 Self-made grew up in Queens, New York under, you know, hard scrabble circumstances, poverty. My earliest memories are doing whatever it takes to pay the bills, scraping gum under tables of McDonald's, true story. And I made a radical decision when I was very young, which is the genesis of this book, the genesis of my career, which is to take matters into my own hands and drop out of high school. At the time, you could get your GD, but if you do well enough, you can go to any college. And at the time, I was taking care of my mother. We were on government assistance. Her health was deteriorating. She was morbidly obese. That's when I made my burn the votes move. I decided to fail every class, is so that I would become effectively a write-off. And with one chess move, I went from a high school dropout to finishing my first year of college as president of the debate team.