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13 Traits of Unstoppable People

According to Michael Jordan’s Personal Trainer

Danny Forest
SkillUp Ed
Published in
11 min readJul 31, 2020

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Unstoppable.

That’s a word I used to use to describe myself.

I was living the perfect life, roaming around the world while juggling at least two startups at a time. I’d start dozens of projects per year, learn three new skills every month, get paid a full-time salary for writing only one hour per day, and more.

I had built up so much momentum that I thought nothing could stop me.

I was wrong.

For the past two months, I haven’t been able to work more than five hours a week. I used to “work” 70 hours per week.

What happened?

A baby happened!

Ten percent of babies are considered “high needs”. Well, I won the lottery! My son has every sign of a high needs baby, according to Dr. Sears. I let that completely engulf my life. At that point, the only things I was unstoppable at doing was trying to calm my screaming baby and at playing video games.

I had given up on my dreams. In the back of my mind, I thought it was just a bad dream — that things would go back to “normal”.

Of course, a baby is a point of no return. There was no going back to “normal”. Until I accepted…

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Danny Forest
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Written by Danny Forest

Polymath. Life Optimizer. Learner. Entrepreneur. Engineer. Writer.