Nick Hutchison shares a George Bernard Shaw quote about unreasonable men driving progress, then a speaker explains why he chose ditch-digging work ranked 99th on his task list: it gave him complete control over inputs, outputs, schedule, quality, and earnings, which led to financial freedom and the ability to help homeowners.
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There's a quote, I forget who it's by, I think it's George Bernard Shaw, and he says something along the lines of, all innovation is dependent on the unreasonable man. Because the unreasonable man is the one that steps outside of society's box and expectations, goes against the grain, and creates something cool and different, and therefore creates progress and innovation.
Yeah, you know, ditch digging was number 99 on a list of 100 things for me that I was going to do, but I knew that I could control so many things. I can control my input, my output, the quality of my work, my day, my schedule. I can control my financial gain. And at the end of the day, I also helped people out and made their houses better and healthier and safer. And so there was a bit of that for me that it kind of showed itself that if you have that much control of your life, you can be able to do anything you want financially and beyond that.