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Originally Posted by Shamou  From here... Post #21...
" At 13 years old he decided he wanted to be a baseball reporter and within in a few months (and still aged 13) he had an interview with one of the best baseball reporter in the US at the time, Howard Cosell. His interview made it to the Los Angeles Times and by 14 or 15 years old he was offered a contract to be a sports reporter for for a paper and as well as a job with a television station.
Then at 16 he delivered a speech that lead him to upset his more popular competitors and become the student body president.
In his late teens he elevated himself to one of Jim Rohn's top sales people, eventually being a director of sales and earning $10,000 a month."
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You seem to have omitted this part:
"He then slumped (due to discovering having lots of money lost him a lot of friends) to his lowest point at 21 (fat, broke and alone). This allowed him to gain new key distinctions and reinvent himself and become the true success that he is today."
I have the Personal Power II tapes, and he talks about his life there. His initial success was short lived, and as that quote says he lost everything. For at least a couple of years he was totally broke, gained lots of weight, and lived in a studio apartment with no kitchen. His earlier success had nothing to do with his later success in the sense that nobody knew about his earlier success. His previous experience no doubt helped him, but you seem to be implying that he had a springboard from which to launch into PD success. That wasn't the case.