Personal Growth and Financial Success
So my big shift is when I met my wife.
So by this point of this picture that you're showing me, I
was four years into
Rebecca teaching me about the game of life, so I'm starting to be advanced.
So I, I could tell you what, what I was thinking.
It wouldn't have been love, but it would've been we.
And the point about Chris was called...
If you look at that picture, it's gonna say, "We work, we live,
we give,
we share." I don't remember. I haven't seen it for, like, 10 years.
It was never about desks and chairs.
It was always about creating a world where people make a life and not just a
living. It was about something greater than
ourselves.
If we just jump sort of backwards in time from that day by about 10 years,
if I'd asked you what you want to be when you're older,
what would you have said?
At 21?
21.
It's embarrassing. I'll tell you if you... It's embarrassing, though.
I'm embarrassed for my tw-
Amazing. Great. Tell me
... I'm embarrassed for my 21-year-old self.
What did you wanna be?
A billionaire.
You wanted to be a billionaire at 21?
I did, regretfully.
Why?
I thought that making the money is going to compensate.
I thought it was gonna fill that hole for my childhood.
What about at 16 if I'd asked you?
I think I said millionaire then. I don't think I knew the word billionaire-
Okay. So the numbers
... at 16. I think the numbers were 'cause the world changed,
but I thought that
making money was going to fill that hole from the
childhood that back then seemed very difficult
and very aggressive and very with all these negative words
that we can use about,
uh, difficult and abusive childhoods,
and I thought that making money would solve it.
But then I did three businesses afterwards who did not succeed until I met Rebecca,
and Rebecca was like, "You're chasing money.
You will never have it, and even if you get it, it will never make you
happy."
You will never have it.
When she said chasing money is like
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