He didn't come from any successful place. The richest dad he knew growing up sold
sand
or
gravel
for a living, he still doesn't remember which one it was. But through coincidence or whatever, by the time he reached his late 30s he knew three people who were worth at least 8 figures.
At least $10 million dollars, which was the new
millionaire
benchmark because having a million no longer mattered. He wasn't anywhere close to that but the three people he did know were all close friends of his. None of them knew each other which added to the
coincidence
. But he had no desire to hone such an ambition like these three millionaires. But he was grateful to have gotten to know them.
The most curious thing, to him, was how they spent their time once they had 'made it'. Any time he'd go visit them they would have just come from or be heading to a workout. It was strange to him that they were constantly exercising. Once he was out for coffee with the millionaire who owned a bunch of storage lots, and out of curiosity he just asked him "so you workout a lot."