My Dad Made Me Find Loopholes At 7 Years Old
My family is a bunch of business lawyers. They were very upset I wasn't the Harvey Specter of the group, although that would have been really cool. While other kids were getting coloring books, my dad sat me down in front of contracts and made me find the loopholes. I'm not kidding. At seven years old. I hated it. And it is the single most valuable thing anybody ever did for me, because it gave me the one thing this job actually requires. It gave me the mindset of just staring and looking. Not scanning. Not glancing at a chart for two seconds and deciding. Sitting there and looking at something until it starts telling you what it is. Finding the thing in the document that everybody else skipped over, because they were reading fast and I was reading slow. That's it. That's the whole skill. I just happen to