Dan Martell - August 10, 2023


This is the power of belief


Episode Stats


Length

36 seconds

Words per minute

185.32819

Word count

112

Sentence count

10

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Summary

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In this episode, I tell the story of how I became a computer programmer and how it changed my life. I talk about how I got my start in the world of computer programming and how I went from being a criminal to becoming a programmer.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 After spending six months in prison, I got released to a place called Portage, New Brunswick.
00:00:04.600 I got introduced to a completely different way of thinking.
00:00:07.420 I was helping Rick, the maintenance guy, clean out one of these cabins.
00:00:10.340 There was this old 486 computer.
00:00:12.820 Next to it was this yellow book on Java programming, a software language.
00:00:16.640 And I thought computer programming would read like hieroglyphics.
00:00:20.100 And I just followed chapter one.
00:00:21.660 And within 20 minutes, I got the computer to say, hello world. 0.94
00:00:26.440 I was like, holy shit, maybe I'm the Doogie Howser of computer programming.
00:00:32.020 That belief in maybe there was something special about me changed my life. 0.98