hello what if I told you that there was
a single college degree I could take you
anywhere you wanted to go you could be a
doctor could be a lawyer you could be a
teacher you could change the world so
there I was 21 I was standing in my
professors office and it was then that I
realized I was screwed
you see moments earlier I was actually
staring at a poster hanging on the wall
and on that poster we’re just so many
career choices I was terrified so if you
haven’t guessed yet I made it in
psychology and what was my reality well
they told me that I could be anything
yet I was qualified for nothing
well let’s backtrack a bit growing up as
an only child there was a lot of
pressure on me to be great and being
Asian I only had a few career choices in
this exact order doctor or engineer and
if I failed I guess I could settle for
being a lawyer for at least that’s what
my parents told me but honestly I didn’t
really care I mean it was their reality
not mine but after graduating college I
was faced with the most difficult
decision of my life
what do I do now what do I do now I’m
sure what I’m sure that’s a question
that we’ve all asked ourselves at one
point or another I mean as the great
writer Jim Rohn once dead I am its
diable it’s even more valuable than
money I mean I mean you can always make
more money eventually but you cannot get
more time and honestly at that point of
my life I was running out of money and
worse I was running out of time I was
living with my mom in a tiny old
apartment in a pretty bad neighborhood I
mean people were stealing gas out of my
mom’s car
that’s how Bedouins life was rough she
had recently lost her dog and so we were
on welfare
we both the ate cheap ramen
on occasion some expired food from the
dollar store for dessert and it was then
that I realized something had to change
I had to focus on my career so choosing
a career usually goes one of two ways
right you there follow what your parents
did or chase your own dream and hope for
the best
or at least or at least that’s what I
stopped my friends back in high school
half of them yeah the other half action
as for me though I was leaning more
towards the passion side of things
although I didn’t really know what it
really meant at the time Oh what did I
know about passion well I knew that form
awesome so what did I know about passion
I knew that for most of my life I was
interested in one thing video game as
you see as a kid how is always getting
bullied and on the playground kids would
laugh at my cheap clothes and tease me
for being Asian and they would chant
Chino Chino happiness go make a Konomi
this Chino Chino happiness go make a
Cano method now they don’t say English
this means Chinaman Chinaman Japanese
eat crap and don’t give me any so
needless to say I didn’t have many
friends and so I adapted for years I ate
lunch by myself in the school bathroom
how just now just being there wasn’t so
bad but the smell was horrible
but at least I wasn’t completely alone
I had video game and these games were my
escape from reality so let’s let’s get
the password to college I was no longer
eating lunch in bathroom stinking but my
passion for games stayed and I actually
found myself trying to become a
professional video game player I
practiced for upwards of 15 hours a day
months on end but then reality set in
when doing all this actually makes me
happy in the future I was no sort of
sure and so I just quit
but I decided to do the next best thing
I decided to actually try to make so it
took two long years and a large team of
people to help me out I finally
completed my first commercial game
sanctuary RPG and to try to maximize my
chances of getting somewhere
I began to study marketing I read dozens
of marketing that I read dozens of
marketing books and thousands of
marketing articles and did a whole lot
of marketing and overtime this led to a
previous and following and eventually
massive critical acclaim but even half a
million downloads later I still had one
question on my mind how can I turn this
into something more than just the game I
had to look beyond my own reality 5 a.m.
so around the time I was being bombarded
with the same two questions over and
over and over again it was just like so
many questions right it was how did you
build your audience and how did 3-game
get so popular and so my company was
born Blackshaw media the goal to assist
others with the one thing that I
struggle with most when I first started
out marketing and the rest was history
so honestly I never thought that I’d be
capable of any of this I never thought
that I could you know make a game and
then have it be played by hundreds of
thousands of people I never thought that
I could go from being on welfare having
a marketing company with hundreds of
clients and most of all I never thought
that you would leave me to this page
right here right now sharing this
reality with all of you so what did I
learn about reality well I learned that
it’s not about what you made it in
college and it’s not about where you
came from either your reality is
fleeting
don’t waste time chasing passion alone
your passions will change instead get
inspired by your passion get good at
something
anything that you truly love no not
everyone has to me if he didn’t want to
be that doctor that way or that teacher
but we all could be someone who works in
service up sorry but we all can be
someone towards the service of others be
good at what you do then use that gift
to help others and if you happen help
enough people then maybe just maybe you to change the world
a single college degree I could take you
anywhere you wanted to go you could be a
doctor could be a lawyer you could be a
teacher you could change the world so
there I was 21 I was standing in my
professors office and it was then that I
realized I was screwed
you see moments earlier I was actually
staring at a poster hanging on the wall
and on that poster we’re just so many
career choices I was terrified so if you
haven’t guessed yet I made it in
psychology and what was my reality well
they told me that I could be anything
yet I was qualified for nothing
well let’s backtrack a bit growing up as
an only child there was a lot of
pressure on me to be great and being
Asian I only had a few career choices in
this exact order doctor or engineer and
if I failed I guess I could settle for
being a lawyer for at least that’s what
my parents told me but honestly I didn’t
really care I mean it was their reality
not mine but after graduating college I
was faced with the most difficult
decision of my life
what do I do now what do I do now I’m
sure what I’m sure that’s a question
that we’ve all asked ourselves at one
point or another I mean as the great
writer Jim Rohn once dead I am its
diable it’s even more valuable than
money I mean I mean you can always make
more money eventually but you cannot get
more time and honestly at that point of
my life I was running out of money and
worse I was running out of time I was
living with my mom in a tiny old
apartment in a pretty bad neighborhood I
mean people were stealing gas out of my
mom’s car
that’s how Bedouins life was rough she
had recently lost her dog and so we were
on welfare
we both the ate cheap ramen
on occasion some expired food from the
dollar store for dessert and it was then
that I realized something had to change
I had to focus on my career so choosing
a career usually goes one of two ways
right you there follow what your parents
did or chase your own dream and hope for
the best
or at least or at least that’s what I
stopped my friends back in high school
half of them yeah the other half action
as for me though I was leaning more
towards the passion side of things
although I didn’t really know what it
really meant at the time Oh what did I
know about passion well I knew that form
awesome so what did I know about passion
I knew that for most of my life I was
interested in one thing video game as
you see as a kid how is always getting
bullied and on the playground kids would
laugh at my cheap clothes and tease me
for being Asian and they would chant
Chino Chino happiness go make a Konomi
this Chino Chino happiness go make a
Cano method now they don’t say English
this means Chinaman Chinaman Japanese
eat crap and don’t give me any so
needless to say I didn’t have many
friends and so I adapted for years I ate
lunch by myself in the school bathroom
how just now just being there wasn’t so
bad but the smell was horrible
but at least I wasn’t completely alone
I had video game and these games were my
escape from reality so let’s let’s get
the password to college I was no longer
eating lunch in bathroom stinking but my
passion for games stayed and I actually
found myself trying to become a
professional video game player I
practiced for upwards of 15 hours a day
months on end but then reality set in
when doing all this actually makes me
happy in the future I was no sort of
sure and so I just quit
but I decided to do the next best thing
I decided to actually try to make so it
took two long years and a large team of
people to help me out I finally
completed my first commercial game
sanctuary RPG and to try to maximize my
chances of getting somewhere
I began to study marketing I read dozens
of marketing that I read dozens of
marketing books and thousands of
marketing articles and did a whole lot
of marketing and overtime this led to a
previous and following and eventually
massive critical acclaim but even half a
million downloads later I still had one
question on my mind how can I turn this
into something more than just the game I
had to look beyond my own reality 5 a.m.
so around the time I was being bombarded
with the same two questions over and
over and over again it was just like so
many questions right it was how did you
build your audience and how did 3-game
get so popular and so my company was
born Blackshaw media the goal to assist
others with the one thing that I
struggle with most when I first started
out marketing and the rest was history
so honestly I never thought that I’d be
capable of any of this I never thought
that I could you know make a game and
then have it be played by hundreds of
thousands of people I never thought that
I could go from being on welfare having
a marketing company with hundreds of
clients and most of all I never thought
that you would leave me to this page
right here right now sharing this
reality with all of you so what did I
learn about reality well I learned that
it’s not about what you made it in
college and it’s not about where you
came from either your reality is
fleeting
don’t waste time chasing passion alone
your passions will change instead get
inspired by your passion get good at
something
anything that you truly love no not
everyone has to me if he didn’t want to
be that doctor that way or that teacher
but we all could be someone who works in
service up sorry but we all can be
someone towards the service of others be
good at what you do then use that gift
to help others and if you happen help
enough people then maybe just maybe you to change the world
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