I’ve got three kids and it’s like, “I need to stop being unhealthy.” I appreciate you and that guy being an inspiration for that. There’s a great book that is not as well-known as Think And Grow Rich but it’s by the same author, Napoleon Hill. One of the core concepts from the book is that the devil gets us by getting us into autopilot and keeping us there and to the drift. Let’s talk about buying, selling, building websites, creating assets or buying assets and selling those assets. I started my first online business when I graduated from high school in 1996. I got my first computer and I started a website. It was either GeoCities or Angelfire, one of those guys back then that offered free hosting. I put up a little website in the education space. After a couple of months, somebody is like, “I’ll give you $10 if you put a link to my website.” I’m like, “$10, awesome.” I was in college, I don’t have any money. I grew up in a middle-class, single parent. I kept going with it and somebody’s like, “I’ll give you $100.” I’m like, “$100, awesome.” Before you know it, I’m starting to get checks in the mail. I’m in college and I’m making about $16,000 a month off of advertising. The whole internet bubble burst and all that ad money dried up. I and two other guys pooled our resources and we started a membership site. We had seen somebody who was advertising on our site and was doing a membership site. We’re like, “Let’s give this a try.” In the first month, we made $60,000. I went to college, studied computer software engineering, but I never got a job. While in college, I started making a lot of money, more money than I knew what to do with. I was spinning it fairly frivolously but at the same time, I was still investing. At a certain point, I was like, “What do I do with this excess capital?” I started reading all the books. The first book I read that fundamentally changed the way I thought was Rich Dad Poor Dad. It’s funny I talk to a lot of different digital entrepreneurs and they all say the same thing. Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success That’s, for the most part, the first book that people read that fundamentally changed the way they thought.
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