He Forgot About This High School Moment Until It Made Him Six Figures

19 May 2026 · 0 min

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Gus reconnected with a high school classmate after 30 years and asked for help landing a job at Cisco Systems. The classmate said yes immediately, remembering that Gus had been kind to him back then. That single act of kindness from decades earlier led to a six-figure opportunity.

One of them, the number one relationship, and this is really a cool one, is that I found this guy who I had been in high school with. The time was about 30 years ago, you know, and I reached out to him. I said, I see you're in, I need to get into Cisco Systems, you know, would you help me get in there? He was like, you know what, Gus, let me just tell you this. You were always nice to me in high school. And so I will help you. And I'm like, that's cool, man.