The Millionaire Satanist
What if some of the things you were taught about success, money, relationships and life simply don't add up?
Most people inherit their understanding of the world.
Beliefs about success. Money. Relationships. Morality. Authority. Failure. Even what constitutes a respectable life.
Then they spend decades living according to assumptions they never consciously chose.
The Millionaire Satanist asks you to examine them.
This isn't another motivational book promising that positive thinking, morning routines and a sufficiently enthusiastic attitude will transform your life.
Nor is it asking you to exchange one collection of unquestioned beliefs for another.
It challenges you to think for yourself.
Through short, direct and deliberately adversarial observations, Dr. Robert Ing explores human behaviour, self-interest, personal responsibility, influence, money, relationships and the systems operating quietly around us.
The premise is uncomfortable but simple:
People have motives. Institutions have interests. Systems produce winners and losers. Understanding who benefits can change the way you understand almost everything else.
Inside, you'll examine:
- Why intelligent people sometimes make decisions that work against their own interests.
- How inherited beliefs can quietly determine the limits of a life.
- How influence operates in ordinary relationships and everyday situations.
- Why independence requires more than simply declaring yourself independent.
- How money, relationships, status and security can become instruments of influence.
- How awareness of motive and self-interest can change the decisions you make.
And yes. There's that title.
The Millionaire Satanist.
For some readers, the word Satanist will be enough to make them uncomfortable.
Good.
Discomfort is useful when you're examining beliefs you may never have consciously chosen.
This is not a book asking you to worship anything.
It is a book asking you to examine everything.
You don't have to agree with every observation. You shouldn't.
Take what survives your scrutiny. Reject what doesn't. Question the author as readily as you question everyone else.
The objective isn't to give you another ideology to follow.
It's to make you considerably harder to fool.
If you've ever suspected there is more to life than simply accepting the world exactly as it was presented to you, perhaps it's time to look again.
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