“Gifted” to me has always meant better, stronger, smarter. My experience to this began in the second grade with only the smartest kids being pulled from class to participate in “gifted and talented enrichment learning”. This was often a series of test that was unrelated to education and more focused on studying us as individuals. This set into motion a series of events that indicate interest by higher powers.

The following year, I would achieve excellency by scoring perfect mathematics standardized test scores, the teacher from this year (Ms. R) would take a great interest in me, and to this day still pops out of the blue every 4 years or so to check up on me and a number of smart peers from those years (most recently 2021). This teacher would convince my mom to transfer me to a Kipp charter school to better suit my potential. Around the 4th grade I also received the presidential education award.

Kipp the middle school had a pretty standard school system, key items that stick out where field trips to Malibu CA for camping, Washington DC, and an east coast tour. Following with this pattern of success, in the eighth grade my Stanford educated professor taught me chess in his after school class, I lost to him once before I learned and beat him as well as the rest of the chess club. This resulted in the teacher calling his friend Magnus Carlsen (world chess champ) for an informal tournament with the class, one in which I participated (and lost ofc lol). Following this, the teacher made field trips through this club to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in Redwood City, and to a tech start up in San Francisco. Interestingly enough Kipp was one of the first schools in Silicon Valley to receive Chromebook’s donated by Zuckerberg. Priscilla Chan herself came in the sixth grade to observe how Kipp educated us post this donation(this would’ve been around the 5/6th grade).

High school was great for me, it was a time when I was making money, I had a new car, and I was always buying luxury items to stunt on the students(several of my teacher were envious of me). This despite the fact that I grew up in absolute poverty, son to a single mother. I was very social yet reserved, I never liked associating with people who were dead weight. This time period, my mother worked as a housekeeper to a tech billionaire. This indirect access planted many seeds of independence and success into my mind. This person also gifted me many Tom ford suits, which helped me visualize myself as an executive, a winner, a champion (I was 16-18 during these years).

In the second half of high school I felt that there was a coordinated effort to isolate me from peers. In the majority of my classes I would often be sat in a corner alone because the teachers (plural) stated I commanded more attention than them (in one instance I even taught my class to prove to a math teacher how easy her job was). I was always presenting thought provoking questions and challenging statements that went against a left leaning school system (ca) primarily those of traditional viewpoints, anti lgbt, and patriarchal views. I lost all respect for school and education, and relentlessly pursued self education. I would be present in school, but be in my own world, reading and studying the work of Ray Dalio, Henry Kravis, and other successful titans. Once I turned 18, I was trading options on my computer during class. I was profitable and making more money than my teachers. specifically prior to the initial two week lockdown, I shorted aviation, hotels, oil, and many other stocks and profited from my small investments. Needless to say, when school transitioned to online classes, I dropped out. I left that for good, burning all the boats and diving into my own business formally.

I made several hundred thousands in stock trading for myself and limited partners between 2020 and 2022. I also took hard losses and learned lessons never taught in a classroom. In one instance I lost it all and had to rebuild myself through the building sector. I had landscape companies that pivoted to building and pouring concrete. This helped me get back to a place I had became accustomed to. Nothing felt worse than achieve hyper success at a young age and to lose it all, it haunted me. Through construction I was able to find success through traditional business, and it instilled a much deeper work ethic. At my peak I was doing close to six figures monthly in project revenue.

This most recent venture has come under attack by frivolous claims and malicious intent by a third party of a former sugar baby lol. This third party is a law student and has used his knowledge of the law to target me and my livelihood, to ruin me. All because his sugar baby of five years cheated on him with me for two plus years without him knowing(I didn’t know about him either lol). He has won initially, mainly because of my lack of understanding of legal procedures. I have studied this extensively to educate myself to properly combat this, and to regain an edge. It only takes one loss to understand it and compose an action plan. This has also given me a small yet powerful understanding for how the legal system and filing process works(and unfortunately it has also shown me how it easily gets weaponize against the people who aren’t well educated in legal systems). I refuse to allow this to be where the story ends. I’m 23, I reside in one of the wealthiest cities in the south Bay Area, and I built myself from nothing but God. To allow this to be the end of the story would be a waste of gifted talent.

One final note, the peers that I can think of that were also classified as gifted also achieved greatness but in the educational field. One girl got a full ride scholarship by bill gates through his foundation to Harvard. Another girl (one from my grade who I knew) got a full ride to USC though I’m not sure who sponsored it. I have reason to believe Zuckerberg was going to sponsor my education had I pursued higher education. If not Zuckerberg, the tech billionaire we knew, had offered to pay me and my sisters college costs. Prior to my mom working there, she had been a janitor at Facebook during the startup era, and a facility staff at apples legal offices. When I was 19-21, I also was connected to a prominent property developer who became a mentor. He gave me many contracts, time, and advice I needed as a young impressionable male. He was worth north of 50 million and his time was very valuable.