Nate Auffort went broke and dropped out of college twice while following the conventional path of good grades and a job. He questions where that route actually leads after seeing someone with wealth and realizing how much money matters when you don't have it.
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When I went broke for years is I was just going through life, right? I didn't know any better. You know, I grew up in a home where I was told, go to school, get good grades, better grades, you get the better job you're going to get. You know, was following that plan and I just wasn't having the success that I thought I would have. I actually dropped out of college twice. This guy who got on there, and he was extremely captivating, and he was sitting there, his arms crossed in front of, you know, this super expensive car and said, where are you going to be in the next five years if you keep doing what you've been doing? Where could you be in the next five years if you follow the man that built the path, who built the track to follow taking other people down that track? Where, where would you be wind up if you just did what they did? And where would you be in the next five years if you keep doing what you've been doing? And a light bulb went off in my head, I think, wow, you know, here I grew up in a home where I didn't have a lot of money. And so, you know, money isn't everything until you don't have it.
