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Rod Fuller Highlight
The biggest thing is ambition—it’s more important than skillset. If you’re ambitious and hungry, you can learn anything.
About Rod
- His father was a race car driver, so he spent most of his childhood working on cars with him.
- While he was in college, everything he did was focused around his racing career; he didn’t even attend his graduation because he had a race that day.
- From an early age, he was mentored by the founder of Walmart, Sam Walton.
- At one point, Sam questioned him about why he wanted to be a race car driver and what would separate him from all the others—this motivated him to go back to school.
- He later went on to become one of the first race car drivers to receive a Master’s degree.
- Was also the first in his family to go to college, and because of this, he counts his education as his greatest accomplishment.
- Says that winning races is an amazing feeling, but it doesn’t compare to what he is doing now helping others mold their careers—”That’s something that’s going to last for forever”.
- Believes that “the world would stop without mechanics”; encourages young people to gain technical skills and learn how to work on things because that field is always going to be there.
