Read stories of successful people and it’s easy to think they have some intangible something—ideas, talent, drive, skills, creativity, whatever—that you don’t have. Nope. Success is inevitable only in hindsight. Success is never assured. Plans are never perfect. Only in hindsight does it appear that way. What really happens is that people do things, try things, succeed at things, fail at things, learn from those failures, learn from those successes . . . and along the way they seize—and create—opportunities to advance themselves so they can live the life that makes them happy.
