It’s good to see Black people and women succeed; prosperity should be inclusive. I once read an evangelical memoir (although this book isn’t religious in a specific sense), by a woman of color, who internalized a lot of othering projected onto her—in her book (obviously remaining nameless here) she talked a LOT about health problems (I’m everybody! I’m you!!!), while practically Hiding that she wasn’t white. Cynt is much more balanced in her approach. She had health problems, of course, and she talks about that subject, that we all have to consider, even if in different ways sometimes, while Not hiding that she was Black and had more unique problems. She also talks about kinda adult child or family issues in addition to her background more broadly. And she also makes no secret of her experience of and support of Black church, that most universal and accepting yet also specifically African American of experiences.

It is very memoir-y. I haven’t gotten a lot of screw-and-hammer business skills or mind tools yet, but just that we can see that it isn’t an inviolable law that people like her can’t succeed is good, however she built it all up in detail.

…. It is largely a personal life & health memoir. Lots of health. (Of course, as I think I’m writing in the Slight Edge review, one of the untrue stories about business is that it’s totally and mystically different from everyday life. You don’t have to be born with some strange mystical “ability to handle practical life” skill that you don’t have to be a success. So there’s some value in a relationships & health memoir of a businesswoman.) Of course, although I try not to be too paranoid about mainstream medicine (there are “alternative” medicine people who are twice as toxic in their energy as the unbelievers or whatever, because they got there strictly through aversion), but Cynt’s journey for me seems to highlight a lot of the negative aspects of mainstream medicine. Fighting toxins with toxins and being a good fighter isn’t a pretty thing, or always a life-enhancing one. Of course, that’s motivation to become bigger financially, as then you could have the best of Western medicine AND/OR whatever other medicine you want to have work for and enhance your own life. (I mean, there are side effects in almost any medicine, but I think it must be especially high in ‘fight toxins with toxins’ practice.) And if you’re poor, you’re left to trust the system to take care of you, with second-tier (cheaper) Western doctors, and only the medicine that your normie handlers approve of, you know.

But I don’t want to come across as too bitter or whatever—people who are part of the mainstream cognitive community often have a lot of both talents and troubles that they overcome with them, in Cynt’s case, that of a Black woman executive overcoming societal limitations on her background, and her health journey.

…. I mean, she is mainstream cognitive, and she isn’t. She does have kinda this overwhelming drive to survive, to survive in a hostile world, which people from disadvantaged backgrounds often have, and which has indeed gotten her through life alive, and which has also perhaps, for better or for worse, overwhelmed any desire to philosophize.

But she’s also not afraid to be Black and Christian, in a superficial white world, you know…. As the Brits, including the Afro-Caribbean London Brits say—Can’t say fairer than that!