Growing up not rich in the 60s and 70s was useful on the balance. I was willing to take risks in business because when you don’t have much to lose you are perha

Growing up not rich in the 60s and 70s was useful on the balance. I was willing to take risks in business because when you don’t have much to lose you are perhaps a little more free to try scary things. I read tons of how to succeed books and biographies and learned a lot about how failures are learning experiences. OTOH many of my peers wound up dead, on drugs, or incarcerated. I do tend to be hoardy and my clever technique has been to just buy more houses, so not a great role model in that regard.