A speaker describes how being doubted by classmates and yearbook predictions of failure fueled their drive to succeed. That chip on their shoulder, they say, kept them from quitting when things got hard.
So while I was on the doors, I really, I wanted to succeed so bad, but I really just wanted to prove to all the people that wrote in my high school yearbooks and my middle school yearbooks that I was going to end up in jail, I was going to be a failure, and I just wanted to prove everybody wrong. And I had this chip on my shoulder to just prove them wrong. I had all this pride. I wanted to be better than everybody, and that kept me from quitting.
