A book for anyone tired of playing a rigged game

Act like us.
Think like them.

Freeman Fields names the system that expects your compliance and rewards their control and lays out exactly how to think your way out of it, chapter by chapter, without pretending the deck isn’t stacked.

OVERCOMING A SYSTEM AGAINST US  —  HARDCOPY — DIGITAL — AUDIO  —  WRITTEN BY — Freeman Fields

What this book is

A field guide to a system that was never built for you

Most advice about getting ahead assumes the game is fair. Act Like Us, Think Like Them starts from the opposite premise: the rules, the gatekeeping, and the quiet expectations you’re up against were designed by people who don’t share your starting line, and pretending otherwise just keeps you losing politely.

Freeman Fields didn’t learn this from a classroom. He learned it building things, literally and otherwise, from the South Side of Chicago to the U.S. Navy to two decades in construction to founding and patenting his own companies. This book is what he wishes someone had handed him at the start.

12Chapters
40+Case studies
1System, named

Own it your way

Read it. Hold it. Listen to it.

Every format carries the full, unabridged book — pick the one that fits how you actually take things in.

Format 01

Hardcopy

Casebound, matte jacket, printed on heavyweight stock built to sit on a desk you’ll actually look at.

$24.99
  • 212-page casebound hardcover
  • Matte-finish jacket, foil-stamped spine
  • Ships within 2–4 business days
Format 02 — Most popular

Digital

EPUB and PDF, delivered instantly. Read on any device, searchable, notes included.

$12.99
  • EPUB + PDF, delivered instantly
  • Works on any device
  • Searchable, linked contents
Format 03

Audio

Narrated by the author. 6 hours 40 minutes, unabridged, streaming or offline.

$17.99
  • 6h 40m, unabridged
  • Narrated by the author
  • Streaming + offline download

From the book

Chapter 3

“I didn’t learn any of this in a classroom. I learned it in the Navy, on job sites, and building companies from nothing with no one clearing the path for me. I wrote this book because nobody sat me down and explained how the system actually works — and I got tired of watching other people find out the hard way.”

— Freeman Fields, Act Like Us, Think Like Them

Stop playing a game you were never shown the rules to.