Apr 26, 2016 | JHB Turns 30 |
What are your twenties for if not for failing? Not the lazy kind of failing, the kind where you never really tried and so defeat is easy and obvious. No, your twenties are for the kind of failing where you challenge yourself to something just at the edge of your...
Apr 26, 2016 | JHB Turns 30 |
I read a lot of books in my 20s, but I think I read more in my teens. By 19, I had read many of the classics, including Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables, and also some of my all-time favorite books, like All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. During my 20s, I...
Apr 26, 2016 | JHB Turns 30 |
I accomplished a lot in my 20s. I don’t know if I’ll ever top marrying Talia, becoming a father, writing my first book, and starting my first business. It was a breakthrough decade. But there are also a few other random accomplishments that didn’t...
Apr 26, 2016 | JHB Turns 30 |
The last accomplishment in my list of top 5 accomplishments is that I bought a house. Honestly, though, this only made it to the list because I needed five. Yes, I’m happy I was able to buy a house, and I know it’s a big accomplishment. But it’s also...
Apr 26, 2016 | JHB Turns 30 |
In my early 20s, I was at the pinnacle of my musical taste and acumen. Now, on my last day of 29, I still sometimes come across a new band I love, a new song I can’t listen to enough times. However, those discoveries are few and far between compared to how...
Apr 25, 2016 | JHB Turns 30 |
See Accomplishment #1, #2, and #3. When I was four, I overhear a word my parents said that would change my life: entrepreneur “What’s an entrepreneur?” I said (remember I was four). “It’s someone who starts a business.”...
