Upon falling into a deep depression, Grayson realized he didn’t know himself. He left everything he knew for lands of unknown. He experienced the world and saw many cultures. He met many people and tried many things. He learned who he was and gained happiness. His brain followed his heart.

An influential entrepreneur can be a part of just about any professional discipline.  Currently most of the highly influential entrepreneurs are in the internet and computer industries.  I would consider Bill Gates, Larry Page and the late Steve Jobs to be the three top entrepreneurs currently (since Steve Jobs death is so recent, I believe his legacy currently carries as much influence has his person did).

Bill Gates was an expert computer programmer before he even started college.  During high school, Gates was asked to code applications for things that professional programers were not able to do.  For instance, he was hired by the school administrators to write a program to handle class scheduling.  Gates began his undergraduate studies at Harvard University but dropped out after starting Microsoft in 1975.  He grew Microsoft through innovation, partnerships, and an unbelievable amount of hard work.  He always fought to broaden the companies range of products.  He was known as a micromanager; and he often berated subordinate managers with degrading remarks towards their business plans.  Gates is an extremely influential individual for two reasons: his wealth makes him one of the biggest players in the field, and his entrepreneurial style is so dripping with success that it’s begs to be imitated by budding entrepreneurs.

Larry Page is a co-founder of Google, inc.  He is quoted as saying “Probably by the time I was 12 years old, I knew I was going to start a company.”  Page first came up with the idea behind his Google algorithm while studying for his doctorate degree.  He dropped out of school and started Google in 1998.  Google is now one of the most innovative and creative companies in operation.  What started as a small company offering only one service (a search engine) is now is listed in the S & P 500 and is revolutionizing the worlds of mobile phones (android OS), computers (Google ChromeBook), and the over-all web experience (Google+, Google docs, Gmail etc.).

Steve Jobs requires no introduction.  He was put up for adoption shortly after birth and didn’t know his biological parents while growing up.  He dropped out of college after only one semester, went on a spiritual retreat to India, and became a Buddhist.  He claims that his experiments with LSD were “one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life”.  This is the man that changed everything.  He founded Apple in 1976.  He and Apple “re-revolutionized” computing many times over.  Jobs spearheaded the creation of the ipod, iphone, and ipad.  Apple’s innovation in the field of computing, and outside of this field, is a force that has swept away almost all competition.

There isn’t much in my future that I’m sure of, but that’s the way I like it.  When things appear “set in stone” I feel trapped and either run away, or fight the permanence until it no longer has any hold.  Please accept my uncertainty as fair warning that this blog may be a little scattered.  I view blogs as the ultimate medium for stream-of-conscience writing.  That being said, there are a few vague things I am planning for my future:

I want to move to China after graduation.  I’m very bored with life here.  Not because I lead a boring life, but because I’ve grown up in this culture.  I was told by an ex-girl-friend (just after ending our relationship of two years) that nothing is ever good enough for me.  ”Nothing is ever good enough” sounds like an ugly and self-centered description of a person; therefore I refuse to admit that she was correct in her analysis.  I prefer to describe myself as always searching for novelty.  Now that makes me sound like an interesting person.  I’m currently studying Chinese and I’ve applied to a year long student exchange program so that I can spend my sophomore year abroad.

I learned early in high school that I love to make money.  I don’t love to make money because it means I have money, although having money is a nice bonus; I love to make money just because it’s fun.  Making money, to me, is a sport.  This aspect of money making is derived from my drive to make the most amount money in the least amount of time.  Notice that I didn’t say my goal was to maximize income while minimizing effort.  I work my tail off when I know I have a check coming.  My goal is to maximize profit while minimizing the time I input.  Each time I start a new money-making venture, I am attempting to beat the dollar per hour rate of my last business venture.

In high school I found the most success, and the most entertainment, through being an entrepreneur.  I started three successful companies during my high school career and set new personal money per time spent records with each one, successively.  I love being an entrepreneur because I love taking the risks an entrepreneur must take, and I especially love the rewards those risks can bring.  An entrepreneur is faced with a new task every day he goes to work.  He hires employees to deal with the monotony.  For example, every new challenge that faces an entrepreneur brings details that require accounting, marketing, sales, etc.  These tasks are delegated to an accountant, a marketer and a salesman.  The reason these positions exist is that there is a repeatable process one can perform to solve these reoccurring problems.  People train in these areas then go to work every day and solve the same problems.  A salesman does the same thing every day: sell.  When the delegation is done all that’s left is the indelegable task, the bit that’s never been seen before: the unordinary.  This is my great white buffalo.

Being an entrepreneur fits hand in glove with my insatiable thirst for novelty.  My plan is to graduate, move to China, then start something big.  The cool thing about being an entrepreneur is that you can work in any industry.  A business is a business and quite frankly, it all feels the same in bed.  I’ll identify an economical need and create a company to satisfy it.  With my niche found and my company started, success should be right around the corner.

I found the idea of symphonic thinking rather captivating.  Diversity leads to success.  Symphonic thinking is a quality no computer could begin to fathom.  After reading the required pages I decided to perform the drawing activity.  I do so because it seemed to be the least time consuming… wrong.  I spent good deal of time playing with my five given lines trying to maximize the realize of the drawing.  I wanted, at least, to cover almost every prominent facial feature.  I’m happy with my outcome, because, as you can see, I was able to draw everything but for the ears.  Who really cares about ears anyways?