Emerson Spartz

Hi! Here's my boring bio:

"Emerson Spartz is best-known for founding MuggleNet.com, the #1 Harry Potter website, at the age of 12. Currently CEO of Spartz Media, one of the fastest-growing companies in Chicago. The Spartz Media Network - including OMG Facts, GivesMeHope, and more - receives 10 million visitors each month, and has over 7 million followers on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. At MuggleNet, Spartz managed a volunteer staff of over 100, a paid staff of 6, and was invited by J.K. Rowling to her home to for a personal interview. MuggleNet was featured in hundreds of TV/radio/newspaper/magazines and Spartz was a regular guest on national TV news shows. Spartz is a New York Times Bestselling Author and holds a degree from the University of Notre Dame."

Here's my story: I had a nontraditional upbringing as a homeschooler. Instead of doing regular chores like taking out the trash, my amazing parents asked my brother and I to read biographies of successful people - four of them, every day, for years. Awesome, right? After reading thousands of success stories, I learned there are patterns to success. There are different paths to the top, but the mindsets and behaviors of successful people are fundamentally the same.

At the same time, I watched friends from troubled households struggling with the injustices of their lot in life. They never complained, but it was from those experiences that I realized how rigged the game is. It pissed me off, and a number of formative experiences left me fuming at the injustices of the world.

Brimming with naive optimism and overconfidence, I wanted to right the wrongs in society. All of them. Most people are struggling to survive and I was given every opportunity to succeed. "With great power comes great responsibility" became my mantra. I began a lifelong quest of learning with the goal of eventually using that knowledge to change the world. Somehow.

My self-education program consisted of three parts: reading, reviewing, and rehearsal.

Reading: While at Notre Dame, I set a goal of reading one non-fiction book every single day until graduation. I wanted to condense decades of experiences into the shortest period of time possible. Fastest way to do this? Learn vicariously through other peoples' experiences, because our brains can't tell the difference between something real and something vividly imagined. I taught myself how to speed-read and devoured books about busines