Fischer was talking about alignment.

I see a lot of folks who want to get into business and very specific niches but never get good at it.

Why?

Their motivation is misaligned.

You can't necessarily get good at writing if all you do is love the idea of fame and notoriety that may come with a successful career.

Yet, you will get good at writing if you love to write.

The great Tom Woods loves the game. He is not good at it, though.

History, podcasting, marketing, and much more.

I originally wrote this email sitting in Orlando, Florida waiting for Tom's Practical Liberty Unconference to start.

It was free to attend if you are a member of Tom's School of Life, as I have been since Tom first opened the doors. He does this for his members every year, but this is the first time I've had enough gumption to get on an airplane and attend.

Quite a few folks who I'm writing to today are already in Tom's School, so I may be preaching to the choir, but as Ol' Woods says (or the rough equivalent), "sometimes the choir needs to be preached to… they're not all out back smoking cigarettes when the priest gives the sermon."

The School has much more to offer than one conference per year. You even have the opportunity to interact with bright minds once a week in the accountability groups Tom offers. Collaboration, solving problems, always forward momentum.

I love it enough to get on a plane -- something that always leaves a permanent scar. (The middle seat on a cross-country red-eye was particularly painful.)

I love it enough to type out an email while sitting in a giant mall that hasn't even opened for commerce yet. (I don't have a room to check into since I got here so early.)

Onward…

As always,

Brian

P.S. — Since many of my newsletter subscribers are asking me how the "un-conference" went, I shall write about it in the upcoming days. (As I mentioned, I wrote this on Friday morning and was away from my computer until yesterday early in the morning, then I had to close it and opened it back up this afternoon.)

Preview: It was awesome but ended with a little Planes, Trains and Automobiles adventure. I left the hotel around noon EDT Sunday. Got home around 5pm PDT Monday.

Hilarity ensued… "kinda."