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Tyler Perry was homeless, lived in his car and worked odd jobs for his dreams. How he broke through after 6 years: Tyler Perry’s struggle was real. As a child, he was involved in abuse, family discord and school failures. But his upbringing created a mentality of steel and pushed him to chase after his dreams. In 1992, Tyler moved to Atlanta with the dream of staging his first play. When that effort failed (and failed, and failed, six times over), he was left homeless, disheartened, and broke—but not broken. He worked on selling cars, worked at hotels, saved up to $12,000 to put his play up. On opening night he expected 1,200 people to show up, but only thirty people did. He was devastated it didn’t work. In March 12, 1998, Perry made the choice to do one last show. But this time it worked. There was a line of people around the corner lined up to buy tickets for the seventh staging of the show he’d devoted his life to, "I Know I’ve Been Changed." From that moment on, the show has been sold out everywhere. Tyler Perry’s story is one of a few ultra-successful men who came from nothing and had to dig from scraps to make his dreams viable. How far would you go to make your dreams a reality? “I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.” -Tyler Perry If you liked this post, be sure to follow me for more: Lexy Franklin