Because when we're by ourselves, you know, you're just so tunnel-visioned and you get those doubts or negative thoughts, but you're sitting indoors. Like, I don't trust them. It always changes your perspective. If you just go out of nature, take a walk and then think through those thoughts, and you'll get a better perspective on anything you're going through. So that's just a foundation for life is don't trust any negative thoughts or doubts that happens indoors.

Go out of nature. You'll start to see things from a different perspective.

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I am excited to have Anmal Singh here today.

Anmal, you have a great story talking about your time in India, moving to the U.S., and then building

up a very successful business or two. So I'd love for you to talk about your origin story,

talk about what compelled you to come to the United States, what you found here, and how you established something you were

really passionate about from that moment. Yeah, definitely. So, you know, growing up in India,

it's a typical shy, introverted kid, you know, growing up wasn't the most popular in school.

So I kind of always felt like, you know, I didn't like fit in or I didn't belong. And I think people had a perception, or maybe I did, right, inside. Like you have a perception of how you see yourself. So for, you know, when I was like 15 years old, I was like, okay, I want to move out of the country. When I finish school, maybe do my university somewhere outside the country so I can develop myself a bit more and also reinvent myself, like, move into a different country. You know, I could recreate whoever I want to be. So I think that was kind of the big motivation for me. But I didn't move to the U.S. straight away. I think at that time to do a college degree in the U.S.

you had like, you know, you still have an SATs and all these different things you had to take. And I was like, well, that's kind of tough. I hate math. I hate anything to do with numbers. So it's the last thing I thought I'd ever be doing is to do with the stock market. So I went into London, went to London for my university, got there, you know, wasn't that hard because they didn't have SATs or anything. As long as you spell good English, you could get in. So I went to university in London. And then that's where I started learning about the stock market in my dorm room. It's like researching on it, reading on it. And a bunch of guys asked me on it. We're like,

hey, wow, there's like, if you're interested in football, you could join a football club. You could be interested in anything you want. There's like a cup. There's a boating society. But there's no such thing as the trading or investing society. Why don't we start something? So we started that in college. It's just a bunch of guys meet up once so we can talk about what we read or what we watched on CNBC.

And then that grew into like hundreds of members that still exist now in the university. And yeah, we started that. That's when the initial seeds were planted. And yeah, being an introvert, trading came very easily to me. You know, it's just like me and the computer. That's it. Perfect. I'm going to have to talk to anybody, no office politics, not getting stuck in traffic.

So I took a liking to trading. And then I would do that for, from 2010 till, you know, 2015 in London. And I always looked at New York City as like a place that I want to move. I had on my vision board, like these skylines, all these, you know, all the typical kid growing up, especially guys, they look at the skyscrapers, all these things I want, you know, had up on my vision board. And that was one of partly the reasons why I kind of worked towards that vision board to make that a reality. But then also the time zone, right? Because in Europe, I would, I would trade the U.S. stock market. So I would trade from like noon to like 4 or 5 p.m. when you get done trading, the day is gone.

So I was like, if I can move to New York and then I work from 9 until 12 and I rest of the day to do whatever I want, that was kind of my motivation to eventually work myself into New York.

Yeah. Well, first of all, Vision Board, you don't hear much about, you know,

usually you hear women having a vision board at the new year.

You don't necessarily hear it about somebody in their dorm room,

having the prescience to have a vision board and to really think about that future.

So I applaud you for that because I do think it's something that's such a useful tool for all of us to make sure that we are moving towards our goals and that we're putting action into place and not just thinking and dreaming about it, right?

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