Draymond Green meets LeBron after the game to celebrate his 39K points.
LeBron: “They didn’t believe in us.”
Draymond: “I always believed in you my King.”
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I was a terrible student.
Never read 1 book my entire school career.
Dyslexic, ADD and not passionate.
Told that I wouldn’t get into a good school.
Told that I wouldn’t be successful by teachers directly (a few) and that I had to figure out school to do it.
But I was always doing things on the side from age 12 on. I was building media properties for fun in the sports space. More than a dozen of them!
Just not things that system respected.
Fast forward 5 years to now:
I skipped college.
Run 2 Successful businesses. (HoopsNation & its affiliates, The Buster Agency among others)
Am an avid reader (of strictly material I’m passionate about)
Have interviewed folks like Tom Brady, Adam Sandler, Jerry West, TMAC, etc by age 22.
I think the lesson here is just that:
Passion trumps everything. And if you don’t fit in somewhere, go somewhere else.
It’s better to be weird as well.
Can’t even begin imagine how many times I was called weird before having success. Tried & True.
Here’s a photo from my HS Graduation that I captioned at the time “Buster: 1 High School 0”
I became a millionaire in my 30s. No side hustles. No inheritance. No tricks.
Here are 16 choices that made me rich.
1: I chose a high-paying career field (information technology), not liberal arts.
2: I cut out the losers. All you wanna do is drink? Bye.
Sam Harris has this idea that there’s a “last time” for everything—you just never know when it will be.
When I find myself rushing through moments, I think about it:
How many more times will my son want me to pick him up or crawl on me in bed?
Slow down—you’re gonna miss this.
When I worked a 9 to 5, this was my schedule:
- Wake up at 5:30
- Get ready/drink coffee
- 1-hour commute at 7:30a
- In office from 8:30a to 5:00p
- Go to the gym from 5:00p to 6:00p
- 1-hour commute back home at 6:15p
- Dinner & 2 hours of quality time w/ my wife
But now?
When he was 11, Kobe Bryant played a full 25-game basketball season without scoring a single point.
He then took a simple mathematical approach to becoming one of the all-time greats: