I Stop Funding My Kid and Look What Happened to Him #inspiration #motivation #shorts #shortvideo

years later, we're still in Boston and

my son is doing really poorly in high

school. He is sucking and just not

applying himself and you know his his

marks are terrible and the way one day

he says to me, um I'll never forget this

conversation. Lyn and I were going out

to a movie that night and he says, "Hey

dad, one of my friends was telling me

about his trust fund and um what does my

trust fund look like?" And I said,

"Well, I don't know about your friend's

fund, but here's how yours works. If mom

and I get run over by a truck, you're

good until you finish high school cuz it

doesn't look like you're going to

college." He said, "What do you mean?" I

said, "Well, the trust only pays till

you finish college. Then it's it's

done." He says, "What do you mean it's

done?" I said, "It means no more

checks." And I said to him, "The dead

bird under the nest never learns how to

fly." And he said, "What the [ __ ] does

that mean?" But I said, "What it means

is you should start thinking about

taking advantage of this now cuz you're

not and you're you're not I don't know

what's going to happen to you. You

you're you're not even going to finish

high school here." And I think at that

moment that that the lesson of life, you

know, given to me by my mother must he

saw the abyss. He saw the darkness. He

saw the situation he was in and went,

"Shit, this is bad." And so he he

knuckled down and he started getting

into uh what he was into and and he he

eventually became an electrical

engineer. And he he he was at the top of

his class all through, you know, college

and right into engineering. And in in

all these electrical engineering uh

cohorts, they all build a combustion F1

race car and an electric one and they

race them all around the world against

each other because that's how they're

learning. if they're interested in

electrical engineering, you're building

that F1 formula car. And every year MIT

would win and because they always built

the best car. Well, in Trevor's case, he

became the captain of the team and he

worked on the software that released the

energy out of the battery in a different

way and he beat MIT. And so the Tesla

guys came over and said, "Who are you

guys?" And he he went to college in

McGill. He said, "We're the McGill

team." And he said, "You're all hired at

Tesla. All of you. The whole team." Wow.

That's the way he works.