Kyle Scheele

And so when you read about successful people, what they do is they kind of white all that stuff out of the story.

I have this joke I say on stage of like every successful person's story, it really boils down to one of three stories.

The first one is that they were part of a community and they all worked together and they learned from each other and they collaborated.

And then for whatever reason, their career took off farther than other people's, but it was still based in all of the stuff that they got from that community.

The second story is that that person was tremendously talented, but they had barriers in their way.

Maybe they had bills to pay.

Maybe they had to work a job all the time or they had to mow the lawn or pay the bills or send the kids off to school or pack the lunches.

And then somebody comes along who can remove those barriers.

Sometimes that's a spouse.

Sometimes it's a supportive friend.

Sometimes it's like a job that says, hey, there are some people out there

who if you put them in the right role, they would just absolutely thrive, but they just haven't been put in that role.

And then all of a sudden someone goes, hey, I think you'd be good at this.

And boom, it unlocks that potential for them.

But it wouldn't have happened without that person.

The third thing that some successful people have is called rich parents.

And their parents are rich and they pave the way for them.

That's actually most of it.

Most of the time it's rich parents.

But then regardless of which of those three stories is actually true, what most people do is as soon as they become successful, the first check they write is to a PR firm that's going to go white out their Wikipedia and delete all of the links to anybody else's story so that it looks like they did it all themselves.