Bill Gates: Use this simple trick to figure out what you'll be great at in life via CNBCMakeIt
If you want to be the best at something, billionaire Bill Gates suggests thinking back to whatever you obsessed over as a teenager.
Of course, in Gates' case, the activity he obsessed over as a teenager growing up in Seattle was writing software — and that hobby worked out pretty well. Gates went on to co-found Microsoft and become a millionaire in his 20s. He's is now a billionaire the second-wealthiest person in the world. Gates, who says he was"obsessed with software from a very young age," famously started writing software as a student at Seattle's private Lakeside School, where he would meet fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The first software program Gates ever wrote was a digital version of the game tic-tac-toe that could be played against a computer.
"I thought I was really good," Gates said in 2016 of his coding skills at the age of 15. But after working with some other people on projects writing software throughout his teens, he would occasionally meet someone with superior skills.
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