March to Your Own Drum — Not Someone Else’s
Reading about how successful people live can be illuminating, but not if you think it’ll lead to a “secret path” to greatness, Jon Westenberg writes. “Read them to get ideas about what might work for you and what might help you reach your potential, but don’t take them as holy commandments,” he says. “In reality, there’s only omen habit that you can emulate that will get you somewhere. Just one. Work hard.”