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Maxim Smith

Maxim Smith

Co-author and beta-tester of "The Preparation," an alternative-to-college program; documenting his journey across skills from EMT certification to sailing and business.

Jul 24, 2026

7:09
when I was
7:09
there.
7:09
Cause they do in a single night, they have anywhere between about 12 and 20 fights.
7:15
And you get to see these people like of all different, um, levels of training capability just go at it and it's it's crazy so i wanted to do that um all of that was kind of thrown off track and so when i was feeling pretty bad and still had that staph infection i realized that it wasn't going away anytime soon so i went back to japan to try to get away from the the jungle environment that us westerners are not used to um But I made this mistake of like right at the end of the staph infection going away, I found a Thai owned and operated Muay Thai gym.
8:01
In Osaka, I went there, I trained, and somehow I kind of...
8:07
I scratched up the exact area where the staph infection had been healing.
8:12
And it just...

37 MINS LATER

45:19
And so if the system is doing this, then it's basically something that I don't feel the need to support.
23:41
Second language.
23:43
Um, so you have the activities, but then you also have the academics.
23:47
And in the entrepreneur cycle there's three different academic online courses that you take.
23:54
One is a sales course, one is a marketing course, and the other one is a social media marketing course.
24:02
And so you can complete that at any time.
24:04
You have to structure your own days, your own weeks.
24:07
Um, and then there's also a set of required and optional reading which, at least for the entrepreneur cycle, there's a lot of reading to, to do.

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43:46
But I'm just like, or it, I mean, you'd think for a second, so.

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