Okay, so I'm just getting in my car and I have to document this moment because I think

for the first time in my adult life I realized that when somebody says I can't do something

it only makes me want it that much more.

Okay so before I get into what happened today I should probably let you know that there's

this thing in me. Like maybe I have a chip on my shoulder, maybe it was how it was raised

or maybe it was a circumstance around me, but maybe I do walk around with a little bit

of a chip on my shoulder.

And it only appears when somebody says I can't do something.

And for a while I used to be embarrassed of it, I used to hide behind it, I used to camouflage

it, but something happened this morning that brought it out in fierce form.

Before I get there I should probably mention that I broke my leg when I was 10 years old

and I broke it when somebody had pushed me off a skating rink.

I broke my tibia and my fibia, which was the two bones in your shin and I was in a cast

from my toes up to my thigh for six months.

And I learned how to navigate life with a cast.

And so when the neighborhood boys were having a bike race and I said I wanted to participate,

I said you can't participate, you have a cast.

They said you can't ride a bike with a cast.

And there it goes, the start of the chip on my shoulder.

And they said, watch me.

I got on that bike with a full-length cast and I race the boys.

There were other times in my life like when I was starting different businesses that people

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