In the late Chris Anderson’s quotation book that his family recently sent me, there is no doubt that Mr. and Mrs. Anonymous dominate the pages, and as a matter of fact, Chris actually dedicates the book to them at the beginning…
Yet, there is also another dude that frequents the book and has a good number of fantastic nuggets of wisdom.
His name… Mr. Stick.
It’s not explained who Mr. Stick is and for the sake of this Daily Hustle, I am NOT going to do any research to find out… Sometimes it’s better in life when people remain unknown and we are able to use our imagination to create an entire biography and our own visual image…
That said, I feel like we have all had a Mr. Stick in our life… The one teacher who was never afraid to NOT follow the curriculum. This was the teacher that told us to turn in our textbooks the minute we received them and then fired them into a cardboard box for the rest of the school year, never to be touched again…
The Mr. Stick’s of the world have no interest in teaching from politically correct books subjectively created by people trying to protect our youth from the harsh realities of an oftentimes dark history…
Those books don’t always tell the entire story but no worries because Mr. Stick does.
If we want the real account of what went down at Woodstock in 1969, no need to try to read it out of a textbook when Mr. Stick and his VW Bus just so happened to be there with his 2 girlfriends, Penelope & Flower. 🌺
Of course, Mr. Stick may have dropped one too many doses of acid in his day and he often times comes in smelling like a gigantic field of hippie lettuce, but this dude is raw, rare and most importantly, he is f*cking REAL.
The greatest part is that Mr. Stick actually doesn’t have the crazy agenda we may think he has…
Quite the opposite actually… Mr. Stick has an overwhelming desire to share TRUTH, knowledge, and lived life experiences…
At that point, he leaves it up to us to independently think for ourselves and draw our own conclusions about what we have been able to learn from past successes and failures.
Most importantly, Mr. Stick is not interested in bullshit rhetoric and simply challenges us to figure out the facts and then draw the road map to what we perceive to be our best path FORWARD…
We are going to conclude this Daily Hustle with a Mr. Stick GEM that perfectly sums up this absolute LEGEND that we all know & love:
“Some people think the glass is half empty, others think the glass is half full… I don’t care if the glass is half empty or half full, all I want to know is where my cheeseburger is?” 🍔
Thank you, Mr. Stick.
-EB