How a Slave’s Clean Move Beat His Master’s Dirty Trick (Add This to Your Playbook)
Mar 12, 2025 6:45 pm
Hi ,
I’m deep into Booker T. Washington's autobiography - Up From Slavery.
He's a former slave who became one of America's greatest unsung heroes.
While there are many, one lesson kneed me in the gut.
Picture this: a slave desperate to learn guitar begs his master for lessons.
Reluctant, but willing, the master tries to discourage his slave.
Smirking, he lays out what he thinks is a trap…
$3 for the first lesson.
$2 for the next.
$1 after that, and 25 cents for the last.
The slave’s reply is PURE GENIUS.
Let’s just say he strummed his first song for a quarter.
He outfoxed the bastard at his own game.
I'll tell ya the exact words he used to get his way on the workshop.
I’ve done similar things…
By accident.
The takeaway: As shitty as the situation was, the slave created his own
opportunity.
He made a deal.
He did it from nothing.
All disadvantages.
He had to figure out how to make do with the $hit cards he was dealt.
This isn't what you might think of when you think hidden opportunity.
But it was.
Opportunities like this are everywhere.
The job is to find’em.
Fortunately, slavery is long dead in America, but...
Unfortunately, unfair situations still abound.
For freelancers, agencies and consultant type folks sick of scraping by...
I’ve uncovered at least 7 mind-bending ways to turn overlooked sh!t shows into wins.
Some of them recurring, even.
The key is to reframe and use tricks.
These are tricks I’ve collected and honed as a student of the game.
From landing clients to making unique type deals....
Anyone willing can do this.
Imagine spinning someone’s rusty, dusty and overlooked crusty pie resources
into a profit center.
Put some ice cream on that bisch and you got yourself some money pie ala mode.
Or how about landing clients without lifting a finger because someone else hands them to you...
These aren’t the usual ‘post and pray’ type things...
Some of these will make you go, “Why didn’t I see this before?”
For those Curious...
Drop "Gimme the goods" in the comments here (turning this off soon).
Shooting details to folks that click and comment in a bit.
In your corner!
Carlos "Hidden Opportunity Maker" Rosario
P.S. This new workshop is happening Friday.
You'll have methods and things you can DO, too.
Cool as entertainment.
Even better as things you can do to create life achievements.
Want?