A guy I went to school with is a millionaire now. He was the dumbest in our grade.
Last time we linked up he told me how he actually pulled it off and it's one of the craziest paths I've heard.
Dude was like 5'4, quiet, couldn't pass a test to save his life. Teachers gave up on him by sophomore year.
If you got paired with him on a group project you already knew you were doing the whole thing yourself.
He barely graduated.
Spent almost a year after school doing nothing because he didn't think anybody would hire him.
When he finally started applying he sent out over 30 applications and heard back from maybe 3 or 4.
Two of those jobs let him go within the first 2 weeks. One of them told him he wasn't a good fit after 9 days.
At some point he started helping a neighbor clean out commercial properties between tenants. Hauling junk, deep cleans, dumpster runs.
Started charging for it. Then started knocking on doors offering the same thing to property managers.
Got told no a lot. But by that point he'd been hearing no his entire life so it didn't really register the same way anymore.
Built it into a full operation. Several trucks, a full crew, contracts with apartment complexes and commercial landlords across the city.
His business has been doing over $2M a year for the last 3 years now.
Same dude nobody in our school thought would amount to anything.
Rejection only stops you if you actually let it sit with you. He heard no so many times it lost its weight. And that's the only reason he's where he is right now
Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez)
If you want to win long-term, you can't care about rejection, judgment, or failure. At all.
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