Nathan Barry

And this age gap that didn't matter before is going to be really obvious when I still have two and a half years of school left and we're all gone.

And so I went back to my mom and I said, so is high school, because I'm just now starting to enter high school or think about it, is high school a set amount of work or four years?

And she's like, look, same philosophy.

I've outlined all the curriculum for your older siblings.

If you get that done in three years, you can graduate in three years or even sooner if you want.

And I remember thinking that

I was really bored when I did math, and I was also really bored when we'd go on these family road trips, like an eight-hour drive to Seattle.

And so I was like, why don't I just combine these two?

And so I basically just did a speed run through as many school subjects and curriculum as I could.

And on like these family road trips, I would do like a month's worth of math homework.

And so the end result is I ended up graduating high school when I was 15, a little before I turned 16, and then going to college and only being slightly behind my much older friends.

And it just really drilled in this idea of like, there is no speed limit, you set the pace.

Yeah.

My mom made us take all the standardized tests for like middle school and high school.

We'd ask like, okay, what's a good grade as we did this?

And it was always in percentiles.

So it wasn't a score.

It was like how you scored relative to all the other students.

And she would say, so long as you get in the 95th percentile, we're good.

And so I remember thinking like, okay, you have to be in the 95th percentile.