![]() ![]() Yes, we created language, math, the arts, built space rockets… we’re still animals, social ones, subject to instincts and the dynamics of the social ladder. This assumption is rushed and dumb, I’m 100% with you, but let’s not forget that at the end of the day we as a species are animals. Nothing wrong with being happy and content with your current situation in life, but when there’s a power dynamic in play, smiling comes across as weakness since it denotes a desire to compromise in favor of peace, which most people assume it’s what the person who knows he would lose would do. One of the mistakes Beck kept doing (and Sweet kept scolding him for) was that he was smiling from ear to ear all the time. On the other hand, most people who have success in independent/risky endeavors feel quite lonely, since by definition they don’t relate well to others who took the safe path, so someone who wants to attempt the same journey they took years ago, is someone who could become a great friend, someone to talk to who actually understands. The mentor-apprentice relationship is one of mutual appreciation where there’s no reason to cross each other: why would the apprentice cross a person who was kind enough to help him succeed? no reason. The only person he could be open and honest with was with Sweet, on the one hand because he “understood” Beck’s concerns and struggles since he had already lived through the same situation and on the other hand because Sweet had no incentive to cross Beck, who was just a dumb kid eager to learn who actually applied the advice he was given and was grateful with Sweet for sharing his wisdom. Of course, Beck didn’t sat around doing nothing in the mean time, he started figuring things out on his own, to the point he already had one whore working for him by the time he met his mentor “Sweet” who would later give Beck the nickname “Iceberg Slim”.īeck describes other pimps as treacherous, just waiting for a chance to steal other pimps’ whores, and whores as always watching out for even the slightest hint of weakness in their pimp. ![]() Sometimes a mentor is the only real friend you haveīack when Beck was 18 and just starting out, his first priority was to find a mentor, someone who could teach him how to be a pimp. In this post I’ll write the lessons I learned while reading his book. ![]() It’s not an exaggeration to say that his livelihood depended on him exploiting his social skills: He was a great seducer of women, he managed to break in as a pimp by befriending the correct people, who introduced him to his mentor Sweet (Albert “Baby” Bell), and even quickly befriended people in prison to help him escape. Iceberg Slim was a master in understanding human nature. Here’s a (link) if you’d like to read it. This book is quite dark but incredibly entertaining and well written. It'd be very nice if someone were to donate a few copies, but it can't be me.I have no money.“Pimp: the story of my life” by Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck 1918 – 1992) is book that describes the rise and fall of Robert Beck a.k.a Iceberg Slim as a pimp in the United States. If one is unwilling to illegally download a book like this, it is actually still possible to purchase a used copy.easily.Īt any rate, I highly recommend obtaining a copy through some other method than through the archive, as much as I love the archive. I now have two different copies (in case one has errors that the other doesn't), and have removed myself from the list, which will bring some people a few days closer.but it'll still take them years to get it. Perhaps I shouldn't do this, but it crossed my mind that there might be a faster way to get at it. Realistically, each person checking it out will likely spend at least a few days with it before returning it, so I would have had to wait for more like five or six years.or more. If you look at it like this-if each person takes it and returns it in one day, I'd have had to wait nearly two years for it. So, seeing it in the archive, I thought I'd get on the waiting list.and even stayed there for a few days. It strikes me as believable in various ways, but I've always wondered how much truth there really is. I read this decades ago, but it was someone else's copy. Urn:oclc:476852362 Scandate 20110829051502 Scanner Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) OL16031937W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.75 Pages 326 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:087067417X Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:01:59 Boxid IA121107 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Los Angeles, Calif. ![]()
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