Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters

Chapter 8. Wounds to Wisdom—Trusting Your Weaknesses and Using Your Core Incompetencies

	It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
	--Yogi Sally Kempton

	Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
	--John Wooden

His face was dominated by ungainly glasses with large lenses and geeky black rims. Every day, the fair-haired college freshman continued in his miserable struggle to keep up with his studies and classmates. Handicapped by learning disabilities, he had already flunked English and French. Growing up in Sacramento, he relied on classic comic books to make his way through reading assignments. That was no longer enough. Any courses that demanded critical reading and writing were simply overwhelming. ...