Richard Branson shares his story of going to boarding school as a child, getting expelled, and eventually leaving school at 15 to start a magazine. He also mentions the opportunities that come with having a learning disability like dyslexia, which can lead to incredible success.
The host shares his struggles with reading during his school days, playing football as practice, and how his podcast, The School of Greatness, became a top podcast.
The speaker talks about his experience of driving a touch screen car with a mountain guide friend who found it to be one of his scariest moments, in Atlanta rush hour traffic back in 2002 or 2003.
The author talks about discovering his writing skills and how it takes hard work and grinding to become a good writer. He emphasizes the influence of chance encounters and luck and talks about how he started writing for the Molly Fool by sending a draft to a coworker.
The author discusses how being born in a different time period might have impacted their writing career, and how their personal deconstruction of words and disregard for the traditional writing process led them to success.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson recounts his journey towards science, beginning with his childhood experiences of marveling at the Milky Way with his father and discussing the importance of asking questions.