Tim Ferriss

I didn't realize it at the time, but...

Grew up on eastern Long Island, way out by Montauk.

So, uh, people associate that with, like... rightly so.

You know, hedge fund managers and out by the Hamptons, you know, like... tennis with Steven Spielberg kind of thing, right?

These $100 million mansions.

And that's part of it, but a lot like... any...

Any tourist town that has a lot of second or third or fourth or fifth homes, like Nantucket or wherever, they're all over the place.

You've got the people who come there on the weekends or for the summers, and then you've got the locals, right?

So the local side is mostly people working in service industries, et cetera.

You know, most of my friends' fathers were, like, fishermen, carpenters, landscapers, that kind of thing.

So I grew up working in restaurants.

Started busboying pretty early.

Not even sure it was legal.

Probably 14, 14 or so.

I think everybody should work a service job.

I think everybody should have to work a service job.

But that's where I grew up, eastern Long Island.

And school was not great.

I mean, you don't really realize.

You have no reference point, right?