Bill Gurley
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And the teacher said, the others she read, but for his, the teacher made him come to the front of the room and read it out loud.
And apparently he had a stuttering problem, but it said, I want to be on TV.
And she thought he was like not taking the exercise seriously.
And she condemned him for writing that.
So much so that she called his mother and he got in trouble when he got home.
So he got sent to his room.
He's worried that his dad's going to come in there and read him the riot act.
And his dad comes in and sits next to him.
Here's the whole story.
And he says, here's what we're going to do.
Let's take that piece of paper and put it right here in your bed stand.
And I want you to read it every single day.
And you hear a story like that, you know, and I don't think, there's a lot of people, I think that that's a very hard thing to do.
I think that for parents, and I'm a parent of three and I've lived through this phase that we're talking about,
Your intuition as a parent, like some in your DNA somewhere, is to look after the economic welfare of this child.
You want them to live a good life.
And it's very hard not to associate that mostly with money.
And so this thing that Steve Harvey's dad did for him, I think is kind of a really like a very unique thing.
I think it's very hard to do.
And I hear a story that McConaughey has a very similar story about when he switched from law school to film school.