When we say about 5% achieve success, we have to define success, and here’s the definition.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
If a man is working towards a predetermined goal and knows where he is going, that man is a success. If he’s not doing that, he’s a failure.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist, wrote a wonderful book called Man’s Search for Himself, and in this book he says the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardness, it is conformity.
And there you have the trouble today. It’s conformity. People acting like every one else without knowing why, without knowing where they’re going.