David Senra

What the hell else are you going to do?

Be a doctor?

None of this comes as news to me, but I hate the way he puts it.

I tell the tournament director I'll take the money.

As the words leave my mouth, I feel a shelf of possibilities fall away.

I don't know what those possibilities might be, but that's the point.

I never will know.

The man hands me a check, and as I walk out of his office, I feel I'm starting down a long, long road, one that seems to lead into a dark, ominous forest.

It is April 29th, 1986, my 16th birthday.

Brad Jacobs has this great line in the book that he wrote, which is called How to Make a Few Billion Dollars.

It's episode 335 of Founders.

And he says, so much of success in business comes from keeping your head in a good place.

And I kept thinking about that because I think one of the benefits of reading this book is you see Andre's struggles mentally and you see him working his way through.

This is really a story of redemption.

He has this...

crazy father this terrible childhood where he has no control no autonomy no choice about what happens to him at all he somehow gets to be the number one tennis player in the world then he's going to have this crazy fall to the point where he's smoking meth falls so low that he has to start from the very bottom he starts playing like local tournaments at tennis courts and parks and at community colleges and has to fight his way all the way back which he does

And all along the way, as you're following this life story, he's sharing and then analyzing what the hell is going on in his head.

So again, when you read one of the benefits of reading biographies and autobiographies, these are life stories, but you're not thinking about that person.

You're thinking about you.

You're thinking, oh, I know exactly how that feels or, oh, I don't want to be like that.