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have a question from Tony Perez who asks
tell us your backstory when was the
point you began your own self change you
got it so the high school I went to had
a very interesting tradition the
graduating class would host a sort of
battle royale the month before we all
graduated and this was way before
fortnight and pub G were even a thing
now the rules were pretty simple you had
to pay five dollars to join and it was
winner-take-all
however the game would only last about
two weeks so in the case that there was
more than one survivor at the very end
the prize pool would be split every
single day you would receive a text
message from the game master he would
tell you who your target of the day was
this was the person that you had a hunt
down and kill not physically with a
knife alright all you had to do was mark
them on their skin with a marker which
was pretty funny because the battle
royale took place in the summer so he
had people showing up to school in
90-degree weather with hoodies and
jackets on now there were a couple of
other rules number one you were not
allowed to skip school or cut classes if
you were caught doing so you'd be
disqualified number two you were immune
while in class this was to prevent the
game from interfering with actual school
work number three if you killed someone
your new target would be their target so
if Sam killed Ben and Ben's target with
Shelly Sam's new target would be Shelly
number four if you killed three people
in the span of 24 hours you would gain
immunity which meant nobody could touch
you for 24 hours so that was the more
aggressive strategy hunt down three
people and you could relax
number five you had to kill at least one
person throughout the game this would
prevent people from playing to passively
but that was it you only had to kill one
person and finally number six you were
allowed to kill the person who was
hunting you only problem was you didn't
know who it was
so you either had to set up like a sort
of spy now where I can find out from
your friends who was after you or you
would have to dodge your assailants
first strike and strike back so a large
chunk of the graduating class signed up
for the Battle Royale
I don't remember the exact numbers but
we had like a good two 300 people
participating which meant
the price pool was pretty big especially
for a bunch of high school kids so
everyone took it very very seriously the
first couple of days were crazy people
were dying left and right
every couple of hours you would get a
text message about who just got killed
how many people were remaining and who
was immune for the day people were even
hunting each other down outside of
school I remember taking the subway and
seeing two kids in hoodies slashing at
each other with markers on the train now
I got lucky on the second day my target
was this girl that I had class with I
don't even think she took the game
seriously because she showed up in a
normal shirt she wasn't worried at all
so right after class I just walked up
behind her / she marked her neck and
that was that I got my first kill by the
end of the third day there were only
like 50 people left now my strategy was
simple I figured because I had already
gotten my one kill I just had to play
passively to win there was no point in
going out of my way to hunt down my new
targets in the hopes of getting that
immunity bonus it was just too risky so
I played it safe I went straight to
class I kept all my books on me so I
didn't have to go to my locker I skipped
lunch which wasn't that hard because the
school lunch was pretty bad and during
my free periods I would hide out on the
first floor where almost nobody ever
went so the first week went by and there
were only like 30 people left and one
day I remember taking the stairs out of
the first floor to go to my next class
and I get stopped by this girl this was
a girl that I had shared a couple of
classes with throughout my four years in
high school she looked at me and asked
do you know who Richard is and I thought
to myself wow that's that that's me her
target is probably me hmm wow I'm so
lucky she doesn't remember who I am so
of course I was like nope sorry can't
help you and I quickly walked away for
the rest of the week I basically did the
same thing I stuck to my strategy and I
played extremely passively and then the
game was over there were four survivors
and I was one of them I felt great I had
actually won a real-life battle royale
so the game master sends out a text
congratulating all the winners and he
asks us to meet up with him so he could
give us the prize money so I went I got
like 200 bucks and the game master
looked at me and was like oh so you're
Richard yeah man it's crazy people
couldn't figure out who you were and
that's when I realized I won the Battle
Royale not because I played it safe
or because of my amazing strategy I won
because people genuinely did not know
who I was and these were people that I
had shared classes with for four years
and that struck a chord with me I
thought about my high school career and
I realized just how pathetic and sad it
was
people always say high school supposed
to be one of the best periods of your
life I don't necessarily believe that
but still high school should have been a
better experience than what I went
through see all I did was hang out the
same 4 or 5 friends never joined any
real clubs I never went out of my way to
meet any new people instead I would just
go straight home after classes and play
video games all night long I had crushes
on so many girls throughout the years
but I never had the balls to ask any of
them out instead I spent my free time
hooked on porn jerking off like 2 or 3
times a day I cruised through school I
would just copy homework and barely pass
my classes I didn't give a damn about my
future I knew my parents wanted me to go
to college so I applied to the one
college that everyone applied to because
you were basically guaranteed to get in
I was so broke that I would literally
sit there and watch my friends eat
whenever we went out and if there were
any leftovers they would give it to me
all in all I was a loser on nobody my
high school career was so uneventful
that I was practically invisible but by
pure chance right after I graduated from
high school during that summer break
before I headed off to college I came
across something that would change my
life forever
see I was browsing a forum for a game
that I was basically addicted to and I
came across a thread where someone
mentioned self-improvement and they
provided a link to a self-improvement
forum now before this I had never heard
of the concept I genuinely thought that
people were just born the way they were
and that we were stuck this way till we
died I thought the successful popular
kids were just lucky having been blessed
with good lucks charisma motivation and
all that good stuff but as I browsed
this forum I came across story after
story about people who had strikingly
similar backgrounds as me losers and
nobodies but they would all talk about
how they were able to completely change
their life around
all because of self-development all
because of a couple of books they would
read and a couple of habits they would
build and I was immediately hooked I
remember staying up all night just binge
reading as many
these posts as possible and that's what
I realized that I could do this too
it doesn't sound too complicated sure it
sounds like hard work but if it was
possible to change my life that
drastically then it would all be worth
it and that's when I decided that I
would embark on a self-development
journey and the rest is well well let
that's a story for another day I hope
this answers your question Tony if you
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