Mindset Shift
From Homeless to Billionaire: Life Lessons From John Paul DeJoria You Can Use To Overcome Rejection
The quality of your circumstances largely depends on the quality of your thoughts
There I was driving down the 405 in California on my way to Hermosa Beach, a hitchhiker with me in the car riding shotgun I picked up near Hawthorne.
This was the state where John Paul DeJoria grew up and learned his most valuable lessons for success. I hope to meet him some day. But back to his story in a minute.
The year was 1987, long before Hermosa Beach became one of Southern California’s most coveted beach towns where sports stars and Hollywood elite call this posh paradise home.
A true fish out of water, I was a 23-year-old Brooklyn, New York City boy who had been abandoned by his L.A. friends after arriving at LAX airport from a six-hour flight from the east coast.
Despite being jet lagged and in desperate need of stretching out my tight muscles from a cramped flight, I had nothing but highs from excitement with my first adult vacation to the Golden State.
However, those highs quickly turned to lows.
