Today in Radical Personal Finance, I have a unique show for you, very much out of the ordinary for

Radical Personal Finance, and yet I believe very practical and applicable.

Today I'm going to read to you an essay to which I have alluded at various times in radical personal finance history called Isaiah's Job. This essay was first published in the year 1936 in the Atlantic

Monthly and is written by a man named Albert J. Knock. In essence, it's about the value of not trying to seek

the masses. This essay has been very influential for me personally, very encouraging at different times,

and I believe has broad application to you and to your life.

It is not an essay that will specifically tell you how to get rich.

In fact, it may be the exact opposite.

It'll tell you why you shouldn't worry about getting rich with your message.

But it is something that I have found to be very stimulating and very helpful. I'd like to provide more commentary but I may do

that elsewhere as with many good works of literature I think it's best to let this

particular essay stand at its own two feet and let you draw your

own meaning and conclusions from this.

The essay that I'm about to read for you will be deeply philosophical and probably challenging to you.

But I would encourage you not to turn it off, but to embrace the challenge.

If anything, this should be a point of inspiration

to recognize that this essay was not written to an academic audience.

It was not written in academic ease, the weird language that is totally

unintelligible to those of us who were not involved in academics. This was written as what would be termed a popular essay to be

published in a popular magazine and yet you'll find that the literary quality

will be challenging for you, but stick with it.

The first page or two is a little bit slow to start, but the ideas here are very, very powerful.

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