Tim Ferriss

Like, whatever's in front of you is kind of your reality.

School was not good.

So eventually, one of my... I got really lucky, man.

You just think about all these things that have to line up for either of us to be where we are.

And these... these sliding door moments.

One friend, if I had been two years younger, two years older, this wouldn't have happened, but...

One guy managed to escape Long Island and his parents sent him to a school in New Hampshire, which was a private school.

And he came back and he was like, you have to leave this place.

I was like, what are you talking about?

And then a math teacher was like, he's right, you need to fucking get out of here.

I was like, what?

And I started looking into it.

Ultimately...

got some scholarships my parents were very supportive it was all my idea like the whole extend family chipped in and i was able to transfer to a private school in new hampshire and that was a huge life changer and inflection point i mean that's where

Suddenly, instead of just being able to study Spanish, you could study anything.

And that's how I ended up studying Japanese.

And class six days a week, right?

Seated meal with coat and tie.

I mean... Wow.

You had mandatory sports.