 So to kick it off from the start when I was a child I was pretty happy and content with the way things were you know I had a loving family growing up But I think one of the biggest issues I had in hindsight was that I didn't have much of a passion in my earlier years You know, I was always okay in school kind of getting by but I never really had anything that stuck with me One thing I did try when I was a bit younger is creating YouTube videos my friends back in 2007 I made about probably a dozen channels that ended up failing the process But in the fall of 2011 a teacher had noticed my engagement and participation in the discussion topic We had in our social studies class and it kind of nudged me on the shoulders to watch the 2012 Republican Presidential debate and I kind of thought to myself, you know, okay I'm not gonna go into this with much enthusiasm myself with politics, please Like I don't have any kind of passions. Why would I do good at this? So they started talking about foreign policy and down the list the same thing over and over That was until they went on to a gentleman named Ron Paul who shared a completely different taste on the issues. Looking back on it I really owe a lot to Ron for leading me to where I am today. To put it lightly this event sparked a dopamine rush in my head Leading me down a rabbit hole of studying things I wouldn't have even dreamed of learning about such as foreign policy Economics, finance, you name it. And it's a few weeks past. I started diving into the 2008 recession Learning about the housing crisis and inevitably learning about the Federal Reserve I learned very quickly that due to excessive printing of new money from the Federal Reserve I had to start hedging myself my wealth well with little I had at the time and funny enough I hadn't been excited for anything like this throughout my life I can finally remember my dad picking me up from school my birthday as we went straight to the bank to open up my first brokerage account So I could purchase my first stock from there I started diving deeper into finance investing in the stock market and buying just about anything from risky Marijuana penny stocks to Chinese solar companies. I came across a YouTube video titled What is Bitcoin? It mentioned promises of decentralization Mentioning how it utilized minors minting new coins to secure peer-to-peer transactions Which all the time really flew over my head to be honest and this is where I made what is probably the most expensive Mistake I'll ever make within my life Instead of going to the website to learn more about the technology and what it offered I as a trader at the time wanted to see if there was an actual market to buy Bitcoin and to my surprise There was a website called bit stamp I found Bitcoin's price feed on the website and immediately laughed at myself $3 per coin Seriously people are spending $3 and some fake internet money to be honest I had a genuinely negative opinion on Bitcoin. I can't lie I grew to becoming so skeptical of the financial world after learning about the 2008 financial crisis And to be honest it all seemed too good to be true at the start But in February of 2017 I revisited its all-time high price $1,200 I read the Bitcoin white paper and after about an hour It felt like a slap across the face the solution I've been looking for for all these years was right under my nose and the year since I've been buying crypto and analyzing the market through my YouTube channel data dash which is amassed over 500,000 subscribers globally Cryptocurrencies are clearly a once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity breakthrough innovation and they will continue to impact our lives in miraculous ways Similar to how the internet or electricity reshaped our day-to-day lives But if you take anything away from this video Remember this as you go throughout your life and you discover new emerging trends and technologies in the market Make sure that you don't become your own worst enemy What I mean by that is to always make sure you maintain a fresh perspective Always keep open to new ideas and on top of that as well understand that even though you may not see value in some Today that there still may be value there that is yet to be understood who knows it just might change your life