No Speed Limits
Core list of inspiring tales from Life Has No Speed Limits .
“Everything’s impossible until somebody does it.”
- ~0 → 1 million YouTube subscribers in < 12 months - Airrack .
- Harvard 4 year CS degree, done in 1 year - Scott Young .
- 12 years to get undergraduate degree, from homeless to famous motivational speaker - Eric Thomas .
- Fluent in a new language in 3 months - Benny the Polyglot , Scott Young.
- Changing careers to become software engineers in 3-6 months - Saxophonist to software engineer , and many more.
- Startups going from nothing to a Unicorn ($1 billion valuation) in under a year.
- The myriad of stories online of people creating stunning body transformations in <1 year.
- Writing a book in one month (50,000 words) https://nanowrimo.org/what-is-nanowrimo .
- Ultralearners - World Championship public speaker within 7 months , Tristan de Montebello.
- Rich Roll went from struggling with alchohol and other issues in middle age to being a world class Ultraman richroll.com/bio/
- Patrick Collison has a related list of “quickly accomplishing ambitious things together” patrickcollison.com/fast .
- A million others just a web search away…