Welcome back to the podcast, the show where I cover all the latest strategies and current events related to e-commerce and online business.

Now, in this episode, I'm diving into something that might surprise you.

Why people who don't seem particularly smart or qualified or building multi-million dollar businesses?

Success isn't about being a genius.

It's not even about having the perfect plan.

A lot of the time,

it comes down to taking action, embracing risk, and thinking differently. Enjoy the show.

Welcome to the My Wife Quitter Job podcast. Today's episode is a little bit different. It's a personal

story that perfectly illustrates just how unpredictable the path to success can be. So about 20 years ago,

I went back home to visit my mom over the summer and I happened to run into an old classmate of mine from high school.

And back in the day, this classmate of mind wasn't known to be

the brightest guy in school. I remember one time, a group of us were discussing our SAT scores,

and he blurted out that he got a 700 on the test. And when we asked him whether he got a 700

in our verbal or a 700 in math, he just said, yep. Anyway, I naturally assumed that he was working in some dead-end job, making minimum wage,

but I was shocked to learn that he owned multiple apartment buildings and his own construction

company.

This guy was loaded.

And even though I was doing okay, making about 100K as an electrical engineer at the time,

I was a pauper by comparison.

And at that point, I remember thinking

of myself, what the hell is this guy's secret? How did he start a successful construction

company because it was dumb as rocks in high school? And this threw me for a loop because my whole

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