A speaker reflects on watching his parents work hard from age sixteen, which shaped his approach to building wealth through constant creative projects: writing books, hosting podcasts, and side hustles. He hasn't hit a million dollars yet, but stresses that assembling multiple efforts and taking action beats just dreaming about it.
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I was 16 years old, you know. So like you say, I saw my mother go to work, I saw my father go to work every day. And so you just get that work ethic, you know what I'm saying? Like, cause you see it. I've been working since I was 16 years old. And like you say, I dibble and dabble in this, you know, or whatnot. And I— cause I'm just always— I wrote books, you know, I'm just— cause I'm always trying to do something. I was just telling somebody A dude cut my hair yesterday. He said, man, you doing podcasts? He said, man, you wrote books too? I said, yeah. I said, man, so people always talking about trying to make a million dollars, but what you doing to try to get it? I ain't saying that I got a million dollars, but I'm trying to do, you know, saying, put things together.