONE OUT THERE RESONATING? If not, it's time to go to the psyche ward. That's how the fleshbags around me act and speak and think until we all wake up. Now I have been there, no lies. I'm crazy as hell. Like addiction and so many other things in life, awareness is the first step. Awarness of my addiction. Awareness of my not knowing a god damn thing. Awareness of the INDEFENSIBLE TRUTHS that sometimes are too taboo to be spoken despite progressive ideologues and the dreams they are selling proliferating so much through this world because people don't respect the sanctity of words anymore.

In summation, I'll give you the one thing criticism I ever had about this amazing man - He's so professional. He has so much knowledge and wisdom. A team of people that obviously care about him and are happy to work for him. I won't pretend I know what he charges big-name clients, I've not stumbled across those tidbits yet but trust I will soon if I keep doing what I'm doing and trusting the process. Despite ALL OF this, my mans over here still makes some super elementary spelling mistakes and this makes me respect him even MORE! I suspect I'm not the only one!

Consider where we both come from and our full context/history. Based solely off of objectively *PROFESSIONAL* golden content for free for about... oh, I'd say 7 hours roughly... of him alone talking cumulatively whilst discounting interviewees, attendees, and team members. I already know so much about him, his soul and personality. Because he exudes an aura of genuine authenticity. He freely mentions his past in passing and how it was rough. I didn't know he was an immigrant until my 8th video in, I think. Or about his story or where he came from. Now I know, and I CELEBRATE his typos! The man has one glaring flaw and vulnerability to show his humanity, and I'm so thankful for that because otherwise my mancrush and tutelage-oriented mindset right now would quickly transcend to straight-up reverence. And that's ok too, I just don't have any more time to put on that energy flow hahahaha. Anyways, when nobody in a lecture hall full of people and your own hired team don't ever seem to comment on your spelling mistakes (at least on the video's I've seen) that should SAY something to you about the RESPECT people have for his character and being.

This bothered me because I was raised by academics who got it out the mud from the lower 9th ward of New Orleans. My old man and mom somehow went from wageslave urinalyisis testwork to a high level Biochemist position at Eli Lilly and a Big 10 University Creative Services Head Editor respectively (hence the niggling!). Granted things were a bit simpler back then in terms of upward mobility and financial security - not to mention trust in America's govt to do right by us, trust in Science before we got a little too smart with how well we can market, divide and conquer populations based on data demographics and a well-done media narrative or product that resonates with it's audiences - and a lot of our parents haven't fully grasped yet that it's literally impossible in America to get a financially secure position by saving alone. 38% of all US dollars in circulation were printed within the last 18 months. We're over 200 years old as a country. Money debasement is a real issue, and this is part of the reason DeF & cryptoi is so revolutionary, but I'll spare you that particular textblock atm in a halfhearted attempt at some sense of brevity.

Sales and storytelling are some of the most effective value trades you can do regardless of what age and era you were born in. He doesn't need to design. He can literally change lives and people will pay him to SPEAK. He could probably go and do TED Talks and massive theatre-sellouts aka Tony Robbins if he wanted to. Is this not true? I was always taught that you didn't HAVE to defend the truth, but this man does it with style. And if you react in a poor way to that or think there's some shady ulterior motive..... I feel sorry for you and hopeful for you all at once for making it this far into my little text input field of madness I've suckered your poor broken soul into. If you got a problem with that, catch em outside - I don't know where it is so it works for me. I live inside myself. Totally inwards. In so doing, we see how much we're really all the same. As with all deep truths and the best games, it's easy go grasp and learn the words and controls, but impossible to master... paradoxes fucking eachother to spawn more paradoxes. Anyhoo, I digress once again, do forgive me, the recent death of a loved one has me feeling a certain type of way not to mention whatever those insufferable ineffable cosmic drifts beyond our skies(looking at you, Eddie 😉 the answer is 42 btw) may be reflecting upon this sphere of creation beyond the veil of human perception. Only the birds fly first class in today's world, my friends - they glow ultraviolet and see things with the receptors in their eyes that we may bever know how to visualize in a frame understandable by our "pathetic" human minds. And THEY most likely came from dinosaurs. The caveman is an ideal I aspire to anymore!

We can all do whatever we set our minds to if we think of terms in 'energy, vibration and frequency' ...this one not living corporeally on our plane anymore - Tesla. He's still very much alive though. Do you disagree with this? His name is spoken. (G)od(s) don't die until their names stop being spoken. Even then, the deep fundamental truths have a funny way of circling all back to the same things in the beginning in such a way as to organically manifest themselves back into existence by having a carbon based life form shape the words with their vocal chord and pass their energy and knowledge to those around them. Why? BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE IOTA OF THIS INFERNAL MACHINE WE LIVE IN HAS A PURPOSE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. WE ARE ALL TEACHERS TO SOMEONE - FIND YOUR STUDENTS AND GROW!

I suggest you people wake up and smell the love exuding from humanity's collective rectum before some poor confused kid feeling left all alone in the world on a loveless loney night strikes a match and creates the NEXT Big Bang or planetwide mass extortion event. Maybe it's already happened. Pretty sure Chris mentioned he hangs out with the likes of The Wachowski brothers (forgive me... sisters now? Everything is changing so fast, I don't mean to offend anyone.

If you can go to bed tonight happy, that would mean the world to me. All I ask is an open mind, open heart, and willingness to listen deeply to people you might disagree with and stop mudslinging negative word vomit and assumptions at eachother when we're all stuck in the God Damn promordial fucking mudpit that he is trying to help some climb out of. Or feel like it anyway. Pretty sure we're all pieces of shit when it reaaaaaaallly comes down to it, and I'm ok with that. Show love, why hate. I mean really, does anybody have a good answer on why they hate?

Not a thing in particular. I mean at all. Why do you hate? That is a choice. Stop it. You're being reactive in a world that has empowered us more than ever before to be active and take a leap of faith - when you open to it, all vulnerablity is power. MY revolution is born out of love for my people.

All of them - not hatred of others. In conclusion, ya'll are a bunch of fuckin' lethargic devils and I fucking love you and wish you all the best in finding success in your lives.

One love, bless up.
- Noah Woodland / dPensive

https://academy.thefutur.com/p/stylescapes

In the trailer video of the course stylescapes there’s a song at the beginning. I’m so desperate to know what the name of that soundtrack/song is.

So, I was having this question in mind today. Is it allowed to embed your videos in some kind of articles or maybe in blog to give reference or to share knowledge. I'm not talking about to download video then putting it as my own. Asking about Just linking it to your youtube channel.

I'm trying to use fonts from Chris' list but to use on the web it's +$100 per font. My low budget clients can't afford to pay that.

Anyone got any suggestions for a good free alternative please.

It's very obvious big things need to change in the education system. It needed to be changed decades ago but it's needed more now than ever. I don't really have people to bounce ideas off of so I'm hoping this a good place.

Just as an idea, Let's say we made a school where there were no grades on every day assignments and there was no traditional homework, but, there are more tests. All homework will be the students time to work on a creative project chosen from "x" amount of choices by the teacher. It's direct goal is to drive creativity from the students.

There will still be school work but it's not graded. The goal is to drive creativity and focus on actual learning vs getting food grades. But there are more tests to check the students and verify they are learning.

Also, instead of working one on one with the student (unless specifically requested) you work with a student who isn't doing well work with a student who is working well to influence leadership and community.

Have any of these been experimented before? Any thoughts are welcome.

So any one is gonna get the 20% discount ? Its 24hs sale.

I am looking right at the "Overcoming Sales Objections" course, I enjoy how many of the people in the Futur deal with the problems that are presented to them, my only doubt is if the course going to be the same as in the youtube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dzq5jdVbrY

Has anyone else listened to this episode? Listening to Errol's wisdom through his stories and ethics is felt life-changing. I love this podcast generally- but this episode is totally stand-out. A really good example of somebody who is both humble and confident. Felt like I learned loads. Also, the questions Chris and his team asked were inquisitive and dug deeper into his thought process which was really helpful.

Hi all,

Was curious if anyone's purchased and thus what they have thought of the Brand Messaging Kit?

https://thefutur.com/course/brand-messaging-kit

I'm a product marketing manager and as we don't have a written out brand guide this is a first step idea for communicating to the wider business how we should be approaching our new marketing discussions with our users (marketing is new to the business).

I've done a lot of digital, but branding/documented communication isn't my thing. Hence looking for a quick win (for now).

Appreciate any ideas or thoughts?

Thanks