Ever since Bill Gates was a baby he was said to be fueled by competition. There wasn't anything that Bill Gates wanted to do, and couldn't. He would study harder, and practice until he was the best. That's probably why he's become one of the most powerful businessman of our time, and why Microsoft is one of the dominant forces in the computer business today.
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28 1995. He was described by his parents, Bill Gates Jr, and Mary (Maxwell) Gates, as an unusual and energetic child. When he was a baby he learned to rock his cradle by himself, and would be content to rock for hours and hours. As a child, and throughout his life, Gates was a very competitive person with an obsessive personality. .
Everything Bill Gates did, he did to the max, and excelled at everything that interested him. As a boy he was encouraged to join the Boy Scouts, and excelled at that as well. " On one 50-mile summer hike, Gates demonstrated the persistence and tenacity that was to be his trademark later in life. Gates showed up for the week-long hike in a new pair of hiking boots that were not suited for hiking eight miles a day. By the end of the first day, his heels had been rubbed raw and his toes badly blistered. By the end of the second day, his feet were raw and bleeding openly. One of the adults on the trip, who was a doctor, gave him some codeine for the pain. The next day some of the Scouts carried his equipment, and Gates continued on, limping along until he reached the half way point on day four, where hikers could bail out in an emergency. At that point he could no longer walk. His mother had to be called in Seattle to come and get him. One of the adults on the hike recalled that when she arrived, Mary Gates was not a happy camper." (Wallace & Erickson, 13).
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When Bill was 11, he was far ahead of his peers in math and science and needed new academic challenges.