The reason I like to talk you through my journey is not only to show you how to evolve as a human being and how meaningless most of the things that you think are meaningful are, but also to keep your options open, your point of entry, how if you trust and put faith in what you want, what you want will happen. And people that put faith in what they don't want usually get what they don't want.

And so, who here's heard me speak before?

Oh, that's awesome.

Oh, really, Marissa?

Good.

That makes it easy.

Awesome.

So I'll start at the beginning then.

I was born in Akron, Ohio.

So that's enough to feel sorry for me, right?

Me and LeBron James were born in the same hospital.

Same hospital is Steph Curry.

So I imagine considering my career, eventually

I'll be the commissioner of basketball.

There must be something special at the hospital.

I grew up with a single mom.

My dad left when I was five, six kids.

My mom's extreme academics, she was a second grade teacher, so her philosophy and life was really simple.

Number one, the fetus isn't fully developed until after graduate school, and you're either

a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. And all my siblings kind of followed that direction, which ended

them all up in the Ivy League's. In fact, all but one graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, Penn, Columbia.

They're extreme academics.

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