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  Daniel Comp recalls a childhood experience that affected his future as an entrepreneur and his choices to this day. We're not equipped to arrive at mature conclusions with childhood experiences. That's one of the roles parents and relatives can play if they are self-aware and generous enough to listen and observe. "I tried to make bed-time a safe time for sharing stories and answering questions for my son and daughter. I believe that made a difference for them. I hope some of my wounds never got passed to them. Such is the duty of parents and adults." Join the conversation about what it means to mature as a male. Learn from men that have insights and share experiences they learned valuable life lessons from at http://360men.net
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# 360MEN: Daniel Comp - The Little Ice Cream Boy

In April 2018, Daniel Comp tells a story from age 7 in Fremont, California: standing empty-handed at the ice-cream truck while a naked little boy got served first. He traces his lifelong drive to that pit of want, explains how self-awareness let him reinterpret it, and invites 360MEN to share the childhood stories that shaped them.

## Key lessons

- Children draw their own conclusions from hard moments when no adult helps them, and those conclusions can steer a life.
- An old wound can fuel real achievement and still hurt.
- You can't erase the memory, but self-awareness lets you reinterpret and revalue it.
- Men sharing these stories together can shorten the cycle of recovery for their families.

## Transcript

_Cleaned transcript from the Asker barn, dated April 10, 2018. It is cleaned speech recognition and may differ slightly from the spoken words. Arnie did not watch the video._

**Daniel:**  
I'm Daniel Comp and this is the best recollection that I can make of a story that I experienced as a youth and it greatly affected me as far as the direction I went in life. And so hopefully it has value to you as one of those lessons of things to be aware of. It's called "The Little Ice Cream Boy."

I dreamed of touching space. You see, when I was 7, President Kennedy was promoting the goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. My dream of touching space was expanded rather than deflated by the public controversy. I believed in the president's words of a hopeful future of exploration.

I played with that future in the fiery heat of the summer sun, privileged to be surrounded by the safety of the manicured tract homes of my Fremont, California neighborhood. From the end of my block came the sound of an ice-cream truck calling kids to claim their prize for the day.

I could see them running away from their front doors — one hand reaching toward the future prize, the other clutching coins like a baton passed from their mother in an Olympic race toward the quickly forming line at the rear of the beckoning truck.

And now, 55 years later, I can still feel the pit in my stomach from that experience of that day. My parents both worked. My mother wasn't home to put the treasured coins in my palm and to press a good-luck kiss to my forehead like many of my neighbors' moms were. Women were being liberated — and from what, I really didn't understand, although I had heard it was from their horrible, illegitimate children like me.

The sales flurry had finished for the moment, so the truck moved past our yard and further down the block. Unable to resist participation, I found myself within reading distance of the colorful images and prices on the side and the back of the musical box.

Another wave of rich kids bolted from their homes to a lineup for frozen rockets and raspberry push-ups. After a short deliberation, an inevitable transaction — each contestant would receive their treasure, step aside to carefully peel the paper top away for a taste of the space-age, with a sweet grin of achievement to their fellow travelers.

And then it happened. Everyone stood frozen, eyes wide open, mouths clamped shut. A tiny boy — so caught up in the excitement of the ice cream fiesta — had run up butt-naked, parting the crowd like Moses on the Nile River. His high-pitched "me-me-me" synchronized with his skyward leaps toward the stainless steel counter, with his arms stretched heavenward.

This three-year-old had frozen everyone, including the ice cream man. The chilling echo of "ice cream" from the surrounding houses filled what seemed an eternity of shock. Our gaze was broken when the little ice-cream boy was presented his prize for the best marketing. Within moments his chin was full of white ice cream and his slow shuffle had moved him a few yards back toward his home.

The frenzy started all over. Kids formed a tidy line, put out their order with confidence, and retreated a few feet to grin with accomplishment. But for me the line shortened one by one. The ice-cream man gazed at me, turned away, sat in his seat, and drove away with my dreams.

What did I learn that blazing hot day? My conclusions were not tempered by a father's wisdom. My hopes were not resurrected by a compassionate mother. I learned that you had to be one of the really lucky ones — or more completely shameless, a zealot — anything between the two. Right where I stood came with an open mouth and a pit in the stomach he got. A pit I can still feel to this day.

Eccentricity started early in my life. It started with an ice cream truck on an empty hand. I had felt the pit of want without the means to acquire. The hunger began that afternoon. I've set eight World Records for IT production. I birthed more websites than any other human I know. I still tear up replaying this childhood recording at times. It plays in the background too quiet to notice.

The experience shaped my drive, my ambition, and my perseverance. The victory did not go to the naked little ice-cream boy, though even though he still lives in me. The victory goes to self-awareness and better choices. I can't erase the recording of that day, but I have learned to reinterpret and revalue the experience.

Self-awareness brings opportunity to reconsider naive and youthful conclusions. My son David has chosen a career path that gives him abundant face time with my grandson Ruben and granddaughter June. I hope my self-awareness helped my son David choose a better path than my parents had. I hope his choice was not a pendulum swing away from my self-inflicted wound and modest time with him as a child.

I hope this story will open a deeper dialogue with him and with you. Thanks again to the enthusiasm of the butt-naked little ice-cream boy.

Okay, so now it's your turn. Sign in and share your contributions. Share your questions. Let's dig a little deeper. Let's touch on some of the things that you recall from your childhood that have affected your entire life. And let's explore those things as a group of 360 men on how you can reinterpret, revalue those experiences so that you don't repeat them and we can shorten that cycle of recovery for your family and all the peers that surround you.

All right. Good on you.

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