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- The 'new normal' is a phenomenon where your perception of normality changes due to the people around you, altering your ambitions and chances of achieving them.
- Event 1 (Serendipity): At age 12, Mitchell joined a BBS for writing game cheats, leading to a business selling cheats for $25/month, earning $400/month as a freshman.
- Event 2 (Opportunity): His programming passion and popular PHP blog led to a job as a Ruby on Rails developer, shifting his focus to building web applications for startups.
- Event 3 (Choice): He chose to move to San Francisco, work at Kiip, and surround himself with tech entrepreneurs, making it normal to pursue passion and start companies.
- Event 4 (Confidence): He left Kiip to start HashiCorp due to Vagrant's popularity, gaining confidence from his new normal to take the leap into entrepreneurship.