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Getting a new computer is quite a traumatic experience for me. On my personal Mac Mini (vintage 2009) I have all my favorite apps installed and all my folders and files just where I like them. I have all my accounts, system settings, network settings, and fonts customized and optimized. It took me weeks of trial and error to get it set up so I can focus on thinking and producing and not getting distracted by missing bits and bytes.

Over the years Apple has helped out by allowing me to "migrate" my data, accounts, apps, and network settings every time I buy a new Mac (which isn't often). And Google helps with synchronizing my bookmarks and browser plugins when I sign in to Chrome. I don't use iCloud or Google Drive, but I do use Dropbox to ensure important documents follow me around as I wander from machine to machine. These tools all help me feel at home on the computers I use.

It's important to feel at home with your tools in order to perform well. Using someone else's computer always gives me a feeling of cognitive dissonance. I see this with the developers we hire at Huffington Post: It always takes a day or two to configure a new employee's new computer. Even then, as new tasks and new projects come up, a developer's computer needs continuous tweaking so that work isn't interrupted by firewall complaints or missing UNIX libraries.

All this synching, optimizing, and personalizing is known as configuration management and it's a thriving technology business. Tools like Puppet enable professional system administrators to automate the setup of server farms and user's computers. Tools likes Apple's Migration Assistant, Google Chrome Sign In, and Dropbox bring configuration management to ordinary mortals.

Last week the New York Times published a great story on the issues around kids using their own tech gear in school. It's a great idea to help with ever shrinking public school budgets but some educators are worried about tech support problems or the lack of research on personal devices and learning. Well, I have an excellent domain expert at home on the whole Bring Your Own Tech (BYOT) issue: My high school-aged son.

(When my kids are all grown up I will have to adopt new ones so I can continue to stay current on tech trends!)

My son's high school lets you BYOT. And he has friends at a nearby high school where every student is given an iPad. I don't know what the official analysis of these programs is but my son gave me the test subject's perspective and embedded journalist's analysis.

School X lets students bring their own phones, pads, and laptops into class -- if the teacher thinks it's a good idea. Some kids use the devices to take notes or catch up on Reddit. This is the equivalent of the spiral notebook back in my day. Sure, browsing the web during class should be frowned upon but everyone doodles (the pre-Internet age equivalent of browsing). When the lessons are interesting the students use their devices to google unfamiliar topics, chat with friends in other classes to get their opinion, and bookmark sites for research later that day. This is exactly what I see people do in meetings I attend. Unless there is some harebrained no-devices-in-meetings rule we're all multitasking.

School Y gives every student an iPad. At first this is awesome because every kid wants a free iPad and it levels the playing field. If your parental units (that's what they call people like me) can't afford or just don't understand the value of an iPad the school steps in and provides.

But the kids at School Y have learned the harsh lesson that nothing is really free. The school supplied iPads have configuration management and monitoring software installed. iPad usage is controlled. Only approved programs are installed. The students can't multitask. These tightly controlled iPads prevent the free flow of communications and information that make our mobile Internet age empowering.

In response to this aggressive monitoring kids at school Y jailbreak their iPads. I actually like the irony of a whole school of high schoolers motivated to become hackers because of a poorly thought-out school technology program created by well-meaning but out-of-touch administrators.

It would be better for everyone if school Y followed school X's example and allow uncontrolled BYOT in the classroom. It's more productive and it lets kids develop the skills they will need in the workplace. What about families that can't afford to buy their kids high-tech gear? These lines from the NYT article address that problem nicely:

And while district administrators worried initially that poorer students would not own devices, they discovered something of 'an inverse relationship' between family income and the sophistication of their devices, particularly smartphones, said Don Boulware, the district's director of technology services.

It is hard to live well, let alone go to school, in the 21st century without a smartphone. The "inverse relationship" observed by Boulware is caused by over protective helicopter parents keeping tech out of their children's hands for fear of the negative affects of technology on a child's cognitive development. I think this strategy is counterproductive, as nothing is more positive than having all the world's information and opinions at a high school student's fingertips.

In the real world, which increasingly is becoming the virtually augmented reality world, a smartphone, a pad, or a laptop are survival tools. Even the Amish have a word processor. (This is not a joke but rather a great example of off-the-grid-I-will-not-participate-in-your-broken-culture thinking.)

Yes, there are kids in both schools X and Y who cannot afford fancy computing devices and they should be helped. Helped in a way that actually addresses their problems in a real and permanent way that a school monitored iPad does not. Let's save the configuration management software for the server farms and give kids what they need without digital strings attached.

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In 1966, a dyslexic 16-year-old boy dropped out of school. With the help of a friend, he started a magazine for students and made money by selling advertisements to local businesses. With only a little bit of money to get started, he ran the operation out of the crypt inside a local church.

Four years later, he was looking for ways to grow his small magazine and started selling mail order records to the students who bought the magazine. The records sold well enough that he built his first record store the next year. After two years of selling records, he decided to open his own record label and recording studio.

He rented the recording studio out to local artists, including one named Mike Oldfield. In that small recording studio, Oldfield created his hit song, Tubular Bells, which became the record label's first release. The song went on to sell over five million copies.

Over the next decade, the young boy grew his record label by adding bands like the Sex Pistols, Culture Club, and the Rolling Stones. Along the way, he continued starting companies: an airline business, then trains, then mobile phones, and on and on. Almost 50 years later, there were over 400 companies under his direction.

Today, that young boy who dropped out of school and kept starting things despite his inexperience and lack of knowledge is a billionaire. His name is Sir Richard Branson.

How I Met Sir Richard Branson

A few months ago, I walked into a conference room in Moscow, Russia and sat down 10 feet from Branson. There were 100 other people around us, but it felt like we were having a conversation in my living room. He was smiling and laughing. His answers seemed unrehearsed and genuine.

At one point, he told the story of how he started Virgin Airlines, a tale that seems to capture his entire approach to business and life. Here's the version he told us, as best I can remember it:

I was in my late twenties, so I had a business, but nobody knew who I was at the time. I was headed to the Virgin Islands and I had a very pretty girl waiting for me, so I was, umm, determined to get there on time.
At the airport, my final flight to the Virgin Islands was cancelled because of maintenance or something. It was the last flight out that night. I thought this was ridiculous, so I went and chartered a private airplane to take me to the Virgin Islands, which I did not have the money to do.
Then, I picked up a small blackboard, wrote "Virgin Airlines. $29." on it, and went over to the group of people who had been on the flight that was cancelled. I sold tickets for the rest of the seats on the plane, used their money to pay for the chartered plane, and we all went to the Virgin Islands that night.

A few moments after hearing that story, I stood shoulder–to–shoulder with him (he's about six feet tall) and thanked him for sharing some time with us.

The Habits of Successful People: What Makes the Difference?

After speaking with our group, Branson sat on a panel with industry experts to talk about the future of business. As everyone around him was filling the air with business buzzwords and talking about complex ideas for mapping out our future, Branson was saying things like: "Screw it, just get on and do it." Which was closely followed by: "Why can't we mine asteroids?"

As I looked up at that panel, I realized that the person who sounded the most simplistic was also the only one who was a billionaire. Which prompted me to wonder, "What's the difference between Branson and everyone else in the room?"

Here's what I think makes all the difference:

Branson doesn't merely say things like, "Screw it, just get on and do it." He actually lives his life that way. He drops out of school and starts a business. He signs the Sex Pistols to his record label when everyone else says they are too controversial. He charters a plane when he doesn't have the money.

When everyone else balks or comes up with a good reason for why the time isn't right, Branson gets started.

Start Now

If you want to summarize the habits of successful people into one phrase, it's this: successful people start before they feel ready.

If there was ever someone who embodied the idea of starting before they felt ready to do so, it's Branson. The very name of his business empire, Virgin, was chosen because when Branson and his partners started they were "virgins" when it came to business.

Branson has started so many businesses, ventures, charities, and expeditions that it's simply not possible for him to have felt prepared, qualified, and ready to start all of them. In fact, it's unlikely that he was qualified or prepared to start any of them. He had never flown a plane and didn't know anything about the engineering of planes, but he started an airline company anyway.

If you're working on something important, then you'll never feel ready. A side effect of doing challenging work is that you're pulled by excitement and pushed by confusion at the same time.

You're bound to feel uncertain, unprepared, and unqualified. But let me assure you of this: what you have right now is enough. You can plan, delay, and revise all you want, but trust me, what you have now is enough to start. Who you are right now is good enough to get going.

We all start in the same place: no money, no resources, no contacts, no experience. The difference is that some people — the winners — choose to start anyway.

If you're having trouble getting started, then read this.

No matter where you are in the world and regardless of what you're working on, I hope you'll start before you feel ready.

James Clear is an entrepreneur, weightlifter, and travel photographer in 18 countries. He writes at JamesClear.com, where he shares strategies that make it easier to live a healthy life (both mentally and physically). You can get free ideas on how to live healthy by signing up for his free newsletter.

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HUFFPOST SUPER USERCarl CaroliI just don't understand people2007 Fans 26 minutes ago (10:15 PM)Lots of people do that and fail. Statistically, it's like saying that people that use a system to pick lottery numbers and occasionally win were destined to win. No way. It's more luck than anything else. Again, statistically, there will always be a winner but being at the right place at the right time is really the determining factor.Carl_Caroli: Lots of people do that and fail. Statistically, it's likehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Carl_Caroli/how-to-become-a-billionaire_b_2941528_239632819.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation.

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