Much like the other book I read of success stories, this one rang hollow. Success stories are nice. They can be inspiring. The essential flaw I see when I read these, however, are they are books of 20/20 hindsight. These are successful people. They had a moment of clarity, changed their lives and did something different, and big, from what they did before. Again, these are (mostly) white people, people of faith, people with means. The story of Laila Ali was one such story. She apparently pulled herself up by her own bootstraps because her famous father was a distant figure for most of her life. But no one explains how she owned her own beauty salon by the time she was 20. And that's the problem. What about the people who also have dreams, who work hard, who fight to suceed ... who fail? Where are their stories? Are they unlucky? Did they not hold the faith of those who made it? Could they have worked 10% harder? It's a mystery. Making your dreams come true is great. It's just not a reality for most. And I have yet to read that book, the one about two people -- one who succeeds and one who doesn't, and what the difference was.
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