Pure Entrepreneurial Instinct

My son BrickStoic kills it because no one told him he couldn't

My son is in the late-early stage of building himself a little social media empire.

In the last week, his LEGO-themed YouTube channel increased subscribers by more than 33 percent. He usually gets at least a few hundred views with every new video, but one of his last views got a monster 13,000 views, which drove an insane number of subscriptions. The next day he immediately jumped on the computer and did a YouTube Live "Ask Me Anything." I jumped on to keep an eye on the comments because, you know: perverts. 

The kid was literally out of breath trying to answer all the non-stop questions coming at him.

He got another 100+ new subscribers.

As of today he's at more than 800 subscribers and it's still rising. This is significant because that puts him more than three-quarters of the way over one of the mountains in the way of monetization: 1,000 subscribers. (The other is 3,000 hours of viewing time in a year. He'll get there.)

No one ever told him he couldn't do it. Not even himself. He just followed his instincts.