Is This It?

Key Takeaways

I did everything that my dad told me to do I finished Vanderbilt in 3 years all the honors and all the stuff and and then I got the Swanky consulting job right out of college for 2 years I remember thinking like is this it because I was 21 at this point I graduated college I had the good job I had my own condo that I had bought and I was looking out over the the highrises and I was like is it just more of this I knew that I wanted to start a business every time that I'd gone to tell my dad that that's what I wanted to do he would end up talking me off the ledge it got to the point where I was so incredibly depressed that I wanted to not wake up every day the conclusion that I had to come to was I can either die to him or I can die to me when I did make that move we barely spoke for years and it was only after not only that I had made more money and then made more money than he ever made did the dynamic shift to one where he respected what I had done and it took probably almost a decade if you are going through this and you feel dead to yourself in the current path it will not get better you will only have put more time in burning time of your own life that is limited to fill someone else's dream