Toplearning: Jim Carrey Success Story – From Struggling Dyslexic to Comedy Movie Mogul

Jim Carrey

(born January 17, 1962, New Market, Ontario, Canada)

In his early years at school Carrey was very quiet and didn't have many friends he was undiagnosed dyslexic and often struggled in school he discovered that he could make friends by making people laugh he discovered that his hilarious impersonations of animals would cheer up his sick mother who was bedridden at the time but then his tough poverty-stricken childhood began Carrie's father was forced to move on-site at a factory in exchange for the labour of the entire family exhausted Carrie would go to school and then work eight-hour shifts at night he added that working an eight-hour day in the factory after school left him want to bash somebody's heading he ended dropping out of high school his family decided that their surroundings were taking them to the wrong direction so they packed up and moved to Canada with no job in sight his parents and two siblings lived in a beat-up yellow Volkswagen camper van for a full eight months parking in campgrounds so you can imagine his emotional baggage the loss of his teen years doing intellectually backward the embarrassment and hardships of poverty so how his life changed he moved to LA shortly after where he would Park on moon horn drive every night and visualize his success one of these nights he wrote himself a check for 10 million dollars for acting services rendered which he dated for thanksgivin 1995 just before that date he hid his payday with Dumb and Dumber he put the deteriorated check which had happened he swallowed the whole time in his father's casket so many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality what we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dare to ask the universe for it I'm the proof you can ask the universe for it I learn many great lessons from a father and the least of which was that you can fail but what you don't want so you might as well take a chance and doing what you love Jim Carrey used his hard times and setbacks to motivate him to try harder he could have turned to drugs and drinking what about us do we sit around fretting about what we lack or how life has dealt us a bad hand of cards or do we take what we have and make something out of it what's your story....Comment Below