019-The Hard Lessons That Built My Entrepreneurial Mindset

Yes.

Actually, I became an entrepreneur at the age of eight.

And I had no idea that this was happening.

It literally took me nearly 30 years later that at some point with reflection I figured out where my personal entrepreneurial drive came from or how this basically came together.

And to basically go back is when I was eight years old my childhood stopped.

And back then, I really remember it like it was yesterday.

My mom basically was sitting next to me on the bed and she started to cry.

And I had no idea what's going to happen because even as a young boy, if mom is crying, you don't know what's going on.

And then at some point, she basically could start to speak and she said, dad will never come home again.

And I was sitting there and Huh? What? I just did not understand, because I could not process this information.

And I asked her, yeah, but okay, when will I see him again? When, okay, he's not coming home today.

Is he going to be back tomorrow? And she said, no, that will never come home again.

And at some point, with a lot of crying in between again, She said something to me where she said, you know what? When we are going to stick together, we are going to come over that.

And from now on, you are going to be responsible for the house and the garden.

And I need to go to work full time because I need to take care of the money that we have food in the house.

And I was sitting there as a young eight-year-old boy and looking at my mom and said, okay.

And in that moment, I stopped being a kid.

I skipped being a young teenager and I became responsible for about 2,200 square foot house and about 5,000 square foot garden at the age of eight.

Because mom told me.

And I did it.

And in that moment, whatever changed internally and whatever changed also from my mindset, I literally basically detached emotionally or topic-wise from all the other boys in my age.

because I needed to go home and I needed to mow the grass.

I needed to go home and figure out what is growing and how I treat the bushes based on the time of the year and I needed to go home and clean the house.

So I did not think about going for a soccer game or going playing to the playground and all of these things because mom told me, you are the man in the house now, you are going to be responsible for these things.