Tim Ferriss
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And we can dive into that.
I was also a wrestler.
That was the only sport I was ever any good at.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I was born premature.
I was tiny, super hyperactive.
And one of my mom's friends was like, you gotta put that boy in kid wrestling to tire him out.
And because I was so puny, I just got the crap kicked out of me all the time until about sixth grade.
And team sports were out.
I would just get massacred.
I mean, I wouldn't even go out to recess until probably like fourth or fifth grade, because it was just like being out in the prison yard.
I'd just get the crap kicked out of me.
So I would just stay inside safely near the teacher and read books, mostly on marine biology.
Because my parents, actually, this is something my parents did.
I want to give them credit.
We didn't have a lot of money, but my mom said, if you want books, we always have budget for books.
And so we would go to the bookstore, and there were remainder tables, you know, these books that the bookstore's trying to get rid of.
And I'm like, that was the permissible real estate.
It's like, all right, you get to choose from these books.
And I was like, 40, 60, 80% off.