What I Learned From My Wealthy Parents | Bridger Pennington

My parents did a good job of this. I now have come to realize they would always just tell stories about people around us. My dad, he's like, oh, my business partner, man, he can talk to anybody. He can go in a room, there's 100 people in there, he'll find the 3 most wealthy people and he'll get them to invest in our company. Like, he's just an incredible talker. He can work a room. And I was like, huh, I wonder if I could develop a skill like that. I started to practice, like, working with teachers. Teachers at school, they have, you know, a handful of kids they really like. Yeah. And they will do extra for those kids. And I started to realize this, I was like, huh? And I was like, how can I become one of those kids? Well, teachers like kids that sit up front, they pay attention, ask good questions, they're on pace with the teacher, they help the teacher out. And so in middle school and high school, I was not the smartest kid. I did not do that well in school. My test scores were pretty average. I got straight A's. Hmm. Looking back, my parents, I think, kind of engineered that by just passive stories they would tell about people in our life around the dinner table, in the car, all that kind of stuff.