You may be wondering: "How did he do what?"

Here are three examples:

- Surviving a turbulent boyhood, even if I was the one causing the turbulence.

- Turning a journalism degree and a $500 investment into a thriving, family-owned, multi-generation, oil and gas producing company.

- Enjoying a lifetime of playing basketball, competing against players ranging from Globetrotter Marques Haynes in the early 1960s to current NBA stars Kevin Durant and Trae Young. A lot can happen in 78 years, even if 74 of them have been spent in Oklahoma.