My parents taught me to think for myself and question everything, even things we take for granted. Also, just as importantly, they never impeded my natural curiosity to learn about how the world works.

At a very young age I was already expressing interest in learning about financial markets and investments, having seen how hard my parents worked to give me and my brother a better life than the ones they had growing up in other countries. They encouraged me to explore that, opening up custodial accounts for me and taking me to the library every weekend to check out new financial books and autobiographies.

I'm beyond grateful for this in hindsight. While my parents didn't have the same interests as I did/do, they fully supported and affirmed mine without judgment or criticism.

That helped me build confidence in my ability to pull and synthesize information and form my own opinions on things. Many years later, I had my own opinions on the state of the economy, politics, and the world, and that's how I went searching for an answer to the questions I had and found BTC.

I owe my parents so much.