Growing Up With Constraints Taught Me the Only Skill That Still Matters - Learning Fast Without Shortcuts

I did not grow up surrounded by abundance, as the child of emigrants with two brothers. There were no ready-made toys, no money to buy whatever I wanted, and no catalogue of options to choose from. When you grow up like that, you do not learn how to shop for solutions. You learn how to arrive at them.

If you cannot afford ready-made toys and sport utilit…