Well, actually, I considered one alternate path.
And I have achieved my goal, by any reasonable measure. Since my family was very not rich, the only route I ever considered was earning money through business. (Jimmy Carter was alive, and in power, but he was not the man to inspire a budding megalomaniac.) My second goal, the one we are discussing today, was to be rich. If Napoleon had been alive when I was a child, I would probably have wanted to be him. In my nature I wanted to be the most powerful person of whom I was aware-and that was the Pope.
Although this seems like a religious goal, in fact it reflects poorly on me, because my aim was not spiritual leadership, but power. When I was four or five, I can distinctly remember having two goals, both of which I assumed I would certainly achieve. And we do not and will not solicit you we neither need nor accept money. If you subscribe will get a notification of all new writings by email. In these days of massive censorship, this is wise, even if you normally consume The Worthy House on some other platform. You can subscribe to writings published in The Worthy House. Thus, I loathed Charles Koch’s Good Profit, and after I read Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World, the only one of the ten didactic lessons I could remember was, no surprise to those who know me, “Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.” On those few occasions I read such books, usually I either hate them, or can only remember a few points, since much of what most of these books have to say is unmemorable. I am not a frequent consumer of this genre that might be called “business self-help”-books that revolve around business, but shade, to a greater or lesser degree, into advice for people in their daily lives. I’m not sure I learned anything new, but I was inspired to regularize some of my thinking about my favorite topic, myself, and now I will share it with the world. I picked this book because John is my favorite regular on Shark Tank, a show I watch intermittently, and I was bored in the airport, looking for something to read. Like David Byrne, I too ask myself, how did I get here, with my beautiful house, and my beautiful wife, and large automobile? Such thoughts bounce around my mind, but they have crystallized after reading Daymond John’s Rise and Grind.
People often ask me, as I stride the halls of power in my custom Zegna suits wove with thread of gold, how I became so rich and successful.
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