CHAPTER 1

The Importance of Being Me

In this section, build the character to be an entrepreneur and make some important early choices about who you are as a person.

I am a young entrepreneur, and I am not who you think I am.

You hear entrepreneur, and you see someone dripping in confidence who breezed through school and is the popular one who attracts the love interest in the best Hollywood fashion.

I am not this person. If I had been this person, I probably wouldn’t be an entrepreneur.

I was born in January 1998 in Sheffield, UK, with periventricular leukomalacia. It means my eyes don’t work together, and I have a tremor. My hand-eye coordination is weak, so I find sports challenging and struggle to navigate uneven surfaces. You can imagine ...

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